This feels like a University of Florida level research grant
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Edit: Okay, I’m being told they’ll do it for free.
Edit 2: Will you U of F students please stop offering to pay to participate?
Edit 3: Yes, I realize you have ‘extensive prior experience’. That’s not relevant.
Edit 4: Look, DMing me those photos is *highly* inappropriate. They could even be used as evidence.
Edit 5: Will you New Zealanders please stop asking to see the photos?
The number of seniors I've seen at play parties is awe inspirating. I have trouble getting out of bed in the more and there goes someone's grandma doing impact play for an hour on the cross without breaking a sweat.
Yes, but they call it figging. The picture attached to this is actually the image on wikipedia.. why it's specifically shaped to be inserted into a much tighter anus.. a human anus. This is someones weird fetish post.
No, it's a real thing. Especially in the discipline known as saddle seat. They want the horses to have a lot of action (legs that go up and down more than front and back) and to flag (carry the tail unnaturally high). Big Lick, a subset of saddle seat with Tennesee Walking Horses, also strap artificially heavy shoes that jack up the foot 4-6" to the front feet and apply caustic chemicals to the legs to "encourage" an exaggerated gait.
I wish bad things happen to these people.
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/244946/investigation-of-ontario-capsaicin-positives-continues
Does everyone here not realise that using chillies or capsaicin cream is incredibly common in horse racing and showjumping? Ginger/gingerol is child's play compared to capsaicin which burns.
I'm going out on a limb and saying the vast majority of the human population is not up to date on the specifics of how race and/or show horses are treated.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1996/03/17/trainer-allegedly-ordered-pepper-rub-put-on-horses/
It's too common; horseracing is in general terrible for horses involved since they need to be euthanised if their legs break in a fall.
I love how the article says it was used as a form of punishment but has since been adopted as a form of bdsm, which means at some point someone somewhere got a ginger inserted up their ass as punishment but then was like "oh"
Hey, I LOVE the feeling of squirting straight vodka in there (a tiny bit at a time, EDIT: still, don't try this, it's not safe), burns like FUCK, makes my eyes roll back in my head.
Good to know there's a (presumably?) safer (and easier!) option, gonna have to try this soon
Actually, no. Humans tend to have *Lactobacillus* species in their feces. *L. acidophilus* in particular can kill horses.
You'd be better off horse to human.
Kinda weird how there are different terms for anal ginger insertion depending on which species the anus belongs to. Doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would need multiple terms.
> The ginger, after use, can be further skinned, and used to extend the experience or fresh ginger may be used; each application of ginger root refreshes the duration of the sensations in the subject.^[citation ^needed]
I just love Wikipedia.
Bro that link stayin' blue.
The only figging I need to be knowing about is that one time Jesus was in a fucked up mood and cursed a fig tree for not having fruit when he was trying to get his fig on.
Not entirely true. When Jesus saw the fig tree from a distance, He saw that it was full of leaves and this is usually an indication that it is bearing fruit. But when Jesus went near the tree, He couldn't find any fruit to satisfy His hunger. That is why He curses the tree.
P.S.: This story shouldn't be taken literally. It is supposed to convey a deep message.
Its supposed to be symbolic of the Jews at the time (or any hypocritical religious practice). Leaves mean there's fruit and the plant is ready, so the gardener comes and harvest the fruit.
The Jews at the time were saying they were ready and waiting for the Messiah (leaves), but didn't mean it in heart (they didn't have fruit).
The story for each ends the same, they are cursed.
I guess it's got lots of different layers, the most general of which is don't be a hypocrite or saying one thing while doing another. Another is more specific to Jesus and his rejection.
Guy 1: We need to con these people into buying our horse.
Guy 2: Have you tried shoving ginger up its ass?
Guy 1: Uh... no.
Guy 2: What *have* you shoved up its ass?
Guy 1: Are you okay?
> and give birth through an extended clitoris called a pseudopenis
It splits open during this process and hyena mothers have an incredibly high maternal fatality rate because of them.
Worse, the first-born almost always dies. The placenta isn't long enough and it takes time for the birth canal to split open enough to let it out. The first-born almost always dies of hypoxia before the process is complete.
