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i mean like a horsey or stuff

i can't: is it way cool?

who is the most unlikely horseperson of yr acquaintance?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been horseback riding a couple of times, but I don't think that makes me very competent or capable.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

yep. Or I could (after a fashion) when I was little. It is fun fun fun.

My Mum is the most unlikely horseperson of my acquaintance. We used to go to a v dodgy treking place in Wanuiomata and she would always request to ride a crazy thoroughbred. The owner didn't want to let her at first because she looks like (is) a middle aged english teacher from the city. And she had to put the saddle and stuff on herself cos it would bite the treking guides, but then they would take off across the paddocks miles in front of everyone else.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I could once. Not the best experience, bloody things have a mind of their own.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i imagine i still could, it would prob. hurt the day after tho. (yr thighs get mega sore from gripping on to the hoss). is it cool, of course of course. most unlikely horseperson = probably me.

― dz, Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

My sister used to alot (on Bill Berry's hayfarm, to do a little bit of unimpressive namedropping); I've ridden a few time, felt kind of pointless, but there were some aches afterwards.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Horse, elephant and camel riding. This in and of itself says nothing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

(i am allergic to every beast known is my excuse btw)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

(even funfur covered aliens?)

― RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer motorcycles.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

*swoon*

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to go every Saturday morning with my best friend, but I haven't gone since she died. I wasn't terribly good at it, but it was a lot of fun. We rode English, and I spent a couple years with permanently sore legs when I was learning-- it's really tricky. I never even attempted to learn how to jump, just enough to go bumming around on trails without the horse killing me.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

My mom owned a horse, a golden palomino, so I was surrounded by horse culture at an early age and could reasonably manoeuver one on my own when I was nine or so.

It's kind of like skateboarding -- the rush of moving very fast on something you can't entirely control. Also, for the same reason, scary. I've had horses nearly fall on me while I was riding them, as they dropped down on some sandy soil to relieve themselves of the itchies.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't been on a horse in close to twenty years, I'd say.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I know this girl who really wants to be a Goth, she has all the black PVC and everything. She will never make it though, cause all she ever talks about is her horse and how she plaits it mane etc.

― Livvie, Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I could :-(

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I was not allowed to ride after a childhood illness, I of course knew how much it would cost to convert the garage to stable facilities and possibly the procedure to challenge animal zoning laws in my town. What made it worse was that I started to be presented with horse-meeting but not riding opportunities when my dad legged it to look after some Saddlebreds when I was six (he had a Morgan horse when he was growing up and had to sell it when they moved to the city from big house by lake); he was very horsey.

Finally I got sent to camp for a week and was allowed to ride. I'd done all this book-based research over what to do and wasn't freaked out in the least. But counselors too wussy to allow cantering. Boo.

Every six months or so the staff from my office get sent on team-building weekends which I don't go on, as am freelance. Riding happens. They get pranged by forgetting to rise in saddle when the horse trots, and the casualties whinge about it for the whole of the next week.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The goth girl with the horse is probably not a lost cause - they can share a lot of wardrobe even.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

i can ride westeren, or could. took lessons as a child.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 17 November 2002 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I have the same allergies as Mark, so not me. The woman who sits behind me at work is a politically radical type with blonde dreadlocks, who turns out also to be a qualified riding instructor.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The goth girl with the horse is probably not a lost cause - they can share a lot of wardrobe even.

Absolutely. I know a goth tap-dance instructor; therefore a goth equestrian doesn't seem so unlikely.

I took riding lessons years ago and was good enough that my instructor was talking about buying a horse specifically for me to ride and show. Unfortunately, when I started high school I was so busy that I gave it up.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Rode Saddlebreds (strictly for pleasure; was never good enough to show) back in the 80s. My then-GF owned an older Saddlebred mare.

Expensive hobby, especially if you're boarding anywhere near a city, but as hobbies go, you could do a lot worse. If my son were to show an interest, I certainly wouldn't discourage it.

― Jeff Wright, Monday, 18 November 2002 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

my (long-estranged) aunt used to ride, much to my childhood envy. she does come fairly close to the political side of the stereotype that might spring to mind (ie a reactionary at heart), but this is not the reason why I now count the distance between our meetings in years.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 18 November 2002 04:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to the very posh Oxford Residential School of Riding during holidays from normal school when I was primary school aged. I could ride quite well back then, my friends and sisters and I all had horses and we thought it was the coolest thing ever. But now I am the most unlikely horse person of anyone's acquaintance on account of having too many accidents and losing my nerve.

― rainy (rainy), Monday, 18 November 2002 04:39 (twenty-three years ago)

it's cool because the leather of the saddle makes a pleasant creaking sound.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 18 November 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to be able to. I think I could pick it up again. Although I haven't been on a horse since I was about 12. I had lessons and my friend Sarah had one, sometimes we'd be able to borrow a pony from one of her neighbours and go hacking on the nearby common. We'd play mounted hide and seek - not as stupid as it sounds with very big trees and lots of undergrowth, but quite hard to impress on pony the need to stand still and not eat your hiding place.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 18 November 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i really dislike horses. i get shot down for this, but i just cant stand them. i like donkeys a lot though, although i wouldnt want to attempt riding one...

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 18 November 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

haha mounted hide-and-seek sounds like the bonkers-est game EVAH!! surely the next ilxor-sinister challenge? (sinister all on fat little thelwell ponies, ilxor on TRICERATOPS!!)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 November 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

But then surely we would LUSE???

― Graham (graham), Monday, 18 November 2002 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

But the triceratops would eat the ponies - we win by default.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 18 November 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't think of that.

But won't the Triceratops turn on US?? Did YOU think of THAT?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Duh uh - they are OUR triceratops and as such are trained.

(Why, why am I still posting to this thread?)

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

(Because you have a secret gang of triceratops trained to eat Sinister and their ponies, and you're bursting to tell everyone but know you can't because they'd be taken away from you, and joking about them is the nearest you're ever going to get)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Triceratops are herbivores, as any fule no.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

oh please triceratops are plant eaters!!

(haha i wrote planet eaters first oops)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Not these, oh no.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 18 November 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

It's hard to get the diagonals right when cantering a 3-tops; they tend to just stop and eat stuff

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 18 November 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

discovering sinister on Thelwell ponies versus ilxors on Triceratops - the joys of the Random button!

I rode a full-size horse only once. It was at Petra - yes, the ancient city carved into the rock in Jordan. Apparently the horses there were all from some horse rescue centre or something. I don't actually enjoy it particularly, but it meant I was able to avoid a long trek in the stifling heat in this case, so it was all to the good.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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