Tahoe
09-28-2011, 06:45 PM
I'm going to Spain next year to run wit da bulls. Pamplona. I'm still waiting for the Tour de France schedule to be released to see if I can catch some of that too.
But I intend to come as close as I possibly can to being gored or whatever the fuck its called. I plan on slapping the taste out of one of those fucks mouth.
Timone
09-28-2011, 06:55 PM
FUCK BULLS
PISTONS ALL DAY!!!!
Book a hotel now. Those things book waaaay in advance. Also, when you run, keep away from the other drunk foreigners, stick next to the "mozos" the Spaniards in the white shirts and red hats. And THE first rule of running: if you fall, do NOT get up. Let someone pick you up. Better to get trampled than gored.
mercury
09-29-2011, 02:17 AM
The reason you want to risk serious injury is (bucket list?)
Good Luck
Tahoe
09-29-2011, 07:29 AM
The reason you want to risk serious injury is (bucket list?)
Good Luck
You nailed it buddy.
bucket yes list injury bulls street run Spain.
Tahoe
09-29-2011, 07:32 AM
Book a hotel now. Those things book waaaay in advance. Also, when you run, keep away from the other drunk foreigners, stick next to the "mozos" the Spaniards in the white shirts and red hats. And THE first rule of running: if you fall, do NOT get up. Let someone pick you up. Better to get trampled than gored.
Hate to break it to you, but some of the Spaniards are just as drunk as some of the foreigners
And of course you would know more about San Fermines than I do. I can't even offer you personal advice.
I think my point is obvious. I wasn't telling you to stay next to any Spaniard because only the Spaniards there are sober. I was telling you to run near the mozos because they will be sober and they know what they're doing. This is their festival and they train for it. Every year the mozos complain that the biggest problem these days is that with more and more people, most of them being drunk (or hungover and tired; the running is first thing in the morning) and especially having no clue what they're doing, it gets more and more dangerous. There are two big reasons for this. First of all the mozos always try to herd the bulls. It's safest when they all stay together in one group running down the streets. When they get broken up into smaller groups is when things get even more dangerous. The second problem is that non-mozos don't know what they're doing and end up causing more harm to themselves or to those around them.
Glenn
09-29-2011, 08:50 AM
Better to get trampled than gored.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/01/28/01.28.09.al.gore.jpg
Tahoe
09-29-2011, 11:28 AM
And of course you would know more about San Fermines than I do. I can't even offer you personal advice.
I think my point is obvious. I wasn't telling you to stay next to any Spaniard because only the Spaniards there are sober. I was telling you to run near the mozos because they will be sober and they know what they're doing. This is their festival and they train for it. Every year the mozos complain that the biggest problem these days is that with more and more people, most of them being drunk (or hungover and tired; the running is first thing in the morning) and especially having no clue what they're doing, it gets more and more dangerous. There are two big reasons for this. First of all the mozos always try to herd the bulls. It's safest when they all stay together in one group running down the streets. When they get broken up into smaller groups is when things get even more dangerous. The second problem is that non-mozos don't know what they're doing and end up causing more harm to themselves or to those around them.
Well I do know a lot, I mean a LOT about it.
But I was told stay on an inside corner cuz the bulls swing wide to the outside corner and thats where you can jump in and start running.
Rules (criteria) prohibit being drunk at the event. I drink beer almost every day, but I've never been one who can drink early. I have no desire to be drunk for this, skiing, work, etc.
Tahoe
09-30-2011, 09:55 PM
Rooms about 300 a night, flight about 1700.