The Benylin Thread!

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In honour of my explosion of ill humour earlier this week, having unwisely consumed too much Benylin and one glass of wine - I give you - the Benylin thread.
In which you get to be totally unreasonable in your utter dislike of one particualr horsey trend/habit/tendency

and I will begin with

People who are done up to the eyeballs in the most expensive Joules this that and the other, River Boots or even Ariats, rugs courtesy every bugger from Mark Todd to Katie Price, every accessory known to man... and their BLOODY horse looks like the undead in carpet slippers - gloopy eyes, hairy heels (forgiveable if native or traditional but please, on a TB / Warmblood type?) DIRTY TACK (expensive, but dirty) and ... wait for it ... SHAVINGS IN THEIR TAIL.

OK. I'm done.
 
I wear only Ariats, every one of my rugs is branded, I clean tack twice a year (Xmas and Easter), own WBs with shavings in their tail and never trim/clip their legs or whiskers...

I'll get my coat :D
 
martlin said:
I wear only Ariats, every one of my rugs is branded, I clean tack twice a year (Xmas and Easter), own WBs with shavings in their tail and never trim/clip their legs or whiskers...

I'll get my coat :D
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Please don't! You'll note the conditions say you can be totally unreasonable. So it matters not at all if you have shavings in your tail. (You know what I mean) - what is YOUR pet hate?!
 
My pet hate?
People who every time a horse farts or (God forbid) bucks call a vet, a physio, a saddle fitter, a bit advisor, a dentist and even an animal communicator, but never even consider learning to ride the thing!


Ah, that's better:)
 
Having just about recovered from an allergy related migraine I can do unreasonable very very well :)
I loathe people with perfectly nice, well behaved horses, who make them behave badly because they think it makes them look good :mad: They are the same ones who say how lucky you are that your Appy (arabxTb features largely in her breeding) behaves so well, in company, or on her own, at shows etc. Luck :eek: huih, what aboiut hard work eh?
 
People who buy horses for the 'status' then put them on full livery, come up to the yard roughly once a week to see friends for an hour and then leave. The poor horse gets a pat on the face if they're lucky, and ridden for about 10 mins once a fortnight. :mad:
 
People who actually are bothered about how groomed pulled tarted up a horse is yes be respectful if going somewhere doesnt make it a better horse this is why people get conned in to buying unsuitable horses they are swayed by the patter and conmen nowadays know to polish up a good horseman can see past the mud lack of facilities.

My dad on the other hand goes too far he point to point races is having a break as he has had cancer getting back in to it but at the hunt one day took his pointer out and hadnt even looked at his mane one of the well to do ladies who knew him said why dont you let one of my grooms pull his mane for you he told her the horse was a hippy and liked his mane that way you would need a keg full of benylin to put up with some of his annoying habits but he is a hell of a horseman all the same i grudgingly have to say.
;)
 
Mmmm my pet hate..........


Snotty nosed know it alls who think the rest of the horse community is thick and doesn't even know a horse has 3 legs........erm I mean 4 lol
They are often found hanging out in tack rooms dictating to everyone how to ride and take care of their horse, but you rarely see them riding as they are scared to get on their well bred warmblood, and when you do, you usually hear sniggering around several corners :D

Another pet hate, the muppets who think the likes of highland/shetland/Welshies need stabling/feed/rugs like a TB and you're awful if you dont provide this, cruel even !!!!!!!

Final pet hate: owners of hugely obese horses, this one really makes me angry!!

Oh wait there is more :D
Overly competative Pony club parents forcing their kids to jump at heights that scare the crap out of their kids, and tell them off when they get a pole down.

Brattish children who screw up on a round then hit their pony !

and breath........................ahhhhhhhhh


Shall I stop, I could go on all night :(

Edited to say: The final pet hate: Skewbald_again for saying only 1 pet hate to be listed :D
 
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I don't think I have any really. I am rubbish.

Perhaps I should go and ingest some Benilyn and then I'll be able to think of something!
 
martlin said:
My pet hate?
People who every time a horse farts or (God forbid) bucks call a vet, a physio, a saddle fitter, a bit advisor, a dentist and even an animal communicator, but never even consider learning to ride the thing!


Ah, that's better:)
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I better call two vets!!! Ayla farts whilst bucking!!!! And dont get me started on Roxy, she must eat a curry every night ;):p
 
martlin said:
My pet hate?
People who every time a horse farts or (God forbid) bucks call a vet, a physio, a saddle fitter, a bit advisor, a dentist and even an animal communicator, but never even consider learning to ride the thing!


Ah, that's better:)
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There's one on my yard. There's always a reason why the poor horse can't be ridden. :p
 
People who post on Face Book about how tired they are, getting up at 6am to do the horse, when 99% of the time it is their friend who is doing the horse anyway, while they are snuggled up in their little beds, dreaming of what they are next going to write on Face Book
 
People who in this weather dont check their horses (in rented fields not even livery) until 2pm most days if at all, or, or specifically the lazy $%^$%^% who keeps hers across from my field and walked halfway up the lane to look through the hedge at them (in the snow) then clearly decided from a distance of 500m that they were fine, got in car and drove home without even breaking ice on water!

But that's quite a rational dislike I reckon. I currently irrationally dislike people who are able to ride out looking immaculate on immaculate ponios since I look like a mud monster and mine look like hippos even after half an hour of mud scraping cos I havent clipped this year and mine live out! Pah!

Oh and I also dislike people who write really long sentences with rubbush punctuation.
 
elsielouise said:
But that's quite a rational dislike I reckon. I currently irrationally dislike people who are able to ride out looking immaculate on immaculate ponios since I look like a mud monster and mine look like hippos even after half an hour of mud scraping cos I havent clipped this year and mine live out! Pah!

