horsesatemymoney
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If I had a yard, and you were working on it and said something like that about my client's horse (2 times!) you'd have been having a right good laugh down the jobcentre! So rude. Why would you laugh about somebody who is proud of their (older) horse? Or their heavyweight cob? You sound like just the sort of person who ruins peoples' enjoyment of their horses, and must be very insecure.
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I find it hard to believe that nobody on this thread has ever said something thoughtless and unkind. I hear people say much nastier things on a daily basis - maybe I just speak to the wrong people!
Heh, not especially insecure, no. I find it hard to believe that nobody on this thread has ever said something thoughtless and unkind. I hear people say much nastier things on a daily basis - maybe I just speak to the wrong people! I did feel genuinely bad about the woman with the older horse though, because he was a sweetheart, never going to be a dressage star but fab for his owner and would jump anything. And as for the cob - as I said, turned out he was worth a damn sight more than my warmblood, so I doubt me having a giggle bothered the owner much!
Heh, not especially insecure, no. I find it hard to believe that nobody on this thread has ever said something thoughtless and unkind. I hear people say much nastier things on a daily basis - maybe I just speak to the wrong people! I did feel genuinely bad about the woman with the older horse though, because he was a sweetheart, never going to be a dressage star but fab for his owner and would jump anything. And as for the cob - as I said, turned out he was worth a damn sight more than my warmblood, so I doubt me having a giggle bothered the owner much!
Of course you aren't. You were just the only person silly enough to admit it on HHO, home of the most perfect posters in posterity
I have said many an unkind thing in my yoof and (when in a bad mood) I still do it now sometimes. No, I'm not proud of it and yes, I should try harder not to let my tongue loose but I'm not going to lie and say I've never done it.
To be fair to me, it was a little incongruous amongst all the big warmbloods.
I bitch and moan and gossip all the time .... But only to hubby in the car on the way home from the yard when I'm needing to vent! I would never laugh at someone or make a comment to their face and I can say that, hand on heart completely truthfully because I make an enormous effort to be polite and positive all the time. I think that comes from years working in the horse industry and having it drummed into me by my employers that customers should always be treated with respect and in a helpful, considerate manner.
As was pointed out to me the day I bought my cob and I was on a big BSJA yard full of warmbloods. My Hanoverian had just been PTS. Somebody went past and said '(insert the nasty word for traveller) horse'. I didn't stay on that yard much longer. I think it's disgusting to slag off someone else's precious horse. You make yourself look a fool and/or jealous. Strikes me as deeply immature.
People's rudeness, spite, venom, snootyness and general ignorance never ceases to amaze me in the horse world.
Of course you aren't. You were just the only person silly enough to admit it on HHO, home of the most perfect posters in posterity
I have said many an unkind thing in my yoof and (when in a bad mood) I still do it now sometimes. No, I'm not proud of it and yes, I should try harder not to let my tongue loose but I'm not going to lie and say I've never done it. I'd never set out to be cruel or say it so it could be overheard but I'm sure I have.
I am utterly tactless most of the time really!
So you base whether someone's beloved horse deserves laughing at nastily or not, on their value? That's the way it comes across. I take it if that horse had been worth £500 then it would have been ok to potentially really upset someone?
Oh dear, I think this might have been blown out of proportion! I didn't point and hoot, I just had a little giggle as he walked off the trailer. Then the owner and I had a chat about him, and no feelings were hurt. I only mention his value because the joke ended up being on me when it turned out he was very expensive. I promise there was no full blown bullying involved!
Anyway, before the tarring and feathering begins, I would like to back down gracefully. Cobs are people too, it's not the size of the feathers that counts but the size of the heart, zip-a-dee-doo-dah and all that. I shall now retreat gracefully to hide behind my warmblood (who hates cobs - I suspect he might be jealous and/or immature).
Ah right. So you didn't 'laugh in their face' then at all? You just had a 'little giggle to yourself.
This sort of thing makes me sooo glad I am on a small private yard.
Holding, youre on a hiding to nothing now, no point in trying to defend yourself, at least you were honest enough to admit it just let it go and ignore it now, and fwiw, i dont believe for one minute that all of us havent said something bitchy or snidey about someone or someones animal at some point, sadly i think its human nature, and that includes using humor that does the same
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