Some nut jumped on a horse

Some nut jumped on a horse, and did everyone a huge favour… for millennia.

At some stage the horse held the same status as the car, only cars don’t poop on the road. Horses created an entire career for shit-shovelers of early city living. Cars upped the game of status symbol, but became an ecological disaster.

What we lost on the swings we gained on the roundabouts. I’ve noticed that the bills for my animal doctors are similar to those of my mechanic. No sweat, I took out a medical plan for my dogs and cats, and lowered my standard of living.

The horse in art is a noble creature. Even if you hated Napoleon, you just had to love his horse Marengo. He really looks like a complicated little overdressed tosser in the painting ‘Napoleon Crossing the Alps’ by David. You can tell that Marengo didn’t enjoy the Alps or his boss, the emperor.

I don’t imagine that any artist has ever painted a horse carrying a happy loser. What would be the purpose?

The point, I guess, would be to show that the animal sometimes wins, when the human makes the sacrifice. Horse meat has been banned in Italy. Welcome to the year of the Fire Horse.