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Weirdly I remember too many horse memes from old internet communities. uk.misc had a years-long habit of shouting "HORSE" after someone turned up trying to tra
by Doctor_Fegg 4y ago
Weirdly I remember too many horse memes from old internet communities.
uk.misc had a years-long habit of shouting "HORSE" after someone turned up trying to trace some Canadians who "moved to Burton-on-Trent and stole my HORSE".
uk.music.folk would shout "HORSE" too, but for a different reason: whenever the old "ah but is this really folk music" argument was trotted out. It was a reference to Louis Armstrong's "all music is folk music - I ain't never heard no horse sing" (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/all-music-is-folk-music-2580774/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/all-music-is-fol...).
And back in the early days of OpenStreetMap we had a running gag about horse=yes, after early finding-our-way attempts at the tagging folksonomy resulted in 70mph highways in Britain being tagged with "horse=yes" because, yes, legally you were allowed to ride a horse on them.
- tialaramex 4y ago> 70mph highways in Britain being tagged with "horse=yes" because, yes, legally you were allowed to ride a horse on them. To clarify: You aren't allowed to ride a horse on Britain's motorways (fast multi-lane roads mostly built in the latter half of the 20th century) but you would legally be allowed to ride a horse (and indeed to walk along as a pedestrian, although it's probably unwise) on the fastest possible non-motorways. Most of Britains other roads are limited to 60mph or less. But a "dual carriageway" in which vehicles travelling in the opposite direction are separated from you by something rather more substantial than a line of paint (e.g. barriers or even a strip of ground with barriers either side) lifts that to 70mph the same as a motorway.