So you will watch it? Before or after you would tune in late and tune out early.
They have yet to get the "Clockwork Orange" treatment passed the rights board. Working on it though.
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So you will watch it? Before or after you would tune in late and tune out early.
They have yet to get the "Clockwork Orange" treatment passed the rights board. Working on it though.
I really should have a shave, it's been over a week since I last had a shave.
Another made-up corporate American "holiday" to sell shit.
https://corporate.hallmark.com/holidays-occasions/sweetest-day/
Ok, JD don't read this one. I don't care much for horses. In my youth I spent a lot of time around horses: riding, mucking out stalls, etc. Among other things, I have been bitten, kicked, and thrown by horses. Once, I was currying a horse and it turned around and bit my shoulder really hard. I was riding a horse and it ran under some trees to try to scrape me off and when that didn't work it zigged while I was zagging, bucked, and I hit the dirt. Had a big ol' bruise on my hip for weeks. Now, I can admire the beauty of some horses, but I have no interest in being anywhere close to them.
I have ridden a horse exactly once in my entire life, when I was in sixth grade and our class went on this "outdoor education" type thing.
(I don't remember the horse's name, nor whether it had ever been through the desert.)
That said, I have no interest in riding horses ever again, though I do like to watch the Budweiser Clydesdales:
(I don't remember the horse's name, nor whether it had ever been through the desert.)
That said, I have no interest in riding horses ever again, though I do like to watch the Budweiser Clydesdales:
Love the big drafters.
I don't specifically like or dislike horses, they're just so far removed from the world I inhabit that I don't really think about them any more than I do elephants or lions or bears.
That being said, when I was young, I went through a "horse phase", where everything was about horses, and I wanted my own horse... specifically a Palomino. Whatever my reasoning was behind wanting that particular type has been lost to the ravages of time. But they are beautiful!
I forget exactly what grade it was, but I seem to have a memory of doing something like this in school too. I don't really remember a lot, but I do recall them telling us to make sure when we fed them sugar cubes, we had to hold them in our palms with our hands flat, lower than their head, otherwise they were liable to bite your fingers right off!
Not sure how it is now, but at the time horse riding was really only a thing for families of means, and we certainly were not.
Looks like I picked the right time to finally give this thread a peek.
So my random fact is that I have weird hips, so I can spin my legs around 180º to 270º, but I have to push it, I can't just turn it. When I was in school I used to do it all the time to freak people out.
Sounds pretty reasonable actually.
So my random fact is that I have weird hips, so I can spin my legs around 180º to 270º, but I have to push it, I can't just turn it. When I was in school I used to do it all the time to freak people out.
Did any kids from your neighborhood go to camp for the summer? I went to various summer camps from the time I was 8 until I was 14, and the activities usually included a daily horseback ride. And I wouldn't say we were a family of means -- upper middle class, perhaps, but certainly not rich.
The only camps I ever went to...had the word "computer" in the name. 
My memories of childhood are generally spotty, but I don't recall that ever really being a thing in my neighbourhood.
I guess everything is relative... if you were upper middle class, I would have called you a family of means. I've tried to check how these classes are categorized to try to get a sense of where we would have been, but there appears to be different competing classifications with different labels. But it looks like we would have fallen in "working class". I don't think we were in "working poor", but I had friends who probably were. For the versions that don't include working class, I'm guessing probably upper lower class? If we were middle class at all, it would definitely have been around the lower bound.
Some of it also depends on which type of riding you're doing, most of the western riders are more rural middle class types, while English rider tend to be more upper class types. To be a bit more sarcastic, the western riders are the down and dirty cowboys, and the English riders are your stuck up snobs.
I never got to go to a summer camp as a kid, but my older sisters went to one several times. I've always been a little jealous that I never got a chance to go.
Cate Blanchett gave me juice one time when I was helping hang a picture in her house. I also hung a picture in Alex Proyas (director of "I Robot)'s" bedroom. I worked for a guy for few months in 2007 going around places hanging pictures.
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i'd offer you a beer
but then i'm capable of hanging my pictures all by myself