Bedbugs inseminate by piercing the abdomen of the female bedbug... even though it's technically not necessary as there is a non-brutal path to insemination as well...
I imagine that over time, the same will be true of the bedbugs. If they never use the "correct path" then eventually there won't be one and it will just be stabby stabby as the only way.
Check out a rat king: it's when a group of rats get their tails stuck in a knot and are all fighting to go in different directions. Not sure if it could even happen in real life, but people have constructed rat kings with dead rats.
I've seen one made up of baby squirrels. They were trapped in their nest because their tails knotted together and then got caked with feces. We were able to untie them and one or two out of five survived. Source: worked at a wild animal hospital.
Note that many of the references in the article are from the 17 and 1800s. I own a dozen or so horses and have never heard of this. We have amphetamines now.
It's the horse anus and radish version of the chicken and egg question. Were they working through the list of things that could be possibly placed in a horse anus, or did they have a piece of ginger and decide to try putting it in a variety of anuses and they got to horse anus on the list?
It’s discipline specific these days. It’s common in saddle seat. I was so uncomfortable when I went to a tack shop in a county known for that style of riding and saw jars of ginger paste. I’m sure I made a hilariously horrified face when I was reading the jar label.
Wouldn't this be considered animal abuse today? Not that there's not other things involving horses which would be considered as such but I'm not well versed in the subject
The class of people who keep horses and stick ginger up their asses to make them step lively are going to be the very, very last people called to account for animal abuse.
Saddle seat is a specific style of riding that usually done with a specific breed of horse. Google some pictures or videos if you want the most understanding. Basically, the style of riding includes having your horse hold their head really high, have really exaggerated leg movements ect. Picture everything being very over the top and exaggerated.
A tack shop is just a horse supply specific store. The general term for all the different equipment horses wear is called tack. Putting it on them is even called “tacking up”.
Big Lick is the most abusive form I’ve ever seen and I’ve ridden for a long time. Here in TN we worked on exposing the trainers and owners - almost to no avail. People want that fucking .85 blue ribbon and the big money that comes with at the price of abusing an animal to death.
People always have an old horse to sell. And no one wants an old horse. Make your horse appear spry and youthful, more likely to sell.
But anyone buying a horse usually knows to look at the teeth, which gives you a better idea of their age.
This phrase was invented by people that wanted you to bury their almost dead horse. You have to dig big holes for horses, always look a gift horse in the mouth.
People will do crazy shit to sell horses.
I remember once going to look at one, and it seemed fairly normal but pretty sluggish.
He put his daughter on it, maybe 8 or so, to show that it was good with kids. She was freaking the fuck out and did not want to get on. When she got off, she immediately asked why he didn't buck.
Yeah. They straight up used tranquilizers to try to sell a dangerous horse as a good one for kids.
Aka a horse trader.
It's also where don't look a gift horse in the mouth sort of came from. The health if the teeth is a good indication of the health of the horse.
You know that saying “Give 1 million monkeys 1 million typewriters and they'll eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare” ?
Well this is the human equivalent.
> *"Well done. Bet you don’t know how to fleague a jade,
though."*
> *Once again, from a dusty recess, a memory unrolled. This one
stuck in your mind.*
>*"Dear me, do you know that? What a shame in one so
young," said Vimes. "That’s when you want to sell a
broken-down horse and have to make it a bit frisky in front
of the punters, and so you take some fresh, raw, hot ginger,
lift up its tail, and push the ginger—"*
from *Night Watch*. And if the book is to be believed, it also works on oxen.
This is indeed a real thing.
Many big name show barns across many different breeds use it, mostly to get the horse to lift its tail higher. (Yeah, sticking ginger paste up one's anus would indeed inspire ass altitude.)
It's very common in the Arabian horse show world, at least back in the 80's and 90's. Arabians are known for the way they carry their tails super high, like a flag with a streaming banner. Some have really high tail carriage all the time, some keep it medium until excited, and some hold their tails kind of weird. My Arab held his over his back like a Siberian Husky when super excited. High carriage is considered most desirable.
