Yeah, that’s gonna leave a mark:
Putting aside the gorey details (sorry) for a moment, a brief aside: I think I’ve talked about this before, but until only a few years ago, I didn’t really know that bullfighting involved killing the bull. I suspect I’m not alone in this, at least in the generation that grew up with stuff like this:
Sure, maybe the bull would get tricked into running into an anvil or something, but every kid knows it’s hard to get an anvil in real life, right? The idea that swords would be used in a manner that actually hurts and kills anything seemed so distant a possibility that it didn’t even enter my mind. After all, the average person sees swords in real life about as often as she sees an anvil.
This is where the internet has been a help, along with a hindrance – it’s a lot easier to see everything about everything these days, so the truth is definitely more in your face, but there’s a bias towards the absurd stuff that you’ll forward to your friends (like, say, pictures of bullfighters getting stabbed in the hey now,) so even though it’s right in your face, it’s hidden on a level that your brain can’t always uncover.
Sadly, I have no information on the medical condition of either the bull or Mr. Purple Pants. I suspect the bull’s long dead, and I’m less than pleased about that but I’ll be the bigger man and offer the obligatory helpful advice to Cornholio here: a high fibre vegan diet would be a great idea right about now – trust me, you really don’t want to have to deal with constipation on top of everything else you’ve got going on. Oh, and since you need new pants, I recommend, as always, the hammer pants.
(via PETA)
