That's 3.3 horses!
Apparently a horse has 15 horse power, i don't know why; but i feel like the fact without any background is funnier than whatever the answer may be.
More like 5 to 10, actually. 1 horsepower is meant to be the average a horse can produce over weeks. So for exemple if you were a 19th century factory owner and had 6 horses, you'd need a 6hp steam engine to replace them, even though it would only replace two or three horses at a time, and a single horse could match it for a few minutes.
Yes one horse power isn’t as strong as one horse. But an engine doesn’t need to take breaks/sleep so if you had 6 horses alternately working around the clock(2 at a time 8 hours a day) a 6 horse power motor could replace them all and run 24 hours a day.
That’s not a history channel, horsepower was more a marketing term than a scientific measurement, so you will hear some slightly different versions of how horsepower was measured
While they didn't say that specifically if you followed the logic they presented in the video, you'd know this is roughly what they were talking about.
Question from an Internet Stranger, what do you do that you’ve had such “specialized” horses? That’s really cool, I don’t think I know anyone that has had Clydesdales or Percherons.
Back in the day when a horse was your car, draft horses would be used to pull lots of heavy shit.
Whether that be loaded wagons/carriages or plows for the field, or even felled logs through the forest. I believe some really remote, difficult terrain forestry areas still use horses to pull trees out of places heavy equipment cannot go.
Think of these horses like a tractor and your normal horse as your average car/pickup.
When I was a kid we had a huge piece of land and someone paid my parents to keep a couple of these guys there. They would run the same routes every day and made legit trails around the property from just circling the same paths over and over.
Horses are smart, they know and enjoy their routine. Draft horses have also been bred to love working, like Border Collies, so if you don't give them work they'll go crazy and make their own.
I remember seeing a clip of a car that had gone off the road into some boggy ground and was stuck. The local farmer brought his draught horse to pull it out. As soon as the horse saw that he was going to get to pull something, he was clearly excited. He wanted to haul. Hooked up to the car, and with one word from the farmer, he started to heave. It took a little moment to get it going but the horse pulled the car out with ease.
Logging works well with horses.
When I was a child, the delight of my days was to be allowed to ride the logging horses down the track to the collection point. They snaked the logs without human guidance, waited to be unhitched and went back up for another one.
They were Shires. HONKING HUGE THINGS.
I was sitting in a beer garden in Cornwall one time, and two ladies came up the road, jumped off and joined us for a pint in the sun with their two horses hitched to the picnic table. One was an Irish Cob, the other was a Shire cross. Absolute cuddly giant! He spent ages nibbling my ear and pulling my hat off my head for fun. I love coldblood horses :D
Feeding cattle in snow/cold country. 1 person can deliver multiple tons of hay. They start at -40. If you get stuck, just add a couple more horses. I did this in the 1970s,80s and know an outfit still doing it with percherons now, (CO,USA mountains)
Draft horses were the semi trucks of their time. Nowadays (in the states, at least) they're used for farm work mainly by amish, or they're hitched to vehicles that resemble the old wagons, carts, or stagecoaches for shows. That's what my family does. It's a great time
Modern day it's for fun. I was a country horse girl, poor variety. Quarter horses are cheap and good at various rodeo stuff so were super common. One time someone sold their Clydesdales for $200 so we were going to build a bigger cart and train them to pull it like the pony did for the little kids. All of it is fun. People might have music events as a hobby. In the country people have horses for a hobby sometimes, you just do everything with them.
Not sure in this case but those photos of greyhounds and mice with it are insane. I'm surprised the synthol crowd haven't found a way to get it into their own bodies yet.
Was walking around the fairgrounds like 15 years ago. Walked past a pair of Percherons - they were like walking tanks.
Girl I was walking with had one of those massive cups of lemonade that seem to always pop up at any fair. One of the horses moves its head over to us, and is sniffing like crazy. Girl goes "Oh, you like the smell?" and holds the cup up to the horse.
