And yet, unhitched from the menial task of transportation, the average horse today enjoys a far better quality of life than the average pre-car horse. Why? Horse girls. You see, now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of “just being themselves” for those who appreciate that most (in much more forgiving circumstances). In this way, horses truly are forever… and the real losers really are mankind. And its machines. In this essay, I will

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    711 days ago

    This literally happened to my great grandfather in the late 1920s. He bought a car, got distracted by the sight of a pretty lady, and drove into a swamp. He was yelling “whoa! whoa!” and pulling back on the steering wheel while the car went off the road. That is what he had done his whole life to stop a horse drawn buggy in an emergency. He told my grandfather, who was riding with him at the time, that he could have the car if he could get it out of the swamp. He said he was going back to his horse and buggy because a horse wouldn’t have run off the road into a swamp no matter what he looked at. He continued to use a horse and buggy for all of his transportation needs until he died in the mid 1960s. #FuckCars

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    Hello, I am an internal combustion car. I can’t go very fast unless the road is all paved, or very far unless you spend billions bringing fuel from thousand of kilometers to feed me. And if you drive me, people will think you’re NOT gay!

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    Fun fact, there are more domesticated horses now then there were at the hight of horses being used as transportation. I found this out when a reporter asked Jay Leno, an avid classic car collector, if he was upset about the CA law that makes only EVs legal to sell as new cars in CA by a certain date. He said he totally approved of the measure, and that there was nothing to worry about for classic car collectors, and citing horse ownership rates.

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      712 days ago

      Yeah, but there are a lot of neglected emaciated horses from people that shouldn’t have horses.

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      712 days ago

      Hey I’ve been searching for solid stats about this. Are you sure? Because there used to be a lot of hotses!

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        There are also a shitload more humans now. Even if number of horses per capita is lower, the fact that there are more people may compensate for that.

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      have already starved to death because there’s no food available within 5 standard miles, they tripped over a curb and broke their leg, and some shady looking feller keeps hanging around in the creek back yonder that looks at them shifty…

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    If you can get me a car I can pass out drunk in and it’ll still get me home and steal a policeman’s cap, I’ll ride it.

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    Horse sellers were apparently shaking in their boots when automobiles were invented 😆

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      One car dealer still in operation today is Normandin, who started out selling horse-drawn carriages.

      Smart business make a pivot to new technology.

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    There are articles from before the automobile discussing the pollution problems with horses. Apparently horses poop, a lot.

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        Or, do what the nearby horse farm does, just head to my neighborhood and leave the horse shit all over the trail and the road and people’s yards!

        Seems kind of rude to me, but what do I know.

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        Also the infrastructure for getting rid of those bags…

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        Imagine a human being able to shit without stopping movement at any time, into a portable bag of feces.

        The mind shudders

        Such person would be too free from the shackles of humanity

        This cannot, it must not ever happen

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          this is called a colostomy bag but I think most users would disagree that dealing with the bag cleanup is worth the ability to shit on the go lol

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    “Horses Are Forever” is also the poorly received first draft of Sean Connery’s final Eon-produced James Bond movie.