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TRADITION
Just because you’ve always done it doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly stupid.
(The festival of San Fermín AKA the running of the bulls)
Picture by: dunno source. Caption by: MMGOOD via Poster Builder
Originally done by Despair.
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True. However, it does take a brass pair of cojones the size of basketballs to do this. I have two friends who have run with the bulls and I have nothing but respect for them.
Nuff said
They may be diamond studded brass balls the size of beachballs, in a case like this they’re just fecking useless. I couldn’t muster respect for this sort of “bravery”.
I agree. I have the same amount of respect for them as i would someone who held a record for slamming a frying in their face. It’s not impressive just something you shake your head at in amazement.
*puts down frying pan*
Thanks. I really didn’t want to try and break that record anyway.
really funny comment!
“…in a case like this they’re just fecking useless. I couldn’t muster respect for this sort of “bravery”.”
Sorry my friend, you are quite alone with your views. See how many people watch “Survivors” or any make-believe “reality” show every day.
Compared to that crap this is a real deal. And more eco-friendly than wars.
“Useless” doesn’t mean anything in this context, do you you really think that medieval tournaments were useful? For anything than showing off?
There are always warmongers who claim that only real bravery is shown in wars, but we can’t start wars just to show how brave we are, can we?
That would be really stupid, not only useless, wouldn’t it?
Also the most brave men get the women, that’s a fact you can’t circumvent, so there _must_ be organized ways to show bravery.
“Heros”, if you wish. Small and local heros but who cares, most of them want just one one woman and it’s enough for that.
Otherwise (especially) teens invent those (ways to show bravery) themselves, imho even worse option.
“Who’s the alpha male” is a question that _has to be solved_ one way or the other and that’s a question which applies to any living thing here on Earth.
This is the original Jackass. Stupid ideas that ends in pain.
Jackass even used this kind of thing for their 2nd movie even. So they’ve been inspired by this jackassery.
while i agree with you, Rafiq, and would probably have alot of respect for the people doing it, i can’t stop thinking of that fine line between bravery and stupidity. i get the notion towards bungee jumping and sky diving, i won’t do either myself, but i got a friend who’s an avid sky diver (former army air ranger) and i got tons of respect for what he does.
but… i read in a book, once (one of those Dresden Files books), someone was saying, it’s stupidity only if it doesn’t work, otherwise it’s bravery. something like that.
You have tons of respect for someone who deliberately jumps out of a perfectly safe and sound airplane?
WHUT???
is safe to jump out of airplane if you have rubber inflateable raft
Only if you’re wearing a cool hat. Or an evening dress.
or have lil asian boy slave
Of course, it’s the same guy who managed to survive a nuclear blast in a refrigerator, so I’m pretty sure nothing can kill him.
Sure sure, scoff all you want, but when the demon bull apocalypse happens, who’s gonna be the survivors? These guys! That’s who!
Big deal, they’ll only be left behind for the zombies to catch.
bitter troll will survive he has years of NOT getting in the way of rampageing bull practice
hahahaha! let the bulls kill them! IDIOTS!
Big balls = no brain ???
I think you may be right
I guess it works, it’s the analog of big b.0.0.b.s
There is no more analog of big boobs since the digital transition. You’d better get a converter box.
“Big balls = No brains?”
Might be but they get all the chicks so who cares? Besides those who don’t get.
Unfortunately having brains isn’t much of use while searching women. Any questions?
This year, 1 boy died, that was sad!
No.
Why? No-one forced him to do something as amazingly stupid as running down the road in front of a herd of Spanish fighting bulls, did they?
Give him a Darwin for strategically and magnificently removing himself from the gene pool…
I will give them style points for it.
Agreed. We’re all going to die, might as well do it magnificently, with everybody talking about it at the family reunion for decades to come.
“Did you see how they snapped his neck? That was gross.”
I am sorry to hear one boy died, but was there anything in the news about how many of the bulls get hurt or killed every year? This is a barbaric tradition and I always end up rooting for the bulls.
