Shamelessly judgemental thread!

adds where the rider:
1. Has no hard hat.
2.Hair flapping around (you look a tw*t, tie it up!)
3. Riding in trackies
4. Riding in wellies
5 Riding in boots with three inches of stripy socks poking out the top.
6. Jumping bareback, usually in a slowed down video clip with naff music, and the rider wearing no hat, in her trackies, with her striped socks poking out her wellies!!!

Argh.....even if the horse looks nice I wont go near as I think the seller is a plonker or a chav.

These things annoy me in real life too, but tend not to see them on our yard. Im blessed I think I am on the best yard I could ever find, YM is a saint and no yard "font of all knowledge".
 
WelshD said:
It annoys me that people feel the need to comment on grammar and spelling. This forum is people's leisure time and its normal to relax a bit in these circumstances

If I need to knock up a decent contract at work I am able to and take the appropriate care over it. I don't feel the need to apologise for my every missing apostrophe or comma on here though!

There are the normal ones that get my goat such as there, their and they're and also text speak but beyond that I try not to think about it too much as long as I can read the post without wanting to tear my own eyes out
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Thank You!!!
I Have a LOT of trouble with My Spelling and Grammer as I'm Dislexic....
 
Orls, you rock!

I get very annoyed with people who come here for advice on how to fix a horse they've screwed up. Like, my horse bucks, rears, and won't go, who's methods should I follow. Pay money and send your horse away. He needs help. But nope, I can apply info from the Internet. Cheaper.

I will say as much as I did on the other thread. To each his own as long as its not harmful to horse. So many of these like feed drive me batty too.

But about all these little persnickety things that people love to mention to feel superior, I could care less. I've been on over 3,000 individual horses. That's a whole lot of perspective. So I do chuckle about certain things people feel are so wrong.

I don't care if someone has what looks like a crap place. If the horses are healthy and well who cares. Better than a beautiful facility with no horsemanship. You'd be surprised about the later. Along the lines of "all the gear and no idea".

And I must stick this in, re cover less skull caps. Where I came from the only riders that didn't have covers could ride anything. I kept/keep a helmet cover on as a mark of "no I'm not all that".

But hey whatever, the world would be terribly boring without all the snobbery and judgements. Horse people are so weird. This morning I was floored by the one woman in our barn. She got a bee in her bonnet because the boyfriend of the other woman had a pic of 3 horses on his Facebook page titled "my new best friends". Her bug bear, her horse was not included in the photo. She wanted to know what her horse has ever done to them and why they might not like him. I had no comeback. She was quite p'd about it too. It was really weird.

Terri
 
Not wearing a riding hat when riding.

Laziness when it comes to horse management.

Post about 'do I need a vet?/ what is wrong' about a clearly very sick horse

All the gear/bling/tat but no idea

Welfare issues
 
I agree with lots of the above, but would say above everything else I get upset more than judgemental when I see horse or ponies who are not cared for properly, standing in fields of ragwort for instance, field full of rubbish, looped rusty fencing, standing without any shelter in their fields, I could add loads more.

I guess some of the above is about how we started out, strict Pony Club DC with 'standards' that had to be adhered to for me, I also had a horse mad mother who put horses before children!!!
 
Bestdogdash said:
The appalling use of grammar and the exceptionally bad spelling that pervades practically every post on this forum, e.g 'I bought my saddle of EBay'. It should be I bought my saddle through eBay from so and so .....
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People who write incomprehensible posts and expect others to magically know what they mean and all the background details :rolleyes:

People who over feed their horses, or fail to take appropriate action to deal with their weight and make excuses about how "hard" it is. Man up, lots of other people manage it - it's not easy to keep horses fit and well, no matter whether they're good or poor doer. You bought it, it's your duty to do it right.

People who use quick fixes under saddle, saw at mouths, think outline is broken at the neck, over flexed and lacking activity behind, people who think 2 hours work a week is "hard work" (ties in with overweight and under worked), people who think the world should stop for their precious had, people who don't allow their horses freedom to demonstrate natural behaviours, people who don't instill basic manners or ruin those the horse already had.

Lots of things make me judgemental.
 
People breeding for the sake of breeding when they haven't the means and/or the ability to care for the result. That goes for any breeding, including humans.
 
Equilibrium Ireland said:
But hey whatever, the world would be terribly boring without all the snobbery and judgements. Horse people are so weird. This morning I was floored by the one woman in our barn. She got a bee in her bonnet because the boyfriend of the other woman had a pic of 3 horses on his Facebook page titled "my new best friends". Her bug bear, her horse was not included in the photo. She wanted to know what her horse has ever done to them and why they might not like him. I had no comeback. She was quite p'd about it too. It was really weird.

