It seriously looks like she threw herself down for views. How can anyone be this unbalanced?
Look at how she takes a step towards falling after the horse gently bumps her.
Looks like she smacked her face on the ground pretty hard. Staged fall gone wrong, or unbalanced moron? The world may never know.
ETA: Just to clarify, standing in front of the horse is why she's a moron. The horse pushing her is the proof of that. The falling is just an unfortunate consequence.
I have recurrent vertigo: BPPV, the type the elderly often have, due to a minor fault of the inner ear that can develop due to either age or accident or just randomly (though at 45 I'm not *that* old, mine is likely at least in part due to a goodly clunk to the head many years ago).
Can confirm: we sometimes stagger and fall in odd ways. Once you start going, you sometimes have an odd momentum that you can't properly arrest (because your balance signals are confused and your brain isn't entirely sure what is actually happening).
There's a lot of people that live in suburban areas that have not used their muscles other than to walk to the car for decades. Look at her calves, I know good definition is genetic, but her legs just go straight down. If you are 50 and haven't exercised since you were a teen, this is what it looks like.
Was about to say, a whole lot of folks barely even have the health to walk around their house these days. Don't even have to walk around a grocery store for food, or a mall to shop. Honestly outside of my job I could probably get away with sitting up in bed each morning and never leaving it except to get the door, go to the restroom, and make food, if I wanted.
I think she's just unhealthy and uncoordinated. she tried to stop her fall but miscalculated where she needed to place her hands and ended up with a pretty rough faceplant. I bet that hurt.
She wasnāt nudged hard but some people have serious balance issues that arenāt visible. Or she may simply have tangled her legs in a freak accident. She definitely landed hard.
She doesn't even need to actively build strength. Just move around for daily tasks. Take a 5-10 min daily walks.
She's not that old and not morbidly obese to not be able to prevent that fall unless she has some vestibular issue/any movement issue or she's just sedentary af
No way it was intentional. It looks more like she got shoved at an unfortunate instant where her legs were crossed or her weight shifted on the far leg. Couple that with a sedentary lifestyle making you barely capable of resisting the shove, and you get a face plant
Balance and reflexes disappear quick when you get older. Hence broken hips being such a death sentence. There's a reason so many folks over 60 take classes specifically for balance.Ā She was at an angle, probably stepped across with her right leg which made the left leg hinge and she wasn't strong enough to support her weight with momentum at that angle. Try it but having a friend shove you, but do it drunk while balancing an uneven load.Ā I'm only 44 and I'm already doing all sorts of balance exercises for the centenarian olympics (a term peter status uses that just means maintaining mobility when you're old). It'sĀ not as fun as HIIT of going for PR squats but I've accepted it. Know a bunch of older dudes who are yoked and still but can't maintain their balance for shit with a dynamic load. 70 year olds who can still bench 250 but you pay them in the back and down they go.Ā Folks also don get how strong a horse is. It looks silly but I've had horses do this to me plenty and you realize their necks are stronger than every muscle in your body put together
She must not work out or simply put on too much upper body weight
I see both her arms extended trying to break the fall and damn did those crumple fast
This video has me wondering if people just get this slow and stuff when you get older. Like Iām 23, am I going to be so stiff that I canāt even break a fall when Iām whatever age she is???
As a 57yr old ex-active person, yes. If you don't use your strength, flexibility, and reflexes for long enough, they will go away. The older you get, the faster they disappear.
It's easier to maintain condition than to recover condition you've lost. I'm in this battle now, trying to recover from enforced stillness during lockdown, and it's not easy.
She needs to perfect leaping up and demonstrating perfect unhindered athleticism after seemingly sustaining a life changing, even life ending, injury just moments before.
This phrasing is so annoying I wish it would die
Also you guys saying sheās embellishing are dumb as fuck. She smashed her face into the ground. If it was fake she deserves an Oscar.
The comedy of wearing shoes meant for exercise!
Them cushioned trainers were protecting her joints for all that time before the fall so the law of averages should mean sheās ok after this
I feel a little bad because sheās older but that still doesnāt excuse motor skills THAT bad.