Oh, the poor bulls. You do know that after the running they’re used in bullfights? They’ll be killed in the ring and then served in the local restaurants. I say delish!
Racist.
SAN FERMIN ROCKS!
Isn’t this caption off of despiar.com? Word for word.
yeah The pic’s different But I was looking for the classic button myself. Perjury alert right here.
“Perjury alert right here.”
Lol…you mean plagiarism. I don’t think the captioner was lying under oath.
That you know of…
damn my bad. still half asleep when I typed that.
We all grab the wrong word out of our heads once in a while!
Yeah, like normal.. don’t ask me why that word keeps popping into my head lately.
Its fine Eddie… its the one’s who pulls words from another orifice that REALLY bother us
Oh right! Whew..
I don’t know, man, some of my most effective lectures ever have been pulled out of my ass following an all-nighter…
I hope you washed your hands afterwards…
hope you washed your ass first
But then you’d wash all the words out!
Yeah, some of those lectures DID feel like a high colonic…
I feel so clear and….. well… clear…. yeah.
you mean nobody else has to place their hand on a bible while making lol’s?
Big difference.
Dissi can tell you this is considered quite naughty, law-wise.
Lol…well, I know they just have you raise your hand and swear, now.
Well that takes all the fun out of it, especially when the Bible starts to sizzle when a liar touches it…….
Wait, or was that a dream I had once?
If that were true most church services would sound like breakfast at Bob Evans.
church has never been so tastey!
Mmmmmm bible bacon.
bitter troll sure does love his jebus eggs
This is where Id mention something about God Sausage… but I cant stop giggling when I say it.
but it so plump and juicey, and ready to burst with holy power
I was about to say that… copyright fail.
Exactly.
That was my first thought. I’m surprised it’s here – yeah, there are reused captions etc but this is a direct rip-off.
Can we just rack this up to Darwin?
Well, the bulls and steers are going to be killed anyway, as the encierro lets them run to the ring where bullfights are going to take place. So if people want to run in front of them (or among them, as the case may be), what of it? That’s the risk; that’s the rush.
I did not know that; that’s another “spectacle” off the possible tourism destination list.
You are racist. Obviously.
Species-ist?
Hmm. Racist? Explain, please?
they’re anti-bull. i can’t stand human supremacists. always thinkin they’re the best. “oo, look at me,” they say, “i’m on top of the food chain!”
just makes me wanna go grill up a baby
*bibs up*
Did someone mention the other white meat?
-offers DT some baby-
*noms*
Pass the Inferno.
Do I like children?
Yes, on the grille, medium well.
This whole conversation reminds me of this joke:
An American touring Spain stopped at a local restaurant following a day of sightseeing. While sipping his sangria, he noticed the entree being served at the next table. Not only did it look good, the smell was wonderful. He asked the waiter, “Excuse me, what is that you just served?”
The waiter replied, ” Ah señor, you have excellent taste! Those are bulls testicles from the bull fight this morning. A delicacy!”
The American, though momentarily daunted, said, “What the hell, I’m on vacation! Bring me an order!”
The waiter replied, “I am so sorry señor. There is only one serving per day because there is only one bull fight each morning. But if you come early tomorrow and place your order, we will be sure to save you this delicacy!”
The next morning, the American returned, placed his order, and then that evening he was served the one and only special delicacy of the day. After a few bites, and inspecting the contents of his platter, he called to the waiter and said, “These are delicious, but they are much, much smaller than the ones I saw you serve yesterday!”
The waiter shrugged his shoulders and replied, “Si, señor. Sometimes the bull wins.”
HAH!
While touring a small South American country, a woman was taken to a bullfight.
“This is our number one sport,” the guide explained.
The woman was horrified at the thought and said, “Isn’t it revolting?”
“No,” the guide replied, “that’s out number two sport.”
ROFL! I hadn’t heard that one before.
