MochaDun
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Just wondering how specific you can be in an ad for a sharer in terms of age and some other factors without breaking any type of rules/equality type things? Or for such ads doesn't it matter?
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hnmisty
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I don't think they'd matter? You aren't depriving anyone of a livelihood or home.
FubsyMog
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AFAIK, equality rules are really for employment. A sharer is not being employed by you so I would think you can be specific as you like. Probably more similar to putting a personal as for potential partners than the employment model IMHO!
Double_choc_lab
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Still don't think you have carte blanche to say what you want. I have visions of a homophobic, racist, disablist, ageist, sexist ad going through my mind (starts forming one in my mind - naughty). I would think something like "would suit novice person" or "not up to weight carrying" would be fine.
Honey08
Waffled a lot!
When it comes to age, I put that I wanted someone preferably over 30 on my advert. I did have young teens replying, but was able to weed them out by saying you would need a car to get to the yard (which is true!).
shadeofshyness
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I've seen adverts asking for no teens which is fairly common.
I can understand this age limit, but I wouldn't be impressed if an advert said no under-30s or no men or no gay people or something!
I can understand this age limit, but I wouldn't be impressed if an advert said no under-30s or no men or no gay people or something!
hnmisty
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I think an age and weight limit are perfectly acceptable. After all, you can't have a 30 stone sharer riding your horse! Some yards have age limits anyway, I think my new yard says no unsupervised under-14s.
Obviously if you put "no gays" etc, then that is an opinion and shows the person to be pretty narrow minded, but doubt you would get done under anti-discrimination laws that are used for house shares, jobs etc, surely more likely if anything was to happen that it would be using laws that apply to people who make racist tweets etc?
Wiki to the rescue? Might be interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-discrimination_acts#United_Kingdom
Obviously if you put "no gays" etc, then that is an opinion and shows the person to be pretty narrow minded, but doubt you would get done under anti-discrimination laws that are used for house shares, jobs etc, surely more likely if anything was to happen that it would be using laws that apply to people who make racist tweets etc?
Wiki to the rescue? Might be interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-discrimination_acts#United_Kingdom
puss
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My horse I can write what I want. I have put women only no one under twenty and no one over eleven stone. I have a horse who hates men and cant take weight simple. But I don't care if their gay not my problem
Cinnamontoast
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I was pretty specific, no children, no novices, weight limit etc. You still get kids emailing 
but you can just say 'Sorry, advert states no-one under 18'.
I think you can be pretty specific, it's your horse!
but you can just say 'Sorry, advert states no-one under 18'.I think you can be pretty specific, it's your horse!
shadeofshyness
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My horse I can write what I want. I have put women only no one under twenty and no one over eleven stone. I have a horse who hates men and cant take weight simple. But I don't care if their gay not my problem
Fair enough on the no men thing in this case! I didn't think of that one. I have seen quite a few saying no men and thought hmm has this lady thought this through - could be missing out on that rare breed - a hot horsey man! Haha
kc100
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As long as its within reason like a weight rule due to the horse's weight carrying ability, or age/needing own transport etc then that's absolutely fine - it is your horse and you can control who gets to ride him.
If you were discriminating for a non-horsey reason (i.e. white people only) then yes you would run a risk of getting into trouble for it. But as long as all your requirements are based on the horse's needs then you dont need to worry.
If you were discriminating for a non-horsey reason (i.e. white people only) then yes you would run a risk of getting into trouble for it. But as long as all your requirements are based on the horse's needs then you dont need to worry.