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Location: Somewhere around here | I have a silly pet peeve, and I wish I didn't have it because I'd be able to have more girly tack, but I can't stand seeing geldings in pink/floral/super girly tack. I know it doesn't matter, but I just can't do it to my own horse, it makes me feel bad for him lol.
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| I have a couple. The tack one is when people take two different colored boots for their horse and put one color on one hind leg and other color on the other. Same with front. Like pink LH and RF and purple on the other two legs. My biggest pet peeves Ever , is barrel races not starting on time !!! |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | I wouldn't put pink on a gelding either. I wouldn't put pink on anything! Haha! I typically am not a blingy person. Just give me a nice laether bridle and I'm good. |
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| Fringe tack in general. All that crap flopping around has to be distracting.
Jean's with bling. Like who wants a neon sign across their butt? |
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Location: Arkansas | iloveequine40 - 2018-04-15 5:50 PM
Fringe tack in general. All that crap flopping around has to be distracting.
Jean's with bling. Like who wants a neon sign across their butt?
Weellll, I guess it depends on how good your rear end looks 
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| Chandler's Mom - 2018-04-15 8:53 PM
iloveequine40 - 2018-04-15 5:50 PM
Fringe tack in general. All that crap flopping around has to be distracting.
Jean's with bling. Like who wants a neon sign across their butt?
Weellll, I guess it depends on how good your rear end looks
I guess but I always think the same no matter the shape of derriere they're covering  |
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| FLITASTIC - 2018-04-15 3:55 PM
I have a couple. The tack one is when people take two different colored boots for their horse and put one color on one hind leg and other color on the other. Same with front. Like pink LH and RF and purple on the other two legs. My biggest pet peeves Ever , is barrel races not starting on time !!!
NOT starting on time is probably my biggest pet peeve EVER. |
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Location: Kansas | I have no idea why you would take a beautiful horse of any gender and cover it with bling, fringe, oversized headstalls with lots of carving on it. Zebra striped polo wraps or boots. bronc halters......oh, I could go on all day.  Stick to basics. Let these horses breathe. |
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I don't mind bling although some people take it to a new level that's for sure. I don't mind fringe either. I don't mind pink on a gelding, not that I would do it but hey, to each its own! But my biggest pet peeve is (and please don't flame me for it): if you are going to wear a helmet, please adjust your chin strap nice and tight. I see all this people wearing helmets but they are not tight at all and that is a lot more dangerous than not wearing one.
And for the record, I am not a helmet nazi... again, to each its own. |
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| I hate being matchy-matchy. I have plain headstalls and not overly obnoxious breast collars. The blingy matching tack sets are a hard pass for me lol |
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| love2ridepre - 2018-04-16 8:56 AM
***PLEASE DON'T FLAME ME!***
I don't mind bling although some people take it to a new level that's for sure. I don't mind fringe either. I don't mind pink on a gelding, not that I would do it but hey, to each its own! But my biggest pet peeve is (and please don't flame me for it): if you are going to wear a helmet, please adjust your chin strap nice and tight. I see all this people wearing helmets but they are not tight at all and that is a lot more dangerous than not wearing one.
And for the record, I am not a helmet nazi... again, to each its own.
Yyyyyeeeeeeessasssss!
And rear cinches that have a 4-6” gap because they are so loose. You don’t have to cut them in half but on top of risking catching a foot in a fall that has to be annoying flopping around back there. Take it up a little or take it off!!! |
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| I hate it when people don't use bit guards with sliding gags. I can't IMAGINE how painful it is when the bit pinches their lips and guards are CHEAP! |
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| Griz - 2018-04-16 11:28 AM
I hate it when people don't use bit guards with sliding gags. I can't IMAGINE how painful it is when the bit pinches their lips and guards are CHEAP!
my horse hates bit guards! doesn't matter if they are rubber or foam or whatever. Weird uh? |
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Location: East Texas | flat soda
mouth breathers
lack of common courtesy
nasty bathrooms
clamshell packaging
drunk drivers
thieves
paper cuts
inflated stall prices
automated phone systems
calling modern country music.....country music
waking up before my alarm goes off
$7 drinks at the concession stand
thin toilet paper
empty roll of TP
body oder
telemarketers
traffic light cams
health care cost
press 1 for English and they still don't speak English
Dallas cowboy fans
Nothing really bothers me these days.....just having a little fun
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Location: Louisiana | Frodo - 2018-04-16 8:31 AM
I have no idea why you would take a beautiful horse of any gender and cover it with bling, fringe, oversized headstalls with lots of carving on it. Zebra striped polo wraps or boots. bronc halters......oh, I could go on all day. Stick to basics. Let these horses breathe.