The fact a nudge that light sent her over and the fact she couldnāt even catch herself with her arms extended is almost impressive
You laugh, but falling is a surprisingly slow process that you can actually train yourself to handle properly to minimise injury.
At a rough count, this woman has about two seconds to deal with the problem. A very poor human reaction speed is 500ms, so she had plenty of time to react better, but probably didn't know how.
A decent amount of people have great difficulty sitting on a toilet. And even more people can't even get up from the ground without lots of effort. She should probably start there.
Your eccentric strength (strength as the muscle is elongated) diminishes quite significantly as you get older. That controlled strength while lowering yourself is a massive indicator of mortality rates. Itās why older people fall and hurt themselves doing every day activities. Staying active is so important as you get older. Use it or lose it.
I am quite tall. This means that as a kid I was always going through crazy growth spurts and never really knew where my feet were, and I would trip. Often. I was so clumsy that my childhood nickname was "kwistaf-trips-a-lot". This resulted in many scrapes, bruises, and ripped jeans. The worst resulted in chipped front teeth (thankfully baby teeth).
When my dad was younger, he was a theater actor. He would coordinate fights and then teach the other actors how to do the moves safely, so he had pretty decent stunt training.
So one day when I was maybe 6 or 7, right after the tooth incident, my dad took my parents' mattress off their bed and put it on the floor. He spent a few hours teaching me how to fall safely in different scenarios (falling straight forward, sideways, and back). How to rotate, get your hands under you, and absorb the impact. How to kinda roll if you have to land on your side. How to protect your face and head.
As an adult I'm much more coordinated, but shit happens. That training definitely saved me from injury multiple times.
To this day I'm grateful for it, and occasionally intentionally fall onto my mattress so I can practice.
There was an old lady at the gym I'd go to who would literally just do that. I think she said she was in her 80s. She'd flop down on this elevated padded thing and then get up and do it again
I am ten times worse than she is, unfortunately, due to both a disease, natural clumsiness, age, and, admittedly, lack of exercise (related to the disease). I do everything in my power to be careful when I go outside, and not fall, but it happens. I would have shattered at least one bone, tore some muscles and tendons, and would have had to be transported to hospital. She may have some of the same problems. Why call her a buffoon? I felt that and it hurt.
You just said, you do everything in your power to be careful when you go out, because of all that. That's why you're not a buffoon if you fall.
If you KNOW your balance and motor skills are hot trash and cannot handle a small push, you wouldn't be going around fucking with horses at touching distance on concrete, would you? Of course not, because you're not a buffoon.
There's no possible explanation other than absurd ridiculous ones, that would have her forced to be right by that horse, now are there? Doing tourist stuff on concrete by a large powerful wild animal was her choice. Hence, buffoon. If she knew she's that horribly coordinated and did it anyways, buffoon. If she's thar old, and hasn't realized her balance amd coordination is trash by now, buffoon. It's lose/lose.
Nah, I think poor mobility and sneaker traction can affect older folks. This would happen to my mom because she could have a hard time lifting her feet and would sometimes stumble. You have to always keep on your toes around Ormonde! He is very cheeky. ā¤ļø
Exactly, the people here calling this fake are ridiculous. My aunt had a brain tumor removed and her balance has been complete shit ever since.
I hope this lady is ok. Poor thing
My aunt got bumped into at a party a few months ago and it wouldn't phase most people but she went straight to the ground. I saw tons of comments on the original video saying she was faking it as well. These people can't wrap their heads around the fact that older people or people with certain conditions might not have the same balance as some 25 year old.
She still shouldn't have gone that close to the horse and neither should any of the others.
I've seen dozens of older people fall like this - they have weak core strength and poor coordination, even without a cobbled floor they go down like a sack of spuds balanced on a shepherds crook.
No idea why the confident answer would be an intentional faceplant, always seems like on here people have the need for everything to be intentional/have a reason.
Honestly just feels like so many people in this thread don't get the concept that motility can decrease with age for numerous reasons. The name calling is insane & these people are in for a rude shock as their loved ones get older
Looked like vertigo to meā¦. Especially the dis-coordination.
