Horses .... what's the point?

[Yorkie]

You've just proved my point for me.

 

[Dave the OAP]

how, oh clever one?

 

[Yorkie]

That horses were using roads before the internal combustion engine was invented.

 

[Dave the OAP]

well obviously they were. But roads were not specifically built to accomadate horses were they?

 

[Gwylan]

I reckon Yorkie OWNS Dave

 

[Ding Dong !]

Now first of all let me get this straight ... I don't mind horses out in the American West where they should be, being ridden by cowboys .... BUT

What's the effing point of them in this country?

Where I live I'm bloody surrounded by them.

One of my pastimes is walking, mostly along footpaths in the countryside ... everywhere you walk, more horses.

Driving along roads and country lanes in Sussex ... what do you get stuck behind? Bloody horse boxes driving along at twelve miles an hour. Where the hell are they all going? If you've got to have a bloody horse leave it in a field, don't stuff it in a horse box and drive it around. I'm told they're not big on sightseeing.

And if it's not horses in horse boxes on the road it's bloody horse riders on the road. And if you don't slow down to about three mph to pass them they wave their fists at you.

And all the horse riders wandering around the lanes are female. All the top show-jumpers and just about all the jockeys are men. So why are there no boys trotting along the effing lanes?

And the cost of the bloody things ... the cost of the horse, the stable, the food, the horse box, the vets fees. There must be an awful lot of people in Sussex with a lot more money than sense. People who can afford all that stuff should be taxed to the hilt so my taxes can be reduced. Double the tax on horses, horse boxes, horse food, tack (or whatever they call the harness stuff) and anything else remotely connected with horses immediately.

The people in the house behind me have a square fenced off piece of ground (sand school?) where just about every day some bloody loser of a person rides this nag up and down, then diagonally, then up and down, then down and up, then diagonally, then up and down, then diagonally ... get the idea ... and it goes on and bloody on ... can there be a more boring way to spend your time? Sorry, I forgot, probably watching paint dry ... but it would be a close run thing.

Now they've applied for permission to have a "horse exerciser" erected. I had no idea what it was so I called the Planning Dept ... apparently it's like a hamster wheel on it's side. But electrically operated! So you put the bloody horses in this thing, turn on the switch, and they have to walk round and round in circles. So you've got a horse, right? Presumably because for some godforsaken reason you want to get up on the bloody thing's back and ride it? So then you buy a hamster wheel thingy so you don't have to ride your horse, but instead make it walk round and round and round and round in circles inside the thing so it gets exercise.

AM I MISSING SOMETHING

OK, rant over.

Why the long face.......................

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

I reckon Yorkie OWNS Dave

You reckon? That's stone cast FACT

 

[Trufflehound]

Without horses, what would kebab shops do?

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Actually I'm on the horses side too as some of my family indulge in it, my step father (ex-merchant navy cook) still rides in his mid 60s. In an ideal world they would not go near the road but because of access issues often have to ride part of their journey on roads. Most of their problems are with impatient drivers who try overtaking leaving little room and who don't understand the fact that a horse is a living creature who can be spooked, startled and scared into doing irrational things. So don't start revving your engine, turning up the bass or tooting your horn because if the horse makes a huge dent in your motor the insurance companies are not going to be interested because it is perceived to be the motoris at fsult. Hence, the general safety rule for riding horses on roads is that if the rider feels their safety is at risk then they have every right to move into the centre of the lane to prevent anything from overtaking them.

For those whinging about paying car tax for the upkeep of the road should remember that all adults pay council tax which also goes towards highway maintenance.

Remember horses, cyclists, motorcyclists, tractor drivers, cattle drovers, caravans all have a right to access roads, car drivers should remember this and act accordingly when dealing with them rather than ranting and raving about their own selfish right of way. Patience is a virtue.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I mis read it and thought it said

" Houses, whats the point ? "

 

[zefarelly]

horses are redundant apart from pet food and organic glue manufacture

I think the ICE started it with mining machinery during the Industrial revolution.

you'd have thought the stupid things would have got the message by now, but judging by half the people who ride them theres some bizzare interbreeding going on that keeps their interests alive.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Goldstone, I take it you don't grow roses?...

 

[CHAPPERS]

I like this thread, is has envoked many feelings in me and I've only just been able to come to a conclusion.

Horse are okay but they should be taxed.

 

[goldstone]

Goldstone, I take it you don't grow roses?...

I do, but I don't need a countryside full of bloody horses to provide me with manure. Artificial fertilizer works fine for mine.

 

[Hiney]

How come you can be practically thrown in PRISON if you don't clear up a dogshit the size of a 10 pence piece, but horse-riders can trot merrily on their way after their beast has deposited a turd the size of Croydon on the road?

 

[Race]

How come you can be practically thrown in PRISON if you don't clear up a dogshit the size of a 10 pence piece, but horse-riders can trot merrily on their way after their beast has deposited a turd the size of Croydon on the road?

horse plop is just a bit of chewed up grass, dog plop is full of meaty chunks and STINKS!! I'd much rather tread in manure than turd!

 

[Trufflehound]

How come you can be practically thrown in PRISON if you don't clear up a dogshit the size of a 10 pence piece, but horse-riders can trot merrily on their way after their beast has deposited a turd the size of Croydon on the road?

Horse shit doesn't make you gag when you go near it...

 

[Cian]

That horses were using roads before the internal combustion engine was invented.

And the roads were tarred and improved with the road tax. I'm not driving on 1800's era stone-chipped tracks, I'm driving on NATIONAL PRIMARY ROADS and having the contend with the bastards!

Additionally, most of our "road" system was never of the quality to ride horses on until the 1950s, so while it may apply in the UK... it doesn't here.

 

[TSB]

They got funny long faces like...

You leave the Van Nistelroy family alone!

 

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Sheep are much better