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Post by crowblack on Mar 4, 2019 15:48:02 GMT
Fleabag. I'm going to have to watch it for the cast but I absolutely loathe the central character and love novelist Sarah Perry's Tweet on it: "So anyway recently I invented the word "Fleabagging" (verb) meaning "To talk at length about being a ~hot mess~ who is just ~OMG so awful~ in a manner OSTENSIBLY designed to evoke sympathy but ACTUALLY calculated to appear desperately cool & superior"
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Post by duncan on Mar 4, 2019 15:58:29 GMT
I dont have a problem with eating horse, indeed my Dad was an expert at grilling Findus Crispy Pancakes when I were a lad so I've probably eaten most of Shergar in my time.
Its odd that in the UK we wont eat animals we generally consider cute (lambs excepted).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 16:42:32 GMT
Horses. What's all the fuss? Horses are awesome. They're like half a ton of angry teeth.
I remember one of my first close-up encounters with an Exmoor Pony. I was leaning on a fence and it wandered over and glomped on to my arm and chewed away happily for several seconds before deciding I wasn't edible, at which point it wandered off and tried to eat a fence.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 4, 2019 16:49:04 GMT
Horses. What's all the fuss? Horses are awesome. They're like half a ton of angry teeth. And hooves. I was once knocked down & walked on by a horse. I had hoof-shaped bruises on my legs & pelvis.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 16:50:48 GMT
I love horses, but I'm not dumb enough to go near one without taking sensible precautions and without the personal assurance of their owner that I'll probably be all right. We're probably all safest if there's a fence or a stable involved.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 16:50:49 GMT
Fleabag. I'm going to have to watch it for the cast but I absolutely loathe the central character and love novelist Sarah Perry's Tweet on it: "So anyway recently I invented the word "Fleabagging" (verb) meaning "To talk at length about being a ~hot mess~ who is just ~OMG so awful~ in a manner OSTENSIBLY designed to evoke sympathy but ACTUALLY calculated to appear desperately cool & superior" I LOVE 'Fleabag'. Aside from being outrageously funny, I genuinely think it's one of the most devastatingly heartbreaking shows around.
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Post by kathryn on Mar 4, 2019 16:52:50 GMT
Horses are awesome. They're like half a ton of angry teeth. And hooves. I was once knocked down & walked on by a horse. I had hoof-shaped bruises on my legs & pelvis. Even when you're the one on top of them you end up in pain for days! Five of us did a gentle horse-ride in NZ last year on holiday, and we were all making this weird 'euurgggh-oooof' sound whenever we had to stand up from our seat on the minibus for about 3 days afterwards.....
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Post by crowblack on Mar 4, 2019 16:58:34 GMT
devastatingly heartbreaking shows I just don't find her remotely relateable, nor her world in which sloaney girls run bijoux hamster cafes with no customers as some sort of hobby and her sister can afford to um and ah about a million pound salaried job. I liked the line about joggers in cemeteries 'flaunting their life' but tbh this whole series feels like that. My sympathies lie with the stepmother.
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 4, 2019 17:03:45 GMT
I'm going back over 30 years, but when I went to my friend's house after school, thankfully never for tea, him mum always seemed to be boiling a pan of horse meat, ready to feed to the family pets, a pair of alsations.
Take it from me, horse being boiled is not a pleasant smell, to put it mildly. 🤢
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 17:04:52 GMT
So what is probably surprising for this common-as-muck-cit-dweller who now prefers not to set foot in the countryside unless utterly neccessary (or in search of a pub) is from the ages of about 8-18 I was to be found up to my knees in manure horsing around. Even more surprising for anyone who has ever seen me try to do sport, I was quite good at it.
I have a posh cousin and an Uncle who took her 'Daddy I want a Pony' to extremes, so I was able to ride them 'on the cheap' as it were (well as cheap as such things get) and I wholeheartedly say it did me the world of good spending much of my childhood and teens horsing about. That said I have very limited desire to spend time with them now...
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Post by Backdrifter on Mar 4, 2019 17:05:31 GMT
None of the above horse-related posts are selling the idea of horses. Teeth, hooves, being walked on and the pain induced by sitting on them.
And they keep being romanticised, as though they're somehow magical or mystical.
And I can't stand that stupid Lloyd's Bank ad where they all run down to the beach to be met by a big old load of... horses, what else? (But then I detest all "happy community" ads anyway).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 17:07:48 GMT
I hate adverts at the best of times, but I have been reduced to tears by that advert more than once. At first I thought it would be AWFUL to live in that village and be woken up so early to go for such a hike, then I saw the horses and thought actually it probably would be really nice to live in that village and get to see the horses running on the beach, I could always have an afternoon nap, and it looks like the sort of thing that only happens once a year, if that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 17:10:26 GMT
I'm going back over 30 years, but when I went to my friend's house after school, thankfully never for tea, him mum always seemed to be boiling a pan of horse meat, ready to feed to the family pets, a pair of alsations. Take it from me, horse being boiled is not a pleasant smell, to put it mildly. 🤢 Oh heavens. The North. And they keep being romanticised, as though they're somehow magical or mystical. Oh but they are magical. Utterly magnificent.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 17:11:14 GMT
None of the above horse-related posts are selling the idea of horses. Teeth, hooves, being walked on and the pain induced by sitting on them. And they keep being romanticised, as though they're somehow magical or mystical. And I can't stand that stupid Lloyd's Bank ad where they all run down to the beach to be met by a big old load of... horses, what else? (But then I detest all "happy community" ads anyway). Oh they are total f***ers. One bit the end of my Dad's finger off in passing, casual like. He had also previously lost part of said finger in the bonnet of a car. So maybe not totally the horse's fault... I was kicked (my fault) thrown off man times (once into a jump known as a coffin) and generally treated like a human slave to the beasts...I mean I loved them dearly. Niche crossover...my horse was called Moose though. And I regret not having him now so I could go around saying 'Aye, that's a Moose.'
