[Closed] What has your local Giant done?

Causeway, but it was quite a while ago I'm told.

I defy you to prove me wrong.

Ours was a fan of crazy golf

Ours is a Long Man, not a Giant does that still count?

As you drive into Leamington Spa off the M40, there's a tree that looks like a giant gentleman's sausage, or should that be, a Giant's gentleman sausage...

that still count?

it all counts

there are points available

but then there are points available from speed cameras

so whether points are something you want is unclear.

But, 'Points Make Prizes'

He sat upon a mountain, watched the stars and surveyed his whole kingdom.  Then they called the mountain his chair (Cadair Idris)

But, ‘Points Make Prizes’

A friend of mine was stopped for speeding in the US and told the officer looking at her licence that the points were 'something you get given in the uk for good behaviour'

He sat upon a mountain, watched the stars and surveyed his whole kingdom.  Then they called the mountain his chair (Cadair Idris)

like it!

there are extra points for welsh giants incidentally

I have always blamed the giant for everything. If it rains, the giant is having a shower. If its windy, the giant is using the hairdryer. If its snowing, the giant is defrosting the freezer. When it's sunny the giant is using the giant torch. You get the idea.

But when the kids go into school and explain this to the teachers, they don't seem very impressed. And all the kids have done this.

I live in Wales too, do I get points?

Don't think the giants & dragons ever bothered with the Chilterns, just ruffles in the carpet as far as they were concerned. Nil points

I live in Wales too, do I get points?

Yes - specifically for this

all the kids have done this.

Where I am at the moment, the Tete de geant is keeping an eye on the damn Swiss!!

Our local giant was a wrong’un but at least had the good manners to drink out of a cup and saucer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_de_Shotts

Also, we have a giant baby..... buried in the graveyard of our church

https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-curious-case-of-the-10-stone-baby-born-near-glasgow-1-4324046

He wasn't that local, but he created a hill with his shovelful of soil:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2005/03/23/wrekin_giant_feature.shtml

No longer local but was for quite a long time. Apparently annoyed travelers and then went to sleep in a hill  http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/47297/folklore/pen_pumlumonfawr.html

We have the Skirrid mountain just down the valley with its' prominent landslide on it. The origin of this landslide has spawned several legends. one of which involves a giant. Read all about them here....

https://www.spookyisles.com/2018/02/skirrid-folklore/

Giant Rombald supposedly split the calf from the cow on Ilkley moor...

Skomar Oddy, the giant of the Preseli mountains, saved all the sea creatures that had been thrown onto the land around Milford Haven by two fighting sea monsters.

As he walked around scooping them up his toes left little imprints on the edges of the Haven which are all the little bays and beaches we have today.

He only wakes once every thousand years so we are well overdue a visit.

Well my very local giant was actually the devil and fired some arrows parallel to the a1. Does that count?

http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/devilsarrows.htm

Otherwise we're a bit bereft of giants, i assume like most of gods' creatures* they've been displaced by farming and grouse moor.

If I'm really scraping the barrel i suppose there's the hole of horcum but it's not really local.

*the impact of giants and devils on our landscape is proof enough that these things exist i think, and you can't have devils without having gods.

Not really a giant as such, but the Devil was held to be responsible for putting this here:

I was always told that the giant was buried under the Wrekin

Just down from the Devil's Punch Bowl is the Devil's Jumps near me:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Jumps,_Churt

The Devil's Jumps are linked to a variety of local landmarks by folklore, including Mother Ludlam's Cave near the ruins of Waverley Abbey, the Devil's Punch Bowl at Hindhead, the village of Thursley and the parish church at Frensham. The folklore includes various tales. One states that the Devil used to amuse himself by leaping from the top of each hill to the next. This annoyed the god Thor who picked up a boulder and threw it at the Devil, causing him to flee and leaving the boulder at the Devil's Jumps. This same story is told of the Devil's Jumps near Treyford on the South Downs in West Sussex, but it is likely to have originated at the Devil's Jumps in Surrey.

He wasn’t that local, but he created a hill with his shovelful of soil:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2005/03/23/wrekin_giant_feature.shtml
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Thats a new one on me, and I originate from Newport! Its one way of explaining a volcano I suppose!

King Arthur was walking in Carmarthenshire and found a stone in his shoe. He threw it across the sea to where it still sits on Cefn Bryn in Gower.

It’s actually the remains of a Neolithic burial chamber.  That surely makes him a giant?

https://www.visitswanseabay.com/blog/2017/06/01/legend-arthurs-stone/

just kinda lies there, big lazy streak of piss tbh.

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