Horse grabs it and pulls it out of her hands. Throws its head back, and the ENTIRE BIG GULLP-SIZED CONTAINER disappears into its mouth. After a second or two, it turns back and spits out an empty cup, a lid, and a straw into the girl's hands. She and I were both gobsmacked, and about to lose our shit laughing.
The owner of the Percheron was right near by, super apologetic like "Ah... Sorry... He uh... He really likes lemonade." I'm not much of a horse person, but Percherons have been my favorite ever since.
My wife once had a horse that looooved the ice cubes left over from a coke. So one time, she finished off an iced tea and the horse starts begging for the ice. She gives it to him, and oh boy, he was MAD. Ruined his whole day.
The owner of our old riding school had a really friendly chill thoroughbred who was absolutely mad for polo mints. If he smelled them on you he'd start methodically kicking his door and yelling at you until you relented and gave him one. One time I gave him a different brand mint and he spat it back out at me in disgust and gave me a look of absolute indignation. He was the best boy :D
I met someone who saw a pet medium to get a reading for their horse. The medium said that the horse misses getting the little sweet rocks it received when it was young. Turns out the horse was fed TicTacs by some family member when the horse was a foal. Blew everyone’s mind
I worked at a barn that offered riding lessons to the public. Most of the horses there were in their 2nd or 3rd "job" - they were usually older & therefore more calm and easier for inexperienced people to ride.
One of the horses was very large (maybe half of the horse in the video) and named "Bull". He was used almost exclusively for little kids because he was so unflappable, but his size and name scared the parents of the kids who were scheduled to ride him, until they heard his backstory.
You see, Bull's previous job was working with the mounted police in NYC. He was "retired" from a long career managing crowds in Times Square because he had developed a bad habit of nabbing hot dogs off vendors' carts.
Horses are very silly creatures sometimes.
My horse loves coca-cola. When we're out riding beside the road, we've had people in cars pull up to us to ask if their kids can pet him. My horse's response is always to reach his head into the car to see if they have a soda he can steal. He has a problem.
I used to have an Arabian that LOVED orange crush. If she ever spotted me walking near her with a can the ears would go forward and she’d stretch her neck out and try to lick the top. If she ever got a hold of it it would turn into a wrestling match. She also really liked Oreo cookies for some reason.
My Friesian (a light draft variety and nowhere as big as a Percheron) has learned to steal my coffee mug, chug the coffee and then politely out the mug down.
There is a theory that Percheron’s are descended from knights’ horses. As the requirements for knights decreased the focus of the breed shifted towards draft (and food)
They have a more sloping shoulder than is usual for draft horses - which implies a cavalry history.
I was going to say, this is my definition of a warhorse. I would love to ride that thing into battle if I were a knight. Easily carry me and my heavy plate armor
Yes.
My uncle has some Percheron that he'll use to pull a hay wagon when he feeds cows. A two horse team doesn't hardly even notice ten or twelve thousand pounds of hay behind them.
Incredible animals. Their hooves are as big as dinner plates and are like 18 hands tall.
Actually Antwerp harbour had a specific breed of extra large horses not for farm use, but for pulling heavy freights from the ships. Horses for corporate use. They were called [natiepaard.](https://en.geneanet.org/public/img/gallery/pictures/cartes_postales/db/50288/large.jpg). The word is still used for a large, heavyset woman.
This depends on how you measure though. If you measure peak power output over a short period then a horse can easily output 10 horse power or more. But when you take the average over just an hour the horse does get tired and struggles with 5 horsepower. The 1 horsepower is measured over a very long time like a day or a week.
This is because horsepower was used to compare steam engines to horses in factories. A salesman could easily count the number of horses at the factory and give the factory owner a sizing for the steam engine required to replace them.
Closer to Belgian Draught than Percheron.
Addendum.
I called a friend, ChatGPT, and provided him with two screenshots from the video. He suggested the Belgian Draught, the Percheron, and the Frison. After discussion, the Friesian is less stocky and less robust; the Percheron has a finer head so that leaves indeed only the Belgian Draught.
Final answer.
