Are you a horsey snob?

Moomin1 said:
No - but please explain how you manage to light up whilst holding both reins securely in both of your hands whilst lighting up?
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Well I don't smoke (anymore) but my ponies are polo ponies anyway...one handed all the way! Used to make lighting up very easy ;)
 
I use a martingale on a horse that doesnt need it, purely out of habit. My old pony of 19yrs used to throw his head up doing mga so i kind of feel naked and maybe even a tad unsafe on the 'new' horse without one. I could use a neck strap but its not fixed to anything so psychologically not sufficient lol.
 
moorhillhorses said:
The don't rug thing annoys me. Nothing is made to stand the weather we have at the minute. A rug won't do it any harm this time if year. Bloody cows are shivering! Martingales on ponies who don't need them , I think ponies/ horses look bare without them! Barefoot/ shoeless is ok if u do no road work , ride on sand or in a field that's not hard but still think that horses that are being rode should wear shoes as I've still to see a horse going better without shoes than with shoes. Horses bodies aren't made to work on the ground we have made ..... Drop nose bands.... Ugh so ugly ! I'm sorry but god they are hideous. ! Makes any pretty horse look like a mule lol . Please don't hate me lol
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Sorry, but the average british native pony is far better equiped for the winter than the average dairy cow. They carry more weight and grow more coat. The dairy breeds were developed to produce milk, not for their hardiness. My sec B is out and does not own a single rug! And she hasn't slimmed down much this winter which does not bode well with spring around the corner.

And as for the a drop spoiling good looks?? I think my boy looks gorge!

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Fii said:
Well i am thinking of growing my own sooooo :p

Actually i really am!
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I live in tobacco country, thousands of acres every year around us.

Cigarettes are dirt cheap from the Reservation. How much is a pack in the UK now?
 
1stclassalan said:
Oh no it's not! (think panto style not overly ranting!). Production of tobacco relies on giant companies enslaving the end users in drug addiction and advertising it as desirable behavior.

In reduces the area of good agricultural land that could be used from growing food - often in countries with famine problems. Glad you said often, no famine in Canada and we have thousands upon thousands of acres of the stuff, AND, the farmers that grow it employ migrant workers - mainly Mexicans and Jamaicans - the income from a seasons work here feeds their families for the entire year.
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marmalade76 said:
Don't ask :mad:
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You going to make me look it up? :(

Not getting much joy on 2013 prices.

Bound to be scary though, when I was a student 20 #6 cost about 80p. Mind, I could go out for an entire evening and come home with change from a fiver then too ;) :D
 
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marmalade76 said:
Just over £7 for twenty :rolleyes: Just aswell I don't smoke as much as I used to.

Go on then, make me sick by telling me how much over there..
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You can get 200 for $25 from the Smoke Shops on the Reservations (although God alone knows what goes into them)

At current conversion rate that is 16.04 GBP
 
moorhillhorses said:
The don't rug thing annoys me. Nothing is made to stand the weather we have at the minute. A rug won't do it any harm this time if year. Bloody cows are shivering! Martingales on ponies who don't need them , I think ponies/ horses look bare without them! Barefoot/ shoeless is ok if u do no road work , ride on sand or in a field that's not hard but still think that horses that are being rode should wear shoes as I've still to see a horse going better without shoes than with shoes. Horses bodies aren't made to work on the ground we have made ..... Drop nose bands.... Ugh so ugly ! I'm sorry but god they are hideous. ! Makes any pretty horse look like a mule lol . Please don't hate me lol
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LMAO!

Think you need to read more natural history books on horses :)
 
Many people do rug foals including the race people. Also they be out for a bit but not full time til the weather improves. Foals do get very sick if left out in this kind of weather. The ones not being rugged go into a huge straw bed with heat lamp.

Rug don't rug whatever.

Terri
 
This is where i hold my hand up and say that my unclipped (unregistered :eek: ) Nf mare is currently wearing a full neck rug!! :p
 
When people wear wool half pads on top of numnahs just so the rim pokes out and looks fancy! I know it's a fashion thing on the eventing circuit atm but all the numnah companies say that the wool is to go next to the skin, so people say its to raise the saddle but get a riser pad! That's probably the only thing that annoys me..:confused:
 
SWHITEeventing said:
When people wear wool half pads on top of numnahs just so the rim pokes out and looks fancy! I know it's a fashion thing on the eventing circuit atm but all the numnah companies say that the wool is to go next to the skin, so people say its to raise the saddle but get a riser pad! That's probably the only thing that annoys me..:confused:
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This is the only post I've read so far that's about something even remotely snobby - someone's lack of standards or doing something that annoys you - is not being snobby. Fluffing up your wool pad to make it look more fashionable or expensive - is borderline snobby! Well done.
 