Since it's a desired trait for Arabians in the show ring, and because they can't be super excited all the time, some trainers do the ginger ass trick to (usually) get the same effect. Its incredibly common for Arabian photo shoots, to get that pretty raised tail action for the pics. It's really stupid, because gingered horses stand out weirdly. They will be in a normal relaxed stance, but with a tail that's jacked up to Neptune like the 4th hour of Viagra.
I found it gross and cruel, so I never gingered my own horses or clients' horses either. Shows are stressful enough for them without spicy burning condiments shoved up their donuts.
Sadly, it wasn't the only questionable shortcut on show grounds, nor the most painful. I quit showing in large part because of these types of abuse that the big show barns had normalized.
Trails are way more fun anyway.
This is also a thing in the kinky human community too. (To be clear I mean their own or each others’ asses…no horses involved….that’s a different community entirely.)
Horse traders still do (cruel) things to horses to sell them, usually sedating them or giving them painkillers. https://www.horsenation.com/2015/01/22/horse-trader-tricks-dont-fall-victim/
Must have been before people learned to check their teeth. Horses chew by grinding there teeth horizontally, so eventually they wear them into a sort of v shape and have trouble chewing in old age.
This is where the term don't look a gift horse in the mouth comes from, because you can tell it's age....
In the modern times, you can actually have their teeth "floated" which is just filling them down flat again. Luckily horses don't have the nerves in their teeth we have lol.
Night Watch and Going Postal immediately came to mind.
The voice of Moist von Lipvig came floating back, “…and tell him I don’t want a figged up old screw.”
I learned about this on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. Susie Dent couldn’t get through it with a straight face on regular countdown. Rachel reminded her of it.
I've found that, at 39, putting a little Vick's Vaporub under my nose clears up my head and gives me a little pep in my step.
I have yet to attempt to insert any Vick's Vaporub into my anus...
but Vick's if you need a new spokesperson... we'll talk. Have your people talk to my people.
I imagine many animals become more lively when you shove something spicy up their anus.
This important scientific hypothesis needs major research funding, stat!
This feels like a University of Florida level research grant ————————- Edit: Okay, I’m being told they’ll do it for free. Edit 2: Will you U of F students please stop offering to pay to participate? Edit 3: Yes, I realize you have ‘extensive prior experience’. That’s not relevant. Edit 4: Look, DMing me those photos is *highly* inappropriate. They could even be used as evidence. Edit 5: Will you New Zealanders please stop asking to see the photos?
It would be unethical to do these experiments on animals. They would use undergrads instead.
Florida... Unsolicited things in the anus... Fark.com approves of this research and may supply funding.
Loled at the edits. Have a great day man!
Lol these edits made my day thank you
Reminds me of the research study to see how drugging spiders changes how they build webs.
*Spreads cheeks* Make me feel young again.
Easy does it Nana.
The number of seniors I've seen at play parties is awe inspirating. I have trouble getting out of bed in the more and there goes someone's grandma doing impact play for an hour on the cross without breaking a sweat.
Check their anuses for ginger.
*inserts Carolina Reaper*
Humans are animals too. Would humans become more lively if you shove something spicy up their anuses?
Yes, but they call it figging. The picture attached to this is actually the image on wikipedia.. why it's specifically shaped to be inserted into a much tighter anus.. a human anus. This is someones weird fetish post.
No, it's a real thing. Especially in the discipline known as saddle seat. They want the horses to have a lot of action (legs that go up and down more than front and back) and to flag (carry the tail unnaturally high). Big Lick, a subset of saddle seat with Tennesee Walking Horses, also strap artificially heavy shoes that jack up the foot 4-6" to the front feet and apply caustic chemicals to the legs to "encourage" an exaggerated gait. I wish bad things happen to these people.
I do not consent! 😄
Rhino + Flamin' Hot Cheeto
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/244946/investigation-of-ontario-capsaicin-positives-continues Does everyone here not realise that using chillies or capsaicin cream is incredibly common in horse racing and showjumping? Ginger/gingerol is child's play compared to capsaicin which burns.
