Things you were shockingly old when you learned

(xp) Apart from one that's been given as a gift you mean?

Yes

grift horses are all veneers don't be fooled. look in goodnhard in thar, pard

i think there's also an element of - and this will be societal and therefore perhaps open to different interpretations - the importance of the 'mouth' aspect, not all horsetrading societies would necessarily inspect the teeth as the first site of equestrian health or value - many would ofc inspect the withers or the gait, for instance

in this regard it may be posited that the focus on the oral orifice takes on a pointed- dare we say freudian?- aspect

Wait, I thought it was "One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch (girl)."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Cxl5bVmVU

PSA: Tyrone Power is not pronounced “Tie-rown”. It’s pronounced as one syllable, “TROWN”. It’s a subtle difference, but my respect for those who pronounce his name correctly knows no bounds. pic.twitter.com/79jBrSqHbm

— Samantha Ellis 💕 (@classicfilmgeek) June 19, 2023

PSA: Tyrone Power is not pronounced “Tie-rown”. It’s pronounced as one syllable, “TROWN”. It’s a subtle difference, but my respect for those who pronounce his name correctly knows no bounds. pic.twitter.com/79jBrSqHbm

— Samantha Ellis 💕 (@classicfilmgeek) June 19, 2023

The horse teeth thing is about the their age, not general health. They have broad flat teeth that grind, over time they wear down.

Think of it as “don’t look at the odometer if someone is giving you a free car.”

too simplistic

there must be more

no, i'm pretty sure it's the opposite: the teeth grow and protrude more over the years. hence somebody who is advanced in age is said to be long in the tooth.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/don%27t_look_a_gift_horse_in_the_mouth

thats a common misconception iirc, and somewhat of a retrofit

the phrase is actually traced most reliably back to the seafaring peoples of the volga trade routes: sove, dvs der im en gammel hest

― Dan Worsley, Monday, 19 June 2023 22:33 (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

tyrone by this

buts lets be real, the word to use here is mispronounced tbf

I learned something new today about horsey teeth!

I always assumed “long in the tooth” had something to do with rodents teeth. If a rabbit doesn’t have something to gnaw on, their teeth will grow so long they can’t close their mouths or eat.

But the horse thing makes more sense.

thats a common misconception iirc, and somewhat of a retrofit

the phrase is actually traced most reliably back to the seafaring peoples of the volga trade routes: sove, dvs der im en gammel hest

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, June 19, 2023 5:52 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you need to cite your sources

cards on table, the day i code and host a mock website as a source in order to underpin a classic ilx reference as a meta comment on how a discussion has unnecessarily grown quite ridiculous legs, that's the day i know the free time has reached a dangerous level altogether*

*i considered it

...I thought "long in the tooth" was a reference to receding gums?

Can we just maybe quantify how often you get given a horse? Not that often.

Being given a car (while perhaps more comprehensible) seems about as rare.

If you have a though time thinking about how often someone has an extra horse and just fuckin decides to give it to you?

Imagine how many times in your life you have had a few too many cars, and the most sensible course of action is to give one or two away.

*tough time

The sentiment is perhaps better described in my father's favorite saying: "If it's free, it's for me."

My mum gave me her old car as a surprise gift a few years ago. Because the car was really pretty old and well used (100,000+ miles on the odometer at the time) there did in fact ensue a number of joking gift horse/car conversations between us in regard to tax, insurance, MOT and repair costs, as well as how it was to drive, especially at anything over 50mph.

Ok, one car, cool.

Is there anybody here who has been given a horse?

Or given someone a horse (presumably one of their extra horses)?

Trone Poor, i think you'll find.

Sorry YMP! It was funny though that thinking back my mum basically did tell me not to look a gift car in the MOuTh.

I knew a Spanish guy when I was first in Galway who was given a mini van/car and then had it seized by the gards when they stopped him in the centre of town and realised he had no license or insurance. So it does happen, may depend on the circles one hangs around with.

"I've never seen him take to a new rider like that. Look at them together, they're almost one and the same! Tell you what, Robbins, you take that bank deed back to the fire pit and I'll see if your little girl can keep that horse. Gonna have to talk to the boss first."

This is solidly in the “interesting facts I found on the internet” category but anyway…

The songwriter Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, etc) was instrumental in the arrest of the murderer whose crime inspired the novel and then film Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

Ebb was somehow friends with the guy who was out drinking with the murderer on the night of the murder and to whom the murderer immediately confessed.

!

I've been given a horse. I worked on a farm that bred Appaloosas when I was in high school. They gave me a brood mare in foal when I graduated. I did not check her mouth.

lol amazing

so did you also get a foal? I'm not 100% sure of the terminology there!

Yes, a little filly - so 2 for 1 deal. Just what every engineering college freshman needs!

thats a common misconception iirc, and somewhat of a retrofit

the phrase is actually traced most reliably back to the seafaring peoples of the volga trade routes: sove, dvs der im en gammel hest

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, June 19, 2023 5:52 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you need to cite your sources

― budo jeru, Monday, June 19, 2023 6:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

cards on table, the day i code and host a mock website as a source in order to underpin a classic ilx reference as a meta comment on how a discussion has unnecessarily grown quite ridiculous legs, that's the day i know the free time has reached a dangerous level altogether*

*i considered it

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, June 19, 2023 6:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

wait ... this was a "sleep, that's where i'm a viking" joke?

i think i thought you were the other british person who types in all lowercase, but you're the one who makes cryptic jokes and he's the one who would actually know about some random etymology

the only not annoying way to use this website is never to post on it

oooh british— u r having me on? etc

did someone call dmac british

dialing 9-1 right now and holding my finger over the 1

mark s is the uk knower about things but also the one who makes cryptic jokes

Also knows about cryptids, it’s a whole mess

Hibernia? That's where I'm a Briton!

British Isles, innit?

Didn't know that Bing Crosby recorded a special 'NATO Song' to mark NATO's 10th anniversary on 4 April 1959 (article about it here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WJIB8hbiYM

kingo coleo

Bobby Fischer, a name I knew only because it was in a movie title but the person was famous for chess.

Among other things, yes. Or maybe "infamous" for other things.

But he could play the hell out of chess, that's for sure.

well, also amy's dad

When Bobby played Boris Spassky for the world championship it got in depth coverage from Sports Illustrated. Ofc, due to the Vietnam War/Cold War the whole 'showdown between American & Russian masterminds' was a big angle to gin up interest, plus Fischer was the personification of the unpredictable and unstable genius. It was a great drama, I gotta say.

and then we got an actor who loved to joke about genocide and has since become a saint

Fischer was the personification of the unpredictable and unstable genius. It was a great drama

Yeah but Nabokov had already written The Luzhin Defense 40 years earlier.

A podcast on Medeival Sexuality talking about pligrimages being opportunities for collecting sins that one is likely to get allowances for once one arrives at teh pilgrimage site .& how medeival women on pilgrimages may be wearing badges that might now seem NSFW
https://i.redd.it/gcsxkl5jr9u51.jpg
https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=medieval%20badges%20of%20vulvas%20with%20hats#id=8A6C4C10EDA9BBED333A8E2DE8486BE60218E83C

Looks like some of these are being made again