STOP HAVING AN EVENT WHERE PEOPLE ARE CHASED BY BULLS. IT’S DANGEROUS. Build a tourist attraction. Maybe a theme park featuring a relatively safe “getting chased by bulls” ride.
Sincerely,
Dale Wisely
Dear Pamplona Bull Runners-From,
STOP GOING TO PAMPLONA AND LETTING YOURSELF GET CHASED AND GORED BY BULLS. There are other nice cities in Europe. Go to those.
Sincerely,
Dale Wisely
Dear Pamplona Tourists,
STOP GOING TO WATCH PEOPLE GET TRAMPLED AND GORED BY BULLS. There are lots of other fun things to do while in Europe. Do those.
Sincerely,
Dale Wisely
Dear C & F Forum Members,
Don’t let anyone ever tell you I’m not a genius. I have smart ideas like these all the time about how to solve problems such as, PEOPLE GETTING RUN DOWN AND GORED BY BULLS.
The bull rush or whatever it’s called doesn’t at all concern me as much as bull fighting. In the bull rush, people (generally young men) go out to prove they are real men by taking this insane risk. It’s probably more than proving they are men tough. They are probably thrill seekers, adrenalin addicts and there is nothing wrong with that. I have a past in extreme sports myself so I have a faint idea of what it’s about. If they get killed it’s their own fault and I do think they are well aware of the risks before they go out there. This is a sport, a dangerous sport, a real sport, just like racing.
Bullfighting tough is not a sport because the bull hasn’t got a fair chance. The bull is the one who gets killed every time. It’s barbaric and pointless.
There’s another festival somewhere where the entire town fight each other by throwing tomatoes, ending up ankle deep in pulped tomato. Couldn’t we merge these two together? It has the makings of a great post-festival barbecue.
Wasn’t it an episode of Northern Exposure, that had a version of the running of the bulls, where all the men in town had to run naked through the streets every spring?
It just occured to me where the word, ‘gorey’ comes from. I guess if you get gored in the gut and there’s a wall behind you, that’s gorey. If you were covered in tomato pulp, it wouldn’t look so bad. Do the bulls always aim for the butt? Are they trained to due to insurance clauses?
Tony
Really, though. You ain’t lived until you’ve done something really stupid and dangerous and lived to tell about it.
The ancient Cretans had the sport of bull leaping. The brave contestant, both male and female, stood before a charging bull. At the last minute they leapt up, grabbed the horns and did a flip over the bull’s back. I wish I could get that on ESPN. I don’t know if it was a sport for sport sake or a ritual.
I wouldn’t call that political - Gore’s supporters admit he has about as much personality as a tree stump
A really political statement has to reveal something about one’s politics, or at least stir up strong feelings, and saying that Al Gore is boring is kind of like saying day is usually brighter than night - not much sense arguing about it
Gore was remarkable for his ability to make fun of himself.
If you saw the Saturday Night Live episode that he and Tipper introduced, you know what I mean.
There was a speech, I think to the National Press Club, right after the flap about his using the wrong White House telephones to make fundraising calls. He sat at the front table while he was being introduced, talking on a telephone (a regular desk phone, not a cellphone). As the intro wound up and he was supposed to stand up for his speech, he said, “I’ll have to get back to you,” hung up and delivered his speech.
I have to agree with Glauber. Not only is this an excellent way of thinning the herd, but its one where the culls actually volunteer for the privilege. To improve it’s efficacy, however, just give the medical folks the day off. Then thay can also go and watch the idiots do what they do best - something stupid!
After all, if they want to voluntarily remove themselves from the gene pool, who are we to stop them?
Everyone should do away with dangerouse things like that and turn their stupid backward pagan celebrations into american style celebrations. Basically turn it into another excuse to go out and buy a bunch of crap.
Why celebrate when you can shop?
Well, I’m going to go buy one of them bobble head bull dolls. In fact , I better buy a dozen. For gifts. It’s like Christmas. You have to buy a bunch of gifts and crap for everyone. And decorations. And fireworks. Special overpriced holiday beer. Don’t forget to watch all of the holiday programs made for _____ (fill in name of holiday here).
I don’t understand why other countries can’t learn to celebrate like we do. With multiple trips to the mall and Wal Mart. They could pretend they were chasing bulls, but through Wal Mart. Maybe they could get employees to dress up as cutesy fuzzy child-safe bulls that gave out candy. You could have your picture made with one. Don’t forget you need to go have special Chase the Bulls day pictures made. Oh, and don’t forget you have to go the the Chase the Bulls play at school tonight. Fuzzy safe cutesy bull costumes reminding kids about the TRUE meaning of Chase the Bull day, along with reminding them to Just Say No, watch both ways befor you cross the street, No means No, and how good patriotic children turn in their friends, neighbors and family for doing Un-American stuff. I gotta go. Wal Mart is gonna be packed.
Saw an actual example of that on, ummmm, the History Channel, I think it was, in a show about Minoan civilization. Apparently SOMEONE has tried to revive this practice; the shots weren’t computer-generated. It was riveting.
No kidding. Come to that, on my darker days I think that bull-running everywhere would be a good thing.
Yeah, I was wondering about how one gets started! These people were seasoned acrobats already, and were doing free somersaults lengthwise over the bull as well as lauching off of the horns. I wanted to see more, but unfortunately the clips were rather short. I found it much more interesting than your Spanish-style bullfight, and particularly because it was a more level playing field, so to speak.
