Hooooly shit! That was one hell of a course this year. I admire the woman from Zimbabwe who opted for a different and more conservative approach and still did quite well! Different riders solve the puzzle in their own ways! It’s not a one-size-fits-all for sure!

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HAHA! Where they admit that the Cross is a legitimately dangerous event and horse and rider have to make lots of thinky decisions along the way about how to approach the course and “questions” And that is my favorite part of the cross courses - do we take it slow and steady and…

Thrown into a fence after I couldn’t stick on long enough to chill the Arabian the fuck out, so badly that it ripped the velveteen on my helmet (which I shouldnt have been wearing for practice, buuut lesson learned and noggin protected)

Percherons and Percheron mixes! My one true loves! Beauty, brains, and endurance like whoa! Without the insanity of the “hot blood.” I’ve taken flight off more than one super gorgeous Arabian before I decided “fuck this beautiful idiot who spooks at every wavering bag in the breeze or dog bark. King of the Wind lied…

Grand Prix jumping is amazing to watch but also terrifying! HOLY SHIT THEY’RE GONNA CLIP IT OH MY GOD HOW DID THEY DO THAT!!!

My former swimmer husband is in respectful awe of Katie Ledecky(or as I like to call her, Katie of Tarth) who he says could easily wipe the deck with a lot of the male competitors. But alas they’ll never let it happen.

Plus I appreciate the fact that equiestrian events are one of the few where older riders can have a pretty good edge, especially in dressage. More practice time, more time to perfect, and as long as you didn’t bust ya back along the way, you are every bit as capable of riding like a graceful, effortless master as a 19…

People discount the hell out of equestrian events because it’s “white, and rich” Well, yes some riders are both white, and rich. Many cases the riders are...not rich at all but sponsored by people with buku bucks. My mother rode Dressage and trained *very* hard, competing on someone elses fancy horse (who was of…

I feel like this is the part where I have to just interject with a random “Cocksucker!” In honor of Ian McShane. (I knew going in to Deadwood that it was infamous for its saltiness but those peeps were giving me a run for my money)

I have exactly ONE Native American foremother. Papers and all, she married into my hyperIrish Appalachian Hillfolk family by wedding the respectable preacher (the last one we ever produced!) If she was my great-great-grandgrandmother on my fathers side, I’m pretty sure we don’t count as Native American. Even though…

LAST NIGHTS EPISODE HAD EVERYTHING. Spoilers, but if you havent seen it whatchu doing on an open thread?

Cersei and her really confusing looking crown and pauldron and Tywinesque clothes. Tommens IT crowd style suicide:

Came back on a Martel ship, you can see the sun and spear on the yellow sail mixed in among Dany’s fleet.

As in “Yes other people have chimed in to say ‘when you say white trash it implies that nonwhite people are automatically trash’ and I see the point, despite the history of the term ‘white trash’ as being a designation often used by non-white groups and wealthy white groups to apply to poor whites. My family has a…

At some point you had to wonder “You guys know Tupac is...black right?” Our school was almost the exact opposite - the one student who was non-white was also our star basketball player and by default considered the coolest guy in school (but he was in general a nice dude from a super wealthy family so that was the…

It never stopped being the 90's. But the uh, upside is when the fashion cycle comes back to tiny brows or tadpole brows, they’re in!

Search the other comments: It’s been covered. New designations are tied between “human tire fire” or “ambulatory ongoing dumpster fire” to describe the complete human disasters that do shit like: Beat up fast food workers, or hang out outside the gas station heckling people and smoking cheap weed, journeying to the…

Actually Im not surprised that North Carolina’s flavor is super similar. We lived there for a while and the first thing I thought in Ohio was “Oh yea, I’ve seen this before. Except here it’s perfectly acceptable to put chilli and radioactive yellow cheese on spaghetti.”

I’m so sorry our drivers are on your roads. Two things are on the menu if you move to Ohio: You will become a shit driver eventually, and you’re probably going to develop allergies you never thought you could get.

Given the other comments on this...surprisingly popular OP apparently most of us are or come from the “white trash” (now to be called “human tire fire?”) demographic. I’m starting to wonder if nice shiny middle class families like on TV ever actually existed and the world is just one long episode of Neighbors from…

In the future, I’ll be sure to say “human tire fires” or “ambulatory ongoing dumpster explosion” to avoid any confusion. But hey on the topic of race I think we can all 100% agree that the Bellevue police department would NOT have let any non-white-persons mug for their mugshot. So there’s that.