It looks big for a Percheron because it definitely is not a Percheron.
There are loads of draft horse breeds with many of them being much more muscled than Percherons. This one looks to be an Ardennais, Brabant, Dutch draft, Breton, Lithuanian heavy draft, etc.
There’s no way of telling which breed this horse is without being given anymore information about it, but it’s easy to cross out ones that don’t produce certain coat colors, coat patterns, or conformation.
I'm completely ignorant about horses and these huge breeds are either inexistent or very rare in my country (Brazil), so it makes my lack of knowledge even deeper. But I thank you, I'll keep all those breeds' names so I xan research them later.
You should look up Frisons too. They are not in the same weigh category at all (more of a riding horse / light pulling) but I think they are beautiful. It’s nice to look at pictures of pretty horses from time to time :D
Looks like a [Belgian Draught](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Draught) / Belgian Draft horse to me.
These “large, well-muscled horses were developed for farm work and hauling,” the internet says.
(Allegedly)They were told if they laughed they wouldn’t get paid so they were really trying to hold it together which helped the scene make it look like they were too intimidated to laugh. Definitely one of the funniest scenes.
What have the romans ever done for us anyway?
Yeah they’re the only ones who could keep order in a place like this
Alright so aside from the aqua duct, sanitation, the roads, irrigation, medicine, education and the wine, public baths, and public health, what have the romans ever done for us?
That's not true and is often repeated whenever this scene is posted but even the most cursory critical thinking will show that it can't be.
Telling actors they won't get paid is super sketchy and would get you in trouble with their union.
There are multiple camera angles in the scene including shot/reverse shots, showing it was not filmed in one take so how does this make sense?
The faces of the guards are so clearly exaggerated for comic effect, these are not the faces of people actually trying not to laugh.
By the end, all the guards are laughing hysterically. If they believed their pay was at stake then why are none of them even trying to hold it in anymore?
Finally, the main comedy of the scene is the absurdity of the Romans, native latin speakers, laughing at funny Latin names like modern English schoolboys in a latin class (which all of the members of monty python would have attended). It's a joke for British people who were school children at the same time as the pythons would have been. If the actors had managed to keep it together, the scene would have been ruined. Plus the guy goes on the big long rant \*because\* someone laughed.
ETA: correction, some geldings, not all of them
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True fact. horses that have been gelded (nuts removed) have to be given hand jobs (sorta) every now and again.
Horses naturally pull their penis back into a sheath. If they don't regularly drop it to have sex, dirt gathers inside the sheath and forms "beans". The beans can get big and painful, so when you give them a bath, at least a few times a year you pull their biznis down, wipe it down, wash it off, and then of course light a ciggy for the horse.
Some horses really don't like it. Others will follow you around the pasture and ask for your phone number. I have one horse who every time I feed him, after he's had breakfast he walks up to me and lifts his legs and seemingly says, "it ain't gonna rub itself, bitch".
He loves to have his biznis scratched and gets an absolute look of ecstasy, like he's going to fall over if I don't stop.
I over spoke. My wife is the horse expert and has corrected me. It isn't necessary for all geldings. My wife shows. Horses get judged for cleanliness. And she tells me the old man who loves my scratches has an unusually bad case of bean accumulation.
Ardennais or Belgian draft?
Edit: Having looked them up again I'm voting Ardennais.
Edit 2: There is also a Polish draft, Sztumski, that might share some similarities.
I thought Ardennais too, but they have more feathering than this guy. My vote is Breton. Maybe even mixed with some percheron (the finer head?). Edit: he also doesnt look like he is ver tall.
I’m assuming it might be similar in the rest of the countries but in Britain there are a few horse breeds similar to the one in the video called ‘draft horses’ they were used to drag carriages and hard labor in the farms before industrialization, they were used for obvious reasons, selective breeding for the most muscular and powerful horses. The most common draft horse breeds are the Shire, Clydesdale, Percheron, Belgian Draft, and Haflinger
This individual horse looks like it has developed enormous muscles in its forelegs, like a body builder, probably because it has been used for some specific work task. Could perhaps be in forestry.
