HomeUnited Kingdom“Horse that led Queen’s coffin to lie in state given ‘animals’ OBE”. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at how ridiculous our silly country can be.
A charity has recognised him in their internal order of merit.
He hasn’t been given an “OBE” or anything remotely close to it.
Any accolades of this nature strengthen the animals pedigree as well as recognising the trainers of the animals. I Don’t know why it triggers people.
You sound jealous of a horse…
I’m going to kick off if Muffin The Mule hasn’t got one.
‘Orse of the British Empire?
The horse won’t care either way. What a waste of money.
Out of Body Experience?
Recently, me and friends found ourselves trying to explain to a non Brit (18 years living here) about the regimental mascot animals. You know, the special goats, rams and so on. The ones with names, and sometimes hereditary titles. The ones that get special dress up goat uniforms, and lead the parade at the head of the marching soldiers on ceremonial occasions. No, really they really do. YES seriously. Once he’d googled amd got back HUNDREDS of photos of regimental mascot goats, he was just speechless.
Edited to add: and it turns out, Norway has a regimental penguin.
Here starts the campaign to posthumously rename him *Horsey McHorse Face*
Norway has a Penguin that is a Major General and lives in Edinburgh.
Is that Norway also being ridiculous or has the British silliness been exported?
Countries do weird things. Didn’t Norway once knight a penguin or give it their highest honour?
I think it’s quintessentially British and yeah makes me laugh at how ridiculous it is but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Give Mr horse his reward.
He’s a beautiful boy, yes he is! *kissy noises*
Nope, its not real.
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We just had a funeral for a duck. There’s also a penguin in Edinburgh Zoo that’s a Major General of the Norwegian army. This is probably one of the least silly things to happen!
Nice heated stable too.
Laugh: if we got rid of everything that appears ridiculous we wouldn’t be us. Who wants a dry and let’s face it boring country where nothing which was touched with history or ancient practices like honouring our animal companions occurred. It is harmless tradition and, let’s face it, a blameless quadruped is probably more value to the country than all those feeble, useless and pernicious humans who’ve been given honours, J Saville for one.
I got my OBE for being a “most filthy animal” so I can believe it.
I mean, the US president pardons a turkey every year, to spare it being eaten at Thanksgiving. Lots of countries do weird things when it comes to animals that are seen as symbolic in some way.
I’m much happier with this than with the ritualistic execution of animals that is also prevalent in certain parts of British culture.
Didn’t we once hang a monkey for treason? Yeah we are a silly nation.
How dare people have a bit of fun. There’s nothing British in that!
That horse has worked harder than the entire “royal” parasite family combined.
I, an American, view the British royal family as nothing more than a soap opera the taxpayers subsidize.
I see no issue with this whatsoever. Good horse 🐎
Strictly speaking the horse was offered it and declined it with simple ‘neigh’.
Cher Ami. Croix de Guerre. The French thought he was as brave as he was delicious.
Hey, so I work for the PDSA and I think we do pretty good work for animals and pet owners across the country. The [Dickin Medal](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickin_Medal) (named after our founder Maria Dickin) is to recognise animals who have done a great service to our society. It started with carrier pigeons in WW2. It’s not awarded by the King, it’s a PDSA award that has gained a good enough reputation to be considered the animal equivalent of an OBE, which we’re obviously very happy about.
The whole purpose is to highlight how animals contribute to our lives and to honour them in our own way. Awarding medals is pretty common human behaviour and not unique to the UK and not even unique to monarchies. To that I will add that even if it was an OBE, honour systems have a positive cultural impact and there’s a reason why many republics maintain medals and even knightly orders.
If you don’t know whether to laugh or cry, may I suggest either reaction would be hysterically excessive and possibly just a reflection of your own bias against traditions you have little understanding of?
Quite an honour. So why the long face?
Had to read the headline a couple of times before getting that it wasn’t the horse that was lying in state.
OBEs MBEs etc etc blah blah blah are basically blue Peter badges nowadays.
Congratulations to the horse for not hoofing somebody’s face off I guess. Which, I mean, it’s a risk. Horses do get stressed in public places. And private places. And when being transported from one to the other.
I have absolutely no problem with people honouring animals. Like when Zanjeer the dog was given full state honours by the Indian govt… it’s just very touching and otherwise harmless.
It’s ridiculous. If it was a human, they’d be getting a knighthood.
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A charity has recognised him in their internal order of merit.
He hasn’t been given an “OBE” or anything remotely close to it.
