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Worst Activists Ever

Every year in Pamplona, Spain, over a million people watch and/or participate in the Running of the Bulls. People – and by that I mean idiots – try to run ahead of a stampede of bulls in the narrow streets. The bulls have killed 15 idiots since 1924. I think you can appreciate the valuable service the bulls are performing.

Later that day, Matadors torture and kill the bulls for entertainment. It’s a popular vacation destination for the whole family.

The part that got my attention is that hundreds of animal rights activists always attend to protest. Many of the female activists protest by going topless and running with the bulls. That’s right: In order to make this event LESS popular, the female activists take off their tops and jog in front of onlookers.

Keep in mind that this is a crowd of people who hope to see bystanders get gored before the animals are all stabbed to death. I hate to categorize people, but which of these items do you think would have the best chance of discouraging folks that enjoy watching bulls get stabbed?

1. Classical music
2. Poetry reading
3. Tits

The thing that frustrates me most is that when I make people mad with my comic or blog, all they ever do is send angry e-mails. I never get the naked female activists jogging in front of my office. Apparently you have to stab animals to get the VIP treatment. This is the sort of thing that no one tells you before you become a vegetarian.

For the record, as far as you know, I am stabbing my cat with a Uniball pen right now. Bring it on!

Scott Adams

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Put down the cat and come over here....

No, that was mine. The reference your thinking of came from a Johnny Carson show. Zsazsa Gabor came on with her persian cat and sat down in the chair next to Johnny and she says to Johnny:" Oh Johnny you vant to pet my pussy?" and he says:" Yeah, put down the cat." Got the living crap sued out of him.

so.. if i mutilate animals i get hot naked chicks to run around my property..

-sets up lawn chair-
-shoots any moving animal-
-waits-

god bless america!

Eeeeeeewww...

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shooting something isn't necessary...

1. sets up lawn chair
2. puts on fur coat and or eats a steak
3. nude nymphomaniacs start grazing in his pasture

sweet deal.. my yard isnt that big but hey.. i dont care... bring on the protestor womens

what are the coordinates of your yard? Don't want the girls going to your neighbors.

to understand the spaniards passion for the bull fight try reading death in the afternoon by hemmingway.

it is an ancient part of their culture.

the bulls are not defenseless and at the "moment of truth", if the matador is honorable he risks his lift as he takes the life of the bull. if the bull decides to lift his horn at that moment the matador will receive a goring from a razor sharp horn to the large artery in his groin. a serious goring there will result in bleeding to death so quickly that a surgeon waiting behind the wall could not save the matador if he operated immediately. well, maybe today they could.

goring in other places is not any fun either.

anyway, if you read that and keep an open mind perhaps you will think differently about it all.

i did and when i attended the bullfights in spain i enjoyed them.

tom w

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I cut and pasted an article about Portuguese bull fighting...
When I went there, it was nice to see that the bull has a REALLY good chance to exact revenge on the matadors...

If you always felt sorry for the bull, this is Toro’s Revenge — in a Portuguese bullfight, the matador is brutalized along with the bull. (The rules were changed in the mid-18th century, when a popular count was gored to death, and the king made future fights safer.)

In Act I, the horseman (cavaleiro) skillfully plants four ribboned barbs in the bull’s back while trying to avoid the leather-padded horns. The horses are the short, stocky Lusitano breed, with excellent balance. In Act II, a colorfully clad eight-man suicide squad (called forcados) enters the ring and lines up single file facing the bull. With testosterone sloshing everywhere, the leader taunts the bull — slapping his knees and yelling, touro! — then braces himself for a collision that can be heard all the way up in the cheap seats. As he hangs onto the bull’s head, his buddies pile on, trying to wrestle the bull to a standstill. Finally, one guy hangs on to o touro’s tail and “water-skis” behind him. (In Act III, the ambulância arrives.)

Unlike the Spanish corrida de toros, the bull is not killed in front of the crowd at the Portuguese tourada...but it is killed later. (Some brave bulls with only superficial wounds are spared to fight another day.) Spanish aficionados insist that Portuguese fights are actually more cruel, since they humiliate the bull, rather than fight him as a fellow warrior.

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I'm don't know if I buy that. Do bulls feel humiliation? How do these bulls act after they are allowed to live and fight another day? I'd be pretty damned happy. At worst I'd move to another town and start over. . . .

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only the spanish bulls do.

tom w

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The thing I like watching the most are the forcados (suicide squad) The guy who baits the bull into charging gets completely smoked while his buddies all try to wrestle this huge animal to the ground. Its quite a spectacle to see thes eight Portuguese guys trying to wrestle a 1 ton animal to the ground. Sometimes they can't do it, and bulls with this amount of strength are used for breeding and are allowed to live.

I am biased, but I like the Portuguese style much more. No killing in public with a sword...thats too easy..these guys have to wrestle it to the ground while its still very much strong.

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You mean he gets trampled, gored, etc? Damn, how do they get someone to volunteer for that?

I mean, I'd almost like to run with them in the streets myself, specially if I could still run fast (bet that adrenaline would show you some speed you forgot you had) but I'm not sure I'd want to step up for a guaranteed goring.

Never seen a bull fight but I'd check it out. Most of the bulls are going to killed before too long anyway. They say the most dangerous animal in North America (elsewhere too, I'll wager) is the domesticated bull.

You ever seen those bull riding blooper films? They show the ones where some ol' boy gets his hand stuck in the strap while the bull shakes him around like a rag doll -- or some guy getting tumbled along the ground by the bull's horns at about 20 mph.

I was driving down a mountain road in Colorado once and saw a bull on the road -- ring in his nose and all -- biggest GDed animal I'd ever seen that close. I stopped and we looked at each other from about 4 feet apart. Didn't turn the engine off though.

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i believe he said in the portugese fights the bulls horns are padded.

i NEVER thought i would want to run with the bulls. i have been to pamplona though. it is a lovely little town.

tom w

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