When people fake falls they protect their face by default. When your brain knows your face is going down there your hands are ready. It takes a lot of training to suppress that reflex and just face first concrete.
Have you had vertigo yourself? You really can't be standing because your inner ear is messed up and you can't maintain your balance while even just sitting still. Unless the vertigo suddenly came on while she was falling, she doesn't have vertigo.
Only someone that spends far too much time on the internet would think this. As you get older you lose coordination and your joints become unstable, meaning a little wrong step for most people can send an older person tumbling. I saw my mom fall exactly like this from the slightest misstep because her knee slid slightly out of place and she smashed onto the ground. Sheās an old lady out with her family ,not some dumb teenager trying to make a TikTok video.
That's how my mom falls now that she's older and historically. Just flinging herself to the ground to deal as much damage to herself as she can. She doesn't do it on purpose, just has no safety reflex at all
Ya, the soldier wears really bright colours so you can't miss him, he also carries a sword and shouts at people a lot. Keeping your distance is kind of implied.
There usually is a sign warning people that the horse will bite and kick and to not get too close. The wording doesn't forbid getting too close, just telling you that there will be consequences.
I've always wondered, are they coached to flop like that? Is it kind of a monkey see, monkey do kinda thing? Or are some players just dingleberries by nature?
I never watched soccer (sorry FOOTBALL) until my Mexican wife got me into it. According to her having grown up watching it, they are very much coached to do this and it has always been the most annoying thing about the sport.
I always wonder if the horses are trained to do that on command or if they just like horses with personality. Certainly a good few of the horses I've known would do it for the laughs, never let anyone tell you horses don't have a sense of humour.
I think the horse just nudged her, 9/10 times the person can actually move their feet to balance themselves especially if they decided to get that close
All horses have a personality to be fair, but I don't think it has much to do with the situation. Either it nudged her for food, attention, or just to get out of its field of view.
The horse probably knows people aren't meant to quite that close and wanted to give her a reminder.
I've seen guardhorses accept a pat on the muzzle but if you touch the reins you will get YELLED at by the guard.
Horses like to nudge people if they arenāt trained to respect personal space (something a military or police horse would never be trained to do). If Iām too close and my horse nudges me it knocks me back or off balance. Luckily I have better coordination than this lady.
Combination of horse personality and the fact they are trained as guard horses.
The chance they'll ever need to be used to defend the monarchy is slim, but the guards are 100% genuine guards, I assume the horses are too...
Honestly the horse didnāt even look like it was trying to push her, it looked like regular nuzzling, searching for treats, restlessness, not like purposefully pushy at all. I think a light breeze could knock that lady over.
Edit: furthermore, even the way she falls looks like she just is older and uncoordinated. She pretty much face planted into the floor, not much attempt to catch herself, or not early fast enough.
My old horse used to do this all the time. Sometimes it was her being impatient wanting more treats or wanting some more attention or to play. Sometimes it was her let me know to get out of her space. I'd go with the latter in this instance.
Iāve never seen a faker actually allow themselves to land on their face. I think instinct makes your hands block your head. Ormonde love taps another! Ormonde 1,000,000/ Tourists 0.
Looks like she "flopped" The horse barely nudged her. FFS people, you don't need to get right up in their space. These people (and animals) are working.
Are working SOLDIERS. Elite at that. I don't understand these dickhead tourists who think it's OK to get right up on a military person like this. You wouldn't hug an on duty marine. You wouldn't poke at the mount of a special forces. The fuck you think it's OK to do to a kingsguard?
People try to get pictures with and touch the guards at the tomb of the unknown soldiers in the US, which is like the most sacred fucking ceremonial guard position there is. Like having bayonets fixed and live ammunition doesn't send the message to not fuck with them, but people still try to go under the roped off areas. The general public is filled with nitwits that think all public places are their little playground.
No upper body strength and no balance whatsoever. That's the only thing I take from this. I also say this from the position of someone who is much heavier than her for my height.
