• spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    since childhood I always laughed at the mental image of the king getting so frustrated with the men he tries putting the horses up to the task and of course they can’t do shit, they’re horses

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      2 days ago

      But the horses were listed first, so I assume they were his first choice.

      Which to me means he had absolutely no confidence in his men from the start

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        2 days ago

        “Your Highness! Someone has fallen off a wall and broken into pieces, and we barely understand rudimentary surgery!”

        “Send in the horses!”

        “Y-your Highness? Surely at least the men—”

        “You heard me, send the horses!