Giant White Horse!

[Night Train]

There are plans to build a 50m high white horse in Kent.

I'm not sure about this, it seems a bit pointless and perhaps too big. It just says, 'Horse!' to me. If it were a smaller piece then maybe I can see it working in a town centre or something like that at 50m I think it may need to be something more thought provoking.

Perhaps I should scale it one day, remove the harness and fix a 10m horn on it's head. That would provoke some thought, and discussion!

 

[Blue]

The real thing may be more impressive that the models shown on the news. Having said that, I'm glad it is to be built somewhere I'm unlikely to visit as it looks like a right eyesore.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i rather like the idea. if it's going to be a stallion it will probably have a 10m horn already

 

[byegad]

Well we got a stalled glider and it is supposed to be popular, giving the North East an identity!

It's a load of old (you know what)

I wonder that they're going to allow the Distillery to build such a big advert' though!

 

[TVC]

Just a big white elephant surely.

Won't be white for long, like 'The B of Bang' turned into 'the R of Rust'

 

[Night Train]

How long before you get people trying to be photographed on its back?

 

[Mr Pig]

Horses look nice. There is a horse sculpture next to the M8 going into Glasgow and it's definitely one of the better pieces of artwork around. I just wish that they'd take the bad ones down, like the heads on containers near Newhouse.

 

[cyclenic]

waste of money

 

[Chrisz]

A sculpture of a horse (invicta horse or any of the other chalk horses in the south would make ideal inspiration) would be cool - a feckin gurt big geegee will, in my opinion, look cack

Why couldn't they have been a little (lot) more inventive??

 

[Chuffy]

Let the whinging commence!

Will there be a 50m Barbie in riding gear beside it?

 

[Beardie]

Why a horse? Is Ebbsfleet particularly known for horse-breeding? It may just be visible from France, so perhaps it's to say: "You're not eating this one!". Or perhaps there's a pet food factory at Ebbsfleet.

I had to chuckle when I found that it is right on the doorstep of Kent International Airport, which means that it will have to have navigation lights on it. The mental image of red lights twinkling away at the tips of its ears is quite comical.

 

[sheddy]

From Newsbiscuit -
A giant white elephant, as tall as the Eiffel Tower, is to become southern England's answer to the Angel of the North, it has been announced.

The Government has decided to build the monument, to be modelled on former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, as a symbol of New Labour's achievements since coming to power in 1997.

"It will be our crowning glory," said Prime Minister Gordon Brown "and will stand for centuries to come as a reminder of all that we have done for Britain. The Millennium Dome; the Olympic Stadiums; the Financial Crisis."

The contractors for the elephant were appointed this morning, and have already reported that the project will be 5 years late and 100 billion pounds over budget

 

[Beardie]

Hey, I just had another thought! Since most horse sculptures are chalk figures cut into grass, why not grow a grass horse on the white cliffs of Dover? It's innovative enough to catch the imagination, while still retaining the pointlessness and impracticability of the original idea. Also, I live a long way from Kent, so I won't have to live with it.

 

[colly]

"You're not eating this one!".

Not sure what to think of it but I'm glad it won't be visible from my house.

Is it art though?

A big concrete horse?..............better than a big concrete inside of a house I suppose.

edited to include: Why not a concrete badger? I mean........horses are SO last century!!

 

[Tim Bennet.]

Let the whinging commence!

They could have announced a new intensive care unit for babies, but that too would have been greeted on here with the usual negativity: 'Why waste money on saving babies when it only takes nine months to make another' or some such gloom.

Perhaps we should have a thread to find the subject about which not one single Cyclechat member has an objection:

World Peace - What and have our boys in uniform lose their raison d'etre? I don't think so.

Eliminate poverty - What and lose our link to Dickens the greatest English author? I don't think so.

Full Employment - What and have to close all the job centres?

etc. . . .