I saw a saying on Reddit the other day -
You know you're middle aged when people stop laughing when you fall over
You're in old age when they automatically call an ambulance
_āLetās see. Iām gonna barely lift my lead foot off the ground, trip on this cobblestone, and then Iāll just leave my arms by my side while I hurl my face into the pavement right here next to me. Sounds like a plan.ā_
I feel bad for elderly people when they fall and I hope that she is ok. That said, that lady had no business being so close to that horse let alone touching it. Itās been said over and over again that these horses and their soldiers are not a tourist attraction but guards on duty. People should always ask permission to approach and or touch animals that arenāt theirs.
I've seen better balance in a student's bank account
Ouch! Take my upvote friend š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
I guess you could say she's not very stable.
Seems like she was horsing around.
How much horse power is it? One?
Well, shes no Mustang, I'll tell you that.
That nagās somewhat grounded.
She thought she was the mane character.
Trying to get insurance to pony up some cash.
Lawyers are champing at the bit, with unbridled enthusiasm.
She took a dive and scored 0, no gold for her.
Ride Sally ride
With puns like this we're likely to stirrup trouble. Edit:spelling
Enough with the puns! Don't want to stir up any more controversy here!
Are you saying they should rein it in?
Thatās a great equestrian, glad you asked!
She better hoof it to hospital
She clearly thinks she's the mane character.
not sure whether to say yay or neigh to this comment.
Yeah but why the long face?
But she's definitely an unstable genose
She would make a great soccer player
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More off balance than the girl at her own bridle party.
It seriously looks like she threw herself down for views. How can anyone be this unbalanced? Look at how she takes a step towards falling after the horse gently bumps her.
Looks like she smacked her face on the ground pretty hard. Staged fall gone wrong, or unbalanced moron? The world may never know. ETA: Just to clarify, standing in front of the horse is why she's a moron. The horse pushing her is the proof of that. The falling is just an unfortunate consequence.
*"You decide!"*
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Epirabstttesofhisroey
this is how I remember it and will explain it to my son. "Well Son, Epirabstttesofhisroey was a YouTube phenomenon... "
Unbalanced woman vs horse. BEGIN!!
Woman!ā¦VERSUS: Grouuuuuuund! Begin!
I work with the elderly. They do indeed fall like that in real life.
I have recurrent vertigo: BPPV, the type the elderly often have, due to a minor fault of the inner ear that can develop due to either age or accident or just randomly (though at 45 I'm not *that* old, mine is likely at least in part due to a goodly clunk to the head many years ago). Can confirm: we sometimes stagger and fall in odd ways. Once you start going, you sometimes have an odd momentum that you can't properly arrest (because your balance signals are confused and your brain isn't entirely sure what is actually happening).
I have MS and use my hallway to pinball my way around lol
There's a lot of people that live in suburban areas that have not used their muscles other than to walk to the car for decades. Look at her calves, I know good definition is genetic, but her legs just go straight down. If you are 50 and haven't exercised since you were a teen, this is what it looks like.
Was about to say, a whole lot of folks barely even have the health to walk around their house these days. Don't even have to walk around a grocery store for food, or a mall to shop. Honestly outside of my job I could probably get away with sitting up in bed each morning and never leaving it except to get the door, go to the restroom, and make food, if I wanted.
They are certainly no match for centuries old cobblestone streets.
I think she's just unhealthy and uncoordinated. she tried to stop her fall but miscalculated where she needed to place her hands and ended up with a pretty rough faceplant. I bet that hurt.
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That was a professional footballist fall
Did the horse get a red card?
She got a card for flopping.
VAR check....No Foul
She wasnāt nudged hard but some people have serious balance issues that arenāt visible. Or she may simply have tangled her legs in a freak accident. She definitely landed hard.
Yea definitely something like that, she doesn't look fit or healthy to begin with
My partner has serious balance issues. Falling over while simply standing upright is a real thing. š¢
She's just old. Old people have no strength so it always looks like they fall on purpose.
*Old people that haven't tried to build strength in thirty years have no strength
She doesn't even need to actively build strength. Just move around for daily tasks. Take a 5-10 min daily walks. She's not that old and not morbidly obese to not be able to prevent that fall unless she has some vestibular issue/any movement issue or she's just sedentary af
To me it looks like someone tied her shoelaces together, and then the horse just tipped her.
