Bullfights

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:31 pm

Or Toro, as they say in Mexico. This is bizarre. Also, big business down here. It is intrquing to watch a guy tease this enormous animal, with blood dripping off its back from the spear-clip thingies they use to soften him up.

I guess what I'm saying is...WTF?

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:39 am

When my Spanish class went to Spain we decided not to go to one of those... we probably saw some churches instead

Dunno, I too decided I wasn't really interested in that.
-bill

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:11 am

Can you root for the bull or would that be a threat to your safety?

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:05 pm

I found the bullfight I attended in Madrid to be fascinating, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend them to others and I kind of decided after it was over that I didn't need to see another one anytime soon. Still, Hemingway, blah blah blah--seemed like an experience I needed to have and I don't regret going.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:10 pm

They should have strapped horns on Hemmingway and thrown him in the ring.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:29 pm

Cow tipping is much more humane and pretty much the same concept.

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:52 am

j$ wrote:They should have strapped horns on Hemmingway and thrown him in the ring.

Touché. (One "m" by the way.)

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:22 am

I went to a Minangkabau bullfight many years ago in a village outside Bukittinggi on Sumatra. It's not a bloke fighting a bull - but 2 water buffalos get put into a field to fight each other. A lot of money changes hands as everybody bets on what bull will win - then everybody gathers aound the bulls and pokes them with sticks to try to get them to fight each other.

I vaguely remember trudging around in the mud and buffalo shit for an hour or so, screaming wildly at two fairly uninterested and slightly annoyed bulls. I don't recall who won - as far as I can tell, the bulls just wandered off through the village together with nary glove laid nor a snort in anger, and I preceeded to get drunk and try to chat up Swedish backpackers.

All in all, a nice day out.

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:43 pm

Paco Del Stinko wrote:Can you root for the bull ?

Yes,in fact you can.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:55 pm

Paco Del Stinko wrote:Can you root for the bull?

In the Australian vernacular that has a very different meaning to what I think you intend. To me that sounds like you are applying for a job.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:12 am

Well, I found something to tear me away from bullfights.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:14 am

Dan-O from Five-O - That's perfect. I love the minor league ring, too.

Caravan Ray - Do you mean genuine employment or some kind of Caravan Ray "job"? That's interesting and have never heard that before.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:51 am

Paco Del Stinko wrote: Caravan Ray - Do you mean genuine employment or some kind of Caravan Ray "job"? That's interesting and have never heard that before.

The verb to root means "to engage a partner in trouserless horizontal folk-dancing", or words to that effect. It is used used in much the same way as the popular four-letter anlgo-saxon word starting with "F" (ie. not only can you root somebody - but you can also feel rooted or tell somebody to 'get rooted'. You can't say "root off" though - that makes no sense). The American use of "root" is a source of endless amusement to us (well, to me anyway - as is your use of the word "fanny" and men called "Randy")

Your suggestion that you "root for a bull", implies that the bull in question has over-extended himself in the cow husbandry department and you are offering to help him out.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:10 am

I am certainly ill-equipped for the task. That is very interesting, and the meaning of such things as "Roto-Rooter" are forever altered to me now. Thank you Caravan Ray, International Answer Man!

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:47 pm

Paco Del Stinko wrote:Dan-O from Five-O - That's perfect. I love the minor league ring, too.

Dude, it's just funny because I stumbled across it and remembered what you had said about rooting for the bull. A head butt man! The bull head butted him. That just never get's old.

Too bad Caravan Ray had to interject his twisted Australian English about "Root". That's just crazy. Next thing you know he'll be on about color and colour and center and centre.

But what do you expect from an Island founded by criminals? You just can't breed that kind of ignorance out.