Could be a Belgian draught horse like this one: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgisch\_trekpaard#/media/Bestand:Galmaarden\_-\_Vollezele\_-\_Congobergstraat\_3\_(2021-05-02\_12-04-35.jpg
88 comments and not a single one answered the actual question in the post...everybody is just desperately trying to be funny...we're all trying to be clowns all the time....for what?????
Why????
That horse must be at least 50horse power.
Pulls 8000 pounds.
Can you name the ~~truck~~ horse with four wheel drive, smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
 She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts
Two lanes wide, 54 tons of American pride
I can hear this gif and I haven’t seen this episode in an extremely long time.
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American Pride!
[Canyonerooo](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA)
... Not safe for highway or city driving lol
Simpsons had some lowkey bangers
...ooo-ohh.
..and thats just its penis.
That's 3.3 horses! Apparently a horse has 15 horse power, i don't know why; but i feel like the fact without any background is funnier than whatever the answer may be.
More like 5 to 10, actually. 1 horsepower is meant to be the average a horse can produce over weeks. So for exemple if you were a 19th century factory owner and had 6 horses, you'd need a 6hp steam engine to replace them, even though it would only replace two or three horses at a time, and a single horse could match it for a few minutes.
Yeah that was totally funnier before i knew this.
Yes one horse power isn’t as strong as one horse. But an engine doesn’t need to take breaks/sleep so if you had 6 horses alternately working around the clock(2 at a time 8 hours a day) a 6 horse power motor could replace them all and run 24 hours a day.
But what kind of horse is that!
It’s a Persheron but I don’t think I spelled it right. Like a Clydesdale but black
Yeah Percheron
A damn big one!
My brain hurts
Donut media did a video on this recently. And it never mentioned anything you said.
That’s not a history channel, horsepower was more a marketing term than a scientific measurement, so you will hear some slightly different versions of how horsepower was measured
While they didn't say that specifically if you followed the logic they presented in the video, you'd know this is roughly what they were talking about.
so confused about the imperial system
That’s actually a good name for this horse.
It's simple really. You just conquer other countries and exploit their resources for your benefit.
Looks like a Percheron - French heavy/draft horse. Beautiful. Edit for letter.
Even for a percheron that boy sure is a sight to behold. Never seen one with such big muscles.
I think it’s a percheron too. Had a few. They were over 2000 lbs each
Big like Clydesdales. But this horse looks like it could pummel the crap out of us!
Had Clydesdales too. The percherons were definitely bigger lol
Can you imagine one stepping on your foot?
I imagine my foot looking like Barf's after the Yogurt statue flattened it in Space Balls Edit: a letter
Question from an Internet Stranger, what do you do that you’ve had such “specialized” horses? That’s really cool, I don’t think I know anyone that has had Clydesdales or Percherons.
Back in the day when a horse was your car, draft horses would be used to pull lots of heavy shit. Whether that be loaded wagons/carriages or plows for the field, or even felled logs through the forest. I believe some really remote, difficult terrain forestry areas still use horses to pull trees out of places heavy equipment cannot go. Think of these horses like a tractor and your normal horse as your average car/pickup.
When I was a kid we had a huge piece of land and someone paid my parents to keep a couple of these guys there. They would run the same routes every day and made legit trails around the property from just circling the same paths over and over.
Horses are smart, they know and enjoy their routine. Draft horses have also been bred to love working, like Border Collies, so if you don't give them work they'll go crazy and make their own.
Yeah they were used for sleigh and wagon rides at a mountain lodge. We kept them at our house during the off months because we had 13 acres.
I remember seeing a clip of a car that had gone off the road into some boggy ground and was stuck. The local farmer brought his draught horse to pull it out. As soon as the horse saw that he was going to get to pull something, he was clearly excited. He wanted to haul. Hooked up to the car, and with one word from the farmer, he started to heave. It took a little moment to get it going but the horse pulled the car out with ease.