Terri
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Wow... That is... Mental :eek:
 
micramadam said:
A horse not allowed to be a horse i.e. wrapped up in cotton wool because the preious little darling might hurt itself.

Stallions being locked up for 24 hours or most of the day because they are stallions.

The use of gadgets because they are suddenly fashionable.

The lack of good old fashioned common sense!

I could on but I 'd just get wound up.:rolleyes:
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I agree on this
 
JFTD, I really was floored. I can't imagine how and why that what bug someone. And it happened over a month ago and she went random about it today.

Terri
 
People who keep their horses on DIY livery but expect other liveries will just do theirs...as they r busy, or have to do something else, or be somewhere else or just can't be ar**d!
 
Thing is I'd never take pics of someone else's horse and put them on my page. Unless I had permission or was involved. Like I don't really put client horse pictures up. I feel it's an invasion of privacy. Thing is I do have a pic of her horse on my wall, which she mentioned in glowing terms. Yeah, my husband rode him in from the field with a headcollar and rope. He did that to show them he's not really the big scary monster they portray him to be. Hence forth why he was asked to bring him in. Same woman freaked out when I asked her to quit giving my horses carrots. I know she meant well but the Cupcake picked up a nasty pawing habit that needed rectified. She thought it cute she was "begging". And I let that go a bit because I didn't want to be a meanie. Once I put my foot down the Cupcake remembered what manners were.

Terri
 
Well I will put it to you this way, in my 3 years here I have seen and heard the unbelievable. Like the €200 serenity ring that sits atop a stable wall. Promotes harmony and calm. Well after a week of the big nosey warmblood Abba dragging it off the wall into her stable I asked her to please move it. I was told no horse would mess with it. Yeah, Abba thought serenity ring might yield food. A box with copper in it. That and the underground streams running under certain stables and something to do with the full moon. Ok look I really can't continue! I do need someone to visit though so I can show them these things because otherwise I'm looking like the fruitbat! Not posting pics for obvious reasons.

So now you all might know why I think some things are not worth worrying about. I got too much on my plate here!

Terri
 
Not wearing a hat to ride.

Fat horses with owners that refuse to do anything about it.

Feeding totally unsuitable feed/quantities for the level of work.

People who don't bring their horses back into work in the appropriate manner after injury/time off (eg. Horse had 6 months off with a tendon injury and was back out jumping 120 tracks within 6 weeks)

People who back their horses at 3 and jump them under saddle within 2 weeks.

Lack of common sense.
 
People like a girl on our yard, beats her horse, kicks him in the guts as he's always tripping while ripping him back in the mouth. Hands up in the air and wonders why the horse don't go well. :( and than to top it off the horse got nasty to her so out came a horse communicator to talk to the horse. I wipe my hands of people like her who can't even understand the basics,
 
people who use harsher/stronger bits, martingales and anything else they can get on the horse because their horse is too strong and then use spurs and whips to make it move forward because all the gear is stopping it from moving.
seen it a couple of times and the poor horse didn't know whether it was coming or going.
 
People who knock other perople's confidence on purpose.
People who try to take over other people's horses.
Yard know it alls.
Those who leave horses in all the time, then expect them to behave perfectly.
People who leave horses without food for more than 12 hours then lord their length of ownership and so called knowledge over other people.
 
Favourite bug bear with me is people who post things with the caveat " ... But I'd prefer it if ...".

As in, my TB has really bad, crumbly feet and has to be shod, but I'd prefer it if he went barefoot
My horse pulls like a steam train in a Pelham but I'd prefer it if he went in a snaffle
My horse needs a high cal diet to keep any weight on but I'd prefer it I only had to feed chaff and a handful of fed balancer

..... Well, of course, you would, but what would the horse prefer? This isn't really about what we'd prefer for whatever reason,but about what's best for your horse.
 
At this particular moment in time it's Non-Horsey people!
After slipping over today in the mud and snow whilst wheeling an overflowing wheelbarrow and then returning home my OH cooly reminds me that geographically we ARE closer to Iceland and Norway than the Caribbean!!!
No tea and sympathy just 'get a grip love'! ... Guess who's got beans on toast tonight!
 
My List:

Horses without turnout or companionship!!
Leaving horse without forage for hours (he is fat so can only have one section of hay overnight!!!)
Rolkuer
Riding without a hat
Riding in draw reins (or any other similar device) when not experienced enough to use them.
Flash straps.
Hitting a horse in the face/round the head.
Not having a qualifed saddler fit your saddle.
Flinging the girth over horses back when tacking up so the buckles bang legs.
Pulling a horse forwards with the reins when leading with a bit in.

OOOOH blimee i am a miserable old woman!! I could go on and on and on and on.......
 
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