What’s the difference between a bull and a cow?
A bull smiles when you milk it.
A man took his wife to the rodeo and one of the first exhibits they stopped at was the breeding bulls.
They went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said, “This bull mated 50 times last year.”
The wife playfully nudged her husband in the ribs and said, “He mated 50 times last year.”
They walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said, “This bull mated 120 times last year.”
The wife gave her husband a healthy jab and said, “That’s more than twice a week! You could learn a lot from him.”
They walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said, in capital letters, “This bull mated 365 times last year.”
The wife, so excited that her elbow nearly broke her husband’s ribs, said, “That’s once a day. You could REALLY learn something from this one.”
The husband looked at her and said, “Go over and ask him if it was with the same old cow?”
————–
*NOTE: The husband’s condition has been upgraded from critical to stable and he should eventually make a full recovery.
Three bulls, one large, one medium, and one small, were standing in the pasture and had just heard a rumor that the farmer had just bought a new, larger bull. The largest of the three said,”Well, he ain’t getting none of my cows.” The medium bull said,”He ain’t getting none of my cows.” The little bull said,”Well, if he ain’t getting any of yours, them he sure as hell ain’t getting one of mine.” Two days later, a semi pulls into the yard, and they unload the new bull. He’s big and pissed from having been cooped up for the long journey. When the three bulls see him, the biggest bull says,”He can have my cows,” the medium bull says,”He can have mine, too.” The littlest bull, however, begins to paw the ground, snort and bellow, and basically carry on.”What’s with you?” the other two asked.”I’m just showing him I ain’t a cow!”
I had no idea there was such a plethora of bull humor.
With the abundance of bullsh*t, there’s bound to be some humor stashed away somewhere right?
Two sisters, one blonde and one brunette, inherit the family ranch. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble. In order to keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to purchase a bull so that they can breed their own stock.
The brunette balances their checkbook, then takes their last $600 dollars out west to another ranch where a man has a prize bull for sale.
Upon leaving, she tells her sister, “When I get there, if I decide to buy the bull, I’ll contact you to drive out after me and haul it home.”
The brunette arrives at the man’s ranch, inspects the bull, and decides she does want to buy it. The man tells her that he can sell it for $599, no less. After paying him, she drives to the nearest town to send her sister a telegram to tell her the news.
She walks into the telegraph office, and says, “I want to send a telegram to my sister telling her that I’ve bought a bull for our ranch. I need her to hitch the trailer to our pickup truck and drive out here so we can haul it home.”
The telegraph operator explains that he’ll be glad to help her, then adds, “It’s just 99 cents a word.”
Well, after paying for the bull, the brunette only has $1 left. She realizes that she’ll only be able to send her sister one word.
After thinking for a few minutes, she nods, and says, “I want you to send her the word, ‘comfortable.’”
The telegraph operator shakes his head. “How is she ever going to know that you want her to hitch the trailer to your pickup truck and drive out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send her the word, ‘comfortable’?”
The brunette explains, “My sister’s blonde.”
“She’ll read it very slow.”
LMAO! I love blonde jokes!
I love brunettes
Q. What’s the real reason a brunette keeps her figure?
A. No one else wants it
You are a racist. Obviously.
How does a blonde turn on the light after sex?
She kicks open the car door.
Brunettes not fighter jets!
Major points for Conchords lyrics quote!!!
When will the government realize it’s got to be funky sexy ladies?
That’s great!
There’s a joke farmers won’t get, since cows love being milked.
Ranchers. Farmers grow crops. Ranchers raise cattle.
Get your stereotypes right, willya?
Actually Dairy FARMERS raise cows that produce milk. Ranchers raise cattle for slaughter.
*Has many dairy farmers in the family*
This would be more nearly true of Camargue (South of France) bull fights, except that there the bull is never killed deliberately.
Yeah, I guess. Just like how bungee jumping or skydiving is stupid/risky as well. Stop crying for the bulls and go eat your hamburgers, hypocrites!
