Comments on: In which Dan courts controversy

By: Thalo Ryder

Thalo Ryder — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:28:00 +0000

From Phil:
Like you said, they let anybody just get on a horse.

Can I ask who “They” is?

I can understand your feelings toward horses, but “They” is a really broad comment. (I know you didn’t originally say it) NOT everyone is like this. It would be like saying ALL people of Spanish decent are migrant workers or something of some such. Using one experience to judge a whole group is wrong.

I’ll have you know also, that NOT every one is a prissy rider whose parents bought them their horse. My first horse was a captive-bred mustang. I bought her with my won money, I took *my* time to train her. Not all of us “horse people” are prats. Don’t make blanket assumptions. You can dislike something with out being insulting.

By: Henri

Henri — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:17:53 +0000

Wait a second. You mean to say horses are real? I thought they were Hollywood magic. What are you going to tell me next, cows exist?

By: Pa

Pa — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:07:31 +0000

Glad to hear that you are keeping up the family tradition.
Using a horse to get around in wild open spaces is fine.
I have nothing against horses or really people who own them but the days when it was safe to put an immature human brain in charge of a
two ton animal with an even less capable one on the roads of Britain are long gone.

All horses look better without people on their backs however.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:18:01 +0000

Paul – I did remember that you used to do showjumping, but decided to publish and be damned anyway. I’m a rebel like that.

Anyhow, you still hold the record for social gaffs for that time you pronounced loudly that you beilived that people who said they have ME are just lazy scroungers, then Ritch said his mum had it.

Still makes me chuckle.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:11:23 +0000

Tell it to the judge Jeff

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:04:53 +0000

Dan – I said “I was tossed off a horse,” not “I tossed off a horse.” A subtle but important difference.

Damn you Brits anyway.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:17:29 +0000

Here in Connecticut we have people who dress up like that to ride horses and riding schools all over the place. And we don’t have wide-open praries.

If you find a way to avoid the riding lessons once your daughter asks let me know.

By: Holmes

Holmes — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:41:56 +0000

I’m American, but I’ll say it anyway: that is perhaps the most perfectly English picture I’ve ever seen.

Being from Texas, all the people I’ve ever known who were into horses liked to chew tobacco, listened to terrible music, had awful taste in beer, and/or had hair that closely resembled a horse’s tail.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:29:08 +0000

I was tossed off a horse right into a tree once. The bastard knew exactly what he was doing.

By: Oli

Oli — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:33:51 +0000

Horses – dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle. (I think it was Ian Fleming who said that).