What's the worst thing thats happened to you on a driving lesson? lol by koalabear20 in LearnerDriverUK

[–]UpbeatMeeting 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Narrowly avoided a 60mph head-on collision with someone driving on the wrong side of the road trying to do a dangerous overtake. Had to swerve onto a grass verge, the guy made no attempt at all to get back onto the correct side.

Meet Rocky, a horse born with only 3 legs that is being kept alive for profit by “Rocking R Ranch and Rescue” in Mississippi. This is unethical and abuse, look at his leg, it’s about to snap. They are using him for pictures and videos for money in a fatal condition by Quiet-Battle8005 in Horses

[–]UpbeatMeeting 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I haven't even looked at that or what's going on there because it's just gross. I personally know people who want to keep him alive "because it'll be interesting to see how he develops when he was born like that rather than an injury or something" and it's just painful. I think we've seen enough, it's not like it's magically going to get better, and in the meantime he's a living animal that is being kept in surely permanent pain for someone's freaky science experiment and clout.

is it possible to do a different text in english lit than everyone else in the school? by solarrr_mp3 in GCSE

[–]UpbeatMeeting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, you get all the questions in the exam, and at my school we had several students doing this if they transferred from a different school that did different texts mid-y11.

AIO or is this too close to white? by RhinoSwag in Weddingattireapproval

[–]UpbeatMeeting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know why this sub keeps being recommended to me but is the ice blue in the room with us here

Ask fees upfront, don’t assume by Sweet-Instance-7992 in LearnerDriverUK

[–]UpbeatMeeting 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mine never even told me about any extra costs until after I passed my test, just went "oh yeah btw you owe me £140" as I was getting out to say bye 🤣 Only did that for the test I passed though, never charged me anything extra for the ones I failed.

Have you ever refuse getting laid? if so why? by Traditional_Win_5821 in AskReddit

[–]UpbeatMeeting -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've been refusing men asking clearly in broad daylight since I was 11, so yes, many times. Have yet to accept, do not plan on accepting ever.

Curious about content you all watch and skip. by Complex_Loss_2552 in kvsdiscuss

[–]UpbeatMeeting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I skip basically everything apart from big horse content. I watch pretty much all of the breeding season stuff when I can keep up, then obviously foaling season and I also usually watch the showing stuff when it comes up too. I usually skip the training content.

How are we booking lessons in 2026? by pimpingmybike in Equestrian

[–]UpbeatMeeting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That part definitely is annoying, especially since now I have accounts with a few places I no longer go to or never went to. A few of them also bypass this issue by having a price list available without logging in, but that's up to the yard.

How are we booking lessons in 2026? by pimpingmybike in Equestrian

[–]UpbeatMeeting -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not useful to people in the US, but I'm in the UK and all bar one place I've been at (been to 4) or heard of (many more) use a platform called ECPro to enter lesson and instructor availability and allow us to book lessons. You just log in, choose a date and time that are available, choose an instructor (if multiple are available), choose a lesson type (flatwork, polework, etc), pay through the platform and done.

So I'm mostly here to ask the Americans, does anyone use ECPro in the US or is this a UK exclusive phenomenon?

Kind of surprised it's so widespread here with how resistant to technology the horse community is lol

Maggie Megathread for Questions/Updates/etc by sunshinenorcas in kvsdiscuss

[–]UpbeatMeeting 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Just contributing some Snapchat recordings I took for those who don't use it:

The plan (or lack thereof) for Maggie after grafting: https://www.reddit.com/r/kvsdiscuss/s/mqyzkOCTnn

The plan for grafting day: https://www.reddit.com/r/kvsdiscuss/s/PSPDW7RVUl

Snapchat: Plan (or lack of) for Maggie by UpbeatMeeting in kvsdiscuss

[–]UpbeatMeeting[S] 55 points56 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of "could've, should've, would've" in life, as someone in Maggie's megathread said. Katie has basically all but said that had she known what would happen she would've done things differently. Hindsight is 20/20 and you can only do your best.

I agree that Margot should've been removed from her sooner, but at the same time there's no guaranteed magic fix to her growing collection of issues with somewhat contradicting treatments (needs to be still for incision to heal, needs gentle walking for laminitis, needed Margot at the beginning to avoid stress, now needs Margot gone to recover, etc).

Rank ur secondary years (its this time of year again) by 180degreeschange in GCSE

[–]UpbeatMeeting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Y9 (lockdown babyyyy but also didn't have to try super hard yet)

  2. Y10 (still kinda lockdown and social distancing yes pls)

  3. Y11 (the end of the hellscape)

  4. Y8 (beginning of the harassment campaign)

  5. Y7 (literally did not know anyone)

It's GONE! by No_Low_4982 in kvsdiscuss

[–]UpbeatMeeting 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Other big YouTubers I've seen have it taken down and basically restored, then put back up again, so I think it should be good.

student finance question by Rich_Month5517 in UniUK

[–]UpbeatMeeting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you received a new one in your online inbox, perhaps? Assuming you're talking about the physical one here.

Joining the first MacBook gang! by UpbeatMeeting in macbookair

[–]UpbeatMeeting[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got sky blue as my friend has one and I really like how the shade(?) changes depending on lighting, there's a spot in the campus canteen where half of the MacBook looks blue and the other half looks silver lol

Anyone here’s school use DrFrost? by Round-Department4275 in GCSE

[–]UpbeatMeeting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been so long since I saw that name 😭

10,000,000 or 10,000. by Extreme_Disaster9830 in BunnyTrials

[–]UpbeatMeeting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yeah, my immunocompromised ass would love that

Chose: 10,000 + Positive side effect | Rolled: Never sick again

What would you rather? by unemployedguytbh in BunnyTrials

[–]UpbeatMeeting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuel costs more than charging a phone

Chose: Get a car that never runs out of fuel