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On 09/09/2018 01:08 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was driving a
very
old
Range
Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very
often
misfired,
made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I
managed
to
cause a
small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I
passed a
horserider coming the other way along a narrow country
road.
The
horse
**** itself, and so did the rider.

I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road
that
went
past
a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd
of
dudes
on
their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a
genuine
wild
west
cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown while the
guests'
nags
barely roused from their stupor.

it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with
horses
enough
to
know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the
horse
can't
handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail
someplace.

Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of
the
motor
car.

They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc.

They're not the brightest of animals.

A common description around here is a cowboy is the third
dumbest
critter riding the second dumbest and chasing the first
dumbest.

I would agree with that statement.

I wouldn't, sheep are a lot dumber than cattle.

I'd say they were equally stupid.

No, you can turn cattle out in the forest in the spring and expect
to
find most of them in the fall, minus the few that walk off cliffs
etc.
Try that with sheep and the first thing they will do is find
something
poisonous to eat. Then the survivors will find a fence line to pile
up
against and smother half of them. The remnant will then try to
drown
themselves in a creek. The hardy few survivors will get eaten by
the
bears, wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes.

We do have wild bighorn sheep that can fend for themselves but
centuries
of breeding have dumbed down the domestic version.

Besides, sheep are an excuse for blue heelers.

Maybe they should let the stupid sheep all die off,

Trouble is that with the current bred sheep, that is all of them.

then the next generation will be more sensible.

Fraid not when they are all dead.

Then give up on the species altogether.

But then I wouldn't be able to eat their legs roasted.

Much prefer that to any other meat except steaks.

Doesn't it all taste pretty much the same? "Tastes like chicken".

Nope. Roast leg of lamb doesn't taste anything
like chicken. Neither does a steak or pork.

It all tastes like rotten food to me.

Yes, you actually are that stupid.

And much prefer their wool to synthetics too.

I don't. Cotton is much more comfortable.

It is for stuff like T shirts and shorts and jeans
but wool is much better for sox and jumpers.

I prefer cotton socks

More fool you.

and I don't wear jumpers.

More fool you.