preferred to reserve my own opinion until I had been to a bullfight

True dat.

No, I've seen footage of several. Care to tell me where I'm going wrong with my assessment?

In the fact that if you keep rooting for the bull once it's gored a human and has him unconscious and bleeding on the sand… then there is something seriously wrong with your sense of human compassion.

The emotional u-turn you perform at such a moment cannot be got across via youtube clips etc.

Oh, here we go…

Surely you owe it to your species to put human life above much else?

I agree that as 'entertainment' it is a barbaric spectacle – but as a reminder that we're all animals and that nature is raw in tooth and claw, it's certainly thought-provoking.

The bull was bred and reared for the purpose – in better than average conditions – by humans who treated it with a respect bordering on love. Do you know what happens to the vast majority of male calves?

I think if you eat meat at all, you should be reminded sometimes of the barbaric nature of the whole process.

That's a load of bull (pun absolutely acknowledged) coffeeking.

You been to a bullfight?

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Yeah – secrety cheer for the bull… up until the point that a human gets tossed like a salad or gored in the nethers. There'd need to be something wrong with you to enjoy that.

IMO if a bull does something amazing like that it should be spared and allowed to see out it's days on prime pasture surrounded by all the heifers it wants.

Having said that – it's a bloody bull. Anthropomorphising it is not going to make it into some kind of hero – or make it think any differently. Humans are cruel bas**rds sometimes – and life is sometimes harsh – that is the lesson of bullfighting. Sometimes it's useful (not necessarily fun, or comfortable) to be reminded of that.

Never mind the bollocks

Surely that has a unifying concept of its own: i.e. "**** conceptualism"?

Some more recent ones…

Would Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens count? Certainly a unifying theme + storytelling.
Yoshimi battles… by The Flaming Lips.
Landcruising by Carl Craig.

A whole malt loaf in one go? Merely a light snack. Or does it all have to be in a one-er?

odannyboy, your forum name, along with the subject matter immediately made me think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IEet3GLWzs

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The film clip above basically illustrates your predicament as well. Get out now, before you need to resort to firelighters and a tommy-gun.

What's the point of travelling if you're going to be hanging off the end of your phone all day?

Not exactly broadening the mind or learning to be independent.

I thought the younger generation were meant to be tech-savvy? Wot no skype? Surely S.A. must be chocka with international call booths, shops selling prepaid cards etc etc.?

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Were they cooked by Haze (cf. "Eggs" thread)?

Yeah, as basspine says, you should have no worries with some well-built, solid German or Japanese eggs… now yer French or Italian eggs on the other hand…

I once caught botulism from a landrover fritter.

Scoresonthedoors sounds a bit weird and anally-retentive. I like hygiene as much as the next guy (unless the next guy happens to be Howard Hughes) – but checking a website related to cleanliness before you go out to eat? Rather than a site that might tell you what the food is like, or what other patrons thought of it?

Some of the best food can come from pretty sqalid premises. I'd rather eat interesting food cooked with enthusiasm from some hole-in-the-wall joint than a spottlessly-clean but totally banal boil-in-the-bag meal that scored well with some district council box-ticker.

Love the idea of the geezer who will only eat out in France or Italy 😯 🙄 . lol is right 😆 .

£80. Broken-down train. Sunday morning. Flight to catch.

Too far 😥

Lolzord. My (human) wife is giving me the stink-eye for my idiotic sniggering.

My first thought was a sleek, characterful alpaca. Or perchance a feisty kangaroo.

Use a 3rd party tool such as Emma or mailchimp. This will cost a little bit of money (like 1 cent per recipient) but makes development and testing tonnes easier (and gives vastly improved tracking etc).

Super sharp shooter!

Thanks folks – some sound advice there.

Today was a bit pants unfortunately. Hopefully tomorrow will be more promising.

Nobody answered my second question though… what would you try and buy buy if you had a 7k budget and no specific requirements other that decent reliability, running costs and not handling like a zeppelin?

Cheers.

+1 for Mother India.
Also, Kalpna in Edinburgh. Proper authentic veggie South Indian.

Feeling inspired by the thread(s)… I just made this:

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