Philosophical question

Are car guys just the male version of horse girls? 

Omg I've said the exact same thing before. Really!!

I don't know what a horse girl is - and I'm not about to google it - but the first thing to pop in my mind was related to Tijuana and a burro. Please tell me I'm not right... 

The average GRMer is not.

We're not going to pay a premium for a product just because it says "racecar" on it.

Our horses will eat and drink from the same trough the cattle do, and it's probably something we cobbled together from parts we already had on the farm.

In reply to bigdaddylee82 :

So you're saying we're barrel racing horse girls not steeplechase horse girls? Sounds legit to me.

My Son-in-law's mom is a horse girl. Drives a pickup truck, has her own trailer, etc. 

Yeah, car guys are pretty much the equivalent of horse girls. 

In reply to ultraclyde :

Yeah, but probably only competitive on a local maybe regional level.  I mean our horse trailer isn't some fancy slant with a tack room, it's the same livestock trailer we haul the cows and goats to the sell barn in, and we're not towing it with a brand new Duramax Denali, we've got a 2nd gen Cummins Ram, that we bought well used from our grandpa.

My wife is a horse vet. We had a good laugh!

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.

In reply to Pete Gossett :

Cmon you have to have known at least one of those girls where growing up everything was horses horses horses. Horse toys, horse drawings, horse daydreams. Everyone thinks she's weeeiird in high school but honestly she's one of us just her ride has legs instead of wheels. 

Pete Gossett said:

I don't know what a horse girl is - and I'm not about to google it - but the first thing to pop in my mind was related to Tijuana and a burro. Please tell me I'm not right... 

I was going to say that everyone knows a horse girl, but it may not have been as much a thing in really big cities.  Remember back in middle or high school that girl that was obsessed with horses?  And remember the girl that actually had horses?  Wouldn't ever shut up about them? Eventually got old enough to get a tattoo and got their horse's name or ID number tattooed on the inside of their lip, like a horse's ID number is? Their boyfriends got jealous of the horse?

Horse girls. 

Edit: the tattoo one is real. She was fun, but nuts.

In reply to dculberson & Mr_Asa :

I went to a tiny school - about 100 kids in the whole high school. I'm sure there were probably girls like that, but I was a complete outcast & would have never known if there were. Growing up in country/rural/farm area it was a culture I did my best to avoid, quite honestly.

Man, my sister is a vet AND and world class horse girl (she used to have that second gen cummins mentioned above).  
 

Interestingly she and I get along really well even when we fail to understand each others' passions.  But our brother who is a sports nerd......just doesn't fit in as well.

I've never seen a horse do a 150 foot burnout around a righthand sweeper just because...

If that is true, then I am not a car guy.

But yes, there are some really messed up car guys also.

I have a racing friend that lives in Aiken South Carolina.  A SERIOUS horse town.   Often we have talked about the similarities of serious horse events and serious car events.

There is all the preparation and practice.   The planning for the event.  The loading up in the hauler.  Arriving at the paddock.  The organizers/promoters.  The waiting around at times.   The care and feeding of the machine.   etc.  etc.

All i know is that the four legged horses are a lot more expensive, and if you are short on funds you can't just park them in the back of the stable and not feed them.

Wife has horses.

Suspicion is confirmed.

In reply to ebonyandivory :

You've never ridden a horse then.

They'll do that without you asking them to, because they've suddenly decided to be afraid of that mailbox they've walked past a hundred times before.

Horse were created because someone thought: "I sure like my bicycle but it would be even better if it had a mind of it's own and could make bad decisions."

All the most interesting people I've known are giant geeks about something.

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....

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....

So does a Shop Vac.

Just asked a woman I work with, who owns a horse...

Me: "Some friends of mine were discussing if 'car guys' were analogous to..."

Her: "Horse girls?"  

Hypothesis confirmed.  

Some people are both!

ebonyandivory said:

I've never seen a horse do a 150 foot burnout around a righthand sweeper just because...

I have seen a guinea pig do that

ShawnG said:

Wife has horses.

Suspicion is confirmed.

 

In reply to ebonyandivory :

You've never ridden a horse then.

They'll do that without you asking them to, because they've suddenly decided to be afraid of that mailbox they've walked past a hundred times before.

Horse were created because someone thought: "I sure like my bicycle but it would be even better if it had a mind of it's own and could make bad decisions."

 

I grew up around horses and all other manner of large animals. Zero burnouts. Plenty of spazzing, zero smoke.

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ebonyandivory said:

I've never seen a horse do a 150 foot burnout around a righthand sweeper just because...

I have seen a guinea pig do that

A 150 foot burnout? 

This thread made me think of this:

Richard Hammond: Horse Rant