Or we could subject you to sticking 2 inch knives into you until you either ask us to stop or die. I think I’ll go with making you uinderstand why Spanish bullfighting is torture.
I’ll help.
The caption is actually trademarked by Ashleigh Brilliant. It should probably be removed.
Ashleigh Brilliant did not write that quote. The writers of Despair.com did. (Despair has occasionally licensed his aphorisms for their designs but that one is not one of them.)
actually, it was first used in Star Trek by Dr. McCoy….
Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a demotivational quote writer!
I loved the graph jam of “Thing’s Dr. is” with all sorts of colors relating to jobs, with doctor being Red… and the whole pie was red…
Oh poop… I meant to say “Things Dr. McCoy is”
this is the april page for the despair 2009 calendar
Yep, this has been nicked from despair.com (who credits Ashleigh Brilliant with its creation). Originality fail.
Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won’t notice the difference until it’s too late. ~Despair.com
That one is just entirely too appropriate here.
I take that back, this one in particular isn’t linked to Brilliant. Several other are though. I need more coffee.
MSPAINT
Just because you can’t figure our how to use Photoshop, doesn’t mean you should post crap this low quality.
Originalityfail/Qualityfail.
If I were you I wouldn’t want this on my homepage anymore.
a bad knock off of despair.com’s poster
For everyone from Jason Luka (05:34 on 12th Aug) to DJD (06:44) – We don’t all read Despair.com!!!
maybe not. But that doesn’t give someone that does the right to steal somebody’s creation.
Because everything else on the internet is original thought.
Well, the stuff at Despair.com IS copyrighted.
FWIW, I have this one on a poster in my dining room. It used to be in my office, but some of the dead-weight (read: employees who have been here more than an epoch) failed to find the humor so I was politerly asked to remove it. Irony: You’ll know it when you see it.
That’s something for them to protest with PK if they’ve violated copyright laws. It’s not right, but seeing 20 comments that all say the same thing, to say nothing of a bunch of other lols that someone has to say “it’s been done before!” gets annoying really quick.
Well, it IS amusing, you have to admit, that two for-profit companies are touting the same idea as original, whut-wat?
Perhaps this calls for a cage death match.
SQUEE!! Celebrity Death Match-style!
*secretly LOVES that show*
One of my favorites…
*In best Vince McMahon voice*
Barbarian Strap Match – No Holds Barred!!
*rips out own spine for squeeing*
FINISH HIM!!!!
*plays Mortal Kombat theme*
I’m sorry for saying it than. I just wanted someone to tell me if it was my imagination or not *sob sob*
True as far as it goes, but since you’ve accepted my point, perhaps you should accept the possibility of parallel original thoughts?
Oh my god you’re blowing my mind man…
Similar? yes. Exact word for word with the same event pictured? No. That’s like taking a Mexican guy named Bruce Wayne and dressing him in a batman costume. It’s still original because he’s Mexican.
And not Adam West
Funnily enough, this was on my despair calendar either this month or last, and yes, it is word for word, only with a different picture of the same event.
Originality Fail
Church…
Yes, Caboose?
this is more fun than the time we played Grifball
I’m sorry. I can’t hear you over the sound of your constant teamkilling.
You know what? I f*ckin hate you…
Caboose? An idea? I think he’s bluffing.
Hee hee hee slick here and judge for yourself, peeps.
ROFLMAO!
*chugs coffee*
*click
Sounds just like all the Texas A&M aggie traditions.
Britons please take note …
“It’s tradishuuuuuuuun”
I don’t care! Two-up-two-down terraces STINK (often literally). Move with the times, peeps.
My company a huge poster of this very thing framed on the wall. I love it.
haha cmon guys, just cuz you wont dare to do it it doesnt mean its not fun….ye its a lot of risk, and danger but its fun as hell
oh btw ye its idiotic but a lot of good and fun things in life are idiotic
You know what else is idiotic? Writing without apostrophes. Friends don’t let friends type like that.