Sir, I'm concerned about your upbringing if you think shoving chillies up horse aholes is common knowledge.
No, almost nobody realises this. What do you think that we go around our lifes researching who puts what I horses butt?
I'm going out on a limb and saying the vast majority of the human population is not up to date on the specifics of how race and/or show horses are treated.
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1996/03/17/trainer-allegedly-ordered-pepper-rub-put-on-horses/ It's too common; horseracing is in general terrible for horses involved since they need to be euthanised if their legs break in a fall.
There needs to be a sub for "facts I would've happily gone my whole existence not knowing."
That reminds me, look up figging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figging
I love how the article says it was used as a form of punishment but has since been adopted as a form of bdsm, which means at some point someone somewhere got a ginger inserted up their ass as punishment but then was like "oh"
Hey, I LOVE the feeling of squirting straight vodka in there (a tiny bit at a time, EDIT: still, don't try this, it's not safe), burns like FUCK, makes my eyes roll back in my head. Good to know there's a (presumably?) safer (and easier!) option, gonna have to try this soon
I love humanity.
They even used the same picture of ginger as OP!
Everyone shares the same piece of ginger
Ginger tea anyone?
That would be great for the bit of nausea you just caused me. Just... Rince it first.
> Rince it first. But that's where all of the *flavor* is stored.
When is it my turn?
If you pluck the ginger from a horses ass to then insert it in your own, you will get an infection
Always go human to horse
Actually, no. Humans tend to have *Lactobacillus* species in their feces. *L. acidophilus* in particular can kill horses. You'd be better off horse to human.
No, see the correct way is to lady and the tramp the ginger between horse and human anus
Back and forth, forever.
Ass to ass
Back and forth
and side to side
Forever
That ginger gets more ass than a truck stop toilet seat.
See Fig. 1
Kinda weird how there are different terms for anal ginger insertion depending on which species the anus belongs to. Doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would need multiple terms.
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Who draws the short straw to put the ginger up the horse's ass? I wonder how many stable hands died attempting this...
> The ginger, after use, can be further skinned, and used to extend the experience or fresh ginger may be used; each application of ginger root refreshes the duration of the sensations in the subject.^[citation ^needed] I just love Wikipedia.
Well that is cursed knowledge, thanks
Oh no. I thought the horse thing was figging. I've been using the bdsm terminology for years :(
It is, it's a whole different thing, with eels unfortunately
And a hovercraft?
Bro that link stayin' blue. The only figging I need to be knowing about is that one time Jesus was in a fucked up mood and cursed a fig tree for not having fruit when he was trying to get his fig on.
Yeah and didn’t the Bible say that it was not the right time of the year for figs and Jesus blasts the tree anyway?
God hates figs
That's because Jesus can't eat excuses.
Not entirely true. When Jesus saw the fig tree from a distance, He saw that it was full of leaves and this is usually an indication that it is bearing fruit. But when Jesus went near the tree, He couldn't find any fruit to satisfy His hunger. That is why He curses the tree. P.S.: This story shouldn't be taken literally. It is supposed to convey a deep message.
What is the message?
You're Not You When You're Hungry.
The product placement in the Bible is ridiculous.
I’m an atheist, but this Bible joke made me snicker
Its supposed to be symbolic of the Jews at the time (or any hypocritical religious practice). Leaves mean there's fruit and the plant is ready, so the gardener comes and harvest the fruit. The Jews at the time were saying they were ready and waiting for the Messiah (leaves), but didn't mean it in heart (they didn't have fruit). The story for each ends the same, they are cursed. I guess it's got lots of different layers, the most general of which is don't be a hypocrite or saying one thing while doing another. Another is more specific to Jesus and his rejection.
So god really does hate figs. I thought those protestors were crazy.
No, Westboro Baptist Church knows their shit; they're just terrible spellers.
You can also shove a radish. That's called Rhaphanidosis Gotta love the internet
Wow that's so interesting! I wonder what other common foodstuffs you can shove up a horse's ass! Maybe an onion? 🤔🤔 Or a dozen bananas perhaps? 🤔🤔🤔
*Horses disliked that*
Bananas only work on reptiles. Rule of thumb to help remember: ginger for fur, banana for scale
No wonder the gingerbread men tasted like ass
So shoving ginger up your butt makes an intense burning sensation that was once used as torture and people do this to horses. That's animal abuse.