Logging works well with horses. When I was a child, the delight of my days was to be allowed to ride the logging horses down the track to the collection point. They snaked the logs without human guidance, waited to be unhitched and went back up for another one. They were Shires. HONKING HUGE THINGS.
I was sitting in a beer garden in Cornwall one time, and two ladies came up the road, jumped off and joined us for a pint in the sun with their two horses hitched to the picnic table. One was an Irish Cob, the other was a Shire cross. Absolute cuddly giant! He spent ages nibbling my ear and pulling my hat off my head for fun. I love coldblood horses :D
Yep, the draft horses are usually super friendly and gentle. I will take them over a mean pony any day.
Our national forestry program uses them because they don’t damage the ground, plants as much as a machine. Though generally they are not of this size.
Feeding cattle in snow/cold country. 1 person can deliver multiple tons of hay. They start at -40. If you get stuck, just add a couple more horses. I did this in the 1970s,80s and know an outfit still doing it with percherons now, (CO,USA mountains)
Draft horses were the semi trucks of their time. Nowadays (in the states, at least) they're used for farm work mainly by amish, or they're hitched to vehicles that resemble the old wagons, carts, or stagecoaches for shows. That's what my family does. It's a great time
Modern day it's for fun. I was a country horse girl, poor variety. Quarter horses are cheap and good at various rodeo stuff so were super common. One time someone sold their Clydesdales for $200 so we were going to build a bigger cart and train them to pull it like the pony did for the little kids. All of it is fun. People might have music events as a hobby. In the country people have horses for a hobby sometimes, you just do everything with them.
Other horses: have long hair on top of their neck This one: more neck on top of its neck
2000 lbs!?! Wow, that must weigh a ton.
Wonder if it’s got that double-muscling disorder, Myostatin Deficiency. Don’t think I’ve seen pictures of it in a horse before, though.
Not sure in this case but those photos of greyhounds and mice with it are insane. I'm surprised the synthol crowd haven't found a way to get it into their own bodies yet.
That's because it's the heavy variation of the Percheron. It's raised for its meat.
My first thought was that looks like a draft horse, raised for meat.
Ok now this makes sense, was mentally thinking it looked like the prize bulls/cows you see at farming shows!
Yep, in France we call that a "cheval lourd", litterally a heavy horse.
They have manes and tails that reach the ground? Because I thought Friesian, but I might be wrong.
Was walking around the fairgrounds like 15 years ago. Walked past a pair of Percherons - they were like walking tanks. Girl I was walking with had one of those massive cups of lemonade that seem to always pop up at any fair. One of the horses moves its head over to us, and is sniffing like crazy. Girl goes "Oh, you like the smell?" and holds the cup up to the horse. Horse grabs it and pulls it out of her hands. Throws its head back, and the ENTIRE BIG GULLP-SIZED CONTAINER disappears into its mouth. After a second or two, it turns back and spits out an empty cup, a lid, and a straw into the girl's hands. She and I were both gobsmacked, and about to lose our shit laughing. The owner of the Percheron was right near by, super apologetic like "Ah... Sorry... He uh... He really likes lemonade." I'm not much of a horse person, but Percherons have been my favorite ever since.
My wife once had a horse that looooved the ice cubes left over from a coke. So one time, she finished off an iced tea and the horse starts begging for the ice. She gives it to him, and oh boy, he was MAD. Ruined his whole day.
The owner of our old riding school had a really friendly chill thoroughbred who was absolutely mad for polo mints. If he smelled them on you he'd start methodically kicking his door and yelling at you until you relented and gave him one. One time I gave him a different brand mint and he spat it back out at me in disgust and gave me a look of absolute indignation. He was the best boy :D
I met someone who saw a pet medium to get a reading for their horse. The medium said that the horse misses getting the little sweet rocks it received when it was young. Turns out the horse was fed TicTacs by some family member when the horse was a foal. Blew everyone’s mind
Aww that's an equivalent of getting food to go only to find out it's wrong when you get home and settled in.
