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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6566 on: August 21, 2020, 05:53:09 PM »
Can you actually rent a horse? 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6567 on: August 21, 2020, 05:58:15 PM »
Quote from: Riffraft on August 21, 2020, 05:43:08 PM
Solved that problem, I lease my cars and exchange them well before 50K
I bought my Ranger in 2003, didn't sell it until 2012 and then only because there were too many kids for a vehicle with only two functional seats. I bought my Jeep in 2012, still have it (but it's a toy now, not a daily driver). I bought my 2014 Flex in 2017, and the plan is to keep it at least until my eldest goes to college in ~2026. 

I never buy vehicles new; always used. And then I try to hang on to them for roughly a decade or so, so I get every dollar out of them.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6568 on: August 21, 2020, 06:01:43 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on August 21, 2020, 05:53:09 PM
Can you actually rent a horse?
I'm not sure you can reasonably "rent a horse" in the same way that you rent a car, but you can go horseback riding tours on a horse you don't own, which is effectively renting a horse. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6569 on: August 21, 2020, 06:06:08 PM »
You can indeed rent a horse, but you shouldn't look him in the mouth.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6570 on: August 21, 2020, 06:10:34 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on August 21, 2020, 06:01:43 PM
I'm not sure you can reasonably "rent a horse" in the same way that you rent a car, but you can go horseback riding tours on a horse you don't own, which is effectively renting a horse.

Though if you own a horse you can fry him up and eat him when you are tired of riding. Tougher to do that with a boat.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6571 on: August 21, 2020, 06:16:26 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on August 21, 2020, 06:01:43 PM
I'm not sure you can reasonably "rent a horse" in the same way that you rent a car, but you can go horseback riding tours on a horse you don't own, which is effectively renting a horse.

Those are kind of ridiculous though. They walk at a snails pace, and they won't veer off of the official trail no matter what. 

Great if you want to take your city slicker family out for their first ever horseback ride. 

Not a very good substitute for someone that has actually been trained to ride a horse. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6572 on: August 21, 2020, 06:21:22 PM »
There are rented rides that canter and gallop, and if you "rent" at a dude ranch, you definitely can canter and gallop.

You can also rent a horse on your own at any number of stables and do your own thing once your qualify.

Some places need people to ride their horses for exercise as the owners aren't around.

We galloped a lot at the dude ranches.  I would NOT do that today.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6573 on: August 21, 2020, 06:31:53 PM »
Oh cool.  

The ones that I had seen were old, docile horses. A retirement gig, more or less. 

Like the Walmart greeters of the horse world.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6574 on: August 21, 2020, 07:01:42 PM »
The trail rides in tourist areas are generally of that ilk.  One can easily find good horse riding with a bit of effort, usually out of the tourist areas.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6575 on: August 21, 2020, 08:51:50 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on August 21, 2020, 05:38:34 PM
You can always spend the week end betting on them like I use to
why'd ya quit?
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6576 on: August 21, 2020, 10:06:10 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 21, 2020, 01:25:25 PM
Yes, and for some, that will remain the case.  A lot of urban dwellers today have no car now, and others like us have one.  I think the younger folks are a lot less emotional about having a car, or a cool car, it's a tool for them.  Housewives, same thing.  I like to drive, I like to have a clutch, but I admit driving in the city is not much fun, and it's expensive.

So, my scenario in 15 years is that most cars will be autonomous, >50%, and those that are not may be driven "on weekends".

Joe Smith wakes up and makes  coffee and reads the paper quickly and goes outside just as his ordered car arrives, hops in, reads the paper, and exist at his office (presuming he goes to the office).  After work, he reverses the process, perhaps stopping off for milk on the way home.  A chain of autonomous cars flies by on the left 2 lanes of the freeway, or left four lanes, designated for such, bumper to bumper literally, at 80 mph (if we need capacity now).

His wife gets up and gets the kids ready for school.  An autobus arrives and they pile on.  She needs groceries and orders up a car to do that and stops to get her hair and nails done on the way.  On the way home, she visits her 19 year old paramour who is from Italy.  They go at it in the back seat while the autocar drives aimlessly.
Reminds me of Westworld.  Where nothing can possibly go wrong . . . go wrong . . . go wrong . . . .
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6577 on: August 21, 2020, 10:12:46 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on August 21, 2020, 04:02:43 PM
In 1915 there were 26,000,000 horses in the US

Today there are 3,000,000

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A lot of those horses were still pulling vehicles in cities.  And putting out a lot of manure that had to be cleaned up every day.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6578 on: August 21, 2020, 10:15:56 PM »
I think I read that 1500 dead horses were left rotting on the streets of new york city each year back then
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #6579 on: August 21, 2020, 10:23:48 PM »
Today, in my Boss 302 Mustang, I was in and out of traffic with a new Shelby GT-350.  It has (I think) a 5.2-liter engine with a flat-plane crankshaft.  My car's heavily prepped 5.0-liter Coyote engine makes a very nice rumbling V8 sound, but the flat-plane 5.2 makes a different noise altogether, like the old Ford-Cosworth V8s used in Indy-car racing back in the day.  Gr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r!
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