Horse s**t
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Horse s**t
inevitable that with a bunch of horses in a cortege that some of them would....... poop.
I watched with trepidation, and in the situation, not a little fascination that lightened the solemnity for me, wondering what those that would come across it would do!
Did they issue a training manual? Was it an innate instinct of pomp and circumstance? To a person, nobody walked around it, broke step, faltered, look confounded, or brought attention to it. They just walked through it and in it, with scant regard for their footwear, the potential to slip, slide, or the spread of the offending clumps.
It was magnificent and as worthy an act as anything on view in the last 10 days.
I watched with trepidation, and in the situation, not a little fascination that lightened the solemnity for me, wondering what those that would come across it would do!
Did they issue a training manual? Was it an innate instinct of pomp and circumstance? To a person, nobody walked around it, broke step, faltered, look confounded, or brought attention to it. They just walked through it and in it, with scant regard for their footwear, the potential to slip, slide, or the spread of the offending clumps.
It was magnificent and as worthy an act as anything on view in the last 10 days.
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I'll be along later to collect it for the veggie patch.
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In my Army days I remember that you’d get a right bollocking for missing step to avoid the horse poo. Ruined the bull on your boots. Not as much as dropping a SLR on a toe cap though.
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Pleased I'm not the only one to notice that, absolute discipline in the highest regard....how British! Couldn't see the Italians continuing with such a stiff upper lip.NRC wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:16 pminevitable that with a bunch of horses in a cortege that some of them would....... poop.
I watched with trepidation, and in the situation, not a little fascination that lightened the solemnity for me, wondering what those that would come across it would do!
Did they issue a training manual? Was it an innate instinct of pomp and circumstance? To a person, nobody walked around it, broke step, faltered, look confounded, or brought attention to it. They just walked through it and in it, with scant regard for their footwear, the potential to slip, slide, or the spread of the offending clumps.
It was magnificent and as worthy an act as anything on view in the last 10 days.
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It would have been different if it had been dog ****. Nowt worse that standing in dogger.
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It's a pity that the horses didn't have stiffer rear lips.No Ney Never wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:02 pmhow British! Couldn't see the Italians continuing with such a stiff upper lip.
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No manners, but what a critic.
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Loved that last line! BrilliantNRC wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:16 pminevitable that with a bunch of horses in a cortege that some of them would....... poop.
I watched with trepidation, and in the situation, not a little fascination that lightened the solemnity for me, wondering what those that would come across it would do!
Did they issue a training manual? Was it an innate instinct of pomp and circumstance? To a person, nobody walked around it, broke step, faltered, look confounded, or brought attention to it. They just walked through it and in it, with scant regard for their footwear, the potential to slip, slide, or the spread of the offending clumps.
It was magnificent and as worthy an act as anything on view in the last 10 days.
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Brilliant How to make walking through horse muck heroic
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Pomp and Pageantry. Nobody does it better! Well done to all our Military Personnel for making the day Special.
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Exactly.Healeywoodclaret wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:08 amPomp and Pageantry. Nobody does it better! Well done to all our Military Personnel for making the day Special.
However, it also appears we are very good at marching straight through great dollops of steaming horse s**t without even flinching.
From comments on here, possibly the world's best.
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The Queen would have loved it.
We do need to lighten up now.
We do need to lighten up now.
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Must have been a heavy cameraclaret wizard wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:38 pmIn my Army days I remember that you’d get a right bollocking for missing step to avoid the horse poo. Ruined the bull on your boots. Not as much as dropping a SLR on a toe cap though.
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I wouldn't have swapped jobs with the coffin bearers, even if they did get to ride between assignments and didn't have to walk through the horse muck.
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How come I have to pick up my dog’s turds but if you have a horse you can let it crap wherever you like?
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Because horses belong to the realm of the wealthy, Foulthrow, and dogs to minions, like you. That's one explanation, but a more realistic one is that horses are vegetarian and dogs are not. Horse poop is relatively "clean," with very little bacteria, parasites or viruses that humans can get sick from. it's rare to do so. On the other hand, your dog is horrible, and its poop is very toxic because of what you feed it. It is full of all the bad stuff.
If that was not enough, horse poop breaks down quickly, dog poop does not (especially if white... how many UTCers will remember that reference??) It gets into ground water, spreading fecal coliform bacteria into our drinking water and beyond...
Horse good, Foulthrow's dog bad
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I think you’ll find that she’s a good girl.NRC wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 6:07 pmBecause horses belong to the realm of the wealthy, Foulthrow, and dogs to minions, like you. That's one explanation, but a more realistic one is that horses are vegetarian and dogs are not. Horse poop is relatively "clean," with very little bacteria, parasites or viruses that humans can get sick from. it's rare to do so. On the other hand, your dog is horrible, and its poop is very toxic because of what you feed it. It is full of all the bad stuff.
If that was not enough, horse poop breaks down quickly, dog poop does not (especially if white... how many UTCers will remember that reference??) It gets into ground water, spreading fecal coliform bacteria into our drinking water and beyond...
Horse good, Foulthrow's dog bad