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Evergreen Dazed Aug 18, 2017 13:27:13

Replying to thesweetcheat

But tjj said she was travelling in July. The setting sun would have been in (broadly ;)) the NW. That could not possibly work Alken.

When you say 'facing the sunset', do you mean the body of the horse facing the sunset or the head pointing toward the sunset?

If we're going with the 'galloping' thing, you surely mean the head 'toward' the sunset, which as the sun was in the NW is absolutely wrong in every possible way.

tiompan Aug 18, 2017 13:42:49

Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Evergreen Dazed wrote:

But tjj said she was travelling in July. The setting sun would have been in (broadly ;)) the NW.

Exactly , and it was not from the perspective of the orientation of the horse .
You can watch the midwinter sun set over ,( pick) a famous standing stone , or hill top etc , as long as you are free to choose the observing point .That is not the case here ,we are constrained by the orientation of the horse which is not looking towards any sunset at any time ,it is actually avoiding them . That is the one aspect of this nonsense that is funny .

thesweetcheat Aug 18, 2017 14:14:20

Replying to Evergreen Dazed

There's a huge difference between "pointing at" the sunset (which the horse clearly doesn't) and facing or looking into the sunset.