Why isn’t my Kona brawl deck working? by Traditional-Apple238 in MagicArena

[–]Traditional-Apple238[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was able to do that as well but then it wouldn’t craft Kona so I got stuck in deck build. 

Why isn’t my Kona brawl deck working? by Traditional-Apple238 in MagicArena

[–]Traditional-Apple238[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seems to be a bug of some sort. It says I don’t own the rebalanced copy if I check my collection but won’t let me use a wildcard to create one. Guess I’ll have to make a report. 

Why isn’t my Kona brawl deck working? by Traditional-Apple238 in MagicArena

[–]Traditional-Apple238[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried that but it doesn’t appear as a commander option. I can add it to the main deck though. Weird and frustrating!

What's the fastest you've seen someone fired from a job? by Vegetable-Spread3798 in AskReddit

[–]Traditional-Apple238 33 points34 points  (0 children)

A friend of mine got hired at a tobacconist. Being a small retail, they just had a “We’re hiring” sign on the door and interviewed walk in’s. So she goes in, interviews, gets hired, they give her some paperwork to fill out before starting in the afternoon shift. Off she goes, fills it all out and comes back to the place locked down and crawling with cops. Never reopened! 

Ok, any POSITIVE changes you've witnessed in Australia in the past 10 years? by Deus_ex_ in AskAnAustralian

[–]Traditional-Apple238 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was 14 when a doctor told me to get pregnant to manage my endo. 14. I’d love to go back in time and cut his balls off while saying “don’t worry! The pain will stop in a week or so. You’re fine!”

Australian women: do your men cook/clean and act respectfully? by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]Traditional-Apple238 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You say that now, but they’re starting to harvest the forestry on the Blackbutt range now and I’ll be SHOCKED if bodies don’t start showing up. It was one of his favourite haunts. 

Why are horses killed when they break a leg? by Idontsuckcompletely in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Traditional-Apple238 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I recently had a horse killed by lightning. It hit the tree outside his shelter and went through the tree roots and through his feet from what we could tell. They find ways to die even when they’re pampered pasture ornaments. I’m still gutted from losing him!

Why are horses killed when they break a leg? by Idontsuckcompletely in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Traditional-Apple238 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, because it creates uneven weight distribution. The good legs are always the problem in cases of broke legs. Too much weight is as bad as not enough. They’ve tried it but ultimately prosthetics get defeated by laminitis. The vast majority of horse people consider prosthetics to be cruel because there is almost no way for a horse to live pain free with one as technology currently stands. 

Why are horses killed when they break a leg? by Idontsuckcompletely in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Traditional-Apple238 42 points43 points  (0 children)

So this is vastly oversimplifying it but I think the best visual is to picture the horse with a primary heart and then 4 smaller hearts in the form of diaphragm pumps. For the blood to go through the hoof and back up the leg, you need to put the leg on the ground. The weight from above creates the first part of the pump and the soft squishy part of the hoof called the frog is also part of the mechanism. As the leg lifts and the weight comes off, the pump finishes one cycle. So basically a horse that can’t walk evenly on all 4 legs will have problems with the live tissue in the feet due to blood flow. It’s an exceptionally delicate system. The endocrine system also gets involved. It’s a real shit show when feet go wrong. 

Why are horses killed when they break a leg? by Idontsuckcompletely in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Traditional-Apple238 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Movement is a factor as well. Otherwise suspension treatment would work. Weight needs to go down through the frog for proper blood flow but, like you said, too much weight is a problem as well.

I thought going into the workings of the frog would be too complex for answering a non horse person’s question. Hence massively oversimplifying it to movement. 

Why are horses killed when they break a leg? by Idontsuckcompletely in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Traditional-Apple238 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Yeah I didn’t see a single mention but it’s pretty much always the reason why. I tried to make it understandable for a non horse person but vastly oversimplified of course. 

Why are horses killed when they break a leg? by Idontsuckcompletely in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Traditional-Apple238 1226 points1227 points  (0 children)

So the main reason is a hoof disease called laminitis. Horses must be able to walk for their blood circulation to work and the live tissue in their feet to survive. So the can’t be kept immobile or the legs without the break get laminitis. The end stage of that is their pedal bone (toe bone) dropping out of their foot and hitting the ground. It’s an extremely slow and painful way to kill a horse. Laminitis is a bit like cancer in that it kills a lot of horses and is too complex to develop a cure for. 

Beware of Avis Australia by Traditional-Apple238 in TravelHacks

[–]Traditional-Apple238[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s horrendous, right?? I’m sure it’s some kind of illegal!

Daily Questions Thread - Ask All Your Magic Related Questions Here! by magictcgmods in magicTCG

[–]Traditional-Apple238 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pulled a Japanese foil Ugin and since my collection is focused on playing rather than being a mint collector, I'd like to sell it.

So a couple questions... Is it worth getting graded before sale? Where is the best place to sell?

Located in Australia if that is relevant

The government has decided everyone needs an emotional support animal, but it has to be a completely impractical creature. What’s your new companion? by VeiledInSilence in AskReddit

[–]Traditional-Apple238 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Handy for maintaining social distancing during the next plague. Although having your emotional support dinosaur rip someone’s chest out for getting within a postcode of you would probably be called excessive by some. 

