Why do people want to own cobs?

[Flibble]

My exact location is just here sat in a reclining chair drinking tea watching posh boats and playing on my IPAD

 

[monkeybum13]

Could you PM me with your exact location, please?
And please tell me you aren't doing any Trec events.
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Does this mean I might be bumping in to the formidable Shils at some Gloucestershire trec events? Good thing I don't own a cob

 

[Shilasdair]

My exact location is just here sat in a reclining chair drinking tea watching posh boats and playing on my IPAD

Show me a link to your art?
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[Natch]

Afternoon, Natch!
Think I may reel the nets in now?
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Hmm, well you might as well poach the ones you've caught, but leave the nets. There's still haul to be upped.


Can I press you to another cob joke?

 

[CinnamonChristmasCookie]

Sticks? I'm sure she just uses her bare hands....

I think she just licks them.

She has spikes on her daemon tounge. (Probably )

 

[smokey]

Fantastic comical personalities and consant source of amusement! Live out 24/7 in all weathers so its easier life for moi.

Are we talking about cobs still, or the OP? Seems like an excellent description of her to me........not the living out bit tho!

 

[Capriole]

Having not read the million other replies, I'm going to say this;

ISH are the best, keep your bad tempered cobs and nutty TB's, IDxTB are the way forward!

Having also not read the million and one replies, due to not being in the Cob-Mob, I thought I better own up to something.

I completely agree, ISH are the way forward, but my lovely little IDxTB filly I bred is looking distinctly cob-shaped

signed,

(Accidental) Cob Owner.

 

[Froddy]

Cobs are cute

ISH are inspiring

TBs are terrific

WBs are wonderful

Arabs are awesome

Welshies are (also) wonderful

Think I've covered most of the breeds I read about in the 1st 50 pages of this thread I managed to get through (personally I think I deserve a medal for perseverance) not even contemplating going to go back to check which I might have missed.

Shils should indeed be applauded for one of the best wind ups I've seen on the internet for ages

 

[Hot_Toddy7]

I like Cobs, as long as they don't look like Cobs.

 

[Shysmum]

My cob likes to carry sticks in his gob when we're out riding - does that make him less of a cob and more of a dog

 

[PonyGalaxy]

Shilasdair,
I can't help agreeing with you that cobs are hairy and slow and ploddy, but I do understand why people want them. While I myself prefer a more forward horse such as a warmblood or thoroughbred, I do see that in many peoples opinion, cobs are kind, sweet tempered, steady little souls, happy hackers that suit beginners.
Even some more experienced riders enjoy good old cobs.

 

[Patterdale]

They make good steaks when their ploughing days are over?

 

[Natch]

I had a cob once. Its name was tiger bread.

 

[Shilasdair]

Since when did this thread degenerate into bad cob jokes?
Keep up the good work.
Down with cobs, up the rest of yours.
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[Capriole]

Since when did this thread degenerate into bad cob jokes?
Keep up the good work.
Down with cobs, up the rest of yours.
S

Naw, up yours too

 

[Patterdale]

You don't have to feed them or check on them and the twunts survive anyway?

 

[Patterdale]

Ooh ooh, because if u get a big un you can fit all your kids on at once and thus save money?

 

[Charem]

The coloured ones make for a good throw once there plowing, multi child transporting and riding school days are over.

 

[tallyho!]

Also, you don't need hi-viz if you have a particularly colourful cob I heard.

 

[Natch]

Since when did this thread degenerate into bad cob jokes?
Keep up the good work.
Down with cobs, up the rest of yours.
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About 30 or so pages back, but I CBA to check Besides, I took your lack of reply (how dare you not be online at all times ) to essentially mean "yes Natch, I would absolutely positively love nothing more than to hear more bad cob jokes". I'm sure you all love them.


There is one small advantage to hairy cobs' legs - they mean you can ride in shorts and nobody will notice if you haven't shaved your own legs for ages. In comparison, compare your slovenly personal hygiene to a fine TB or WB , and I hear people have been arrested for being an eyesore atop a thing of beauty. Whereas to sensible people wearing cob defenders you will be invisible, no matter how fugly.

 

[Natch]

They make good steaks when their ploughing days are over?

You know that "elephant" leg you order a kebab from at the end of a particularly rough night out?

I hate to tell you this, but... you know, shape, size... general availability of cobs vs elephants in England...

 

[tallyho!]

Hmm.. No wonder it's such a fatty cut of meat...

 

[Mongoose11]

You know that "elephant" leg you order a kebab from at the end of a particularly rough night out?

I hate to tell you this, but... you know, shape, size... general availability of cobs vs elephants in England...

This made me do an actual sadface. I went from imagining a kebab to imagining my own mare's leg on that rotating spit within a millisecond

 

[Natch]

This made me do an actual sadface. I went from imagining a kebab to imagining my own mare's leg on that rotating spit within a millisecond

... and then hopefully back to imagining a kebab which isn't made of cob within the next millisecond...?

You do know they are not really cob, right? Or elephant? Well, probably not elephant, anyway...

 

[Feathered]

My cob likes to carry sticks in his gob when we're out riding - does that make him less of a cob and more of a dog

LOL Shysmum, I'm glad my little coblet isn't the only one that does this!

What makes it worse is we're normally out on inhand walks which makes him look even more like an overgrown spaniel!

 

[Mongoose11]

... and then hopefully back to imagining a kebab which isn't made of cob within the next millisecond...?

You do know they are not really cob, right? Or elephant? Well, probably not elephant, anyway...

Silly. Of course they are not made of elephant.

You know those hoards of Gypsy cobs in fields next to motor ways......

 

[Flossy1]

Well I think different people have different preferences when it comes to horses and everyone's entitled to that , I like my Id x , ish and warmbloods , a good friend of mine loves slightly heavier horses and coloureds I'm not really into coloureds or heavier horses but I don't ever really comment about it you like what you like and if your happy , their happy that's all that matters

 

[Patterdale]

If you're a trav and have 60+ in a field and are a 'horse trader' by occupation they are a fantastic way to evade tax.

Also, if you are into organised crime then same field of loads of cobs are a great way to launder your ill gotten gains.

 

[tallyho!]

Oohhh, just saw that piebald cob police horse on telly!!

 

[Highlands]

Maybe because we get a lot of pleasure, blimey ....... Very odd , maybe the dead foals in this weeks H&H don't matter just cause they are cobs..... The grand national caused enough cruelty issues but no matter they are just TBs

Thought people on here were ment to love horses not be selective about breeds and types.

Rant over!