He dropped his apostrophes while being chased by angry bovines. It happens.
“just cuz you wont dare it”
Oooh! I love this argument, I used it tons when I was 7 and trying to harrass my kid brother. Does it have some sort of fancy name, the “They’re just jealous”-defence?
Our response to that (when I was a kid) was, “Darers go first”.
Well, I’d like to see the one who posted this one… Such ignorance… How can someone can make fun of tradition of others…
How? Just like that:
*points at the caption*
But we didn’t liberate Spain from the Nazi/Facist “tradition”. Spain was neutral (but may have collaborated with both sides [as a conduit for Allied POWs escaping, and possibly allowing the Axis to station disguised submarine depot ships in her ports]).
Click the link. The poster is Czechoslovakian.
This is an exact ripoff of a Demotivator poster. Humph.
Totally unrelated to tradition, but red on black is an utter nightmare to read, especially at the size above.
May I suggest white or yellow?
I agree! So not only is it a total rip-off, it’s a poorly executed one at that!
it’s the cheaply made one you can get at mexican souviner shacks
*hangs his “proud to be spanish” sign above door*
*shack falls in behind him*
Sanfermines isn’t only about bulls!!! It’s one of the biggest traditional spanish parties. If you go to Spain you have to see it… no place in the US offers such a huge fiesta!
¡Olé los toros! ¡Qué viva la fiesta y tradición española!
¡Todos a correr el encierro!
That caption was stolen from despair.com’s “Demotivators.”
despair . com / tradition . html
same caption, both pics from the running of the bulls.
utter fail.
Yeah, totally ripped off from Despair.com.
Copycats ruin teh internets.
Yeah…not an original caption.
this was taken directly from dispair.com
this was taken directly from despair.com
Just because we may not think it’s smart, they have the right to do so and I usually don’t get mad at what some random person on the internet says, but I thought this was pretty insulting and unnecessary.
Internets = serious business.
Caretroll cares.. how sweet.. now toss it off the bridge!
I’m changing my name to care troll
QQ
Hey, I don’t think anyone has mentioned this yet, but I think this was on despair.com!!!11!11eleventy!1!!
@_@
TOO SOOOOON!
Death to bull murderers for sport.
Hi!
First of all let’s just say that I’m from Spain.
I think every “spectacle” with bulls is just an idiocy…
San Fermín is not the worst tradition here… at least the bull is not supposed to suffer (or that’s what I’ve heard)… although it has to be sooo stressed while the whole thing is happening… I think it’s cruel!
Anyhow what I hate about this is that when someone gets hurt (or dies!) everyone has to feel sad…
Of course I feel pity for them! I don’t want anyone to get hurt or die! But: being serious, what are they expecting? are they expecting the bull to come and ask to be stroken??!?
The think I hate most are “corridas de toros”… and some other “festivities”(some of them consist in putting fire in their horns and make them run!) where bulls use to die at the end… (and everyone seems to be happy about it!)
… just one last thing! I’m Spanish and I hate it… and there’s a lot of people here who share my point of view…
I think this festivities still exist (in part) because it’s a “tourist attraction”… lots of people from other countries come just to see it!!
So please… don’t have a bad idea of Spanish people! :p
Thanks for reading!
(sorry! I’m sure i’ve lots of mistakes in my explanation but I hope you all can understand my point of view!)
Hey! I’m Spanish too, and I think EXACTLY the same as you.
I hate all this kind of spectacles, but what makes me wanna puke is that there’s people who actually ENJOY this.
I mean, they like watching an animal being tortured? What the hell is that?
They’re just SICK.
i wonder has anyone heard of “despair.com”??? the is almost a direct copy of there “tradition” demotivator. if it had been original it would have been a great quote, but it’s not, sorry.
Have you heard of skimming through threads before adding comments? If this post hadn’t been the umpteenth one pointing out this very fact, it would have been a great post, but it’s not. Sorry.