In the adult world, most of us do not do this, and instead speak/write as though our listeners/readers are adults capable of figuring things out and understanding nuances of 12-year-old-boy humour.
That’s just lazy. Google has them all at your fingertips for the very low price of typing them in your search bar.
Well…I will offer to disagree. The following quote has been attributed to both Alan Greenspan and Roger McCloskey
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
This carries over into the written word where people have unconscious assumptions, beliefs and ideas about a problem they are presenting. My point is to be very clear about their definition of the problem, any assumptions, and be very clear about the basis or foundation for the conclusions they are presenting.
Yes…I have done that. But I also think it is texting-gone-wild when people have to resort to an alphabet of acronyms and can’t type out what they mean. This discussion is not a text.
Back to blue tongues. I know that real dressage is different from eventing dressage, but I was happy to see so many horses going in plain snaffles for the dressage tests at Versailles. Or maybe they weren’t such plain snaffles, but they were single rein. and I know it wasn’t 5* eventing, perhaps not even 4*. It was just nice to see.
I’m an HJ rider. Why is the double bridle mandatory above a certain level?
Tradition…
We are what we were…When the Modern Olympics were invented by Baron Pierre Decoubertin, the only people allowed to ride in equestrian events were cavalry officers. The cavalry bridle was a double bridle as it provided “power brakes” for the mounted riders.
That tradition has presevered to the present, although there is a movement to allow the snaffle. If you watch some of the “riders of old” you will see the horse wearing a double but the rider riding off the snaffle rein.
@pluvinel it was a horse dick pic.
Untwist your knickers about not being able to sort it out for yourself, thank the poster for injecting some light-hearted amusement and then sit down and ask yourself where your sense of humour and your ability to suss out a bit of levity among a more serious discussion has gone and why.
Dick pic definition in case you’re also not familiar with that term: an unsolicited picture of a penis.
Signed,
A person who has an a absolutely out of proportion fear of being misunderstood so don’t lecture me on that crap because this is a bulletin board for entertainment purposes and not a research paper no matter how serious some of the discussion topics sometimes are.
Who has knickers in a twist?
I just asked for clarification for someone (me) who is obviously either slow or blind, or dim-witted or all of the above. Now that I have been educated on what I was supposed to have seen, I have gone back to inspect the picture and still can’t see a horse dick anywhere in sight.
Then please take this as an example of people who have difficulty understanding what is intended as “humor” on social media…and may need further clarification to get the joke.
How about some yellow cards?
Seems like it should be optional at this point. Would be interesting to see if it changes.
Yes, I watched it on replay so I could FF through Lucinda. It was wonderful!
Agreed 1000%! I practically danced for joy when I realized I wouldn’t have to listen to Lucinda babble inanely through the freestyles. Otherwise I might have had to mute them, forget the music lol! It was such a joy to watch peacefully with only his occasional, reasonably intelligent comments.
It was midnight. I was tired, in bed, on my phone, sorry for being slack.
The first time I ever watched the Olympics on telly, it was the eventing at Atlanta. I was 10 and saw the replay of Gill Rolton on Peppermint Grove. You had to sit and watch hours of swimming to get a tiny bit of equestrian coverage - I used to tape the segments on a VHS and fast forward to any horse bits.
Lucinda was commentating.
Listening to Lucinda commentate now is like stepping back into a safe, warm time and having a cup of hot chocolate whilst tucked up in bed. Her voice is like listening to my mum tell me a story.
It takes me back to a time when Gill and Fred were our heroes.
this probably belongs on the jumping thread, but after watching this morning, as much as I like Lucinda, I wanted to shriek SHUT UP!!!
Nope. Not likely.
Horses are more important than some pompous, silly ego fest.
Do you not see the absurdity of overlooking abuse and pain of the horse when dealing with a discipline whose very definition is training and hilighting training and partnership, horse & rider as one?
You want to celebrate that?
NP!
Back to dressage…I finally finished watching the freestyles. I know the scores of the 3 medallists were very close but I picked Lottie’s ride as the most pleasant to watch. Werth looked like she was muscling a lot of the ride, I do appreciate the difficult of the moves she did at the end but it looked like the horse was so strong she needed a lot of hand.
That was hysterical!
Make the horses play in a sand pit!
In the human Olympics?
I wish I could like this more than once.
I mostly like her commentary, but her description of passage as “knees up trot” made me die a little inside. I know it’s for the non-horse-people.
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