I dunno. I’m no good with horses.
Imagine that though- A big spoiled horse that doesn’t want to eat anything but cake.
That’s a problem to contend with there!
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is it bad that this was the only post that made me laugh out loud? bwahahaha
Yes, the horse would stop eating carrots and grass because the horse would get colic and eventually die if you kept it up. Anything with too much sugar/simple carbs can do this (e.g., a basket full of apples).
On the topic of horse diets, did you know horses are omnivorous? Wild horses are quite predatory (if sufficiently hungry) and will absolutely try to eat you, given the opportunity. I have one horse who likes to kick up ground squirrel warrens and chomps the crap out of them. Well-fed horse, nice, well mannered. Just likes to eat squirrels. No clue how it started.
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Wtf…
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Figured people need a dose of reality. You’ve heard of people checking a horse’s mouth, right?
Well, that’s generally for signs of health (grinding, age, malnutrition, that kind of thing).
But you’re also looking to see if the horse has CANINE teeth. This is generally bred out of horses – or they are pulled – but horses left to nature will eventually get them back after a couple of generations (along with what’s called a “Roman Nose” on the horse (a big bump). Both can indicate a very spirited animal, often resistant to training.
We’ve got them all over the place here, running wild. Mean as shit.
Sometimes this was a preferred trait – i.e., in a war horse. The Comanche liked them (allegedly, as told to me by Apache relatives who don’t like Comanche, to date).
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I… I can’t tell if this is fascinating information on horses I have never heard of before, or if you are one of the most brilliant bullshitters I have ever met. Thoroughly happy either way
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Wow… Fascinating. Thanks
Yeah I had search. It’s true.
There are also some really creepy videos on YouTube of horses hunting small prey.
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Those are the same things my one old girlfriend pointed out to me about her horse, which was a super high strung jagoff with steel cleats on its feet being driven by hundreds of lbs. of muscle and very little judgement.
Fuck those things.
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That’s really interesting info.
My daughter already hates horses from working summers at camps. A book about his would be an ideal Christmas gift 
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I was following along on a training podcast where they got onto the topic of 5/3/1 which lead to the inevitable discussion about it’s lack of volume/frequency.
I always thought people were being purposefully ignorant with these types of statements. Turns out it isn’t so purposeful as people seemed quite surprised that 5/3/1 isn’t one program, that there is a 5/3/1 book, there is more than one 5/3/1 book.
I wonder how people put so little research into something they intend on doing for months/years.
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I find it amusing you believe most of those lifters expect this process to take more than a few weeks.
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I actually love horses and riding. In fact, if you recall the thing that caused me to dump a girl (who was no good for me) is she threatened my horses. You don’t threaten an Apache’s horses. It ends badly. The Lincoln County War started over a guy stealing a horse and things haven’t changed much here.
But, yeah, they are a 1000lb animal with a mind of their own. You are either their boss (and they love you for it), or you are their bitch.
My wife had a far too gentle approach to her horse and he would cause trouble. She toughed up a bit and now he comes running over to her and follows her around the farm acting as her guardian. In fact, this morning, I saw them in the greenhouse. He was just following her as she watered.
Snippets on conversation over the past few days with my better half.
I think I’ll open the windows, it’s a bit hot in here
are you crazy? It’s freezing!
Just putting Spotify on
I don’t want to listen to music, let’s watch TV
shall we have pizza for dinner tomorrow?
no, let’s do thai
why don’t we walk to this thing?
let’s just drive
but it’s nice out, it’s just a 15 minute walk
YOU NEVER LISTEN TO ME, WHY IS IT ALWAYS YOUR WAY!
It occurred to me that my wife thinks I am just spitting out random options rather than stating my preference. When I pointed this out, she denied any of the above happening lol
Why would anyone think I’m mindlessly saying random crap or doing anything that occupies my dumb ass? lol
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I’m going to cop to it that, with how often you complain about your relationship here, something I’ve wondered is what is keeping you two together.
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Its not meant to come across as complaints, I think of them as amusing anecdotes, like a comic strip, a sad comic strip.
It’s also complicated.
It’s also possible that she bludgened me into a coma and this is what my brain came up with for a comforting end.
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I feel this happens here, too, though I fully acknowledge that he probably feels the same way. A year or so ago it was bad enough that I reared up in outrage, and he was really startled by my account of the series of countermanding of my wishes (I had food poisoning when we went on vacation, which started with us tent camping in the yard of his sister’s rented house on the Cape). He told me then that I should make sure we’re making eye contact when I tell him something I really need him to hear.
It doesn’t help, but what does help is saying “I’m making eye contact and telling you NO THANK YOU” or “…and telling you I’D LIKE TO GO FOR PIZZA.”
I deploy it rarely, because as stated I think I’m also probably hearing him say “let’s do x” and saying “I think we should do z” on a pretty regular basis.
I’m sorry about the complicated nature of it. I’ve also wondered if you respect her at all.
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This is why, when said poster says something “dubious” to me, I take offense, and (possibly) over react. Imo, someone who treats their “loved one” like this, then airs it out on an anonymous forum to denigrate them w/o consequence, is acting like a POS.
edit to add: my lifts are shite, so no front squat contest, but I’m a martial arts expert @dt79
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It’s difficult to provide a 360 degree view of anything on a medium like this. You can pretty much pull any topic and it will tend to the more negative side of things and I like a bit of an absurdist (?) spin on things.
Come on, man. I didn’t think I actually needed to articulate why gift giving/recieving and modelling it are beneficial things for a man with a family and ties to the community to do. I don’t see why we’re conflating two issues - other than one helps you dismiss the other.
I understand that (see @EmilyQ) but to expand, I also don’t intend to provide a 360 degree view. I’ll take on-board that there is a good volume of the stuff now (and it probably bores everyone to tears).
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