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'll be along later to collect it for the veggie patch.

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.

NRC wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:16 pm

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.

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.

It would have been different if it had been dog ****. Nowt worse that standing in dogger.

No Ney Never wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:02 pm

how British! Couldn't see the Italians continuing with such a stiff upper lip.

It's a pity that the horses didn't have stiffer rear lips.

No manners, but what a critic.

NRC wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:16 pm

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.

Loved that last line! Brilliant

Brilliant How to make walking through horse muck heroic

Pomp and Pageantry. Nobody does it better! Well done to all our Military Personnel for making the day Special.

Healeywoodclaret wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:08 am

Pomp and Pageantry. Nobody does it better! Well done to all our Military Personnel for making the day Special.

Exactly.

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.

The Queen would have loved it.

We do need to lighten up now.

claret wizard wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:38 pm

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.

Must have been a heavy camera

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.

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?

Foulthrow wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 21, 2022 5:50 pm

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?

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

NRC wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 21, 2022 6:07 pm

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

I think you’ll find that she’s a good girl.