It's past time to end the "pony envy"

[A HERETIC I AM]

45. Likewise, there is nothing too petty, inconsequential, idiotic, pointless or downright (edited)

fucking stupid that some DU'er won't get all worked up over.

Be it a complete and utter misunderstanding of a simple scientific experiment to the mere fact that someone they don't know and will never know does something they don't like because they think ONLY "rich people" do it.


The OP is absolutely god damned spot fucking on. If He/She hadn't written it, I probably would have. I said as much in another thread

There are PLENTY of things to hate the Romney's for. The mere fact that they, like many hundreds of thousands of other Americans of all political stripes have an Equestrian related business and participate in a sport most DU'ers apparently can't fathom is not one of them.

Threads deriding the Romney's for their participation in the Olympics make this website, or more accurately the individuals putting up those threads, look foolish, petty, uninformed, pedestrian and whiny.

If Mitt Romney is elected President it will be a god damned catastrophe for this nation. But if their horse wins a medal in London...well....good for them.


On edit to add in the thread I linked above, I mentioned I rode when I was younger and if I had the chance, I would have loved to participate in Dressage. This is the horse it would have been on;



That was "Robber Boy", a 7 year old Gelding Thoroughbred I looked after while I lived in Alice Springs, Australia in the early 1970's. He was a great animal and we had a wonderful relationship. I cherish the time I spent with him, even these 38 years later.

That is NOT me up, BTW. I was never a Jockey.