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Pineta


Particle Physics and Pony Fiction Experimentalist

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    Imponable Update

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    Imponable Interlude

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    Quantum Decoherence

    Happy end-of-2023 everyone.

    I just posted a new story.

    EInfinite Imponability Drive
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    This is one of the craziest things that I have ever tried to write and is a consequence of me having rather more unstructured free time than usual for the last week.

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Oct
15th
2017

Breeding Cartoon Horses · 10:48am Oct 15th, 2017

The Telegraph: Extreme horse breeding leaves animals looking like cartoons, warn vets

“Where will it end? Is it really so bad for a horse to look like a horse and not a cartoon character?"

Comments ( 11 )

Im not even looking at the article, as I saw a photo of the horse in question a couple days ago.

Its people like this that make me honestly think of punishment along the lines of A Chocolate Orange. :pinkiesick:

That's... disturbing. More so because at this rate, we might actually get real-life G3 ponies. Ugh.

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I think you mean A Clockwork Orange. Unless you want to bash the perpetrators against a wall to break them into segments. :raritywink:

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I was about to make a joke about G1 being ok but G2 or G3 no-no.

Then I read your comment about a relevant photo.
Now I'm hesitant to read the article, and considering poor taste in any joke made.

Yeah, that horse does not look like a horse any more. :fluttershysad:

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A Chocolate Orange, is Pinkamenas version. :pinkiecrazy:

They wanted to make it more attractive, but it still looks ugly. Evolution still has ways to go until we have this kind of horse here on Earth:

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Hurry up, evolution!

This sort of breeding is cruel. I have a personal anecdote:

A few years ago, we passed a bill preventing breeders from just killing their rejects. The local animal-control received a litter of puppies who did not pass quality-control because their ears were not perfect. The breeder muttered about how they should all be drowned. I adopted 1 of them:

He developed a regressive degenerative disease, probably from consanguineous breeding which caused him to suffer and have a premature death.

I think the new designer horse looks terrible. Just like most of the designer stuff.

"Horse's can only breath through their noses..."

I'm not the only one questioning this, right?

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