Horses can swim

**OneRedArmy** · 09/05/2007, 12:23 PM

In fairness, horses are like big dogs and dogs can swim, so it logically follows that horses should also be able to swim*.

*Obviously I'm not a vet or otherwise qualified in equine mechanics, but it makes sense in my head

**Wolfie** · 09/05/2007, 12:30 PM

So to coin a phrase "You can lead a horse to water, but Danger here!! - he might swim away on you".

Can the *******s Jet Ski? - now that I'd like to see!!

**Risteard** · 09/05/2007, 12:41 PM

Good man Dmyth.
Did you know this Wolfie?

Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

In fairness, horses are like big dogs

Come on now.

**Wolfie** · 09/05/2007, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Risteard

Good man Dmyth.
Did you know this Wolfie?

Come on now.

I'd never delved into the whole swimming horses issue too deeply upto now.

So, as its election time, I'll couch my answer in a TD's style:

"I'm glad you asked me that Risteard. The swimming horses issue is complex. It's true I was not consciously aware that they could swim - without arm bands. However, I had never actually doubted that, hypothetically - they could swim, if they wanted to.

So yes, to clear this up, I didn't know they could swim and Yes - I did know."

I trust this answers the question.

**BohsPartisan** · 09/05/2007, 1:03 PM

Originally Posted by noby

Actually, bees are becoming scarce. It seems WiFi might be disorientating them.

It was only a matter of time before insects started getting caught in the World Wide Web!

**OneRedArmy** · 09/05/2007, 1:07 PM

Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

It was only a matter of time before insects started getting caught in the World Wide Web!

Another PoTM

**Risteard** · 09/05/2007, 1:17 PM

100% reliable wikipedia is emphatic.
Horses are very powerful swimmers.

Also, I'd another argument about what the plural is of horse.
It was started by someone telling me that horse was the plural of horse.
While two bored and frustrated onlooking girlfriends groaned 'its horses', I decided to take up the case of 'Its obviously cavalry'.

**paul_oshea** · 09/05/2007, 1:22 PM

Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

Another PoTM

Not really, WiFi has "nothing" to do with the world wide web.

**BohsPartisan** · 09/05/2007, 1:42 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Not really, WiFi has "nothing" to do with the world wide web.

Not if you're pedantic.

**OneRedArmy** · 09/05/2007, 1:43 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Not really, WiFi has "nothing" to do with the world wide web.

Spoil the buzz.....

**paul_oshea** · 09/05/2007, 1:46 PM

hehe, it was just crap ;P

only messin!

**Lim till i die** · 09/05/2007, 5:14 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

Jesus, I'm the perennial city boy and even I knew that one

Ya but Limerick city is full of horses

In fairness, horses are like big dogs and dogs can swim, so it logically follows that horses should also be able to swim*.

Reminds me of (Not sure why) the film set in the Simpsons:

"Cows don't look like cows on screen, you gotta use horses"

"And what if you want a horse?"

"Ah, we usually tape a bunch of cats together"

**Erstwhile B�z** · 09/05/2007, 7:25 PM

Don't mind them, Risteard. I didn't think it was common knowledge at all (though obviously I've known for ages).

**tricky_colour** · 10/05/2007, 4:29 PM

They are terrible at the backstroke though.

**John83** · 10/05/2007, 4:45 PM

Originally Posted by noby

Actually, bees are becoming scarce. It seems WiFi might be disorientating them. A lot of the hives are empty, and plants aren't being pollinated.

*cough* Bull**** *cough*

**onenilgameover** · 10/05/2007, 11:11 PM

I remember watching a crazy clip show of a horse race...the horse in the race lost its rider and went berserk...it lashed through the barriers of the course and just kept veering right. up ahead a big pond comes into view...The horse has lost it now and really has no idea whats going on. He's firing up to the pond and plonk he's gone! disappeared! obliterated! He barely made the pond ripple. It was one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen. That horse was not a powerful swimmer.

**noby** · 11/05/2007, 7:51 AM

Originally Posted by John83

*cough* Bull**** *cough*

Ok, perhaps I should have said 'Someone's theory is that...'

Although in hindsight, the lack of wildflowers and hedgerows, intensive farming, and a mite might be the better 'theory'.

*note to self: don't take the word of a 'scientist's' soundbite as fact*

**John83** · 11/05/2007, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by noby

Ok, perhaps I should have said 'Someone's theory is that...'

Although in hindsight, the lack of wildflowers and hedgerows, intensive farming, and a mite might be the better 'theory'.

*note to self: don't take the word of a 'scientist's' soundbite as fact*

The article that came from quoted thoroughly discredited theories of the effects of cell phones on humans. The Colony Collapse Disorders which prompted the speculation in the first place are commonplace - there are many, many recorded instances in the last century. There is no correlation between mobile phone usage and die-offs - areas of denser phone usage than the US like Britain and Ireland haven't experienced these recently. There are many other potential causes like stress from moving hives, black queen cell virus, habitat disruption, pesticides, (ironically) pests, bee paralysis virus, transposons and the current favourite, a parasitic fungus called Nosema ceranae.