Pamplona's Running of the Bulls
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Date: 2020-08-10
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I've always enjoyed your travel guides, but I'm disappointed that you would cover this event.
I understand that you try to give it balance by saying that some people don't come out unscathed, but the difference is that the humans have a choice of whether or not they want to enter. The bulls don't.
Would you have gone to the UK to cover the 'tradition' of fox hunting, another outdated barbaric practice?
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I've always enjoyed your travel guides, but I'm disappointed that you would cover this event.
I understand that you try to give it balance by saying that some people don't come out unscathed, but the difference is that the humans have a choice of whether or not they want to enter. The bulls don't.
Would you have gone to the UK to cover the 'tradition' of fox hunting, another outdated barbaric practice?
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Nadya
I enjoy your language devices, Rick!
Your videos help me to learn beautiful English. Perfect. As for this festival, and corridas, I find them totally severe and inhumane. They make me doubt the wisdom of some traditions, not only in Spain, but in Russia as well and wherever in the world, when they counter common sense. Nevertheless, your videos are so educational and broaden my outlook. Thank you.
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I enjoy your language devices, Rick!
Your videos help me to learn beautiful English. Perfect. As for this festival, and corridas, I find them totally severe and inhumane. They make me doubt the wisdom of some traditions, not only in Spain, but in Russia as well and wherever in the world, when they counter common sense. Nevertheless, your videos are so educational and broaden my outlook. Thank you.
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Collette
I've used your guides all over the world and have trusted your advice for years. I am so disappointed in you, Rick. Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right. Many terrible things are done in the name of tradition and as we evolve we need to question those things and do better. I'll be unsubscribing and using different travel guides in the future.
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I've used your guides all over the world and have trusted your advice for years. I am so disappointed in you, Rick. Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right. Many terrible things are done in the name of tradition and as we evolve we need to question those things and do better. I'll be unsubscribing and using different travel guides in the future.
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Brian
It's such a popular event. Rick Steves had to film the festival. I think Rick Steves wanted to show the audience that crowds of revelers aren't more civilized than animals. Letting those bulls bleed to death is cruel. I'm sure Rick Steves enjoyed that mug full of beer more than anything else. He could have bought that in Germany.
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It's such a popular event. Rick Steves had to film the festival. I think Rick Steves wanted to show the audience that crowds of revelers aren't more civilized than animals. Letting those bulls bleed to death is cruel. I'm sure Rick Steves enjoyed that mug full of beer more than anything else. He could have bought that in Germany.
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Gabriel
Good one Rick, I hear what you're saying about not fully appreciating the sport in the same way as the Spaniards. I don't see the appeal myself, but it's different of course when it's a traditional part of the culture. Interesting to get a taste of the festival. Was this filmed last summer?
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Good one Rick, I hear what you're saying about not fully appreciating the sport in the same way as the Spaniards. I don't see the appeal myself, but it's different of course when it's a traditional part of the culture. Interesting to get a taste of the festival. Was this filmed last summer?
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and
The bull has many roots in pagan beliefs. It is believed that many male gods (particular that of the sun and sky) inherit the characteristics, like strength, fertility, agriculture. The fighting bull is unique.
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The bull has many roots in pagan beliefs. It is believed that many male gods (particular that of the sun and sky) inherit the characteristics, like strength, fertility, agriculture. The fighting bull is unique.
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Toxicodendron
Yeah, this is the festival for real men, not for some herbivore hipsters. It's good that there are places on Earth where men can be men.
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Yeah, this is the festival for real men, not for some herbivore hipsters. It's good that there are places on Earth where men can be men.
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Cosmiclight91
Man is said to be a rational animal, but i see no evidence for that. Quote of Bertrand Russel. Sums up these kind of traditions well.
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Man is said to be a rational animal, but i see no evidence for that. Quote of Bertrand Russel. Sums up these kind of traditions well.
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mike
Pathetic cowards!
All of them. Not enough of them seriously injured or killed as are all the bulls. :-(
Spanish shithouses one & all!
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Pathetic cowards!
All of them. Not enough of them seriously injured or killed as are all the bulls. :-(
Spanish shithouses one & all!
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Puffy
4: 30 That guy is so lucky those horns only slapped him. A few more inches and those tips would have impaled him through the throat.
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4: 30 That guy is so lucky those horns only slapped him. A few more inches and those tips would have impaled him through the throat.
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