me me

What are you talking about?

Dick Dasterdly

Don't know what you're smoking but maybe you should try a drop yourself !

Dick Dasterdly

Understandably, they're not keen on free speech, but I think the comments say it all.
Ever increasing numbers of Spanish are against and ashamed of "bull fighting".


http://www.thelocal.es/20140522/bull...-spain-matador

andyrich666

IamStu

EMR, is the EU funding nonsense? I´d taken Andy at face value when he said it was.

EMR

Noe of us would disagree that the EU funds some very strange things, but bullighting ??
Mybe Andy can provide evidence that it does.

jimenato

A quick google reveals that EU money through the CAP goes to fighting bull breeders and other ancillary activities - but I can't find any evidence of direct funding.

IamStu

Am I being a bit dim? If the article is true in it´s statement;
"Bullfighting has been on the decline for years in Spain, with a 2010 survey in El Pais showing 60 percent of respondents opposed the practice."
how is it allowed to continue? If Spain is a democracy, surely a 60% vote against the so called "practice" should have it banned?

Dick Dasterdly

Truly amazing just how many disused bullrings there are throughout the country. When I say disused I mean as far as bullfighting is concerned, as many of them have been put to other uses such as markets or playgrounds and the basic structures have been left untouched in most cases.

While it's popularity continues to decline especially among the younger generations there still remain a few hotbeds, especially in the S.W. around the Seville area which are mostly supported by the well heeled upper class,(the place to be seen you know,just like Ascot), and I don't see the tradition/culture/cruelty ending in such places any time soon.

IamStu

Interesting you should mention the well heeled!
Direct comparison: Badger baiting outlawed without the blink of an eye! Those horsey tossers that enjoy a gallop in the country before tea on the terrace, still getting away with it. Apparently, the TB to cattle caused by badgers is a far cry from the fact that the super intelligent can't protect their chickens from a fox!
Before someone jumps in with both feet, as far as I'm concerned, it's not the act, it's the method!

mikelincs

Well done those bulls..

Dick Dasterdly

I recall a few years back when the organisers of the hunt that Charlie boy used to "hunt" with were caught red handed feeding and breeding foxes.

I used to chase the clowns of my patch with a shotgun in my hand at one time.
Probably lock me up and throw away the key if I tried it now.

Very rare they ever caught a fox but the damage they did to walls, fences and land had to be seen to be believed.
They even panicked a flock of heavily in-lamb sheep into piling up into a heap in the corner of a field one day.

Pompous, toffee nosed eejits !

I hate their hypocritical guts, with a vengeance.

BEVS

I'm getting the vague feeling you don't like 'em much.

Sally Redux

You would have to rename the forum

There was a news item here about kids being trained to do bullfighting - now I'm wondering where it was actually taking place, do they have bullfighting in Mexico?

Lion in Winter

I saw a ring once in all the time I spent there, in a little country town. That was it. It was hardly ever used and was the no-kill type of bull fighting - not that I'm saying that that makes it ok, cos I'm not.