• GreenShimada@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      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.

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      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

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      6 months ago

      A car doesn’t stop to poop.

      This gave me weird mental imagery.

      And it’s probably a fetish on the Internet somewhere.

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    6 months ago

    I wonder what’s the break-even cost of gas when it’s more affordable to go back to horses again.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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

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      6 months ago

      From what I recall horses require:

      • Training on how to ride a horse
      • Suitable land area for the horse to graze
      • A stable and land to build a stable
      • Food and water
      • Potential vet bills
      • Regular health checkup bills
      • Potential medicine bills
      • Horse shoes and replacement horse shoes
      • Supplements for dietary needs horses can’t easily get from their food
      • Horseriding gear

      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

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        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).

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          I mean, to be fair, you also have to learn how to ride bikes and motorcycles. But those would be much cheaper too.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    How this meme would look like in the world of umamusume? (Real horses don’t exist, only the horse girls)