Same reason I cover my face with makeup and wear hair extensions...I LIKE IT  |
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Location: Louisiana | Glad to know nobody is paying attention to my monkey-esqe riding style...they're just laughing at my blingy tack and mismatched boots. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | My Pet Peeves, are people who want to talk about themselves only me me me me me.. The Gossips, ones that DONT mine their own bussiness, ones that love talking about others and pointing fingers, people who are always tooting their own horn, someone that has to tell the whole world they have a Grand/World Champion horse over and over in what ever discipline, I have some race horse friends that can drive me coo coo LOL you got the humble horse people and then the not so humble talking about their horses, complainers/whining all the time cause its not going their way. Tack dont bother me at all its their horse and they can use what ever tack floats their boat, non of my bussiness but I do hate seeing a to loose of a back cinch and a tie down thats not adjusted right or a halter laying to low on a horses face, as with a hackamore not sitting right.. There now I think I listed most of them I know theres more but this is enought for now 
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Location: North Dakota | I'm starting to realize that mine might not be silly, since I think I have a lot more than the rest of you........  |
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Location: Oklahoma | I hate it when people post their runs on fb and say I won out of 200 racers or was 2nd out of 200 racers or I would have won if I hadn't knocked a barrel out of 350 racers. I think you should be proud no matter how many is there! and even if just 10 racers usually its gonna be saucy anyways! So just post your beautiful run and say your proud that you even got to be there! I don't care if you won or not I just love seeing the runs. And if I know the arena I'm gonna pretty much figure out that you ran at the top! lol
Don't get me wrong nothing wrong stating how you placed its just the wording that gets me sometimes.
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | i hate draging noisey windshield wiper blades..... |
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Location: Texas | leaving a tied halter dangling
tack that does not fit |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | Polos wrapped incorrectly. It makes me want to re-wrap their horse’s legs. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Improper fitting helmets. Especially on children. I don’t care if you wear one, that’s your choice. But dang it if your going to wear it at least get one that fits. If it’s so low down on your face you can’t see then it doesn’t fit. If you wear one and it sits way back on the back of your head and neck, it doesn’t fit. I see so many children that their helmet only covers the very back of their head. Top and front completely exposed.
Another thing I’ve noticed, I don’t know if it’s just around here or everywhere, but the people that start GoFundMe accounts so they can barrel race on weekends or to buy this new awesome horse. The ones beyond that, that really get me is the ones that do this yet they don’t work. When I was a teen if I didn’t have the money from working I didn’t go. Now that being said if a small child or someone with a disability get the rare opportunity to go to something like one of the World shows then by all means do what ever to make it possible. But not your average teen/young adult that’s just being a brat and doesn’t have a job. |
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your kids run crazy all over the restaurant ..
Allowing the dog to lick your face and mouth..
People that can't be happy and pleasant about others being successful... |
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Location: my piece of paradise | I cant stand the complaining about ground! Come on they are dragging every 5 the ground is fine no matter where you end up. Come rodeo with me and then you can see what real bad ground is.
Somebody mentioned above the polo wraps being wrapped wrong. I cant stand it either.
Another is running the horse and then not taking off the boots or wraps after a run. Also not using a liniment or cold water hosing legs after. I guess basic leg care in general. Maybe its because it was drilled into me as a child but, "no leg, no horse" those legs are vital.
Horses tied so long at the trailer they are eating grass and stepping on lead lines.
Another I have seen lately is riding at a show in the stretchy yoga pants and looking like slobs. I mean I ride in them at home and feed in my pjs but when your at a show I feel that we need to dress the part with jeans and boots. JMO
Kids with whips and spurs. Don't have a clue how to ride or use their body and legs, but lets give them a whip and spurs and go fast!
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| Lead ropes tied with halters left dangling near the ground from the trailer or fence, especially in the warm up area... I don't like to see horses tied with their bridles. If I'm not removing bridle for whatever reason and I have to tie up, I slip my halter over the bridle and tie. I've seen a horrific accident happen when a horse set back with the bridle one.. ripped his mouth to shreds and pulled teeth out. I'll never do it. Kids running the legs off horses around the warm up pen or in the barn area or trailers.. heavy handed riders!! |
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| AQHA is at the top of my list right now. The left hand needs to figure out what the right hand is doing. !!!??!???!?!~**$$@!@#$% and more $$$$$$$$$ |
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| Just saw on a BHW add that someone was marketing their stallion in spring 2018 " To a few select mares with proven records only" well, this stud is a YEARLING... Yes, out of a very popular barrel racing stud, but the add makes it sound like their stud is the only one with those blood lines on the face of the planet. But breeding a YEARLING??? REALLY? |
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Location: OH | Proper Horse Terminology |
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Location: Running barrels or watching nascar | The warm up pen. That's all I have to say.
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Location: Running barrels or watching nascar | Facebook Live. It's not good for events, IMO. You can't zoom in and I haven't seen a vertical TV screen.
Those that video with their phone vertical. It's much better horizontal. I just want to grab their phones and show them correctly. |
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| barrelracer1983 - 2018-04-17 12:25 PM
The warm up pen. That's all I have to say.