The horse indubitably had a complice, my dear Watson!
unbalanced physically AND mentally
No way it was intentional. It looks more like she got shoved at an unfortunate instant where her legs were crossed or her weight shifted on the far leg. Couple that with a sedentary lifestyle making you barely capable of resisting the shove, and you get a face plant
Balance and reflexes disappear quick when you get older. Hence broken hips being such a death sentence. There's a reason so many folks over 60 take classes specifically for balance.Ā She was at an angle, probably stepped across with her right leg which made the left leg hinge and she wasn't strong enough to support her weight with momentum at that angle. Try it but having a friend shove you, but do it drunk while balancing an uneven load.Ā I'm only 44 and I'm already doing all sorts of balance exercises for the centenarian olympics (a term peter status uses that just means maintaining mobility when you're old). It'sĀ not as fun as HIIT of going for PR squats but I've accepted it. Know a bunch of older dudes who are yoked and still but can't maintain their balance for shit with a dynamic load. 70 year olds who can still bench 250 but you pay them in the back and down they go.Ā Folks also don get how strong a horse is. It looks silly but I've had horses do this to me plenty and you realize their necks are stronger than every muscle in your body put together
Staged? Most of her weight is in the top half of her body, and I'm not just talking about the tote bags.
sheās like 70
Her feet didnāt pivot as she turned. She lost her balance.
Someone is looking for a Royal lawsuit š¬š§š¬š§š¬š§
the closest sheāll get to suing a royal guard is angrily yelling at the horse lmao
This is like an car accident scammer finding out that the victim has a dashcam.
She must play soccer.
That hurt ;_;
Lol she's got those "no balance" shoes on
So like, did the horse tie her shoe laces together?
r/rareinsults
Atleast she cushioned her landing with her face
The face is there to protect the centre of the head.
Thankfully her face broke the fall
When I was in med school, I heard a trauma surgeon suggest that your sinuses sorta serve as 'crumple zones' for the brain.
Right? How do you slowly land on your face?!
Arms so weak you can't slow your own fall
She must not work out or simply put on too much upper body weight I see both her arms extended trying to break the fall and damn did those crumple fast
Zero survival instincts on this one.
You joke but the face really does protect the brain like the crumple zone of a car.
So we all have āpunchable facesā?
I've never understood how some people just don't know how to fall over
This video has me wondering if people just get this slow and stuff when you get older. Like Iām 23, am I going to be so stiff that I canāt even break a fall when Iām whatever age she is???
As a 57yr old ex-active person, yes. If you don't use your strength, flexibility, and reflexes for long enough, they will go away. The older you get, the faster they disappear. It's easier to maintain condition than to recover condition you've lost. I'm in this battle now, trying to recover from enforced stillness during lockdown, and it's not easy.
In one of Bill Burr's standups he talks about how women fall like toddlers and I can never unsee it.
Tell me you watch soccer, without telling me you watch soccer.
This is roughly what I was thinking, she'd be in the top teams of the premier League in no time with diving skills like that.
She needs to perfect leaping up and demonstrating perfect unhindered athleticism after seemingly sustaining a life changing, even life ending, injury just moments before.
Football
FuĆball And yah, the woman is a faker.
Tell me you're american without telling me.
Or you know... Australian. Or South African. Or Asian.
But... who gives a shit?
Fallon d'Floor winner
This phrasing is so annoying I wish it would die Also you guys saying sheās embellishing are dumb as fuck. She smashed her face into the ground. If it was fake she deserves an Oscar.
She has the balance of a stationary unicycle
Tbf at least on a unicycle you'd have a chance compared to her xD
The comedy of wearing shoes meant for exercise! Them cushioned trainers were protecting her joints for all that time before the fall so the law of averages should mean sheās ok after this
Absolutely uncoordinated buffoon.
I feel a little bad because sheās older but that still doesnāt excuse motor skills THAT bad. The fact a nudge that light sent her over and the fact she couldnāt even catch herself with her arms extended is almost impressive
Woman probably hasn't fallen over in twenty years, it's easy to get complacent.