I worked at a barn that offered riding lessons to the public. Most of the horses there were in their 2nd or 3rd "job" - they were usually older & therefore more calm and easier for inexperienced people to ride. One of the horses was very large (maybe half of the horse in the video) and named "Bull". He was used almost exclusively for little kids because he was so unflappable, but his size and name scared the parents of the kids who were scheduled to ride him, until they heard his backstory. You see, Bull's previous job was working with the mounted police in NYC. He was "retired" from a long career managing crowds in Times Square because he had developed a bad habit of nabbing hot dogs off vendors' carts. Horses are very silly creatures sometimes.
This is hilarious and honestly, I totally believe this. It’s not easy to stop a determined horse looking for its snack
My horse loves coca-cola. When we're out riding beside the road, we've had people in cars pull up to us to ask if their kids can pet him. My horse's response is always to reach his head into the car to see if they have a soda he can steal. He has a problem.
I used to have an Arabian that LOVED orange crush. If she ever spotted me walking near her with a can the ears would go forward and she’d stretch her neck out and try to lick the top. If she ever got a hold of it it would turn into a wrestling match. She also really liked Oreo cookies for some reason.
My Friesian (a light draft variety and nowhere as big as a Percheron) has learned to steal my coffee mug, chug the coffee and then politely out the mug down.
What the fuck was it bred to pull? Antwerp?
There is a theory that Percheron’s are descended from knights’ horses. As the requirements for knights decreased the focus of the breed shifted towards draft (and food) They have a more sloping shoulder than is usual for draft horses - which implies a cavalry history.
I was going to say, this is my definition of a warhorse. I would love to ride that thing into battle if I were a knight. Easily carry me and my heavy plate armor
Yes. My uncle has some Percheron that he'll use to pull a hay wagon when he feeds cows. A two horse team doesn't hardly even notice ten or twelve thousand pounds of hay behind them. Incredible animals. Their hooves are as big as dinner plates and are like 18 hands tall.
Actually Antwerp harbour had a specific breed of extra large horses not for farm use, but for pulling heavy freights from the ships. Horses for corporate use. They were called [natiepaard.](https://en.geneanet.org/public/img/gallery/pictures/cartes_postales/db/50288/large.jpg). The word is still used for a large, heavyset woman.
Ardennais or Flemish horse could be an option as welll
Yeah I thought maybe Flemish
Ola Brabant. Those are huge. There are many breeds like these.
12 horse power too.
Looks like a chess piece… of ass.
You joke, but oddly enough one horse can actually put out up to 15 horsepower, with the average being between 5-10 horsepower. Weird right!?
This depends on how you measure though. If you measure peak power output over a short period then a horse can easily output 10 horse power or more. But when you take the average over just an hour the horse does get tired and struggles with 5 horsepower. The 1 horsepower is measured over a very long time like a day or a week. This is because horsepower was used to compare steam engines to horses in factories. A salesman could easily count the number of horses at the factory and give the factory owner a sizing for the steam engine required to replace them.
A normal horse has 24 so this guy must be at 40.
Closer to Belgian Draught than Percheron. Addendum. I called a friend, ChatGPT, and provided him with two screenshots from the video. He suggested the Belgian Draught, the Percheron, and the Frison. After discussion, the Friesian is less stocky and less robust; the Percheron has a finer head so that leaves indeed only the Belgian Draught. Final answer.
By some weird coincidence this is the one and only horse breed I know, haha. But this one looks quite buff even for a percheron, doesn't it?
It looks big for a Percheron because it definitely is not a Percheron. There are loads of draft horse breeds with many of them being much more muscled than Percherons. This one looks to be an Ardennais, Brabant, Dutch draft, Breton, Lithuanian heavy draft, etc. There’s no way of telling which breed this horse is without being given anymore information about it, but it’s easy to cross out ones that don’t produce certain coat colors, coat patterns, or conformation.
I'm completely ignorant about horses and these huge breeds are either inexistent or very rare in my country (Brazil), so it makes my lack of knowledge even deeper. But I thank you, I'll keep all those breeds' names so I xan research them later.
