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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
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6:38a - Horse Community Wank
I'm on several horse communities.. They seem to have a higher percentage of know-it-alls than the average population, for some reason, and none of them have mastered the craft of STFU. They're very quick to point out when someone is OMGWRONG about something, or is OMGABUSING their horse. Every so often, the pot boils over, and the whole community explodes.
This particular wank apparently starts here, when an innocent bystander posts pictures in a community for squeeing over pictures. Someone informs her that her polo wraps (the yellow things on the horse's legs in the third picture) are OMGWRONG. The OP doesn't seem to take offense, but someone sure does! I'd skim out the highlights, but it's all pretty funny.
[ETA -- bahleeted! I have it saved, with collapsed comments and everything.
Main page is here. Collapsed threads are here, here, and here. Contains such gems as this:
"Regardless, I'm leaving the boards. I've just gotten an email from another potential client, and there's two more horses that have just been added to my workload. Have a look at my personal journal if you'd like to get off of your fat ass and read some more.
And for once, I can say that you are a FAT ASS without worrying about what you'll say, because I won't be here to read it!" ] |
Meanwhile, back at the farm (Equestrian, the biggest horse community, to which everyone from the spin-off coms already belongs)....
Kinkybeaver posts a joke about training methods, which is not well recieved. At all. Hell, just read the whole thing; a good portion of it's wanky. Not so much the advice, but the "don't you know ANYTHING about horses?" tone. The OP is actually a good sport and manages to stay pretty civil through it all. (I participated in the comments a little, but I thought this was more OTF than i_wank.)
Some people are fed up with the bitching. Which is all well and good until reiterin decides to bring up, for no apparent reason, the wank from the other community. Wasn't that constructive?
For those unfamiliar with horses and horse training: there are a million different ways to accomplish every training goal, so of course there are a million different factions that like to fight over whose way is the One True Way. On earth, very few training methods are actually abusive. But who knows about all those other planets.
ETA2
The wank goes ever on and on....
And now we have "I'm leaving, and you're all dumb. FATASS!"
ETA3
Found some more. Different verse, same as the first. My favorite line:
you see saw people are FOOLS.
These people need to get off my side.
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1:26p - Ugly American in grisly pileup! (just a little Tour de France wank)
A year ago I wouldn't have expected political wanking in a cycling community... hanging out in the wank communities has been quite an education. Bless all of your blackened little hearts.
So this one starts when cyclingfencer is shocked and appalled that the commentators covering the Tour de France (for the Outdoor Life Network, or OLN) refer to all the distances in kilometers. But it's in Europe, you say? Doesn't matter.
Naturally, there's a bit of WTF?!
So cyclingfencer clarifies his position: Why should we conform to the rest of the world, it all sucks outside of the US!
Of course, the French especially suck.
It kinda goes downhill from there, with the others mocking fencerboy for being divorced, and him calling them "smelly hippys" (sic)
But in the last comment, cheshire house wins the stage with, Turn off the audio, scrub all the "mm" markings off your bike components, and go soak your head. (Formidable!)
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