ChattyCathy > wrote in news:ngwnm.131166$8B7.128843
@newsfe20.iad:

> PeterL2 wrote:
>>
>> You've been taking lessons for 6 years or more, you took lessons all
>> year long for the past 12 months, and you *still* fell off the damn
>> horse??!!
>>
>> You're absolutely useless at horse riding so it's high time you took
>> up
>> another hobby. Please don't even consider skydiving.
>>
>> May I suggest crocheting, or knitting??
>>
>> No sympathy for the busted rib, dude, you got what you deserved for
>> thinking that you can do something you can't.
>
> IMHO, you're being way too harsh here Peter.



You're perfectly entitled to your opinion, as am I.

I just regard him as a 60yo 'slow learner'.


> I've seen professional
> show-jumping riders get thrown from a horse. If something spooks a
> horse, they can and do panic (or sometimes they just refuse to jump at
> the last minute and slam on brakes - and there goes the rider).


I've seen it happen too. But then, those riders didn't come onto a food/
cooking group and whine about it.


>And no
> matter how much experience the rider has - when that sort of thing
> happens sometimes they get thrown...


Yes, I have even seen Olympic competitors get thrown. But then, they are
usually in the mid-late 20's/early 30's.

As a 60yo, he should have more bloody sense.

Don't get me wrong.......... if the guy is going to get out there and do
something like that, more power to him!! But don't come whinging and whining
in here expecting sympathy from everyone if you get hurt doing it.

I've been skydiving since I was 15 years old. I'm 53 now, and with the
injuries that I'm carrying, I have made the decision that my skydiving days
are almost over.
You don't see me in here ****ing and moaning about it.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, and you gotta know when to fold 'em.


>
> That's why I'm skeered of horses and just admire them from afar.


I couldn't give a rats ass about horses. I used to go out in the North West
of Queensland in the early 80's and shoot shitloads of brumbies, which are
nothing more than pests.

Then there was the stupid bloody woman who decided to bring her 4 legged glue
pot onto a dropzone because she thought it would be 'cute' for everyone to
see her nag, and the bloody thing put a $500 dent in my car because it got
spooked when I landed........ *on* the dropzone, near my car.



But having said that........ I like horses.

There's nothing better than a cubed shoulder of horse slow braised with some
red wine and veges........ ObFood.

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


If we are not meant to eat animals,
why are they made of meat?