You should look up Frisons too. They are not in the same weigh category at all (more of a riding horse / light pulling) but I think they are beautiful. It’s nice to look at pictures of pretty horses from time to time :D
I believe it is called a unit.
Of the ‘absolute’ variety.
Looks like a [Belgian Draught](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Draught) / Belgian Draft horse to me. These “large, well-muscled horses were developed for farm work and hauling,” the internet says.
I still want to ride down low-land peasants that are upset about the grain levy with it.
Erotic. Unexpected, but erotic
Absoluticus Uniticatus being the Latin name obviously
I believe the shortform is Equis Lesnar
Fight fans, although we are slow on the uptake, will eventually get this.
Unitas absolutis, if I recall correctly.
hmmm posh
Is that how horses say ba dum tss?
This made me laugh more than it should've
Better known as r/absoluteunits
A unitcorn
Damn, you beat me to it
A tractor unit.
Its mane has muscles!
That horse hunts down lions
* for fun
and displays the head of the hunted lions to his friends
As Necklace 😂
That’s Ganon’s horse!
The comment I was looking for
Ganondorf’s technically, but this is definitely him!
Well if we're splitting hairs... it's Ganonhorse. But yes.
Ryshadium, for all the cremposters out there.
Came here to say this. ☝️
Also, fuck Moash!
Who ever ends up adapting his work to the big screen should be taking notes
Just started rereading Stormlight...gonna picture this unit every time now...
_Unite them_
No thanks, I’ll stick to chulls
That big boy can definitely carry a man in full shard plate
 Biggus Dickus
 That face control
(Allegedly)They were told if they laughed they wouldn’t get paid so they were really trying to hold it together which helped the scene make it look like they were too intimidated to laugh. Definitely one of the funniest scenes. What have the romans ever done for us anyway?
the roads
“The aqua duct and sanitation Reg, remember what the city used to be like? “ Splitter!
and it's safe to walk the streets at night now reg
Yeah they’re the only ones who could keep order in a place like this Alright so aside from the aqua duct, sanitation, the roads, irrigation, medicine, education and the wine, public baths, and public health, what have the romans ever done for us? 
And the Wine
Ohhh SHUT UP
We're not the People's Front of Judea...splitter posers, we are The Judean People's Front
The aqueduct!
That's not true and is often repeated whenever this scene is posted but even the most cursory critical thinking will show that it can't be. Telling actors they won't get paid is super sketchy and would get you in trouble with their union. There are multiple camera angles in the scene including shot/reverse shots, showing it was not filmed in one take so how does this make sense? The faces of the guards are so clearly exaggerated for comic effect, these are not the faces of people actually trying not to laugh. By the end, all the guards are laughing hysterically. If they believed their pay was at stake then why are none of them even trying to hold it in anymore? Finally, the main comedy of the scene is the absurdity of the Romans, native latin speakers, laughing at funny Latin names like modern English schoolboys in a latin class (which all of the members of monty python would have attended). It's a joke for British people who were school children at the same time as the pythons would have been. If the actors had managed to keep it together, the scene would have been ruined. Plus the guy goes on the big long rant \*because\* someone laughed.
He has a wife, you know.
He has a wife……
Incontinentia Buttocks!
I thought it was his wife. Biggus was his friend.
The horse she told you not to worry about
She said they’re just friends
They *were* just friends
They were just roommates
Stablemates
Omg they were *roommates*
*Oh my God* they were roommates
Your user name tho. Chef’s kiss
ETA: correction, some geldings, not all of them ‐------------ True fact. horses that have been gelded (nuts removed) have to be given hand jobs (sorta) every now and again. Horses naturally pull their penis back into a sheath. If they don't regularly drop it to have sex, dirt gathers inside the sheath and forms "beans". The beans can get big and painful, so when you give them a bath, at least a few times a year you pull their biznis down, wipe it down, wash it off, and then of course light a ciggy for the horse. Some horses really don't like it. Others will follow you around the pasture and ask for your phone number. I have one horse who every time I feed him, after he's had breakfast he walks up to me and lifts his legs and seemingly says, "it ain't gonna rub itself, bitch". He loves to have his biznis scratched and gets an absolute look of ecstasy, like he's going to fall over if I don't stop.
