Few times a week.

Holy shit I know the ethical problems that would come with this but I would pay a lot of money to watch horse kickboxing

Literally?

It’s not a strawman when it’s literally what you just said

I love watching grasshoppers jump. It’s so weird to me that they have no landing cares. Like imagine jumping like 100 times your height and when asked what your plan to land is:

“hit the ground, wtf kind of stupid question is that!?” -- leap --

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I’d kick the shit out of him if he did

Straw man much?

First I recalled a horse kicking a human, but I just got what does "pound to pound" mean. Indeed, I can't think of an animal specie weighing 75 kgs and having powerful kicks. Someone should tell us about seeing a gorilla or some other big monkey fighting. Maybe they are stronger than us, but I don't know.

I don't think so. I think that relative to the rest of living things, we're pretty much walking water balloons.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip. Brings me back about 20 years.

Probably owing to the fact that we as humans have a tendency to over train a specific skill or strength whereas an animal has only a couple basic instincts one being "don't die" and the other one being "procreate".

If a horse trained like a kickboxer, it would be a totally different story.

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Fun party guy over here.

It's fair within a range. Like comparing a horse to a dog. But not when it's a dog vs an ant.

• By my standards I’m stronger than an elephant!

By the same standards a grasshopper is stronger than you.

• That doesn’t count.

Great argument.

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How is that not fair? It is literally a pound for pound comparison.

Unfair comparison when we go to the extremes. Tiny animals are strong simply due to how area scales with respect to volume.

For the same reason elephants need sturdy legs, but not mice.

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