Absolutely not, go out of my way to look like Wurzel Gammage! Trousers could stand upright alone, everything is deliberately "non-proper". I cant stand any snobbery, height of bad manners. Do I smell?
 
indie999 said:
Absolutely not, go out of my way to look like Wurzel Gammage! Trousers could stand upright alone, everything is deliberately "non-proper". I cant stand any snobbery, height of bad manners. Do I smell?
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LOL That makes 2 of us!!! Hardly ever groom my horse - a quick wipe over with a glove is sufficient!!! Mud on my gumboots - that I ride in!!! No bit!!! No shoes!!!! Oh yes, and well over 10% of horsies weight!!!!
 
moorhillhorses said:
Barefoot/ shoeless is ok if u do no road work , ride on sand or in a field that's not hard but still think that horses that are being rode should wear shoes as I've still to see a horse going better without shoes than with shoes. Horses bodies aren't made to work on the ground we have made .....
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The GreyDonkey hasn't worn shoes behind for nearly two years now . . . he copes just fine and competes without ANY problems. Went round Tweseldown at the HT two weeks ago in appalling going and was able to use his natural grip/not slip while a few others (shod and studded up) were skidding around like crazy.

I would suggest you spend some time reading up about how horses' hooves actually work ;).

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I personally don't give a flying whotsit whether and how people rug up (or not) their horses . . . whether they choose to go matchy/matchy . . . whether their horses are shiny and sparkling or mud covered and hairy . . .

. . . I do, though, have a slight personal aversion to 30-year-old women wearing jackets with their horse's name picked out in diamante sparkles in large script across the back. You are not 10. I suppose that's inverted snobbery.

I also can't stand pushy RS/pony club parents . . . shut up and leave the teaching to the instructors and let your kid have FUN. Little Tamsin has absolutely NO feel, NO natural balance and will NEVER make it to Hickstead so give it a rest and put a sock in it. Driving her to and from the RS in a shiny Range Rover and decking her (and you) out from head to toe in Joules does NOT make you knowledgeable about horses.

Sigh.

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PolarSkye said:
I personally don't give a flying whotsit whether and how people rug up (or not) their horses . . . whether they choose to go matchy/matchy . . . whether their horses are shiny and sparkling or mud covered and hairy . . .
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Yep - none of that is snobby.

. . . I do, though, have a slight personal aversion to 30-year-old women wearing jackets with their horse's name picked out in diamante sparkles in large script across the back. You are not 10. I suppose that's inverted snobbery.
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No, it's not - it's not snobbery of any kind on your side. If the women you refer to still persist in dressing like that to shows in defiance of the code - then I grant you, that would be inverse snobbery.


I also can't stand pushy RS/pony club parents . . . shut up and leave the teaching to the instructors and let your kid have FUN. Little Tamsin has absolutely NO feel, NO natural balance and will NEVER make it to Hickstead so give it a rest and put a sock in it. Driving her to and from the RS in a shiny Range Rover and decking her (and you) out from head to toe in Joules does NOT make you knowledgeable about horses.
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That is just another depiction of your correct standards - not snobbery.

I think a little history! In days of old, Clerks to the clergy had all the trappings of church power but none of the money - they often had to get by with hand-me downs and frugal lifestyles but during services had importance - the job attracted people who liked lording it over their peers - the peers returned jibes of being "nobby" through the association with nobles - (hobnobbing)- this is where the nickname "Nobby" comes from for anyone called Clark or Clarke - thus s'nobby is from the same root - meaning someone who acts defferentially towards authority but is otherwise a straw man.
 
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Old timers telling me I shouldn't clip horse then rug it, and should breed from my mares, my mares I will clip and rug them and no I won't breed from them although I would love an Amourous Avanti Archie foal I think when I need a horse have to talk nicely to Janet George!
 
1stclassalan said:
Yep - none of that is snobby.



No, it's not - it's not snobbery of any kind on your side. If the women you refer to still persist in dressing like that to shows in defiance of the code - then I grant you, that would be inverse snobbery.




That is just another depiction of your correct standards - not snobbery.

I think a little history! In days of old, Clerks to the clergy had all the trappings of church power but none of the money - they often had to get by with hand-me downs and frugal lifestyles but during services had importance - the job attracted people who liked lording it over their peers - the peers returned jibes of being "nobby" through the association with nobles - (hobnobbing)- this is where the nickname "Nobby" comes from for anyone called Clark or Clarke - thus s'nobby is from the same root - meaning someone who acts defferentially towards authority but is otherwise a straw man.
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So it's official . . . I'm an inverse s'nob ;). Genuinely grateful for the history lesson . . . I often wonder where certain words/phrases originate.

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I think I was exposed to way too many of the "Barn Dragons" when I was a child. These old ladies ran the barn, knew God when he was a corporal, and you didn't want to make them unhappy. Even two old cavalry colonels at my barn recommended, "don't cross the dragons!" I think their style stuck.

I hate bling...any bling. Rhinestones belong on hookers or western singers. Any tack in KP titty-pink is wretched and tasteless.

Just because you have a peice of tack doesn't mean it has to be on your horse.

Your horse probably doesn't need a flash noseband cutting into his poor muzzle.

Don't talk on the phone/text while you ride. Multi-tasking isn't a good thing (and you're not good at it no matter how talented you think you are).

Smile! You're having fun or why are you riding?

Tack should be clean, numnahs should be spotless and soft.

Don't make comments about other riders, (e.g. expense of horse/tack/clothing....this is especially true of the little spoiled darlings mummy drops at the yard with noses in the air with that lovely condescending sneer parents install in such brats).
 
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