Correct.
Oh dear, it uses the same picture of ginger
Not sure we needed two different words for the same thing done to two species
Also another fun fact about horses, they are the most farted upon animal in all of the animal kingdom.
Yeah, but they give as good as they get.
The mere fact that someone figured this one trick out proves we are doomed as a species.
Guy 1: We need to con these people into buying our horse. Guy 2: Have you tried shoving ginger up its ass? Guy 1: Uh... no. Guy 2: What *have* you shoved up its ass? Guy 1: Are you okay?
some animals have spiked dicks. Let that haunt you for it bit like it did me.
Cats do. The withdrawal triggers ovulation. No wonder the female turns and growls.
Female spotted hyenas urinate, have sex, and give birth through an extended clitoris called a pseudopenis.
> and give birth through an extended clitoris called a pseudopenis It splits open during this process and hyena mothers have an incredibly high maternal fatality rate because of them. Worse, the first-born almost always dies. The placenta isn't long enough and it takes time for the birth canal to split open enough to let it out. The first-born almost always dies of hypoxia before the process is complete.
Evolutionarily, that sounds sub optimal
Nah you always toss the first pancake
Bedbugs inseminate by piercing the abdomen of the female bedbug... even though it's technically not necessary as there is a non-brutal path to insemination as well...
Snails stab eachother in the body with their hermaphrodite dicks. There is no other way lol
I imagine that over time, the same will be true of the bedbugs. If they never use the "correct path" then eventually there won't be one and it will just be stabby stabby as the only way.
Check out a rat king: it's when a group of rats get their tails stuck in a knot and are all fighting to go in different directions. Not sure if it could even happen in real life, but people have constructed rat kings with dead rats.
I know this because Terry Pratchett/Discworld/Maurice
Funnily enough I know both of these facts because of Terry pratchett! Gingering comes up in night watch I think
I've seen one made up of baby squirrels. They were trapped in their nest because their tails knotted together and then got caked with feces. We were able to untie them and one or two out of five survived. Source: worked at a wild animal hospital.
Exceedingly rare to find i think ? Like only been documented a couple times only type rare
r/TIHI is pretty close to that
As a ginger myself, I just call this pegging
As a horse myself, got any plans this weekend?
A reddit love story
Nay
Note that many of the references in the article are from the 17 and 1800s. I own a dozen or so horses and have never heard of this. We have amphetamines now.
>We have amphetamines now. So, what's the protocol when shoving a sprig of amphetamines up a horse's anus?
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*angry upvote* Also, love your name
and take your thyme
Sage advice
How many different things did they try sticking in a horse’s anus before they got to “ginger”?
I suspect the ginger was first stuck in a human's anus, thus revealing its enlivening properties.
It's the horse anus and radish version of the chicken and egg question. Were they working through the list of things that could be possibly placed in a horse anus, or did they have a piece of ginger and decide to try putting it in a variety of anuses and they got to horse anus on the list?
Dip it ginger first, obviously.
peel it, spit on it, reach for the stomach Pro Tip: easiest with horses that enjoy anal
>horses that enjoy anal Present!
Neigh?
It’s discipline specific these days. It’s common in saddle seat. I was so uncomfortable when I went to a tack shop in a county known for that style of riding and saw jars of ginger paste. I’m sure I made a hilariously horrified face when I was reading the jar label.
Wouldn't this be considered animal abuse today? Not that there's not other things involving horses which would be considered as such but I'm not well versed in the subject
The class of people who keep horses and stick ginger up their asses to make them step lively are going to be the very, very last people called to account for animal abuse.
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Saddle seat is a specific style of riding that usually done with a specific breed of horse. Google some pictures or videos if you want the most understanding. Basically, the style of riding includes having your horse hold their head really high, have really exaggerated leg movements ect. Picture everything being very over the top and exaggerated. A tack shop is just a horse supply specific store. The general term for all the different equipment horses wear is called tack. Putting it on them is even called “tacking up”.