LOL... such a dangerous place LOL! Mostly when 50% of the riders are teens on their phones not paying any attention to what's going on and just wondering around! |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | An open, empty clothes hamper... With a pile of dirty laundry right next to it.... |
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| -dirty long fingernails on men
-a bed with the covers at least not pulled up
-people who don't have boundaries and like to pry
-dishes not washed off before they get put in the dishwasher
-shoes kicked off and not straight
-people who talk so loudly about or swoon over their pets at the vet's or their kids in public just to have people give them compliments
-people who are rude to waitresses and customer service reps just to do it
-when my chickens sit and poop on their feed bag
-not getting a good swing up of the saddle and everything getting caught underneath it on your horse's back
That's all I got for now, maybe a little too much. Haha
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Location: MN | Horse related:
-People tying rope halters incorrectly
-When parents give a whip to their child who think its just fun in general to whip their horse wherever they go.
-When folks have their split boots on cockeyed....biggest peeve here. I want to get off and straighten it for them.
Non-horse related:
- HOW MEN LOAD DISHWASHERS ..but thankful he tries
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| People branding horses that they just bought
People branding horses in these large brands with their initials as big as a dang dinner plate, then not even registering the brand
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| runfastturnsmooth - 2018-04-20 10:36 AM
People branding horses that they just bought
People branding horses in these large brands with their initials as big as a dang dinner plate, then not even registering the brand
I agree, but here in CA, a brand on a horse is not considered legal ownership like it is on cattle. I have mine registered for sure, if nothing else it gives some contact info if they ever go missing and law enforcement tries to contact the owner of the brand, |
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When my socks fall down when I have my boots on, I hate that feeling
Bed not made
Kids at restaurants that have absolutely no manners, and scream the whole time at dinner, have fits, bawl their eyes out, bang the silverware on the table, and the parents do nothing about it. Sorry, I went out to dinner to relax.
Judgmental individuals
People who are so unhappy with their own life that they constantly put others down |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I'm a blingy tack lover....nothing too over the top tho. I'm all about blinged out conchos and the silver spots. 
As for my pet peeves- using incorrect grammer and spelling in memes and sale ads. Whats more irritating is people respond anyway and act like thats how its supposed to be spelled.
-how this society now has a "trophy for everyone" mentality
-barking dogs left at the trailer. I didn't come to the barrel race (or when camping) to listen to your dog bark my entire stay.
Horse related:
-watching a rider take it out on the horse when they have a bad run
-a breast collar that hangs too low
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| Parents that turn their kids loose on horses at a show and said kids run around all through the warm up area cutting people off and almost causing wrecks.
People that want to "buy a young horse for their kid to grow up with".
Constant ground complainers
Being rude to wait staff or anyone in the public service industry
RUDENESS in general
I personally don't like people overly hollering for me during a run. The occasional "hurry!" or "its up!" or "Go on!" is okay but it irks me when there are 10 people screaming like dying goats every inch of the way. 
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Location: N Texas | luluwhit - 2018-04-16 1:23 PM
i hate draging noisey windshield wiper blades.....
My husband used to work with a guy who would have his windshield wipers on when there was NO rain in sight. When my husband asked him about it, he said "just in case" or sometimes I guess he wouldn't even realize they were on. He was odd for sure.
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | Super bright headlights.
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Location: Running barrels or watching nascar | scwebster - 2018-04-20 11:54 AM
Parents that turn their kids loose on horses at a show and said kids run around all through the warm up area cutting people off and almost causing wrecks.
People that want to "buy a young horse for their kid to grow up with".
Constant ground complainers
Being rude to wait staff or anyone in the public service industry
RUDENESS in general
I personally don't like people overly hollering for me during a run. The occasional "hurry!" or "its up!" or "Go on!" is okay but it irks me when there are 10 people screaming like dying goats every inch of the way.
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Little cars getting gas at the only diesel pump when there are open gas pumps, then leaving thier car in front of the diesel pump while they go in to the gas station to pee and get a drink and a hot dog. |
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Location: west of East Texas | Since you said 'silly'.... my family says I have a ton of them but here are a few...
?dishtowels thrown wadded up on the counter instead of hung up
?feed room not left like it was found
?any gate left open, whether it is holding any animals in or not
?someone handling my Dr. Pepper harshly and making it go flat
?'stage-y' candid photos - does your hand live on that hip? Is that 'oh' look of surprise really true? Every time?
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| People who spell "filly" "philly" and people who spell "gelding" "guilding" |
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| Horses that go to shows and scream their heads off. Ugh, something about hearing the same horse over and over and over is just like nails on chalkboard for me.
Horses that paw when tied and destroy the ground under where they are standing.
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| kmfunk22 - 2018-04-23 9:25 AM
People who spell "filly" "philly" and people who spell "gelding" "guilding"
Recently a horse sale ad came across my Facebook dash and they spelled saddle "sattle." They also spelled mane as main. The final nail in the coffin was the lack of punctuation. It made my eyes bleed.
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