Any accolades of this nature strengthen the animals pedigree as well as recognising the trainers of the animals. I Don’t know why it triggers people.
You sound jealous of a horse…
I’m going to kick off if Muffin The Mule hasn’t got one.
‘Orse of the British Empire?
The horse won’t care either way. What a waste of money.
Out of Body Experience?
Recently, me and friends found ourselves trying to explain to a non Brit (18 years living here) about the regimental mascot animals. You know, the special goats, rams and so on. The ones with names, and sometimes hereditary titles. The ones that get special dress up goat uniforms, and lead the parade at the head of the marching soldiers on ceremonial occasions. No, really they really do. YES seriously. Once he’d googled amd got back HUNDREDS of photos of regimental mascot goats, he was just speechless.
Edited to add: and it turns out, Norway has a regimental penguin.
Here starts the campaign to posthumously rename him *Horsey McHorse Face*
Norway has a Penguin that is a Major General and lives in Edinburgh.
Is that Norway also being ridiculous or has the British silliness been exported?
Countries do weird things. Didn’t Norway once knight a penguin or give it their highest honour?
Something something Caligula, something something horse 👀
I think it’s quintessentially British and yeah makes me laugh at how ridiculous it is but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Give Mr horse his reward.
He’s a beautiful boy, yes he is! *kissy noises*
Nope, its not real.
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We just had a funeral for a duck. There’s also a penguin in Edinburgh Zoo that’s a Major General of the Norwegian army. This is probably one of the least silly things to happen!
Nice heated stable too.
Laugh: if we got rid of everything that appears ridiculous we wouldn’t be us. Who wants a dry and let’s face it boring country where nothing which was touched with history or ancient practices like honouring our animal companions occurred. It is harmless tradition and, let’s face it, a blameless quadruped is probably more value to the country than all those feeble, useless and pernicious humans who’ve been given honours, J Saville for one.
I got my OBE for being a “most filthy animal” so I can believe it.
I mean, the US president pardons a turkey every year, to spare it being eaten at Thanksgiving. Lots of countries do weird things when it comes to animals that are seen as symbolic in some way.
I’m much happier with this than with the ritualistic execution of animals that is also prevalent in certain parts of British culture.
Didn’t we once hang a monkey for treason? Yeah we are a silly nation.
How dare people have a bit of fun. There’s nothing British in that!
That horse has worked harder than the entire “royal” parasite family combined.
I, an American, view the British royal family as nothing more than a soap opera the taxpayers subsidize.
I see no issue with this whatsoever. Good horse 🐎
Strictly speaking the horse was offered it and declined it with simple ‘neigh’.
Cher Ami. Croix de Guerre. The French thought he was as brave as he was delicious.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_Ami
Our former supreme overlord liked horses so therefore we must like horses and they are entitled to rewards
[the states have mayor Max ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_Max_II#:~:text=Maximus%20Mighty%2DDog%20Mueller%20II,and%20Mikey%2C%20were%20his%20cousins.)
Let people have some harmless fun
Hey, so I work for the PDSA and I think we do pretty good work for animals and pet owners across the country. The [Dickin Medal](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickin_Medal) (named after our founder Maria Dickin) is to recognise animals who have done a great service to our society. It started with carrier pigeons in WW2. It’s not awarded by the King, it’s a PDSA award that has gained a good enough reputation to be considered the animal equivalent of an OBE, which we’re obviously very happy about.
The whole purpose is to highlight how animals contribute to our lives and to honour them in our own way. Awarding medals is pretty common human behaviour and not unique to the UK and not even unique to monarchies. To that I will add that even if it was an OBE, honour systems have a positive cultural impact and there’s a reason why many republics maintain medals and even knightly orders.
If you don’t know whether to laugh or cry, may I suggest either reaction would be hysterically excessive and possibly just a reflection of your own bias against traditions you have little understanding of?
Quite an honour. So why the long face?
Had to read the headline a couple of times before getting that it wasn’t the horse that was lying in state.
OBEs MBEs etc etc blah blah blah are basically blue Peter badges nowadays.
Congratulations to the horse for not hoofing somebody’s face off I guess. Which, I mean, it’s a risk. Horses do get stressed in public places. And private places. And when being transported from one to the other.
I have absolutely no problem with people honouring animals. Like when Zanjeer the dog was given full state honours by the Indian govt… it’s just very touching and otherwise harmless.
It’s ridiculous. If it was a human, they’d be getting a knighthood.