Anyone know what happened?

[Juniper Jack]

Sorry, I do take things too literally at times

No apology needed for that. It's a good thing to do.

 

[Juniper Jack]

It does make me wonder. When I was 12 these guys* were my heroes. I wanted to grow up to play music with them (I was taking drum lessons for my school band).

When it became possible to watch them online I was happy (nostalgia joy in old age).

Now a lot of it makes me sad and angry. It makes me want to bop someone over the head with a wet pool noodle and say "Fix this!"**

*It was all guys back in those days.
**Or a rubber horseshoe.

 

[ycbm]

It makes me want to bop someone over the head with a wet pool noodle and say "Fix this!"

I read that as a wet pot noodle and had quite a pleasing picture in my head.

 

[Meredith]

I read that as a wet pot noodle and had quite a pleasing picture in my head.

Me to

 

[teapot]

And why on earth would the Household Cavalry employ someone who doesn't know one end of a horse from the other to do their social media?

(Or, since we're taking these as literal questions, perhaps I should clarify that I'm not asking - it's obvious. The point is that it's an asinine decision to use someone who doesn't know what they're doing.)

It’s likely their social media is done in house, either by serving personnel, or a Civil Servant MoD media bod, so someone from the inside looking out, and not realising how that photo looks, because as I put in a previous post, they’ll see it every day, and think it’s normal.

So less about not knowing what they’re doing, more working within an environment that probably hasn’t changed since 1914, bar having to post on social media.

 

[JFTDWS]

It’s likely their social media is done in house, either by serving personnel, or a Civil Servant MoD media bod, so someone from the inside looking out, and not realising how that photo looks, because as I put in a previous post, they’ll see it every day, and think it’s normal.

So less about not knowing what they’re doing, more working within an environment that probably hasn’t changed since 1914, bar having to post on social media.

I think that's just the other side of the coin though isn't it - this is someone who is employed to be responsible for their social media, whether that's part or the whole of their job (an in-house multi-tasker, or a civil servant who does SM for multiple areas). And they either don't know enough about horses, or about social media - which includes how things are received on social media by the general public - to do their job well.

I could also argue that no amount of brainwashing through daily exposure should make that hoof look "good" to anyone who knows anything about horses - but my opinion of humans is too low to really believe that

 

[reynold]

Gifted article so free to read.

Lovely article on the Horse Trust where Quaker, one of the loose horses, has just been retired.

Inside the luxury retirement home for military horses who served king and country

Speen Farm provides care for some of the nation’s most beloved animals, including one famous runaway

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Juniper Jack]

Gifted article so free to read.

Lovely article on the Horse Trust where Quaker, one of the loose horses, has just been retired.

Inside the luxury retirement home for military horses who served king and country

Speen Farm provides care for some of the nation’s most beloved animals, including one famous runaway

www.telegraph.co.uk

Thank you for the link.

 

[teapot]

Semi related, I saw whichever company does the fall training post something about training Household Cavalry soldiers to fall properly, which I thought was an interesting choice, in a good way.