Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls
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Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls
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Re: Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls
#2How did this page ended up on HN? It seems quite irrelevant.
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#3Well, it's kids playing make-believe, and in a physically active way, I'm all for it.
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#4Sometimes I wonder if I'm just getting old and no longer get things, or if the world is just getting crazier.
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#5My kids have these stick horses, a relative got them for a Christmas gift some years ago. They never play with them. The stick is long and counter balances the head so you have to sort of squeeze your legs together to actually ride the thing. Looks like these horses have shorter sticks, and are balanced so they're rideable in a much more natural way.
It certainly never occurred to me this simple refinement could make an annoying experience into something a kid could actually enjoy.
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#6Sometimes I wonder if I'm just getting old and no longer get things, or if the world is just getting crazier.
Computer games. Pew pew.
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#7Then there is also this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_horse_polo
Re: Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls
#8How did this page ended up on HN? It seems quite irrelevant.
HN is not topical.
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#9Sometimes I wonder if I'm just getting old and no longer get things, or if the world is just getting crazier.
It's OK, not everything has to be compliant with our sensibilities. It's just a thing that people in another culture do with a long history.
I'm glad for surprises like this even though I don't quite (or at all) understand them!
Re: Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls
#10Well, it's kids playing make-believe, and in a physically active way, I'm all for it.
“If someone says we are playing, it strips away everything we made, it strips away the reality,” said Ms. Aarniomaki.
it looks like playing to me as well, and not sure why the community would see that as a problem. even professional sports players know they are playing a game. an interesting and unusual perspective for sure.