Horsey
Horsey
Horsey
It's clear none of you all have dealt with horses IRL.
If you shake a plastic bag at a car, it doesn't spook and run over 4 kids and then crash into a wall. A car doesn't randomly decide to eject you into the street. A car doesn't stop to poop. I love horses, but c'mon.
Horses don't always stop to poop to be fair, sometimes they just poop while walking.
Horses get their drunk riders home all the time here, I have seen them about to pass out, practically sleeping on the horse.
Not saying there's no benefits, I'm saying that it's not all benefits. I've just seen horses do idiot things and almost kill themselves and spook and be the generally panicky prey animals that they are.
Plus, how the hell am I supposed to tie a free couch I found on the side of the road to the top of a horse and get that home?
A car doesn’t stop to poop
Because a car doesn't have a sphincter, so they just fart and dribble a little, all of the time.
A car doesn't stop to poop.
This gave me weird mental imagery.
And it's probably a fetish on the Internet somewhere.
I thought that was only the dragons fucking cars thing.
Isnt a car pooping a little bit all the time?
I've never dealt with horses but i don't know why people to expect horses to be like this when you realise that any animal is not going to act the same even within the same species
Horses are animals
git gud
shits on your doorstep
neigh, motherfucker
kicks you in head
Someone had horse like reflexes.
I am still shocked and confused finding out you can still get a DUI if you're drunk on a horse. That's bullshit, man. The horse ain't drunk!
Where I live, you can get a DUI and lose your driver's license if using a bicycle drunk.
Not that I agree with it. Not that I've ever seen it enforced. But the law is there.
Where I live you can't get a DUI on a bike, no limit, but if you're too drunk to be able to operate it while trying to operate it in traffic, you're endangering others, which is a traffic violation and will possibly cause you to lose your licence.
Or I mean, that used to be the case, actually, but now I suddenly recall it may have been amended in the past few years, entirely because of the rent-a-scoots, which are comparable to bikes and which everyone used to take home after bars. And still prolly do. Now they've limited the speed to 16kph at night though. Helps, some, I guess, but is really annoying if you're sober and want to ride one at night.
Also it should probably be called RUI
I wonder what's the break-even cost of gas when it's more affordable to go back to horses again.
To people who had never known any other way to travel than on foot, the horse was a major upgrade. To people accustomed to mechanized transportation, the horse is a major downgrade. Maintenance costs are one thing but the time requirements are what really makes it not affordable.
I think I'd you get a horse it'd be because you're into the 'hobby' of taking care of animals and everything that entails.
There’s a reason we have the term ‘horse money’, let’s put it like that.
You take a chihuahua to the vet, it’s going to cost you a couple hundred bucks. But a horse isn’t a chihuahua. The bills scale exponentially. Then there’s the stabling costs, transportation, farrier, tack, etc. Etc. Buying a horse is the dumbest thing you can do except for buying a boat.
Basically, all in, figure on something between 8k and 10k per year. Assuming good health, you can ride a horse daily, but they’re not exactly convenient for your grocery shopping. Though I have done a drive through on one :D
So a horse is cheaper than a car. The average yearly cost of car ownership in the us is around $12k in the US.
This includes car depreciation, insurance, maintenance ...
Ok, so 15K miles/year isn't uncommon, 3USD/gallon is close to average, 25 mpg is optimistic.
So currently the average american is paying 1,800 for 600 gallons a year. So roughly 5x, without considering cost of maintenance and depreciation.
But then you have bikes. A Honda Wave gets like 160 mpg.
From what I recall horses require:
Keep in mind that I'm not involved with horses at all, this is just what I've learned with my exposure to them on the Internet
From what I recall horses require: Training on how to ride a horse
Picturing you riding a horse that is riding another horse. Extended range upgrade?
Though on a serious note, there's also the horse itself and its training (to be ridden and not freak out about things, training it to ride another horse or series of horses optional).
I don't shoot my car when it gets a flat.
Context?
Tesla has been known to trap people in cars after fault with electrics or loss of signal (in the case of a Lamborghini)
Fine meme.
Had an old Malibu that would do that sometimes. Ecu was bad
i really thought you meant bring you home from battle for a second
Well, battle was work most days so yeah
How this meme would look like in the world of umamusume? (Real horses don't exist, only the horse girls)
Horses don't have software updates too, which is nice.
The updates are just really slow so we dont have to deal with them in our life time (evolution).
Incorrect, that's hardware updates
Software updates is learning shit
They have shoe-wear updates though
Actually how many miles can a horse go in its life?
I know there was a constant problem of what to do with horse carcasses in big cities, back when they were the main method of transporting things.
And cars have tyre wear updates
Technically every conscious thing on earth with the ability to learn has software updates
Yes but we typically don't freeze for undetermined periods at a time as we do so. We can learn and function at the same time. Like Linux.