Charlotte Dujardin not competing in dressage after whipping video emerges

[Aladdin]

I didn't realise I'd have to hold off posting until I 'understood' the forum?

Take this as advice from someone who came on here guns blazing...and got their ass kicked a LOT harder than you're getting now..

Sit back. Enjoy. Read. Post.
And....avoid reacting to criticism of your posts.
Your opinion is your opinion. Fine.
But understand that posters here will at times dissect your opinion.
And they'll engage with your posts.
They won't necessarily agree with you. Just as you won't agree with their posts. And we will not always be polite... or indeed dignified..
Don't take it personally or to heart.
If you can remain objective..and not take yourself seriously...or anyone else seriously....then maybe you will find it ok here.

 

[JimW]

I admire you for bringing us back on track...
Reining us in...
Let's just tackle our different opinions on the subject and get back in the saddle..

I'm sure we're all feeling a little hoarse by now.

 

[andysays]

I didn't realise I'd have to hold off posting until I 'understood' the forum?

I don't think cupid_stunt is saying don't post at all, they're suggesting reading a bit more and posting a bit less and with a bit more thought than you appear to be doing.

Respond rather than react, as my therapist sometimes suggests.

You don't have to do that, of course, it's just a bit of advice.

You're far from the first person to arrive here and get off on the wrong foot with a few people, and I'm sure you won't be the last.

And at least you haven't started a "look at me" thread to introduce yourself. There really would be no way back from that.

 

[JimW]

I'm sure we're all feeling a little hoarse by now.

That probably gets you banned from the dressage too.

 

[two sheds]

As I've said previously, it's not all one sided and other members have been just as argumentative and insulting

no we haven't








sorry

 

[andysays]

I think you missed my post where I admitted I'd got the wrong end of the stick

Probably.

That's one of things which happens here, especially on fast moving threads like this one.

 

[tardigrade]

Oh, FFS

Your behaviour has been pissing people off, I've never seen a newbie act the way you have, you need to think about that, otherwise don't let the door hit your arse when you get booted off here.

I do seem to have made quite the impression!

 

[Siouxsie]

It's sad to hear the bad press brought via this cruel and hopefully one off case.
Dressage is a beautiful and highly skilled art and commitment between rider and horse. The dedication and years of sharing time and feelings between your horse is on another level, you truly do think and move as one....perfection on every level and a closeness not many share, even with other people....I'll leave it there as I'm starting to sound weird

I do love horse


oooo I seem to have walked into something

 

[andysays]

Oh, FFS

Your behaviour has been pissing people off, I've never seen a newbie act the way you have, you need to think about that, otherwise don't let the door hit your arse when you get booted off here.

TBF, I've seen a fair few act in a very similar way in the 10 years I've been here, and I'm sure you have too if you think about it.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I do seem to have made quite the impression!

Yes, a bad one.

 

[tardigrade]

Yes, a bad one.

Better than none at all!

 

[Silas Loom]

Better than none at all!

I didn’t have a segue into Oscar Wilde on my bingo card.

 

[andysays]

I'm sure we're all feeling a little hoarse by now.

That reminds me of the joke about the Shetland Pony...

 

[Santino]

I've never seen a newbie act the way you have

Nonsense.

 

[cupid_stunt]

TBF, I've seen a fair few act in a very similar way in the 10 years I've been here, and I'm sure you have too if you think about it.

A few, but never at this level, 100 posts on their first day, many attacking long-term members, <checks files> that's a record on my book.

 

[Silas Loom]

A few, but never at this level, 100 posts on their first day, many attacking long-term members, <checks files> that's a record on my book.

It’s not as if there are normally short term members to attack.

 

[rubbershoes]

And at least you haven't started a "look at me" thread to introduce yourself. There really would be no way back from that.

I'm planning to do one of those. Big, showy and controversial.

But after 20 years of planning, I'm no further forward

 

[tardigrade]

A few, but never at this level, 100 posts on their first day, many attacking long-term members, <checks files> that's a record on my book.

Not quite that many, but a fair few.

 

[tardigrade]

A few, but never at this level, 100 posts on their first day, many attacking long-term members, <checks files> that's a record on my book.

I'm a record breaker!

 

[andysays]

A few, but never at this level, 100 posts on their first day, many attacking long-term members, <checks files> that's a record on my book.

Two words:

...Silent Whisper...

 

[ElizabethofYork]

TBF, I've seen a fair few act in a very similar way in the 10 years I've been here, and I'm sure you have too if you think about it.

I reckon tardigrade is being quite well treated. I was called a cunt several times on my first day of posting. (I deserved it, to be honest).

 

[Silas Loom]

Poor old Charlotte Dujardin. She must be frantically googling to see what the internet is saying about her, is bound to have landed up here, and must be utterly baffled by now.

 

[Aladdin]

It's sad to hear the bad press brought via this cruel and hopefully one off case.
Dressage is a beautiful and highly skilled art and commitment between rider and horse. The dedication and years of sharing time and feelings between your horse is on another level, you truly do think and move as one....perfection on every level and a closeness not many share, even with other people....I'll leave it there as I'm starting to sound weird

I do love horse


oooo I seem to have walked into something

More like "pranced"

 

[Aladdin]

I reckon tardigrade is being quite well treated. I was called a cunt several times on my first day of posting. (I deserved it, to be honehonesti

I was banned quite a few times...from threads. And from the boards..short term bans. Week..to two weeks. Got a proper ribbing the first few months on here.

Sigh...

The good old days...

 

[Spymaster]

I reckon tardigrade is being quite well treated. I was called a cunt several times on my first day of posting. (I deserved it, to be honest).

I got called a cunt on here once too.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I got called a cunt on here once too.

Once?

Once a day?

Once an hour?

 

[hash tag]

It's all about food innit? Most wildlife will keep coming back if you offer food. That wildlife becomes comfortable around you and boom, before we know it a wild animal becomes domesticated.

Well maybe it takes a few hundred years to develop full domestication but food and it's supply is how we've ended up with pets.

Isnt that more conditioning than training as in Pavlov's dog.

Classical conditioning - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[hash tag]

no we haven't








sorry

Ooooooh yes we have

 

[cupid_stunt]

I got called a cunt on here once too.

Including by your wife.

 

[Aladdin]

I got called a cunt on here once too.

Let's all have a group hug.