Poll of the Day > suppose we still used horses as the main form of travel...

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I can't imagine how bored horses would get sitting in a corporate stable for your 12 hour work day

I miss riding horses. but where I work is only a mile and a half from where I live, and most of the time I work 8am to 2pm, so it wouldnt be that long

As slow as it is I'd rather ride a horse than sit in traffic. Hell, actually I think in some cases the horse would be faster.

Think of all the poop-scooping and stablehand jobs that would open up.

Great for the economy and for the environment!

horse milk would return as the most popular summer beverage

I'm afraid there will be more animal abuse.

Hmm, delivering pizza on horseback certainly would be something.

Just think how bad covid would have been with shit in the streets.

11110111011 posted...

Just think how bad covid would have been with shit in the streets.

LA wasn't hit THAT bad

11110111011 posted...

Just think how bad covid would have been with shit in the streets.

it wouldn't have affected anything with covid

Lokarin posted...

LA wasn't hit THAT bad

Same with San Francisco.

On topic though, I love horses! They are so big and strong but still loving. Good source of food for a garden too!

Horses do require way less gas to run

the grass goes in and the fast comes out you can't explain it

hey animal Im gonna hammer metal noodles to your feet and say its shoes lmao

PETA people would freak out.

they Freak out over the horse and buggies as tourist rides.

realistically its cost prohibitive. Horses are expensive and keeping horses fed housed and healthy is expensive.
uou could probably compare the price of a horse and its care to buying a luxury sports car

Then a lot of us would still be very restricted. Horses and the amount of land used to keep them aren't cheap.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Think of all the poop-scooping and stablehand jobs that would open up.

Great for the economy and for the environment!

This is a large part of what spurred the adoption of cars in the first place. Cities were absolutely buried in horse shit. To the point where it would liquefy when it rained and you'd basically be wading through a foot-deep river of sewage sludge every time you left your house.

Go back and read early documents from the era right when cars started to become a thing - people were fine with whatever smoke or fumes or greasy messes they'd leave behind because it was still better than what the horses were doing. People were overjoyed that they could finally get rid of the filthy animals and clean up the city streets. Horses were their own brand of pollution.



Conner4REAL posted...

PETA people would freak out.

they Freak out over the horse and buggies as tourist rides.

PETA likely wouldn't exist. They're mostly the product of a world that removed animal labor from everyday life.

In a lower-tech world, people wouldn't give a fuck. It's why casual animal abuse always used to be a thing when everyone was a farmer or owned pack animals, and when "pets" weren't really a thing (you owned a dog or a cat for utilitarian reasons, and they sure as fuck weren't part of your "family"). When you view animals as tools that need to be used, you're less likely to care whether or not someone is beating them or killing them or whatever. They're an investment or a resource (or an impediment), nothing more.

Humans tend to cope better with things we're used to than things that are mostly isolated or rare. It's the same reason why we're so freaked out by death and physical violence in general these days, when people in the past were way more capable of dealing with it. Because you kind of get desensitized to it when you have a huge infant mortality rate and your neighbor could die any day from the plague. But isolate death to very specific places (hospitals, mortuaries), and use medicine and nutrition to dramatically lower the death rate, and people ironically become even more terrified of death. Because it goes from being common to being something apart from our daily experience, and that shit's scary.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

This is a large part of what spurred the adoption of cars in the first place. Cities were absolutely buried in horse shit. To the point where it would liquefy when it rained and you'd basically be wading through a foot-deep river of sewage sludge every time you left your house.

Yeah I hear New York was a fun place in those days

Metalsonic66 posted...

Yeah I hear New York was a fun place in those days

People see old pictures and assume they're looking at mud because the roads weren't paved.

It usually wasn't mud, though. It was mostly shit.

And it stank.

Horses can't drive. They barely know how to read a map!

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captpackrat posted...

Horses can't drive. They barely know how to read a map!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/6/5/AAQwHjAADpiV.jpg

Looks like it had a little too much to drink too. Time to find a designated driver.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

People see old pictures and assume they're looking at mud because the roads weren't paved.

It usually wasn't mud, though. It was mostly shit.

And it stank.

without cars the suburbs wouldnt exist.

there would be no place for the middle class to live.
The middle classi is already shrinking.

cars basically allowed for people to commute and live in cheaper areas outside the big cities commonly known as civilization and own homes in surrounding areas that are suburbs or hicksvilles formally inhabited by hicks. When you go even further out you get hillbillies who live in the styx

Conner4REAL posted...

without cars the suburbs wouldnt exist.

Without cars there also wouldn't be grocery stores. Or dating as we know it.

Cars radically altered the infrastructure of the Western world as a whole and the US specifically, in ways that you wouldn't even associate with the idea of cars at first glance.

It's sort of the same multifaceted cultural reset that smart phones are causing now. So much of how people live their lives is likely to change over the next 100 years or so. Assuming we don't all kill ourselves off in the meantime.



Conner4REAL posted...

areas that are suburbs or hicksvilles formally inhabited by hicks. When you go even further out you get hillbillies who live in the styx

It's "out in the sticks", not "styx". The poor rural people don't live in the river in Hades.

It's basically a reference to living on the edge of the forest, at the edge of civilization. The place where you've cut down most of the trees, but haven't cleared away the stumps or smaller trunks yet, so they look like sticks. It's why you'll also hear some people refer to areas like that as the backwoods.

Boondocks/boonies, "the ass end of nowhere", or place names like East Bumblefuck are similar concepts.

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