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 4, 2019 17:18:59 GMT
I love horses, but I'm not dumb enough to go near one without taking sensible precautions and without the personal assurance of their owner that I'll probably be all right. We're probably all safest if there's a fence or a stable involved. I wasn't being "dumb" & getting walked on by some random horse I'd paased in a field or anything like that. I used to help out at weekends doing stable work at the riding school I went to in return for the occasional free lesson. I had been asked to refill the water buckets of a number of horses including this one & when I opened her stable door to get the bucket she decided that she was determined to escape. As a small-for-my-age 12 year old I couldn't do much to stop half a ton of cob but I tried my best so she literally walked over me to get out.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 17:26:46 GMT
Sorry, it wasn't my intention to imply that anyone else was dumb, it's more that I'm usually incredibly dumb when it comes to animals (it's a goddamned miracle I've never had my face torn off by a fox or even an angry dog) but even I will give horses a respectfully wide berth.
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Post by peggs on Mar 4, 2019 18:30:28 GMT
None of the above horse-related posts are selling the idea of horses. Teeth, hooves, being walked on and the pain induced by sitting on them. And they keep being romanticised, as though they're somehow magical or mystical. And I can't stand that stupid Lloyd's Bank ad where they all run down to the beach to be met by a big old load of... horses, what else? (But then I detest all "happy community" ads anyway). I always think that if a load of people were suddenly running at horses there's no way they wouldn't freak out. For a year or two had lessons as a kid, horse used to take delight in standing on my feet or hitting me in the chest with it's head.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 4, 2019 18:37:43 GMT
I think it's wise to be wary - a friend of my mother's was crushed to death by her horse against a stable wall (sorry to darken the tone!) and a schoolfriend died when her horse was shot with an airgun and threw her. I had riding lessons until a relative was thrown and broke her collarbone so I got a motocross motorbike instead: also dangerous but at least it was more predictable.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 4, 2019 18:48:34 GMT
Not just horses but any large animals. A cousin of my mother's was killed by a bull on his son's farm a few years ago, even though he had a lifetime's experience of farming.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 4, 2019 19:34:45 GMT
I'm going back over 30 years, but when I went to my friend's house after school, thankfully never for tea, him mum always seemed to be boiling a pan of horse meat, ready to feed to the family pets, a pair of alsations. Take it from me, horse being boiled is not a pleasant smell, to put it mildly. 🤢 Really TallPaul, you are such a fantasist. You think people will believe this nonsense? Everyone knows that the only pets in t'north are ferrets. Alsations indeed!
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Post by Backdrifter on Mar 4, 2019 20:04:36 GMT
I love the back to back posts above:
@ryan - horses are magical, magnificent
@emicardiff - horses are total f***ers
You see? That's what it's all about.
(I'm not actually sure what I mean by that but it kind of sounded right)
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Post by talkingheads on Mar 4, 2019 23:06:03 GMT
devastatingly heartbreaking shows I just don't find her remotely relateable, nor her world in which sloaney girls run bijoux hamster cafes with no customers as some sort of hobby and her sister can afford to um and ah about a million pound salaried job. I liked the line about joggers in cemeteries 'flaunting their life' but tbh this whole series feels like that. My sympathies lie with the stepmother. The stepmother is a nasty character, much less relatable than Fleabag. An artist who can ponce about being disgustingly nasty to the two women without the father saying a word. Fleabag herself is psychologically devastated and grief stricken, so all that so called 'confidence' talking to camera is her front for that.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 4, 2019 23:18:46 GMT
The stepmother is a nasty character, much less relatable than Fleabag. Relatability is a subjective thing, evidently! Everyone in the series is horrible but things like that final smirk to camera as she {Spoiler - click to view} sits alongside her just-miscarried sister - nope.
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Post by Roxie on Mar 5, 2019 1:04:50 GMT
I hate adverts at the best of times, but I have been reduced to tears by that advert more than once. At first I thought it would be AWFUL to live in that village and be woken up so early to go for such a hike, then I saw the horses and thought actually it probably would be really nice to live in that village and get to see the horses running on the beach, I could always have an afternoon nap, and it looks like the sort of thing that only happens once a year, if that. Some of that advert was filmed in Stoke. There’s a segment where the horse runs past an abandoned coal mine with chimney and wheel which is a 10 min walk from my house. I can see that chimney from the top of my road!
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Post by Backdrifter on Mar 5, 2019 8:26:20 GMT
I hate adverts at the best of times, but I have been reduced to tears by that advert more than once. At first I thought it would be AWFUL to live in that village and be woken up so early to go for such a hike, then I saw the horses and thought actually it probably would be really nice to live in that village and get to see the horses running on the beach, I could always have an afternoon nap, and it looks like the sort of thing that only happens once a year, if that. Lordy, you've put a lot of thought into that. I get as far as the smiling excited people joining together and I already hate it. I file it alongside that Yorkshire Tea one where they all smilingly pointlessly made a giant cup of tea, the t*ssers.
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