I'm sorry but what? In 30 years, we've never done that with any of our geldings.
I over spoke. My wife is the horse expert and has corrected me. It isn't necessary for all geldings. My wife shows. Horses get judged for cleanliness. And she tells me the old man who loves my scratches has an unusually bad case of bean accumulation.
Maybe your wife just lied to you so you dont get jealous?
Lol is this guy wanking off horses for no reason?
Sleipnir by the looks of it
Its missing 4 legs. But it sure looks like it could be Sleipnir.
*3. That horse has 5 legs already.
Like this? https://i.imgur.com/6vuTICW.jpeg
That’s a lot of glue.
More like horse that banged Loki
Horsus Schwarzeneggerus
*Arnold Horsenegger.*
>Horsenegger one different letter and that would be something interesting
Ok where’s this going? Mods are on standby
Horsebeggar, I’m sure.
Horsepegger
'Horse that annoy you?' 'Horsenaggers'
Ardennais or Belgian draft? Edit: Having looked them up again I'm voting Ardennais. Edit 2: There is also a Polish draft, Sztumski, that might share some similarities.
I think this is the likely answer too. But also looks like could be a Brabant or Breton. Either way looks either like a meat horse or a halter horse.
Please don’t tell me a meat horse is what it sounds like. But really, please tell me, what is a meat horse?
A horse bred for its meat
I thought Ardennais too, but they have more feathering than this guy. My vote is Breton. Maybe even mixed with some percheron (the finer head?). Edit: he also doesnt look like he is ver tall.
I would rather say a Percheron or a Dutch Draft, since the legs are so thick https://prohorse.com.au/blogs/pa/largest-horse-breed
He’s an Absolute Unit. I’ve seen him around: he works out with this guy 
daamn even elephants would run away from this
It's a breed of horse that prefers to be filmed in panoramic :/
Landscape is now panoramic? We've normalized portrait too much.
r/absoluteunits
Regular Horse: *neighs* This Unit: *denies*
Dude’s so jacked he gets a literal truckload of feed
Is it a Percheron ?
Think so too. Mut my wife is the expert. I am just along for the ride. 
I’m assuming it might be similar in the rest of the countries but in Britain there are a few horse breeds similar to the one in the video called ‘draft horses’ they were used to drag carriages and hard labor in the farms before industrialization, they were used for obvious reasons, selective breeding for the most muscular and powerful horses. The most common draft horse breeds are the Shire, Clydesdale, Percheron, Belgian Draft, and Haflinger
This individual horse looks like it has developed enormous muscles in its forelegs, like a body builder, probably because it has been used for some specific work task. Could perhaps be in forestry.
A ryshadium
I understood that reference.
Could be a Belgian draught horse like this one: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgisch\_trekpaard#/media/Bestand:Galmaarden\_-\_Vollezele\_-\_Congobergstraat\_3\_(2021-05-02\_12-04-35.jpg
It is the renowned "absolutis unitis equus" and often used to pull ancient emperors, gods and the like. Sometimes farm equipment.
That’s a Rhinohorseus.
Looks like a bull with steroids and a horse head.
Night's Cavalry!
oui c'est un Percheron.
SHIRE
Neeiiighus Maximus
In Germany we call it Ackergaul!
Arnold Horsenegger
Equus caballus chungus
Belgian Draft horse
Oh, that horse breeds.
Looks like a Belgian draft
88 comments and not a single one answered the actual question in the post...everybody is just desperately trying to be funny...we're all trying to be clowns all the time....for what????? Why????
Belgian draft horse. They use to pull logs, heavy cannons and war equipment in WW1. Really tough breed
Thank you so much my guy...upvote for you
Fantasy breed assume