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Blog Guy, I was surprised to find that Pamplona Running of the Bulls thing started several days ago. Usually you dump all over it in your blog. Don’t you care about animals anymore?
I do care very much, but from the coverage I’ve seen this year, I’m cautiously hopeful that some improvements have been made. For example, it looks like they are using fake bulls on wheels, instead of being needlessly cruel to real animals.
I had no idea! What else?
I was also happy to find pictures of runners waiting in long lines before they get to run.
In past years it was like, “Twenty bulls, no waiting!” Now, with the lines, it’s more like going to the DMV to get plates, and it’s bound to discourage some idiots.
I mean, how long would YOU wait just to get trampled and gored? Pretty soon, people will be like, “I waited four hours and then they ran out of bulls! I’m just gonna see if this blond chick wants to get drunk and make out.”
So things are really getting better over there, huh?
No, I was just riffing on a couple of random photos. Sadly, Spain is still Spain.
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A child is chased by a toy bull during festivities at the bullring in Pamplona on the eighth day of San Fermin festival July 13, 2010. REUTERS/Joseba Etxaburu
Runners wait at the town hall before the eighth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, July 13, 2010. Three people were hospitalized following a run that lasted two minutes and 14 seconds, according to local news sources. REUTERS/Vincent West
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It only lasted two minutes and 14 seconds? Sounds like something else I’m all too familiar with.
Minds out of the gutter! That’s about how long it takes me to run the 440 nowadays.
Ahhh… that chico behind the blond is nice!!!!! Cute smile…
The 440. Yeah, I am sure that is what I thought. Why, just the thought of the 440 made me smile:)
Isn’t that the new training tool for sadistic personal trainers?
That’s what you think, Spin. Even if they win, they lose. I refer you to this post from last year…
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/20 09/07/13/goring-goring-gone/
@Dave_not_dave, you’re dating yourself by referring to the 440 as they haven’t contested that event in years. It’s all about the SI units now!
The expression used to be “living your life a 1/4 mile at a time.” Or in the military we used to say: “Live your life 10,000 feet at a time.” Both seem appropriate here.
Oops. I meant the 400 meter, yeah, that’s it.
Is anyone else curious why they are wearing white? Reference my post the other day, and considering what they are about to do, I would think they would wear brown pants.
Thanks, BG, you never miss an opportunity to poke a little fun at the Spaniards and their bulls. You might say you’re bullish on those photos.
Women toured
while the bulls poured
the blood of the hoard
but then were poked by a sword.
Very nice lines, Mama.
Dave is dating himself? Does that mean he wears a macho blue dress when he irons like ifly?
Who knew bulls were good at unicycling.
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I wonder who gets to run behind the bulls? Be careful where you step!
It appears that Shra’s chico with the cute smile is fondling the blonde chica.
What happens in Pamplona stays in Pamplona.
Shra’s chico is fondling the blonde chica? That’s cheeky!
Billl, he is soooo not… i know its trick photography!
Its all a part of the White (Hat?) Conspiracy!!!
My chico wont do that to me!! Would he??
Unless I want his hands, he better keep them to himself… and not on any other chica…
That’s not you in the red top is it, Shra?
We cannot see his right hand.
She isnt bad, Bill… yes, that could be me.. in another life… thanks..
We can only imagine what each other looks like, Shra.
I imagine you with nice shoes, and a Mona Lisa smile as you warm up your taser…..
That’s not Shra in the red top, Shra is way hotter.
Do they wear red sashes and vests and stuff to hide the gore marks?
BG,you better tell us what you have done with E!
I believe E has also been chained to the plumbing in Robert’s basement. You know, we all know the drill when you oppose the White Hat Conspiracy…
Right, like I have plumbing!
This should make you happy senor Blog Guy. Today, Catalonia passed a law banning bull fighting!
See the article here.