What Is Up With "Cute"? (Horses)

[welsummerchicks]

Generally, if you tell people the truth, about 3 things, they get very angry.

One is their pets.

Two is their horse.

Three is their child.

 

[patandchickens]

But if you say "nice tail", even when the person knows their horse is being insulted, they still do usually at least get a little warm spot inside about having its tail admired

Pat

 

[welsummerchicks]

That's right, but having been at some shows with people, and then seen how they 'reconstrue' the judge's comments over the following weeks...it's all scary, lol.

 

[The Wolf Queen]

I resent that!!! I rarely call a horse cute & if I were to see that Appy stallion your describing the first words outta my mouth would probably be "darn!" followed by "hez beautiful, look at that confirmation!" So

to you lol.

 

[ND]

Welsummerchicks has it... "cute" is to horses as "precious" is to babies...

 

[verity]

and "special" is to teachers --

that is, the teachers aren't 'special' -- it's a code we use for. ummm. interesting/challenging students --

 

[ND]

The funniest thing is that there is an entire population of "nice" men that really think "nice" meant *nice* when someone labeled them that... therefore, don't understand WHY it is that "nice men" finish last...

'Cute' horse
'Precious' baby
'Special' kid
'Nice' man

It's all *code*...



Patandchickens- you're right on, there, too!

Not too long ago, I was looking at possibly one of the fugliest horses I've ever seen, at least conformation wise. It was a paint... well, technically, pinto-- it was grade-- and let the world rejoice, it was uncut.

Anyway... I wasn't intentionally shopping for a fugly horse (though, I do own some of the fuglies), and I was just trying to *exit* the property as quickly as possible before I let it slip just HOW fugly this thing was, and how mortified I was that they allowed it to reproduce. It was, however, a 'pretty color' (shoot me for even admitting that). I guess this was the sole reason it was worshiped by the owner. In a rare PC attempt, I tried to keep my mouth shut by just mentioning it's 'pretty color'. Mistake...

I couldn't leave fast enough after it felt like the owner then felt proud and justified by creating more fugly clones...

I think they would've thought I meant cute if I'd said cute...

 

[Celtic Hill]

(im not a woman) and use cute when im talking about horses. Normally it's when i see a horse that is so-so, dosn't stand out but isn't a bad looking horse either.

 

[verity]

I understand the 'cute' looking/acting horse but I am totally clueless as to what a 'cute mover' can mean????

 

[welsummerchicks]

Depends. Either sorta good, or real bad.