MSNBC’s got some pretty lively photos of this year’s event. Don’t click on the two blackened ones unless you want to see the fella that won’t be regaling spirited tales anymore.
Thanks for the information, now I’ll be able to spot a new type of idiot in the future.
A bullhitter?
Seeing as language is essentially my profession*… hardly. I simply recall once reading that here on this board, although I’ve never used it myself before. IMHO, there should be a gender-neutral singular term for a single head of cattle. With most animals it’s generally the male of the species, but with livestock, it’s occasionally the female - take “sheep”, for example; you’d never say “a herd of sheep and rams.” Why not the same with cows?
Anyway, I apologize for my mistake, as it seems to have caused some offense. As the saying goes, “To forgive is human, to moo, bovine.”
- I translate.
Amusing stuff (except for the asshole that got gored and crashed my mood).
This is more my idea of hanging out with bulls
http://www.lambocars.com/events/bulls.htm
It didnt get to you at all, did it?
Or chickens, for that matter.
losing sleep over it
Male chicken=rooster (or cock). Female chicken=hen.
Male sheep=ram. Female sheep=ewe.
Is this really that hard? Farm animals, people. Didn’t you pass out of second grade?
“Cow” is quite different: a cow is a female bovine, female whale, female moose, female elephant, or other large herd mammal female. A male is a “bull.”
That is, unless you don’t mind letting sloppy usage erode meaning, or are using it as slang (but even as slang “cow” still usually refers to a female.)
I didn’t visit Spain until I was in my 20s, but I had read most of the Asterix and Obelix collection while studying French in Alliance Française when I was a kid. I have never stopped thinking of Spaniards as one of the characters in Asterix in Spain.
Sorry about that. ¡Ole!
What are the stats of injuries? If 15 got killed, hundreds must have been gored or trampled.
Meh. I just eat 'em. I don’t sex 'em.
I prefer to worry about things that actually exist.
You’re probably right. After all, knowing little of Iberian culture and the Festival of Bravery you judge it as “shameful.” Not knowing me, you judge me as a dumbass.
An entire tradition practiced by millions over the centuries is ‘shameful.’ Millions of people who having more experience than you have come to the opposite conclusion from yours. I guess they are all wrong.
Thank goodness you came along to tell them how to live their lives.
Frankly, within limits, bullfighting and other cultural traditions are none of our business. If you do not support this art, do not attend or watch. There is no reason to slur and entire history.
That’s the most amusing of them all.
- Right now it’s winter.
- Only bottles in the fridge.
- My wife would probably win.
Combining all three with Running Of The Bulls would be technically feasible, much more interesting for the media, and demonstrate 75% maleness, minimum.
And if the bulls were on snowmobiles, well…
So we’re likely to fry our enemies in olive oil? 
Sorry, out of time.
Well, same as the first recorded death is from 1914, by which time the bulls had been run for over a thousand years (there’s medieval documents mentioning the practice), and that led to the runs being “officialized” (added to the programs of the week of celebrations, with the route marked and fenced, and cops ordered to keep people who seem out of shape away), there aren’t exact stats of how many people have been hurt. Also, the hurt involves not only by the bulls but also by falling down or by being taught the facts of life by other runners or by the herders: at least one of the wounded from this year was listed as “un varetazo,” “contussion from being hit by a herder’s staff” (the staff is a “vara”).
But yes, it’s in the hundreds. There have been pileups which led to over one dozen people in the hospital; that’s with no bull involved, just people falling on top of each other and crushing the ones at the bottom. Safety is increased constantly: for example, the most dangerous point used to be the entrance to the actual arena, where pileups would take place. They opened slits at the bottom of the walls so people who fall down can roll out through the slits and there hasn’t been a pileup since. This year, the floor of the route has been painted with anti-sliding stuff and that has reduced falls in Mercaderes to almost zero (I think it’s been only one runner who fell there, instead of stuff like " all six bulls and two of the oxen"). The “infirmary” at the arena itself has been up to hospital surgery room standards since the 1950s: bullfighters have a saying that “if you’re going to get caught, best do it in Pamplona.” From what I’ve seen of street-based-bullfighting in other areas of Spain, it’s true; there’s areas where having a dozen dead from the local fiestas is considered “a bit too high.”
I herd that one already. After a while it all just graze out.
Sez you. 
Certainly…any number of primitive tribes with marginal IQs have spectacular rites which endanger their health…God Bless the ones that invented bungee using some crappy old vines and a seedily-built platform.