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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

My first rodeo was in Grand lakes Colorado. I had just eaten a pot Brownie. 30-40mins in, at about the same time I was coming to the realization that I was indeed quite high, the rodeo clown appeared and started walking around the stands. I have never avoided eye contact with someone so hard in my life.

But now I can unironically say, "this isn't my first rodeo", and I find that amusing, so that's nice.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Me, at my second rodeo: "Jesus, man it's only my second time and they're all acting like I should be an expert!"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Well, it's bulls and blood

It's dust and mud

It's the roar of a Sunday crowd

It's the white in his knuckles

The gold in the buckle

He'll win the next go 'round

It's boots and chaps

It's cowboy hats

It's spurs and latigo

It's the ropes and the reins

And the joy and the pain

And they call the thing rodeo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for awakening that sudden memory!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Coincidentally I just heard that song again a couple weeks ago for the first time in a decade. It's a great song. I actually like it more now than I did when it came out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ropin' the Wind was a fantastic album as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Is that guy the soy wojak?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A guy and a bull.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

predictably underappreciated by the lemmy crowd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Well I learnt something new today so thank you.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago (1 children)

second rodeo:

"this ain't my first rodeo."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

third rodeo:

"i'm really getting the hang of this now"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (5 children)

What part don't you understand? Riding bulls that don't want you on them? Riding horses that don't want you on them? Clowns everywhere? Racing horses around trash cans? Pulling heavy sleds with prehistoric looking horses? Tying up calves for kidnap? It all seems pretty straightforward to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I've seen horses that were excited to go to work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Prehistoric horses were pretty small. It took a lot of selective breeding to get horses to the size that they are now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Holy crap, they were like dogs. I had no idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Some of the horses want you on them...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

And don’t forget the kid versions of all of those too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not just clowns everywhere.

Clowns actively putting themselves in harms way. Which is probably therapeutic, on a dark level, for a number of people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is true, those fuckers are cray cray.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Toughest dudes in the whole rodeo.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Me at my first rodeo:
Roping cows is OK, but it would be a lot cooler to wrestle them.

The people who brought me to the rodeo:
That's the next event.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“It’d also be pretty great to have some kids get dragged around by a sheep”

“You’re not gonna believe this, but…”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Can you imagine if we really got crazy by having guys try to stay on a bucking bronco with just one hand?"

"Guess what!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

That was wild, but let's see him try that with pissed off, 2500 pound bull.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I just wanted to let you two know that your comments made me laugh, thank you both.