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New interpretations of the Cerne Abbas Giant

• gerdesj 3y ago
  A more up to date photo of the big man, just down the road from here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8136824,-2.4751357,116m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8136824,-2.4751357,116m/da...
• tomcam 3y ago
  > A major attraction of Dorset, England, is the Cerne Abbas Giant, a 180-foot-tall figure of a naked man wielding a large club carved with chalk into a hilltop. Aye, he’s wielding a massive club indeed
  • shaftoe444 3y ago
    Carry on up the iron age.
• mpreda 3y ago
  Clearly it's a warning to any extraterrestrials that may consider invading our planet. "I have a big stick"
• KineticLensman 3y ago
  (I live a short drive away) It’s always amusing because the local villages appear very prim and proper, in a very old-fashioned English countryside way, but on the nearby hillside is this massive …
  • graemep 3y ago
    The locals also reportedly got upset recently because the phallus was omitted from an image of the giant on packaging: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/31/cerne-abbas-giant-manhood-restored-oxford-cheese-company/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/31/cerne-abbas-gian... People who appear prim and proper are probably not. People who are stereotypical expected to be prim and proper are often anything but.
    • KineticLensman 3y ago
      > People who appear prim and proper are probably not Yes, exactly, hence 'appear'. The people who are more shocked are the out-of-area friends / relatives that we sometimes drive there with.
      • graemep 3y ago
        People get shocked by it? I find that shocking. I though everyone in Britain new about it.