Giant Horse

[Mark]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45437000/jpg/_45437100_49a99e7f-5e0e-4f80-809a-e3e9f8309256.jpg

[Brown, Jon Brow]

what is that? 80ft high? :eek:

[Ranger]

We have a lot of big objects here in Oz, nothing that big!

[Brown, Jon Brow]

What does it eat?

Now I know why farmers have such big sheds but don't let anyone in them!

[Hazell B]

What does it eat?

Whatever it damned well likes :p :


Now I know why farmers have such big sheds but don't let anyone in them!

Another mystery solved :up:

Is that what they've gone for then, as the southern version of The Angel of the North? At least it wasn't a fairy :)

[Sonic]

and I'm gonna get to drive past it EVERY day! Shheeeech

Anyone know where I can get a 5 foot tall sugar lump?

Sonic :)

ps hello to all btw

[Rollo]

Now I know why farmers have such big sheds but don't let anyone in them!

Farmers obviously don't want hordes of Greeks jumping out and leveling everything. History tells us that that you shouldn't let very big horses in anywhere for fear of Greeks.


and I'm gonna get to drive past it EVERY day!

That'll be in your Williams FW15C I assume? Wouldn't it just be easier to get Tails to fly his plane?

[GridGirl]

I really like the Angel of the North but I really don't think there is any need to do a mock imitation of some large object in the South. Can they not come up with something more innovative. The Angel of the North was new and different 10 years ago. Maybe the South should think of somethign else and at roughtly £2m to build it sounds like a big waste of money.

[leopard]

Amazing ......... my grand father's horse is nowhere high to it, would he have strong enough mentality when he runs across a baby jaguar, go diego go ...

[Dave B]

Can they not come up with something more innovative. .
You should see the designs which lost :s

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7387938.stm

[jim mcglinchey]

I think they picked the least imaginative one, I mean I could've said
" Lets stick a 150 feet high horse in the middle of the field...that'll be £100K thankyou." But Im sure it has alot more meaning than a philistine like me would appreciate.

[ShiftingGears]

They shouldve dressed that high voltage tower up as a scarecrow instead. Those people have no imagination :p :

[Mark]

It's going to cost council tax payers a fortune in grass to feed the thing.

[schmenke]

You should see the designs which lost :s

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7387938.stm

The horse seems the most reasonable of that lot :s

[BDunnell]

Give it a few months and it will be absolutely filthy.

[vauxhall corsa]

how can it be that big it's MASSIVE

[Hazell B]

Am I missing something here, or is there a reason they chose a horse? Kent has no racing industry to speak of and it looks like a Thoroughbred to me :confused:
Or is it suggesting freedom or something? The headcollar says it shouldn't represent freedom, but maybe I'm wrong?

Anyway, having had a few days to think about it and another look at Mark's picture, I think it's a major mistake. And that's from somebody who looked at a large grey Thoroughbred with a view to buying him, three weeks ago.

To top it all, TB's are bred from Arab horses and not even a native British breed. They're just something we invented. :mark:

[Firstgear]

I'll have to repeat what the French dudes in Monty Python's Holy Grail said:

"We already got one, and it's very nice."


(although not quite as big as the one you're proposing)

[Dave B]

Am I missing something here, or is there a reason they chose a horse? Kent has no racing industry to speak of and it looks like a Thoroughbred to me :confused:
Or is it suggesting freedom or something? The headcollar says it shouldn't represent freedom, but maybe I'm wrong?
There's a racecourse near Folkestone, what more do you want? :p

Serious answer: Invicta is the motto of Kent, hence the name of a rubbish radio station and hundreds of other companies in the area. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_horse_of_Kent

[inimitablestoo]

There's already an Angel of the South isn't there? It's in Islington according to my Monopoly board.

[Caroline]

The last suggestion shown on the BBC site is hilarious. I made something not all that different when I was in primary school with papier mache and paint. They all seem pretty bonkers to me.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44633000/jpg/_44633851_whiteread466.jpg

[Rollo]

I can save people £x,000,000s just by connecting a 9V battery to mains power and then wires from each of the terminals of the battery to the top of an iron pyramid. The effects are thus:

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/f/c/a/fca9817b5fa601e4141ce2d15a3887a2.jpg
- A Giant Pair of Scissors floating in the sky.

Of course if you really wanted to repeat the experiment, you could build the pyramid not in iron but some other element such as lismuth, surgery, glue or emporium.

[Roamy]

never invest in anything that eats while you sleep !!!

[Hazell B]

There's a racecourse near Folkestone, what more do you want? :p
A fine course, nice five furlong.
Rather nasty food in the boxes, though :(


Serious answer: Invicta is the motto of Kent, hence the name of a rubbish radio station and hundreds of other companies in the area. :)

Ah, I never knew.
Cheers Dave :up:

[vauxhall corsa]

i wonder how much it would weigh

[Daniel]

Whatever it damned well likes :p :

Just make sure you keep your hands flat when you're feeding it! :p

[Dave B]

Will it be, erm.. anatomically correct, I wonder. :s

[Mark]

You mean hung like a horse? :p

[GridGirl]

Well I've been wondering that exact thing this this thread was started, its just that I didn't want to be the one to point it out!

[jim mcglinchey]

as Harry Hill would say " DIRTTY GIRL...".

[Hazell B]

Looking at the picture, he's a gelding. They have no erm, dangly bits to speak of.

It's all stored inside, and needs cleaning from time to time. You tend to learn early in the horse owning experience that cutting your fingernails before such a job is wise, if not life saving :mark: As I know somebody will ask, I'll tell you what you do with the smeg and skin that you've removed - or rather suggest you DO NOT let my dog lick your face on cleaning day :eek:

[MrJan]

I saw something somewhere which did actually say that you could tell it was a stallion. I'm no horsey person but I think they were implying that it's tackle would be present and correct :D

Thanks for the graphic imagery Hazell, I'm just going off to throw up somewhere ;)

[Dave B]

It's all stored inside, and needs cleaning from time to time. You tend to learn early in the horse owning experience that cutting your fingernails before such a job is wise, if not life saving :mark: As I know somebody will ask, I'll tell you what you do with the smeg and skin that you've removed - or rather suggest you DO NOT let my dog lick your face on cleaning day :eek:
They do say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and yet with those 70-odd you've painted a picture in my head far more vivid than I expected or wanted! :eek:

[Hazell B]

I saw something somewhere which did actually say that you could tell it was a stallion. I'm no horsey person but I think they were implying that it's tackle would be present and correct :D

Thanks for the graphic imagery Hazell, I'm just going off to throw up somewhere ;)

Throw up? Lightweight. It's just a bit of muck :p :

Anyway, while reading 'stallion' may be what everyone's doing, I'm willing to bet it's a gelding they build. His testicles will be spray painted bright red (or golden by a Beckham fan) within days otherwise. Anyway, stallions develop a cresty (arched) neck and geldings don't. He has a flat neck, no crest. He's also got rather weedy shoulders, which wouldn't do much of a job at pinning a mare down. It's all hormones, a stallion's build, and that horse isn't very manly looking to me. If they are making him a stallion, he's a untried one - like a racehorse who still races - and that's rather making the point Kent's full of virgins :p :

[vauxhall corsa]

that horse is class