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[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

1 hour ago, OpenC said:

Aye, I know that

 

They're still seahorses though

 

 I know what you mean but I like 'em

[OpenC]

I just think if we did a new badge now and somebody thought we should include some sort of portmanteau animal hybrid like a cod with a horse's arse end to reference our historical fishing and farming then, no matter how well done it was, people would rightly look at it and then go

 

 

I feel the same about the seahorses, however fucking historical they are and however many of them are stuck on the civic centre 

 

I'm not clamouring for change, I think the crest is classy as fuck. I just think the seahorses are canny stupid

 

 

Edited October 14, 2022 by OpenC

[OpenC]

1 hour ago, Jackie Broon said:

 

But unicorns, they'd be fine, eh? 

 

I've been trying to work this out but I can't  you'll have to explain 

[Izakaya]

So they're not supposed to be 'actual' seahorses, but an allegorical portmanteau of land and marine agriculture? 

[OpenC]

I have no idea it may well be the case that the city of Newcastle upon Tyne was founded and became successful on the back of some seahorse related industry of which I'm unaware, but I reckon it's probably just an allegorical reference to seafaring like you say

[Wolfcastle]

3 minutes ago, Izakaya said:

So they're not supposed to be 'actual' seahorses, but an allegorical portmanteau of land and marine agriculture? 

Blinded By The Sun some people re the Seahorses

 

 

Edited October 14, 2022 by Wolfcastle

[OpenC]

 

Absolutely. Walking in circles.

 

 

Edited October 14, 2022 by OpenC

[Jackie Broon]

5 minutes ago, OpenC said:

 

I've been trying to work this out but I can't  you'll have to explain 

 

It was ment as a playful reference to you being one of the few brexiteer posters in the brexit thread, iirc.

[OpenC]

 I'm pleased to note that it still means nowt even in that context then, though I guess Orwell's The Lion And The Unicorn must mean something. 

 

Just pretend I was Jeremy Corbyn or Mick Lynch

[et tu brute]

Fucking hell it's like being in Narnia this thread at the moment 

[OpenC]

says the poster with the Latin user name

[OpenC]

I just get triggered by the seahorses every time and people always get proper defensive of them

[Keegans Export]

I tend to get quite snooty and refer to them as a Hippocampus rather than a seahorse. The half-horse-half-fish that Poseidon used to pull his chariot in Greek mythology probably has a bit more "cred" than the weird-looking thing you see hanging around seaweed.

[Kid Icarus]

Seahorses and Magpies are both very uncool non-stoic looking animals like, but I kind of like it. It's from an era where we seemingly didn't really attach masculinity to animals, mascots and objects like Lions, Wolves, Tigers Devils, Cats etc. 

 

Football clubs and fans were just like, ooh we're the magpies, owls, bees, cherries etc and presumably no one cared.

 

 

Edited October 14, 2022 by Kid Icarus

[OpenC]

Just now, TheBrownBottle said:

Two spuggies would be my choice

 

 shivering whippet across the top of the badge maybe

 

[TheBrownBottle]

3 minutes ago, Keegans Export said:

I tend to get quite snooty and refer to them as a Hippocampus rather than a seahorse. The half-horse-half-fish that Poseidon used to pull his chariot in Greek mythology probably has a bit more "cred" than the weird-looking thing you see hanging around seaweed.

Yep, that’s because they are hippocampi, not little sea-horses that swim in the sea.

[OpenC]

Honestly I'm not 100% that I feel a whole lot better about Greek semiseahorses that pull gods around but anyway

 

I don't want a badge that just says Newcastle United in a 2022 font but if we get to the stage that we have to think about it I reckon there must be a middle ground between mediaeval pageantry, greek mythology and cutting edge modernism

 

 

Edited October 14, 2022 by OpenC

[Kid Icarus]

The whole aesthetic of the city crest is great though imo. It doesn't matter that it's seahorses or whatever, the full thing and its symmetry looks class. 

[OpenC]

Aye, I absolutely agree, and I love the way the current NUFC crest looks as I say. I just always laugh a bit at the choice of animal, like I would if they'd gone for a mole or an axolotl or a pigeon or whatever, even if they were really well drawn and were axolotls that carried the sun in some Peruvian creation myth

[TheBrownBottle]

9 minutes ago, OpenC said:

Honestly I'm not 100% that I feel a whole lot better about Greek semiseahorses that pull gods around but anyway

 

I don't want a badge that just says Newcastle United in a 2022 font but if we get to the stage that we have to think about it I reckon there must be a middle ground between mediaeval pageantry, greek mythology and cutting edge modernism

 

 

 

Something from the Early Modern period?  Darlington have a Quaker’s hat. Maybe two muskets and a Franklin stove at the top?   

[OpenC]

definitely worth considering

[Infatuation Junkie]

Get the logo built and designed around a blue star, a perm, the Tyne bridge and 1 arm held high.

[Lazarus]

Seahorses are cool.

 

The bloke takes the eggs off the lass and tells her to fuck off.

[Unbelievable]

Yeah man, how cool is this:

 

Quote

Females have a territory of about 100 sq metres and males have a territory of about 0.5 sq metres. Their territories overlap.

It was always thought that Seahorses pair for life but research by The Seahorse trust has shown that pair bonding is just for a few months or a season at a time. They meet first thing in the morning to reinforce their pair bonding with an elaborate courtship display. The female meets the male in his territory and as they approach each other, they change colour. The male circles around the female and the pair often spiral around an object. This display can last for up to an hour. Once over the female goes back to her territory.

 

So basically, the bloke just stays in his crib while the females come by every morning for wild intercourse, where they spiral around and change colour. After intercourse the bloke kicks her out and after a few months she gets replaced. Sounds pretty cool to me.

[RS]

Early modern?  Replace the 450 year old seahorses with sausage rolls