BabaYaga

So like, canned Raviolis?

It wasn't the Austin protest that is the basis of this thread

I'm not far off. Hundreds of rounds in various calibers, but outside of .22lr, not "thousands" as I'd like. I can say, for the average shooter there isn't much better than a PCC (besides a slick-ass lever action)

If we're just talking about the Texas protest, 100%. But you reference anti-Semitism going back to 2016, Now we're talking across the country, and it very much is being weaponized across campuses besides Texas. You're talking about Nazi rallies. That wasn't Austin. And no, it's not "helpful" - it's talking about wiping an entire race of people off the face of the map. This is about what happened in Austin, and they did nothing wrong, but against a backdrop of other campuses, what they are shouting seems problematic. This isn't death to "America", this is targeted on a very specific ethnic and religious group.

'From the river to the sea' is a protest against the Israeli government?

I will say from a lifetime of exposure to many, many breeds - there are some really good ones. Generally, the larger the horse, as bred for labor and the accompanying personality needed, the more tractable they are. I've been around Clydesdales, Belgian "blues", even a Percheron once. Draught horses are pretty chill - as they need to be, either for the extreme weight of a mounted soldier or toiling away all day pulling heavy shit. Gentle giants. Being in Texas, we exclusively raised quarterhorses. Can't enough good things about them, but there are lemons on every lot. Generally it's about the amount of time you spend with them. They are also all prey animals and still spook easily. Thoroughbreds are nuts. The Weimaraner's of the horse world. Big and beautiful, but high-strung and can be a giant PITA. Lived in KY for a few years and spent a decent amount of time around them. Arabians are scary smart. Bred for endurance. The oldest pure bred line. Showed them as a kid at a place off Slaughter in Austin for 8 years. Appaloosas are my favorite. Large, but not a draught line, but with their temperament. Won't find a more beautiful breed. If you want a recreational, functional rider for trips, hunting, etc. Get a mule. I think they can legit read your mind. The whole "stubborn" moniker they have is BS. They are smart, but also have a "feel" for their surroundings, esp danger. In the mountains, snake on the path. Horse might throw you off. A mule will read the room, snake in front, cliff on one side, sheer wall on the other....ergo, fuck that snake and they'll kill it. They get that from the Donkey side of the house - which many know, if you run smaller livestock like sheep/goats, there's usually a donkey out there for predator deterrence.

Shetlands aren't horses. They're little fuck-waffle, devils with a temperament of a Canadian Goose and Chihuahua cross, but with an express intent to cause you bodily harm. See my post above about the one we had. Little shit tried to murder me on the regular.

Kewl. I showed Arabians from when I was 8-16yrs old. They're not the largest breed, and I got too tall to keep competing and I was much better at baseball/basketball. SMART animals. The oldest breed of horse

Swedish econ prof I had back in the day used to talk about growing up eating horse sammiches. Nope....

Let's leave the Charlie Strong of TX football out of this for now

New uername?

Shetlands are THE biggest assholes on planet earth. They are mean little fucks. Welsh ponies, fine. They are nice and need to be emancipated from pulling that stupid Sooner Schooner. So we grew up raising horses and my uncle had this mean and fuck Shetland that would kick and bite and basically try to murder you. He'd do the same with the larger quarter horses. He was a stallion so he had ONE job. We'd put him in stalls around brood mares and he'd tell us when they were in heat. Even that got to be too much as cleaning his pen or stall was like going into the lion cage. Finally sold him at auction. Few months back he's back? Uncle asks the guy what he's doing. Said he was so mean he gelded him, thinking it would calm him down. Now the ONE job this little shit had was over. Nobody would buy him and he had to turn around, load him up, and who knows what happened to him. I remember I tried to ride this little monster and teach it to neck reign. He's reach around and continually try to bite my legs, spin in circles, and try and drive my knees into the sides of the arena. Good news is my feet almost touched the ground riding him so I could plant a leg, and hop off easily and not get too hurt. The ones you see at petting zoos are usually so damn old and have the life beat out of them so kids can ride them and not die....

Mules > Horses Fight me....

Sucks. I get it. Hopefully that white horse is ok. They can fix most anything on a horse short of injured legs or stomach crap (colic) if not caught in time.

I've seen far too many horses put down due to being startled and inuring themselves, usually by getting torn up in barded-wire fencing. They're "prey" animals and act accordingly. I still get chocked up on wounded horse movies, especially war movies.

Sorry for partying....

That's horse blood. You can see briefly where it's most wet and appears to be flowing out. Horses almost never trample people if there is enough space to avoid it. They have fragile legs and enough self-preservation instinct to steer clear of people in their way, especially ceremonial horses. Used to work with a horse trainer that did a lot of work with the mounted officers in Austin. Now THOSE, are some damn well trained horses/riders. In the event of a riot, they can stand nose to tail and form a wall and sidestep and entire crowd off the street if they have to. That's a sad video of a couple of scared, wounded animals.

This was me with math in HS - taught mainly by coaches. It wasn't until grad school that I realized it's not a great mystery and is actually pretty interesting and applicable.

My wife’s old dog is too much of a dainty cunt to go in the grass so she shits all over the pool decking. This time she had a turd hanging out of her ass and got up on the couch, tracked what looked like green goose shit everywhere. So yeah, fuck that dog…

Pre-64, to be exact. So sayeth the shephard, so sayeth the Surly flock....

When handloads go awry. Somebody didn't measure twice and cut once. He's damn lucky he still has all his fingers. Especially if you choke up on a revolver the way you can with a semi, get your fingers further up and too close to the cylinder.

Come on man, didn't you see Ratatouille?

As of 2022

Pretty sure I saw this dude.....;)