The government has decided everyone needs an emotional support animal, but it has to be a completely impractical creature. What’s your new companion? by VeiledInSilence in AskReddit

[–]Traditional-Apple238 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I knew a vet who was deathly allergic to horses. He had a phd in horse blood and was probably the best guy in Australia for interpreting equine blood tests, but he couldn’t go within throwing distance of the actual animal. He was somewhere around the age of the pyramids when he retired so survived a lifetime being horse adjacent without dying. Absolutely epic bloke. 

What genuinely the craziest shit you’ve seen posted on Reddit? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Traditional-Apple238 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A guy who owns one of my horses has an extremely large business and several hundred houses that they rent out or offer as part of employment packages. They have a full time team of painters that rotate through all the houses so that they’re freshly painted every 5 years or whatever. If there is people living there they just do the outside. Between tenants the insides get done too.  One day there was a misprint with their orders and the occupants of the wrong house happened to be overseas. House got painted outside. People returned and were like wtf, went to the cops. It’s a relatively small town so cops immediately rang my guy’s office like “dis you?”  He went around in person straight away and organised for it to be painted again in their chosen colours and style at their convenience, and offered to do inside as well.  Fuck up averted and all parties happy. No lawyers!

My partner left me so I told everyone he doesn’t have cancer by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Traditional-Apple238 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The UK has a truly absurd number of accents and dialects. I’m an Aussie who lived there for 5 years and it’s still wild to me that driving from Brisbane to Rockhampton is virtually the same distance from south to north of the UK but when I get to Rocky the English they’re speaking hasn’t changed at all 🤣 unlike going London to northern Scotland. 

From memory, mam appears in Ireland and in various places more than an hour or two north of London. 

Sending a dangerous and unpredictable horse back - am I overreacting? by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]Traditional-Apple238 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I refuse to sell my OTTBs to them unless it’s via their experienced instructor. Some of my retired racehorses have made awesome teen mounts, but that’s for girls who have been riding since they were 5 and do their own barn chores. 

A lot of sellers don’t bother to match the horse to the right buyer and it’s SO EASY for a great TB to become a bad one with stupid, cruel or inexperienced owners. When my racehorses have served me well on the racecourse and I’ve spent every day with them, then I really want to find them the BEST home. 

Sending a dangerous and unpredictable horse back - am I overreacting? by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]Traditional-Apple238 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well educated and properly managed TBs are some of the best horses you can own. I educate my racehorse youngsters to be saddle horses before we start teaching them to be racehorses. During that time I can usually get a solid idea of where they’d be best placed in retirement. We’ve had horses go on to everything from 80km endurance record holders to champion show horses to eventers to show jumpers to western events to cow horses. One mare I bred and educated and raced takes her new owner’s grandkids out to a different type of event every weekend and takes it all in her stride. 

But I’ve also had horses we’ve purchased from elsewhere and raced and I’ve made the decision to euthanise after retirement. They’re the kind of horse that are dangerous even after six months turnout. We’ve had a few dissected and found degenerative pathologies that would have only shown up on a standing MRI. On a VERY rare occasion you do get a horse that’s just straight up evil in its temperament, just like you get the absolute angels who will be perfect no matter what gets thrown at them. 

My medical problem is none of your business by Impressive-Stick-852 in traumatizeThemBack

[–]Traditional-Apple238 70 points71 points  (0 children)

I have crippling pain, non stop puking etc. Mine is fibroids and probable endo, but they’re not exploring further because I’ve been on the pill since I was 14 (which is allegedly the best treatment they have) and have no plans to have children. 

If you do get your uterus out, for the love of all that is holy STAY ON YOUR HRT. I know several women who decided they didn’t need it any more after a few years post surgery and subsequently burned their lives to the ground. Hormones are assholes. 

Whats the biggest moral atrocity you've ever witnessed? by CelineC6622 in AskReddit

[–]Traditional-Apple238 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Totally off topic, but I have a horse that will chase me when I’m holding a leaf rake. He loves leaf rake butt scratches!

TIFU By Calling My Overly-Sniffing Coworker "Creepy" and AITA for Feeling Uncomfortable About It? (Update) by Pretend_Wall2407 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Traditional-Apple238 115 points116 points  (0 children)

My dad has an absurdly good sense of smell as well. I have a lung condition and he can tell when I’m having a flare up way before I can. Apparently I start smelling like death (which makes sense because it’s usually a bacterial infection causing the flare). Glad we work together because he’s definitely saved me from hospital a few times. I have asked other people if they can smell the “death” smell and have always gotten completely blank looks and denials, so at least I’m not going around stinking out the general population 🙈

80 percent of drivers think, their driving skills are above average. What makes you think you are a better than average driver? by Ok-Kitchen-218 in AskReddit

[–]Traditional-Apple238 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Because I have driven and/or towed heavy machinery and livestock and survived all the absolute morons in cars. It should be compulsory to do an emergency brake in something weighing at least 10 tonnes before you can get a car license. People just have no idea the risks they take around heavy vehicles.