TurboFocus said:Are car guys just the male version of horse girls?
Erm- idk. Horse girls are freaky. Like, extra freaky.
TurboFocus said:Are car guys just the male version of horse girls?
Erm- idk. Horse girls are freaky. Like, extra freaky.
Mndsm said:TurboFocus said:Are car guys just the male version of horse girls?
Erm- idk. Horse girls are freaky. Like, extra freaky.
Look around the room. If you can't ID the "extra freaky" dude, go to the restroom and look in the mirror...
Brett_Murphy said:volvoclearinghouse said:Someone once told me, the most expensive kind of transportation is the kind with one horsepower.
Certainly most expensive on a dollars per kW basis.
Horses have about 15HP peak, though....
I heard it was closer to 20 but when horses were created they were purposely underrated for insurance reasons.
Why do pregnant horses win races?
They have double the hp!
Many forms of transport obsession. Car or boat guys, horse girls, bicycle nuts of both sexes.
Never been sure what the attraction between girls an horses is based on (could suggest something, but this is a family site). Maybe they just appreciate a 'well tackled' animal that does what it is told. In which case, marriage is bound to be a bit of a disappointment to them on both fronts.
In reply to wspohn :
Hmm. Previously mentioned sister has been married twice and a collection of more than $30,000 worth of tack. You might be on to something.
BlueInGreen - Jon said:This thread made me think of this:
Dang, beat me to it!
Mndsm said:TurboFocus said:Are car guys just the male version of horse girls?
Erm- idk. Horse girls are freaky. Like, extra freaky.
Like "stealing $53,000,000 from her job" freaky?
No.
There are no aftermarket parts to improve a horse's performance or appearance. If you're not swapping parts (or thinking about it), not a car guy.
Mndsm said:TurboFocus said:Are car guys just the male version of horse girls?
Erm- idk. Horse girls are freaky. Like, extra freaky.
Around here we call those girls "Mustangs"
Because she likes horses and is WILD.
My cousin had miniature horses. She would very quickly correct you that they were horses and not ponies.
She didn't have two, or three.
She had seventeen.
I don't understand the horse hobby, but then people don't understand why we drive quickly around cones in a parking lot, and that's okay.
wspohn said:Many forms of transport obsession. Car or boat guys, horse girls, bicycle nuts of both sexes.
Also runners... my BIL is into running and does multiple 5Ks, a couple half marathons, a marathon, and triathlon each year and runs every day.
And I can see some correlations to horse girls, but we can actually take our cars to work or across the country without a support vehicle (non-streetable racecars, wrecked or project cars excluded). I have yet to see a horse actually used for transportation other than by city horse cops and Amish buggies.
I have a theory that both men and women used to be "horse people" until cars came along and guys gravitated toward those and became car guys and women continued on with horses. Also, fairy tales seem to portray young princesses riding horses and living in castles. Horse ownership is slightly less expensive than a castle ownership.
In reply to ebonyandivory :
You've never seen a hot chick do a slide stop with her cutting horse, just because...
My ex was a horse girl. And spent a lot on aftermarket items to improve the appearance of her horse. And hundreds of hours practicing to try and score more AQHA points.
She was also a dental hygienist. And the lip tattoo she witnessed was on a girl, who, when drunk, got "berkeley" tatted inside her bottom lip.
ebonyandivory said:I've never seen a horse do a 150 foot burnout around a righthand sweeper just because...
I've also never seen a horse snap oversteer and crash ass first into a guardrail, or have a single-pony accident and slide 100 yds down the road hooves up and shiny side down. Just sayin
TopNoodles said:I heard it was closer to 20 but when horses were created they were purposely underrated for insurance reasons.
The "No, seriously" explanation is that James Watt intentionally defined horsepower based on an extremely small horse so that his engine ratings would look more impressive.
OldGray320i said:No.
There are no aftermarket parts to improve a horse's performance or appearance. If you're not swapping parts (or thinking about it), not a car guy.
I don't think you know horse people very well.
Ransom said:All the most interesting people I've known are giant geeks about something.
This statement needs further illumination....because I believe it to be true. Lots of the people with whom I work are NOT car people, but will stand transfixed and ask me pointed questions while I'm geeking on about LeMons racing or some such thing that I feel I'm boring them about.
Another example: a few years ago we were at a chili competition event and I was chatting up one fellow; somehow we got around to the topic of weather and it turns out the guy was a HUGE weather dork- had this giant weather station at his house, reported data to the National Weather Service, had his instruments calibrated regularly, etc etc etc. Even though I had almost no knowledge of what all he was doing and not really any interest in it at the time, I found it fascinating from a technical perspective and his enthusiasm for it admittedly "reeled me in". So much so that to this day I remember him.
The two sexes do go for different sorts of hobbies. The example of running may be one of the few (along with gardening, perhaps) that appeal to both.
Another of mine, high end audio, is something where we see almost zero female aficionados. A couple of other hobbies I think would be similar are coin and stamp collecting.
The different approaches of each sex to the same hobby are also interesting. When I was racing, I knew a couple who were both running the same car. He was the more aggressive and given to hard competition, but much to his disgust, his wife was more conservative but also smoother and on many tracks, slightly faster!
You've probably seen the male type most often - sliding and wearing out tires while some other guy drives smoothly, is much easier on the car, and when you look at the lap times is also often quicker.
OldGray320i said:No.
There are no aftermarket parts to improve a horse's performance or appearance. If you're not swapping parts (or thinking about it), not a car guy.
Whips = Turbos.
Woody said:Whips = Turbos.
Does that make spurs analagous to superchargers?
steroids = race fuel
dculberson said:OldGray320i said:No.
There are no aftermarket parts to improve a horse's performance or appearance. If you're not swapping parts (or thinking about it), not a car guy.
I don't think you know horse people very well.
That's like putting a carbon fiber sticker on your metal hood and saying you shed 50lbs of weight.
Talk to me when you can put shorter, stiffer legs on a horse to improve handing.
Woody said:OldGray320i said:No.
There are no aftermarket parts to improve a horse's performance or appearance. If you're not swapping parts (or thinking about it), not a car guy.
Whips = Turbos.
I can beat my Miata, too, it isn't going any faster.
Now if a heart and lung transplant can make the horse go faster, and is offered on the Flyin Horse website as a CARB legal update, I'm all ears.
As the husband of a horse-girl, can confirm.
She teases me about tools, I tease her about spoiling our animals.
At least there are side-bennies...she gets snow-tires and a well-maintained vehicle...I get brown-chicken-brown-cow. 
OldGray320i said:Woody said:OldGray320i said:No.
There are no aftermarket parts to improve a horse's performance or appearance. If you're not swapping parts (or thinking about it), not a car guy.
Whips = Turbos.
I can beat my Miata, too, it isn't going any faster.
Now if a heart and lung transplant can make the horse go faster, and is offered on the Flyin Horse website as a CARB legal update, I'm all ears.
I needed this today.
thanks guys!
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