That reminds me, I should go practice falling right now. Edit: guys, I now understand that old people and martial artists practice falling.
You laugh, but falling is a surprisingly slow process that you can actually train yourself to handle properly to minimise injury. At a rough count, this woman has about two seconds to deal with the problem. A very poor human reaction speed is 500ms, so she had plenty of time to react better, but probably didn't know how.
A decent amount of people have great difficulty sitting on a toilet. And even more people can't even get up from the ground without lots of effort. She should probably start there.
Your eccentric strength (strength as the muscle is elongated) diminishes quite significantly as you get older. That controlled strength while lowering yourself is a massive indicator of mortality rates. Itās why older people fall and hurt themselves doing every day activities. Staying active is so important as you get older. Use it or lose it.
I am quite tall. This means that as a kid I was always going through crazy growth spurts and never really knew where my feet were, and I would trip. Often. I was so clumsy that my childhood nickname was "kwistaf-trips-a-lot". This resulted in many scrapes, bruises, and ripped jeans. The worst resulted in chipped front teeth (thankfully baby teeth). When my dad was younger, he was a theater actor. He would coordinate fights and then teach the other actors how to do the moves safely, so he had pretty decent stunt training. So one day when I was maybe 6 or 7, right after the tooth incident, my dad took my parents' mattress off their bed and put it on the floor. He spent a few hours teaching me how to fall safely in different scenarios (falling straight forward, sideways, and back). How to rotate, get your hands under you, and absorb the impact. How to kinda roll if you have to land on your side. How to protect your face and head. As an adult I'm much more coordinated, but shit happens. That training definitely saved me from injury multiple times. To this day I'm grateful for it, and occasionally intentionally fall onto my mattress so I can practice.
Very cool! I'm short and did martial arts so I took the falling thing for granted. I did notice people who've never played sports fall like statues.
There was an old lady at the gym I'd go to who would literally just do that. I think she said she was in her 80s. She'd flop down on this elevated padded thing and then get up and do it again
*Don't help, I've fallen and can get up!*
Somebody doesnāt want to go to a nursing home
Literally though. There are clinics that specialize in training people how to fall without hurting themselves
Disabled people do exist.
No, no, let's not use logic here...
"excuse"? It's not a fucking crime to have bad motor skills.
You donāt know what medical issues she has.
This is most older people
I am ten times worse than she is, unfortunately, due to both a disease, natural clumsiness, age, and, admittedly, lack of exercise (related to the disease). I do everything in my power to be careful when I go outside, and not fall, but it happens. I would have shattered at least one bone, tore some muscles and tendons, and would have had to be transported to hospital. She may have some of the same problems. Why call her a buffoon? I felt that and it hurt.
You just said, you do everything in your power to be careful when you go out, because of all that. That's why you're not a buffoon if you fall. If you KNOW your balance and motor skills are hot trash and cannot handle a small push, you wouldn't be going around fucking with horses at touching distance on concrete, would you? Of course not, because you're not a buffoon. There's no possible explanation other than absurd ridiculous ones, that would have her forced to be right by that horse, now are there? Doing tourist stuff on concrete by a large powerful wild animal was her choice. Hence, buffoon. If she knew she's that horribly coordinated and did it anyways, buffoon. If she's thar old, and hasn't realized her balance amd coordination is trash by now, buffoon. It's lose/lose.
faked the fall
Nah, I think poor mobility and sneaker traction can affect older folks. This would happen to my mom because she could have a hard time lifting her feet and would sometimes stumble. You have to always keep on your toes around Ormonde! He is very cheeky. ā¤ļø
Could also be drunk from brunch.
Or have a neurological disorder.
Exactly, the people here calling this fake are ridiculous. My aunt had a brain tumor removed and her balance has been complete shit ever since. I hope this lady is ok. Poor thing
My aunt got bumped into at a party a few months ago and it wouldn't phase most people but she went straight to the ground. I saw tons of comments on the original video saying she was faking it as well. These people can't wrap their heads around the fact that older people or people with certain conditions might not have the same balance as some 25 year old. She still shouldn't have gone that close to the horse and neither should any of the others.
