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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    I'm holding out hope that is is a joke. #melbournecup
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    Holy Shirt!
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    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    Attention Lindsay Lohan: Marketing opportunity RIGHT NOW. #melbournecup
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    I fully support their pantsless agenda. Down with our two legged oppressors! Up with skivvies! #melbournecup
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    Image of DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    Donald Duck & Winnie the Pooh would be proud. #melbournecup
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    Image of Highsmith Highsmith
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On

    It's noyce. It's different. It's unewesual. #melbournecup
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    Image of pantsless economist...access RESTORED pantsless economist...access RESTORED
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    Walking around with no pants on could get them arrested. That's some risky business right there.
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    11/03/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: Hey, the horses are doing it. #melbournecup
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    11/03/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: I think they check your family name/value/inheritance before anything like that. #melbournecup
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    Image of UrbanAchiever UrbanAchiever
    11/03/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: Now you're just cruising for compliments. #melbournecup
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    Image of pantsless economist...access RESTORED pantsless economist...access RESTORED
    11/03/09

    @UrbanAchiever: what can I say? compliments just soothe my soul. #melbournecup
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    11/03/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: You're in for a tropic thunder of puns. #melbournecup
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    Image of UrbanAchiever UrbanAchiever
    11/03/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: As long as you don't mind the collateral comments, I guess that's okay. #melbournecup
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    [www.hulu.com] #melbournecup
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    "Losing their shirts" gambling now threatens steeper consequences... #melbournecup
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    Image of nyc-caribbean-ragazza nyc-caribbean-ragazza
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    It's a without pantsdemic. #melbournecup
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    Image of jemandtheholograms jemandtheholograms
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    If Professor Higgins had seen this, he wouldn't have worried about Eliza at all. #melbournecup
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    Image of sybann sybann
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Leave Your Hat On
    Dude in the suit with side vents (far left) has two women sans pants behind him and yet he's still checking the booty of the woman in front of him. #melbournecup
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    Image of DigitalDuck DigitalDuck
    11/04/09

    @sybann: It's nice! #melbournecup
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    Image of sybann sybann
    11/04/09

    @DigitalDuck: Sure makes ME happy! #melbournecup
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    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    11/02/09

    In reply to A Horse Is A Horse
    I wonder if those sweet, innocent children know what happens to the pretty horsies who fall down in a race?

    (Yeah, I know, I'm no fun. But I hate horse racing.)
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    Image of zoethebitch zoethebitch
    11/02/09


    @Kivrin: #melbournecup
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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    11/02/09

    @Kivrin: The same thing that happens to any horse which breaks a leg, whether it's an unridden pasture ornament or a three-day eventer. You can't tell a horse to just take the weight off its feet and not panic until the bone sets.

    Better question to ask: what about those racehorses who retire sound and are trucked straight off to a slaughter house because their owners are no longer interested? #melbournecup
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    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    11/02/09

    @bowleserised: "You can't tell a horse to just take the weight off its feet…" I realize that; I still have a problem with the industry that exists around humans forcing horses to race (and thereby injure themselves).
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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    11/02/09

    @Kivrin: Horses... will injure themselves in a field. In retirement. My mum worked for one of the biggest racing vets in Newmarket, and she remembered one stallion that just galloped into a tree and was killed.
    They do love to run, and they love running with other horses even more.
    And horses, like people, need to have jobs to earn their keep. It's up to the trainers and owners to look after them responsibly, and most do.
    Crazy whip use (it's considerably more restricted in the UK than the US), breeding from unsound horses and producing more unsound horses, and the use of drugs = major problems.

    I dunno, like any other aspect of horses, there are good people who love their horses, and there are bad people. But I've also seen a horse downright refuse to race (just the one), and you cannot shift a half tonne horse that really really doesn't want to go anywhere.
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    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    11/02/09

    @bowleserised: "Crazy whip use (it's considerably more restricted in the UK than the US), breeding from unsound horses and producing more unsound horses, and the use of drugs = major problems." Those are the major problems I have with the horseracing, too; the fact that horses are routinely killed when they get hurt is just the icing on the shitty cake, in my mind. (And producing more unsound horses leads to more injuries, which leads to more horses getting shot…you see where I'm going.)

    Basically, I have a problem with people maximizing profits at animals' expense. Not just horseracing—factory farming, too. If people could be counted on to "do the right thing" by the animals in their care…but, unfortunately, they can't. And that's what upsets me. #melbournecup
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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    11/02/09

    @Kivrin: More regulation is definitely needed, although from what I can see of US rescue and welfare blogs, there's not much protecting horses and other animals.
    I'm researching some history of horse welfare in the UK, and there's loadsa legislation there. Doesn't stop all the cruelty, but it's getting easier for the authorities to take away abuse cases, and to prosecute. Also, huge restrictions on which horses can be slaughtered for meat, which will save a lot of them.
    But there are some US tracks who are taking action against trainers who sell horses to slaughter, and there are rescues that do an amazing job of saving what horses they can and rehabbing them. #melbournecup
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    Image of 100flowers 100flowers
    11/02/09

    @bowleserised: It doesn't happen to all racehorses, by any means, but pretty much any Melbourne Cup winner is going to be looked after and cared for for the rest of its life.

    Unless it goes to America, and is poisoned there. (Phar Lap reference). But even then, Phar Lap was stuffed, mounted, and brought back to Australia. His heart is in Canberra, and his body is in the Melbourne Museum.

    For some reason, Australian culture just seems to venerate our Cup winners. #melbournecup
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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    11/03/09

    @100flowers: Yes, the winners are fine (though one Kentucky Derby winner ended up in a slaughterhouse in Japan and a Grand National winner was found starving in a field), and I think most horses are wonderfully cared for, but there's a tremendous wastage of horses that didn't win on the race course but could have had great careers as riding horses in retirement. If you read Fugly Horse of the Day, there are rescuers fishing thoroughbreds out of the kill pen every day.
    I love racing, but it really needs to get its house in order. #melbournecup
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    Image of 100flowers 100flowers
    11/03/09

    @bowleserised: Oh, I wouldn't argue that - racing DOES need to sort its shit out. #melbournecup
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    11/02/09

    In reply to A Horse Is A Horse
    These centaurs are much better than A Rod's. #melbournecup
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    11/02/09

    In reply to A Horse Is A Horse
    The mob really is upping their game during this recession. #melbournecup
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