AIBU to ask how many of you are titled aristocracy?

[DolomitesDonkey]

Given the assumption of "the rest of mn" that anyone who's ever touched a horse was educated at Benendon - I need to know, do you feel elite?

Loving this thread!

Proper middleclass well off 'ere m 'lud! Own me own yard and all sorts!

Life isn't fair - if you want what I've got, start working 80 hours a week running your own business for a few years, then do 100 running it.
But why, when you can bleat into your guardian about how awfully unfair it all is.....

Not wanting to bring down the thread, but after yesterday I suddenly find myself with a lot of free time on my hands (working full-time, running own business, 2 under 2.5 - you know the score sockit) - I shall have to search a new hobby.

Hand-wringing?
Aggressive leaflet-campaigning for fairness?
Angry rhetoric towards athletes?

I suppose pulling up outside the gates in your Cayenne we don't drive a gangstermobile!!
Ai hev an old shooting brake held together with mouldy tail bandages...

Oh you are well posh and everyfink.

...veh good, carry on, carry on.....
oh hell I have to stop this amusing banter and go do some work.......

No title but do love people's attitudes towards horse owners!!

The horses might live in beautiful stables etc. But their money goes into the horses not them!!

I have no money, I have two horses. I also work 60 hours a week to get what I want!!

I read that as tilted. I thought it was a uterus question.

Raspberry, I often am tilted when riding. Especially when going round a corner at a speed that the horse considers perfectly reasonable but that I am less certain about...

actually I am a titled Guardian reader who lives opposite 2 stables and sees horses everyday trotting past my house.

Oh you couldn't make it up. I have just been mistaken for the local 'Lady of the Manor' and my DDs, her children,the little Hons,by Lady of the Manor's grandmother.It is the second time this week she has gotten us mixed up and we were no where near a horse at the time [although the dds had their joddies on].Ironically,real Lady XXXX is frightened of horses and none of her DC ride.

I shall get myself a big fuck off horse and look down my nose at all you plebs!

I shall get myself a big fuck off horse and look down my nose at all you plebs!
You can't say that, you have to say "eff orf"

hahaha this thread has made my day - Dpony is kept in the old cow shed. Did go to private school though.... Got myself knocked up at 16 Ooops

This thread is marvellous - I barely bother to post as it is virtually guaranteed that someone will find some way to insinuate that as I have a roof over my head I should not be moaning/am wrong to ask a question/should be distributing the tiles among the neets. Off to sling a rug over a chair and get coconuts out as suggested so that I can hang out around here in future, I may even be able to justify buying the le chameaus I've had my eye on.....(I know they're not for you toffs with real horses but this is just the excuse I've been looking for).

Mirage, some mum from the dcs school said to me when i went to pick up DS2 (as part of a convo) but you do own half of scotland though
I bloody wish 3 acres of north yorks does not == half of scotland

I gave up on the inverted class snobbery of the other horsey thread after one post. Hard to explain anything to those who don't want to learn.

Does make me think, though, that I hope I never look down my nose at anything (thinking sports in particular) just because I don't understand them.

Oh yah, I'm the daughter of an official Scottish Laird yew know! True fact!
I got a paper round at 13 to pay for my riding lessons.and attached myself to someone with their own pony
I currently do anywhere between three and five jobs to pay for Dds ponies. They were all free or dirt cheap and are kept on a negative budget! The local wannabes, bay thoroughbred riders look down on us! Haven't had a holiday in years, generally my clothing is held together with baling string, and my 11 year old car makes a funny metallic bonking noise when it goes over a bump!
I'm very overpriviledged and elitist, me!

Yes I am from the elite. My mother researching our family tree only got as far back as our great-great grandfathers on both sides were grooms! That and my great-grandfather who owned a horse for pulling his milk float. My mother now thinks this explains my, my niece and my DD's horsey obsession. That and my cousins in Australia who were professional jockeys.
I find the reaction (sniggering) to my DD being in Pony Club (centre based) very strange as it works out much cheaper than the dancing lessons, music lessons my friends children do. Even better a non horsey friend who knows I ride, volunteer with RDA and share a horse asked me "do you know how expensive it is?" when she heard I had agreed to DD getting a pony when she is older!

Aim so rich Ai don't use straw bedding, Ai simply run twenties through the paper shredder.

This has made my day, had some bad news yesterday about dhorse and now wondering how to pay for what sounds like expensive treatment. Reading this has cheered me up no end.

I scrimp and save for dhorse, have ancient clothes, ancient car, no holidays and cruddy rented house, but he's worth it (until yesterday anyway!).

I'm sorry frosty :(.

What's up?

Oh frosty. Do you want to talk about it?

I'm sure it's not as bad as all that, just feeling a bit gloomy. His back lady came yesterday and said that there was "something not right" in his back (just behind the saddle/loins) - he's uncomfortable standing on one back leg (eg for farrier) and really dips away when you touch him - she thought originally it was just muscle stiffness but is talking now about bony growths, facet joints (!) and kissing spines.... He needs xrays and further examination - so it's a bit worrying.

Watching the kur - god they are amazing!

I'm staying away from all the Dressage threads on regular parts of MN.

A few posters are saying we may as well have dog showing in the Olympics. I don't want to blow their minds by pointing out that we have horse showing and lots of us are dedicated to it. If they think Dressage is just "toffs on dancing horses" what on earth would they make of showing!

The ignorance and general chippiness about horses on those threads is astounding. I'm steering clear too. No point trying to explain how incredibly technical and difficult this standard of dressage is to people that rude and stupid.

Yes,I'm trying to avoid getting dragged in.The Tackroom is a little haven of civility and sense compared to some of the crap being spouted.I'm staying here in a chippyness free zone.

Butkin I think showing would cause some of the horse/toff posters to implode.