And cobblestones don't help. But she should not have been so close to that horse and the horse reminded her of that.
You seriously think she āfakedā skulling the ground? Just to make a point orā¦?
It's the chronically online take
It is amazing how dumb that comment is and how much it has been upvoted, why would that woman faceplant?
I've seen dozens of older people fall like this - they have weak core strength and poor coordination, even without a cobbled floor they go down like a sack of spuds balanced on a shepherds crook. No idea why the confident answer would be an intentional faceplant, always seems like on here people have the need for everything to be intentional/have a reason.
Honestly just feels like so many people in this thread don't get the concept that motility can decrease with age for numerous reasons. The name calling is insane & these people are in for a rude shock as their loved ones get older
Looked like vertigo to meā¦. Especially the dis-coordination. When people fake falls they protect their face by default. When your brain knows your face is going down there your hands are ready. It takes a lot of training to suppress that reflex and just face first concrete.
Have you had vertigo yourself? You really can't be standing because your inner ear is messed up and you can't maintain your balance while even just sitting still. Unless the vertigo suddenly came on while she was falling, she doesn't have vertigo.
I suffered from vertigo after a severe concussion. Her fall didnāt have anything to do with vertigo.
No. Video was edited to cut out the part where the horse tied her shoelaces together.
Showing your naivety. This is what it looks like when you get older and don't stay mobile. Take care of yourselves.
Nothing is real and you're very special for being sceptic about even the simplest of things.
Only someone that spends far too much time on the internet would think this. As you get older you lose coordination and your joints become unstable, meaning a little wrong step for most people can send an older person tumbling. I saw my mom fall exactly like this from the slightest misstep because her knee slid slightly out of place and she smashed onto the ground. Sheās an old lady out with her family ,not some dumb teenager trying to make a TikTok video.
Honestly, the nudge seemed a little underwhelming for that much of a fall.
That's how my mom falls now that she's older and historically. Just flinging herself to the ground to deal as much damage to herself as she can. She doesn't do it on purpose, just has no safety reflex at all
Yeah, hamming it up for the people.
No I work in healthcare they actually just fall over like toddlers like that
Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, and they often go together.
Well, they're not smart enough to know how dumb they are.
Aren't there usually signs saying to keep your distance?
I don't think that would help. Her falling on her face seemed inevitable with that balance.
Thatās the 12th time it happened that morning
Ya, the soldier wears really bright colours so you can't miss him, he also carries a sword and shouts at people a lot. Keeping your distance is kind of implied.
Just another idiot who thought every animal is a friend. Its a bloody warhorse, IQ lower than the rock she kissed.
There usually is a sign warning people that the horse will bite and kick and to not get too close. The wording doesn't forbid getting too close, just telling you that there will be consequences.
Sign says do not touch the reins and also horses may bite , nothing about using your own face as a cushion for landing though
Maybe she could have a career in teaching soccer players.
I've always wondered, are they coached to flop like that? Is it kind of a monkey see, monkey do kinda thing? Or are some players just dingleberries by nature?
I never watched soccer (sorry FOOTBALL) until my Mexican wife got me into it. According to her having grown up watching it, they are very much coached to do this and it has always been the most annoying thing about the sport.
They want free penalties, corners, kicks so they'll fake everything.Ā It's sad everyone's just allowed it that it's now a part of football.
I always wonder if the horses are trained to do that on command or if they just like horses with personality. Certainly a good few of the horses I've known would do it for the laughs, never let anyone tell you horses don't have a sense of humour.
I think the horse just nudged her, 9/10 times the person can actually move their feet to balance themselves especially if they decided to get that close
yeah it feels like she aint do nothing to brace herself
I feel like she flopped on purpose for attention
Cracking your face into pavement is certainly commitment to the bit. Or more likely she has shit for balance
All horses have a personality to be fair, but I don't think it has much to do with the situation. Either it nudged her for food, attention, or just to get out of its field of view.