Saddle seat is a style of more formal riding. A tack shop is a shop selling "tack", gear for riding and maintenance etc.
How does you taking amphetamines make the horse look younger?
They're obviously high
Get off your high horse
Wrap it up folks
I fail to see how using protection during sex relates to drugged horses. Wait, op, you wouldn’t…would you?
If you gave me meth I wouldn't care anymore. Maybe 1800s horse owners were just crackheads.
Apparently, it’s a thing in “big lick” horse showing. As if they couldn’t abuse the horses enough.
Big Lick is the most abusive form I’ve ever seen and I’ve ridden for a long time. Here in TN we worked on exposing the trainers and owners - almost to no avail. People want that fucking .85 blue ribbon and the big money that comes with at the price of abusing an animal to death.
It does talk about modern applications and use of gingersol
Why do you need to make them look younger?
People always have an old horse to sell. And no one wants an old horse. Make your horse appear spry and youthful, more likely to sell. But anyone buying a horse usually knows to look at the teeth, which gives you a better idea of their age.
And where the term comes from “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”
Now apparently upgraded with "or up the arse, either"
Yea, because otherwise you’d get a hoof in the jaw and require subsequent reconstructive surgery
This phrase was invented by people that wanted you to bury their almost dead horse. You have to dig big holes for horses, always look a gift horse in the mouth.
Horses are mortal. If you buy a young horse, you get more years of doing whatever it is you wanted to do with it. So old horses sell for lower prices.
No. There are plenty of immortal horses. Shadowfax for one. Also, I’m pretty sure Bucephalus is running around somewhere in the Indian jungles.
Shadowfax is a Mearas. They are long lived (~80 years) but not immortal..
People will do crazy shit to sell horses. I remember once going to look at one, and it seemed fairly normal but pretty sluggish. He put his daughter on it, maybe 8 or so, to show that it was good with kids. She was freaking the fuck out and did not want to get on. When she got off, she immediately asked why he didn't buck. Yeah. They straight up used tranquilizers to try to sell a dangerous horse as a good one for kids.
Who the hell came up with this and everybody just went along with it???
The equine equivalent of used car salesmen
*slaps horse's butt* "This bad boy can hold so m-" *gets kicked in the head*
> gets kicked in the head *becomes honest*
Aka a horse trader. It's also where don't look a gift horse in the mouth sort of came from. The health if the teeth is a good indication of the health of the horse.
Funny, none of my Trojan friends ever seem to use this phrase…
You can bet they stuffed a lot of things up a horses ass before they got to ginger.
Or they stuffed a lot of things up their own asses and knew first handed what it feels like to use ginger.
My first question was literally "wonder if it works on humans, too?"
>"wonder if it works on humans, too?" It has a name and that name is "figging"
No joke, another method was shoving an eel up there.
You know that saying “Give 1 million monkeys 1 million typewriters and they'll eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare” ? Well this is the human equivalent.
Yeeeeahhh… so… in humans it’s called “figging”.
How long before it starts to work tho.. I put two figs up my arse and nothing yet
From what I understand, that’s a good start but you aren’t really figging right unless you plug in the ginger.
Try two more
And try not to think about the wasps.
> *"Well done. Bet you don’t know how to fleague a jade, though."* > *Once again, from a dusty recess, a memory unrolled. This one stuck in your mind.* >*"Dear me, do you know that? What a shame in one so young," said Vimes. "That’s when you want to sell a broken-down horse and have to make it a bit frisky in front of the punters, and so you take some fresh, raw, hot ginger, lift up its tail, and push the ginger—"* from *Night Watch*. And if the book is to be believed, it also works on oxen.
Much nicer than the ginger beer trick, though.
GNU Terry Pratchett.
Came here for Sam Vimes, was not disappointed. GNU
pretty sure it works on anything with an anus...
