May 23rd, 2010 
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H-ole S***T!
BowlingForDollars
Get this Toreadore some steak tartare.
Revenge, after all, is a dish best served cold.
phlox?
@bustysaintclaire: Oh lord, good thing this is a moderated board, otherwise there would be sooo many replies with various links… bad links that lead to bad sites
jumpingpiglet
Oh, whatever. This is such bullshit.
KGibson
@Stream Of Consciousness: You cough at first, but after a while you really start to enjoy it, and can’t quit it.
howdini
@Mike Byhoff: no, no. not too soon at all.
KGibson
@howdini: What is it with guys named Julio getting impaled through the neck?
taritac002
@howdini: 2:17 seconds… don’t know how to make it automatically go there.
angaza
@Delta Sierra: Indeed. I think we should make a drinking game. The next time you hear someone defend something horrible, inhumane or just ignorant by saying “But it’s our tradition”, everyone drinks a shot. And then throws their shot glasses at the asshole who said it.
Daisy_Sage
Considering how long and drawn out the bulls’ deaths are, I hope they let the bull run several victory laps around the arena before setting the matador back on his feet for round two.
Trai_Dep
@TheExperience: Yes, I see. Honestly, I’m so creeped out by it I didn’t look that closely. It just seemed that by the time the horn got thru the guy’s mouth (oh, god!) there would be blood from the point of impact. Jesus H. Christ. Those stupid Post newspaper racks are at eye level for little kids!
DorothyBarker
“A day after dashing Spanish bullfighter Julio Aparicio showed his dominance by cutting the ears off two vanquished bulls, one of their bovine brothers got revenge by gruesomely impaling the matador through his throat and out his mouth.”
I’m sorry Spain, but that’s one fucked up cultural pastime you’ve got there.
I read elsewhere, “the fate of the bull is unknown”. Come now, we know very well the bull’s fate.
smugmonkey
@Bottle-Of-Smoke: Exactly!
beautifulbeast
@Airvault: Fair enough. I can see how that aspect (the movement, etch) could be considered graceful, if not poetic.
Stream Of Consciousness
@beautifulbeast: Yes, a bullfighter can pointlessly main up to six bulls at once!
What an act of wonderful entertainment. You know what I just love! animal blood! and animal cruelty! those things are just the best.
Moment
@Bottle-Of-Smoke: Ha!
Stream Of Consciousness
did he cry?
RonMwangaguhunga
Oh, that’s a headline win for the Post, too.
howdini
Hole mole! This may be the most disturbing thing on the internet. And, yes, I’ve seen youporn.
bustysaintclaire
@Stream Of Consciousness: And yet I can’t help think that it’s a better way to go than ending up as ground beef or leather.
Bottle-Of-Smoke
@howdini: You just made my stomach flip. Wow.
Jessizca
@howdini: Yikes! Looks a bit painful.
Stream Of Consciousness
@Stream Of Consciousness: While I can certainly see some beauty in the “sport” (photos of Manolete make you believe it was an art, at least once, as the way that man moved his body around a bull’s charging mass is just about as precise an execution as any ballet dancer), there’s no excusing the need to kill the bull and offer its tail and ears as a prize. Not when you can still easily perform the same moves without the blood. (And one must note that Manolete was killed by goring. So much for precision.)
Airvault
H-olé. Now I get it.
beautifulbeast
I just love the irony of it , and now I’m hungry thanks a lot New York Post.
Anto103
Damn, that guy looks horny.
ElliottCassidy
What is Johnny Weir doing in a bullring!?
octothorp
I was writing something else based on the headline then really looked into the picture and holy shit. I can’t think of anything witty to write I am just stupefied at this guy living through that. See a Hole reference! Over at Jez they have a snapjudgement with a caption from a Hole song. A-Hole song. HA!
Daoudmac
@jimbehrle: I guess you mean the part where the rejoneador jousts the bull from the mount of a horse or when the novilleros get the bull tired before the toreador comes out and does his thing (even though the novilleros part is often performed by the toreador himself and the rejoneador part is not even mandotory).
This is all necessary to get the bull ready and in a state where he can be fought or rather danced around instead of having both bull and bullfighter running around after each other.
Besides, a bullfighter can fight up to 6 bulls in a single corrida (I think). No small feat.
beautifulbeast
It shows the integrity of the NYP that I can picture them flipping a coin to decide between the current headline and “A-Hole”.
UweBollocks
Remember this one, from the 80s?
howdini
@beautifulbeast: Actually, the overwhelming majority of the time if the bull does not die from injuries it suffered during the ‘fight’ it is killed anyways.
Stream Of Consciousness
This is awful.
I didn’t know there was sanctioned rhino-fighting in Spain, too.
Mayor Squeakerton
What happened after this? Is this guy’s jaw even on his face anymore? Is he now the Roger Ebert of matadors? (too soon?)
Mike Byhoff
I literally yelped when I caught sight of this at the deli this morning.
And then I wondered: How did they get him off the horn? Did the bull wander around for a while with this guy hanging off his head?
SixThirty
This piercing thing is out of control.
Weegee’s bored
@Delta Sierra: Yeah it is a barbaric tradition. I don’t see a shred of honor in it.
Stream Of Consciousness
We humans are f*cking cowards. I say we fight with no tools, guns or knives, let’s see who wins.
donsnyc
@Lysergic Asset: I don’t think it has anything to do with the fragile male ego. That’s a stereotype.
beautifulbeast
That bull looks like it’s wearing a really fancy hat.
prezc
@Stream Of Consciousness: They win if they prove to be really ‘brave’ and so they are let to life and be a semental (breeding specimen) for life.
beautifulbeast
@therewillcomesoftrains: As someone who often makes comments as if she is a twelve-year-old boy, I understand. I can’t believe that wasn’t my first reaction.
nearsighted
You mess with the bull…
lowest99
Sometimes the bull has to take the matador by the throat/neck/jaw.
nearsighted
@Lysergic Asset: Yep, I just don’t get it.
Stream Of Consciousness
@Stream Of Consciousness:
Multiple witless voices, “Oooooooh but it’s a tradiiiiition.”
Screw tradition. So is foot-binding and dog-fighting. Find something else to do.
Delta Sierra
fuuuuuuuuccc…k
WhamBam
Get that man a case of Red Bull!
larryfishkorn
@DorothyBarker: I think the photographer captured the exact point of impact. There was probably lots of blood immediately afterward.
However, you can see plenty of blood on the bull where he was gored before exacting his bovine revenge on the matador.
TheExperience
I am really, really sorry. I just can’t stop myself from making this obvious, shitty joke.
Well someone is feeling a little horny.
therewillcomesoftrains