Oh and I also dislike people who write really long sentences with rubbush punctuation.
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Irrational is funnier, by and large!
 
My dislike is of riders who look down on other riders, particularly happy hackers! (I may be biased being one myself :p) Just because riders choose to hack does not mean that they automatically can't ride!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Sorry about that, a comment in the dressage thread really annoyed me today.
 
my pet hate is poor use of spelling and grammar....

but my horsey pet hate is people getting on their high horse (excuse the pun) about something they clearly know very little about or have a very poor understanding of. Like people who think that it's cruel to keep a horse out 24/7 when it snows... nevermind the fact that it's what suits the horse and its owner best. Or equally, the people who think it's ok to go on and on at someone who keeps their horse stabled because that's what suits them best... FGS.... it's personal choice, and at the end of the day, if the horse and its owner are happy with the situation, the horse is well and cared for.... DOES IT REALLY MATTER????

(sorry for the rant!)
 
I have no time for people who make assumptions based on the type of horse people own....

I have 3 cobs....I see no reason why I shouldnt wear ariat boots, have an expensive saddle and bridle, and my horses have rambo & bucas rugs.....

I actually feel that my horses are just as worthy as those costing 10 times as much.....

I also dont have time for people who spend thousands on horses that they are then too scared to ride, yet *still* look down on safe cobby types.....
 
Christmas Apercrumbie Tree said:
My dislike is of riders who look down on other riders, particularly happy hackers! (I may be biased being one myself :p) Just because riders choose to hack does not mean that they automatically can't ride!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Sorry about that, a comment in the dressage thread really annoyed me today.
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Bit silly isn't it? Imagine if athletes, you know sprinters and long jumpers, went round saying they despised people who walk.

Comfort yourself with the thought that I doubt very much if William Fox Pitt or Mary King despise people who hack. They have class, see. (Though there are a few top dressage riders who wouldn't know what the outside world looked like from the back of a horse, but that's there loss.)
 
Having had 2 root canals, 2 sets of antibiotics and STILL losing 2 front teeth(bottom jaw), I have a perfectly understandable dislike of dentists at the moment!

However, my equine irrational dislike is ........

DIRTY TAILS!!!!!!!! Horses poo...a lot.... on superdooperwouldblowacarthorsesbrain haylage they poo more....just because I am a groom and look like stig of the dump 25/7 does NOT mean that I want to handle your shitty dirty manky horses tail to sort rugs and fillet strings! As an aside, WHY, when your horse is waering 3/5/20 rugs does there have to be a fillet string on EVERY SINGLE ONE????????

Aaaaaaaaaannnnd breathe! :D

Oh, and as an aside, when your horse hasnt been out for a week, and hasnt been ridden for 2, dont be offended when I call it a %$*££"")(* (insert your own words here) when it is climbing over the top of me and bronking on the end of the leadrope!
 
My pet hate?
The gits who spend all their money on the Joules and Mark Todds, have all the Anky, have the super dooper warmblood that actually IS clean and sparkly to match the bling brow and noseband and turn up for a lesson and THE GOD DAMN BIT HAS 2 WEEKS WORTH OF WEETABIX ON IT:)

It has taken me a several years to get this rant out and I am now off to consume copious amounts of Bollinger darlings!!!!!!:)
Bryndu
 
This has got me thinking:

People who criticise people who 'hack all the time' when the most they do with their horse is chase it round in a circle for 10 mins if it is lucky. Hours spent hacking imo is exponentially better than lunging for ten minutes.

People who devalue others achievements at local or unaffiliated events that they don't attend because their horse is too well bred, has winnings beyond that level or is beneath them but then they never actually go and do anything.
 
No benylin for me at the moment (although am always glad of the opportunity of taking it as it is scrummy!).....

Anyway, back to the question.....

My pet hate is people who, because their horse is looked after in a certain way, think every other horse on the planet should be treated the same. Surely it doesn't matter whether your horse is rugged/unrugged, stabled/part stabled/out permanently, fed hard feed/hay/haylage/grass, exercised once a day/once a week/once a month/once a year/never, shod/part shod/unshod, does dressage/hacks/xc/sj/shows/is just a friend, and the list goes on. As long as your and my horses are happy, healthy and treated with due respect, does it really matter whether they are looked after in a different way?
 
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People at shows who walk round and round the outside track of the often cramped warm up arena, sometimes two abreast so they can gossip :mad: . Who look at you like you're a moron when you try to explain that faster paces have right of way, and it's only left hand to left hand if you are in the same pace :mad: . Plus the hordes who sit on their ponies blocking the entrance/exit to the jumping ring :mad:. Who look at you like you're a moron when you ask them, politely, to let you by :mad:. Then get indignant when you use "improper" language because they havn't moved :mad:.
 
**Vanner** said:
This has got me thinking:

People who criticise people who 'hack all the time' when the most they do with their horse is chase it round in a circle for 10 mins if it is lucky. Hours spent hacking imo is exponentially better than lunging for ten minutes.
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Ooh, I have a bit of an unreasonable distaste for lunging. It just gets in the way so much when you are trying to school. I know sometimes people have good reasons for lunging, I have been known to do it myself occasionally ;) , but some people seem to prefer it to riding. :rolleyes:
 
Mine?

People who buy a horse for social status, claim to love the thing, then constantly fob it off on somebody else do whilst they either jet off with little/ no warning, or just can't be bothered to come up, so dumps aforementioned horse on someone else.
 
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