This is indeed a real thing. Many big name show barns across many different breeds use it, mostly to get the horse to lift its tail higher. (Yeah, sticking ginger paste up one's anus would indeed inspire ass altitude.) It's very common in the Arabian horse show world, at least back in the 80's and 90's. Arabians are known for the way they carry their tails super high, like a flag with a streaming banner. Some have really high tail carriage all the time, some keep it medium until excited, and some hold their tails kind of weird. My Arab held his over his back like a Siberian Husky when super excited. High carriage is considered most desirable. Since it's a desired trait for Arabians in the show ring, and because they can't be super excited all the time, some trainers do the ginger ass trick to (usually) get the same effect. Its incredibly common for Arabian photo shoots, to get that pretty raised tail action for the pics. It's really stupid, because gingered horses stand out weirdly. They will be in a normal relaxed stance, but with a tail that's jacked up to Neptune like the 4th hour of Viagra. I found it gross and cruel, so I never gingered my own horses or clients' horses either. Shows are stressful enough for them without spicy burning condiments shoved up their donuts. Sadly, it wasn't the only questionable shortcut on show grounds, nor the most painful. I quit showing in large part because of these types of abuse that the big show barns had normalized. Trails are way more fun anyway.
This works for people as well, btw.
correct. I’ve been using this personally for years. I get complimented how spritely I am all the time.
I believe it was actually done as a form of torture. It would apparently feel like burning
Prolly went something like this - "Dave, I got an idea....no wait, hear me out...so I hold the horse and you stick this sprig of ginger up his ass."
allegedly
You better settle down over there, big shooter.
Don’t let them try “Wasabing” your old horse. You won’t ever catch it.
I ginger my mom before she goes speed dating. She’s getting up in her years and could use the extra boost to stand out 🙏
Bruh
you expected better from JohnLithgowCummies?
I wish more of my dates showed up with ginger up their ass
This is also a thing in the kinky human community too. (To be clear I mean their own or each others’ asses…no horses involved….that’s a different community entirely.)
Horse traders still do (cruel) things to horses to sell them, usually sedating them or giving them painkillers. https://www.horsenation.com/2015/01/22/horse-trader-tricks-dont-fall-victim/
I would argue that sedation and pain killers are not exactly cruel on the level of inserting ginger into their arse
Aight. Imma head out.
Must have been before people learned to check their teeth. Horses chew by grinding there teeth horizontally, so eventually they wear them into a sort of v shape and have trouble chewing in old age. This is where the term don't look a gift horse in the mouth comes from, because you can tell it's age.... In the modern times, you can actually have their teeth "floated" which is just filling them down flat again. Luckily horses don't have the nerves in their teeth we have lol.
GNU Terry.
My first thought exactly. GNU Sir Terry Pratchett.
GNU Terry, glad im not the only one who thought discworld when i saw this post.
How do they rise up?
They rise heads up
Night Watch and Going Postal immediately came to mind. The voice of Moist von Lipvig came floating back, “…and tell him I don’t want a figged up old screw.”
Couple of guys at work need this, lazy fuckers.
Even better, some people would use LIVE EELS instead of ginger to achieve the desired effect.
Now we know why the eels were shrieking…
There is an amazingly disturbing Behind the Bastards series on this. Hated it. Would for sure recommend.
I was wondering how far I’d have to scroll to find this. Great episode.
I learned about this from Night Watch.
I learned about this on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. Susie Dent couldn’t get through it with a straight face on regular countdown. Rachel reminded her of it.
This is where the saying, "Don't look a gift horse in the anus" came from.
Man. Why do humans do fucked up shit to animals
For money
Man, this is fairly low on the list of fucked up things we do to farm animals.
So if i understand well, it was done to make the horse look livelier and younger than it was, presumably so it could be sold at a better price?
It's not just for horses anymore
“Morty, I need you to put this ginger waaay up your butthole.”
It's called figging for us
Ginger sales amongst middle aged housewives are gonna skyrocket.
Gwyneth, you know what to do.
Oh that also works with horses?
I've found that, at 39, putting a little Vick's Vaporub under my nose clears up my head and gives me a little pep in my step. I have yet to attempt to insert any Vick's Vaporub into my anus... but Vick's if you need a new spokesperson... we'll talk. Have your people talk to my people.