What is the most stupid thing you have been trolled on social media for?

katastrophykat

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I used to get regular trolling from someone because I...

(not sure if I should put this behind spoiler tags in case it causes upset, anyone easily offended, look away now)

...I rode my Suffolk. With a saddle and everything!

The troll was allegedly a Suffolk supporter but felt they should only be admired, used for some gentle ploughing or bred and absolutely nothing else.

have you explained to her that there is nothing ‘gentle’ about ploughing? If there was, any old Nag could do it and there wouldn’t be half as much of a story in War Horse ?
 

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I have had the usual new poster barrage of hate on here… probably most have! It either makes or breaks you and I’m still here ?

The only thing close was the time I posted on a fish forum and got absolutely torn apart for having a fish in with another fish that should not have been. Said fishes lived quite happy for many years. I didn’t stick around on that forum.
 

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I tend to keep to myself on SM and only just manage to not comment on “horses shouldn’t even be on the road, HORSE S@#T!!!!” Etc posts (or anything controversial for that matter. Also why can’t any of these people spell or at least try and use a full stop?? I’m no English teacher but I at least try and make sense.)
So I’m just here to read all your unfortunate encounters.

@ArklePig i’m going to have a look for your post. I’m too intrigued/nosey. Sorry you were upset by it at the time though.
 

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I frequently get horror response to the fact I rarely feed hay. My ponies are fit healthy and happy living out 24/7 on horror of horrors grass. I have a grass track for summer and standing foggage for winter even when scrapping around the fields in March and April they are constantly eating. They get a small forage feed a day with minerals and vitmins added. They drop a lot of weight in winter but so far since instigating this regime they have never had a day sick or sorry. While on in/out livery the dartmoor had repeated bouts of laminitis and was permanently hangry he is now much happier as he grazes all day and night on short grass
 
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https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/why-do-horses-bite-i-mean-really-bite.803792/

Enjoy. In my defence, it was my fault and I suspected (and admitted) as much I was more just interested in how it bit me, he'd the neck of a cobra ?

Oh I had forgotten I tipsy-posted that excellent picture of me getting strangled in that thread ?? That colts baby sister has since bitten me on the face because I never learn. (Well, it was a nibble really but still, where is my brain???)
 

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Oh I had forgotten I tipsy-posted that excellent picture of me getting strangled in that thread ?? That colts baby sister has since bitten me on the face because I never learn. (Well, it was a nibble really but still, where is my brain???)

Not going to lie, I did just snort looking at the photo of you being clothes lined by that colt! I do hope there were no actual injuries?
 

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did they find out whodunnit? ?

Most locals know full well who uses that track, although the newby poo-police probably did not.
Some of the pro-poo posters were folk who have ridden my ponies at some time or another, and others knew full well who dunnit, but chose not to say.
It does pay to keep in good standing with your neighbours in a small, rural town.
 

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I use to wonder why riding hats didn't have more protection from the sun, until I attached a rim around mine and no longer could see on-coming branches.

This is why I replaced my Decathlon hat with an Owen scull...

I lost count of the number of times that I had ducked under a low branch and because of the peak on the Decathlon hat I didn't see the next low branch and lifted my head to get whacked by a branch.
 

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I found a Pandora bracelet in Ryde, Isle of Wight. The tide had gone out and partner and I were mooching along the beach with the dog and we sat on one of those sleepers, partner below chucking a ball for the dog. Up he pops with a Pandora bracelet in his hand. Someone with a much slimmer wrist than myself had obviously sat on the sleeper and it had fallen off their wrist into the sea.

So partner and I set about going to the police station to hand it in but apparently all the police will take in these days are identi theft items, phones, laptops, wallets, etc. Not interested in bikes, clothes or bracelets.

So when I got home I joined the IOW FB page for lost items and posted I'd found the item with a photo showing four of the 8 or 9 charms on the bracelet. Three months later and still no owner I posted it again saying if I didn't get the owner within a month come forward (they would have to prove what the charms were that were missing from the photo) then I'd go to cash converters and half the proceeds of the sale I'd send to Prostrate Cancer Research and half I'd keep. My beloved Dad had died from Prostrate Cancer so it was nice to give some to the charity.

Oh the uproar, how dare I keep any of the money, what a disgusting person I was benefitting from someone's loss!! How disgusting as one of the photos was of a 'Mum' charm and someone's Mum might have died. Why not put it all to Prostrate Cancer Research I was asked??

The amount of messages I received with a wild stab at guessing the missing charms was unbelievable and a couple of people 'kindly' offered to try and find the owner if I sent the bracelet to them. Yeah right!

In the end I think I got £85 for the bracelet and charms.

If we'd been staying in Ryde I would have no doubt put some posters up on lamposts as I've done this for found items before, but as it was we were only visiting for the day.
 

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Got involved in a discussion in a Scottish Highlands Facebook group over whether or not non-Highland residents should be charged to enter the Highlands. They were saying it should be like American national parks, which have gates and entry fees to control visitor numbers. I pointed out that no one lives in US national parks (ignoring the whole discussion about displacement of indigenous people), which means no one is expecting things like friends, family, Amazon deliveries, etc. etc., and managing that sort of system in a place like the Highlands (basically, closing off half the country!) would be almost unworkable, and all the other problems.

They went through the trouble of Googling me, found my novel about New York City, then came after me, saying, "What does someone who writes about New York City know about the Highlands?" But it wasn't said as nicely as that.
 

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I got lots of comments about not loving my dogs because, in a group for dogs with autoimmune disease, I pointed out that there is no good reason for a dog on steroids to gain weight, because steroids do not cause weight gain, only excessive feeding and lack of exercise does this. Most of the comments were centered around the fact that I was heartless to be able to ignore 'puppy eyes', and that steroids made the poor dogs hungry. Well yes, they do make them hungry, but then again our dogs are always hungry anyway, and I would rather not be the size of houses with all of the extra problems that this brings them.
 
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