The horse probably knows people aren't meant to quite that close and wanted to give her a reminder. I've seen guardhorses accept a pat on the muzzle but if you touch the reins you will get YELLED at by the guard.
Horses like to nudge people if they arenāt trained to respect personal space (something a military or police horse would never be trained to do). If Iām too close and my horse nudges me it knocks me back or off balance. Luckily I have better coordination than this lady.
Combination of horse personality and the fact they are trained as guard horses. The chance they'll ever need to be used to defend the monarchy is slim, but the guards are 100% genuine guards, I assume the horses are too...
Honestly the horse didnāt even look like it was trying to push her, it looked like regular nuzzling, searching for treats, restlessness, not like purposefully pushy at all. I think a light breeze could knock that lady over. Edit: furthermore, even the way she falls looks like she just is older and uncoordinated. She pretty much face planted into the floor, not much attempt to catch herself, or not early fast enough.
He knows what he did. Note the officer turning to have a chat with him at the end.
Look at how silently and almost invisible those armed policemen came in the picture.
What could go rong?
The horse took the w
It bothered me as well.
What Couldn't Go Right
lol dude stepping in for his own photo op. Not one shit given.
Oh cool! My turn!
Love the two Asian guys who saw their chance to get a clear pic with the guard and took it.
"Is she dead?" "I dunno, maybe. Hey!.. the next guy in line is helping her. Hurry up and take my photo. Sucka!"
My old horse used to do this all the time. Sometimes it was her being impatient wanting more treats or wanting some more attention or to play. Sometimes it was her let me know to get out of her space. I'd go with the latter in this instance.
Iāve never seen a faker actually allow themselves to land on their face. I think instinct makes your hands block your head. Ormonde love taps another! Ormonde 1,000,000/ Tourists 0.
Looks like she "flopped" The horse barely nudged her. FFS people, you don't need to get right up in their space. These people (and animals) are working.
Are working SOLDIERS. Elite at that. I don't understand these dickhead tourists who think it's OK to get right up on a military person like this. You wouldn't hug an on duty marine. You wouldn't poke at the mount of a special forces. The fuck you think it's OK to do to a kingsguard?
People try to get pictures with and touch the guards at the tomb of the unknown soldiers in the US, which is like the most sacred fucking ceremonial guard position there is. Like having bayonets fixed and live ammunition doesn't send the message to not fuck with them, but people still try to go under the roped off areas. The general public is filled with nitwits that think all public places are their little playground.
Sheād be eaten first in an apocalypse, easy pickings!
Is the horse ok?
looks like a diver to me
she's got the fall reflexes of a broom
No upper body strength and no balance whatsoever. That's the only thing I take from this. I also say this from the position of someone who is much heavier than her for my height.
https://preview.redd.it/ly2dcsy9xj8d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=936a933d8ac2c4f10abb62728cc247dfe0a9ef17 Lmao
I saw a saying on Reddit the other day - You know you're middle aged when people stop laughing when you fall over You're in old age when they automatically call an ambulance
How has she survived for so long???
Oblivious to her surroundings. You should always have an awareness of what is going on around you and plan accordingly for various scenarios.
_āLetās see. Iām gonna barely lift my lead foot off the ground, trip on this cobblestone, and then Iāll just leave my arms by my side while I hurl my face into the pavement right here next to me. Sounds like a plan.ā_
He's not horsing around.
Yellow card, simulation.
I wonder what the Copper is asking the Soldier at the very end of the clip here?
Oi Ronnie, did ya do that on purpose or nah?
To this day, "Was it a nice trip?" triggers her.
What is WCGR?
Why cut green radishes?
Was one foot glued to the pavement or something
I shall accept my fate. I must eat pavement. The horse wills it, so I shall not attempt to protect my face.
Love that horse, he gets tired of people's shit.
I feel bad for elderly people when they fall and I hope that she is ok. That said, that lady had no business being so close to that horse let alone touching it. Itās been said over and over again that these horses and their soldiers are not a tourist attraction but guards on duty. People should always ask permission to approach and or touch animals that arenāt theirs.
āGet up and stop being such a drama queenā