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  • RainmanR Offline
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    Rainman
    wrote on last edited by
    #1591

    TG, I wondered the same thing.

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    • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

      @George-K What happens to wild horses and their feet?

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      George K
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      #1592

      @taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting:

      @George-K What happens to wild horses and their feet?

      https://www.horsesandus.com/how-do-wild-horses-maintain-their-hooves/

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      • RainmanR Offline
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        Rainman
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        #1593

        Thanks, George. Interesting read.
        It appeared that the horse having the large amount removed from the hoof did not mind what was being done. Does a horse sense that the Ferrier is a friend and therefore stands still? Or, does the Ferrier tie up the horse so it cannot move? I'm speaking mostly to the horse in the video clip, that had run wild for a couple of years. You (generic you) would think the horse would be continuously pulling away and getting angry at what was being done.

        From the article:
        "If horse’s hooves are not trimmed, hoof overgrowth will occur. This will affect the horse in ways most people don’t suspect. It can lead to cracked or contracted hooves, thrushy frog, chalky sole, fractured quarters, demineralized coffin bone, inflamed joints, deformed bones, strained tendons and ligaments, muscle pain in the entire body, and more."
        And that is (sometimes) why horses lay down, their feet hurt!

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        • George KG Offline
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          George K
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          #1594

          Horses get trained to stand still when the farrier is working. Sometimes, they're put on cross-ties in the aisle of the barn, and they know that when the cross-ties are on, they're not to move.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • CopperC Copper

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            wrote on last edited by mark
            #1595

            @Copper The andromeda galaxy is bright enough to see with the naked eye. You just need to be in very dark skies far away from city lights.

            But, it is not quite bright enough to see the extent of its size or very much detail. It's very "fuzzy" looking.

            A nice telescope will show some detail and dust lanes. but nothing like what you see in that photograph.

            You probably remember this photo. I took a 9 panel mosaic of it about 20 years ago.

            Mosaic-LRGB5-26-X40.jpg

            The center panel was of the core of the galaxy and was the first of the 9 panels. It was at the time, a rather groundbreaking photo. Even earned a spot in the 2004 Sky & Telescope Magazine's calendar. Up until this photograph was taken, nobody had ever imaged the core with such detail.

            M31RGBv1.jpg

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            • CopperC Offline
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              Copper
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              #1596

              Even here in an (almost) rural town, I'm lucky if I can see the moon and a relative handful of stars. Sad.

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              • George KG Offline
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                George K
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                #1597

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                • CopperC Copper

                  Even here in an (almost) rural town, I'm lucky if I can see the moon and a relative handful of stars. Sad.

                  image.png

                  Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                  Aqua Letifer
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                  #1598

                  @Copper said in Mildly interesting:

                  Even here in an (almost) rural town, I'm lucky if I can see the moon and a relative handful of stars. Sad.

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                  IMG_0722.jpeg

                  Please love yourself.

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                  • MikM Away
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                    Mik
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                    #1599

                    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/turns-out-earth-s-temperature-timeline-is-wrong/ar-BB1ijQz8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=c97172f6bac1455f9267fd610ee92d38&ei=20

                    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                    • MikM Away
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                      #1600

                      If you ever wondered about all the Manhattan neighborhoods.

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                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      • MikM Mik

                        If you ever wondered about all the Manhattan neighborhoods.

                        IMG_4199.jpeg

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                        George K
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                        #1601

                        @Mik

                        Chicago_neighborhoods_map.png

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        • LuFins DadL Offline
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                          LuFins Dad
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                          #1602

                          The Brad

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                          • George KG Offline
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                            George K
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                            #1603

                            Screenshot 2024-02-21 at 6.23.26 AM.png

                            https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160908-the-language-rules-we-know-but-dont-know-we-know

                            (and, @Aqua-Letifer that article gets into poetry a bit)

                            Best comment: "And you always have the option to add 'fucking' before the first adjective."

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                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                              Aqua Letifer
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                              Some rules we really should know. It’s surprising and dispiriting how many English people don’t know the rules of stress, because that’s how all our poetry works. It’s quite easy really, and we can hear it in other languages. Everyone knows that Italian has rhythm, it goes MAM-a MI-a BUON-a SER-a. But so does our language. And that’s how verse works.

                              Sort of. We've softened up quite a bit. There are a handful of other ways to denote stress. We used to, for example, say the stressed syllable twice as LONG, in addition to twice as loud. And now, the twice as loud thing is going away somewhat, too. Romance language influence.

                              Please love yourself.

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                                Copper
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                                • HoraceH Offline
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                                  Horace
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                                  Charlie Watts was Anton Chigurh's real name?

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                    Copper
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                                    #1607

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                                    • LuFins DadL Offline
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                                      LuFins Dad
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                                      #1608

                                      Johnny Cash was approaching 30?! Holy Crap, he was like that guy in the Matt Damon movie that was born an old man and got younger!

                                      The Brad

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                                      • George KG Offline
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                                        George K
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                                        #1609

                                        Cash was born in 1932.

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                          Doctor Phibes
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                                          It says he's 37 on the cover. Then again, it says Hendrix is 28 and he's a member of the 27 club.

                                          I was only joking

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