Bored of bars and dancing? How about a Bogota cock fight

kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 13, 2009, 01:21:

Cheers Terry says on Oct 13, 2009, 01:34:

Dog fights sicken me, but I have to admit I've had a lot of fun at cockfights in both Cuba and Colombia. The whole macho thing, the screaming and the passionate atmosphere... it's something.

Throw in some bets and beers and it's an interesting time.

And at the end of the day they're just damn chickens...

Cheers,
Terry

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utopiacowboy says on Oct 13, 2009, 03:51:

My mother-in-law sold the restaurant/cockfighting ring that she owned out near the airport in Monteria. They still keep a hand in the cockfighting arena with a bunch of fighting cocks that they raise and train.

Disclaimer: any comment I make is inane and is not to be taken seriously, and is so patently ridiculous that no one should take it seriously, even as an insult.

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babygirl says on Oct 13, 2009, 07:00:

No my thing either. It's big in Cuba too. I was invited to attend one trip and declined. I'm too much of an animal lover.

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babygirl says on Oct 13, 2009, 07:01:

Oops I just repeated CT.

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Rabeka says on Oct 13, 2009, 07:29:

Years ago I went t a cockfight in Mexico City. It was a class trip and I was required to go. I was there chatting but averted my eyes from the roosters because I don't support any type of animal fighting. I took a peak now an then out of morbid curiosity and from what I remember, it wasn't that bad.

Since then I have seen specials on tv and read things on line about cockfighting to the death and that they put metal things on their legs to make it worse. I don't think the one I went to did any of that If it did I would probably have thrown up.

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oneforyourmillion says on Oct 13, 2009, 08:48:

My cock can most definantly beat up your cock. jiji When I am not busy beating it myself.....

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babygirl says on Oct 13, 2009, 09:09:

OFYM......hahahaha.

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theflatline says on Oct 13, 2009, 09:35:

OFYM beat it like it owes you money.

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 13, 2009, 09:46:

oneforyourmillion says on Oct 13, 2009, 10:12:

yes but I am legal no... ? jiji

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Rikito says on Oct 13, 2009, 10:17:

comon Kat...don't promote stuff like this. I don't know if you ever saw a animal fight of any kind but, I think that it is illegal in Colombia but, not enforced. These animals have feelings. I know I sound like an idiot do gooder but, I have seen these things before and it is really disgusting. What is more disgusting are the people who go to these things. For me it would be really enjoyable to get a couple of the fat drunken pigs that go to the fights and put them in the ring and let them go at...how long would that last? Burp.

...and so it goes

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oneforyourmillion says on Oct 13, 2009, 10:24:

Well yep bullfight is same but who is promoting anything? Should we just pretend it does not exist? You stated your opinion about it. As far as having feelings? Well maybe you should rescue one of them and chip in to put them in therepy for several years. Probably find out they are from an 11 egg family and that caused the whole thing? jiji just messing with ya. ;)

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 13, 2009, 10:25:

stocktrader says on Oct 13, 2009, 10:48:

I thought cockfighting was bad too. Then I saw a program on how beef is grown in the USA. It was sickening. Thousands of cattle bunched up together never being able to move, living on top of their own feces. No wonder mad cow disease started in Great Britain as with much less land than the US the bunching up has to be even worse. To me it amounted to animal cruelty.

At least the roosters are following their instincts and have a chance to live. A real cock champ probably lives a good life acting as a "stud" after he's to old to fight.

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dwmte7 says on Oct 13, 2009, 18:46:

what was that part, kat, .......'the men put their cocks on the table where normally they put food'? that sounds like a pretty wierd place.

but i'm just old fashion. i guess if you like that sort of thing......................................

patriarch

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excavator59 says on Oct 13, 2009, 19:02:

Cocks on the table oh dear me !

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utopiacowboy says on Oct 13, 2009, 19:54:

Illegal in Colombia? I seriously doubt it.

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goin_south says on Oct 13, 2009, 22:04:

kat1: I knew the word cock wasn't going to be a good idea jajaja

I think you knew it ;-)

nothin I say is to be takn for my words, but rather for the words of Sailor Jerry.

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dwmte7 says on Oct 14, 2009, 05:31:

oh well, kat, a little fodder for a little fun here. thanks.
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patriarch

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ellbee2 says on Oct 14, 2009, 07:26:

Interesting to me that some have said that they don't like dog or bull fighting but cock fighting is OK. Seems to me the same logic should apply to all species if your against animal abuse.

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dwmte7 says on Oct 14, 2009, 08:39:

i grew up on a farm, elbee, and of course we ate many of our critters....hogs, cattle, chicken, rabbit, etc. but there's something completely different when 'kosher' killing animals to eat and training them to tear each other to bits and then die from bleeding to death/infected wounds or just killed in the cruelest manners because they can't/wont fight any more.
douglas

patriarch

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Rocco81 says on Oct 14, 2009, 12:28:

Well dog's are a man's best friend...they have some emotions and are way more intellegent than a rooster. A would watch a cock fight but not a dog fight. Ok so maybe its a double standard...so what. Im comfortable with that. Same as saying if I saw two children punching each other in the face or two grown men doing the same thing. I would get no enjoyment out of seeing kids beat each other up and would in fact sperate them. Two grown men, now that is entertaining and in fact a sport.

Douglas, you don't need to train a rooster to fight. You know that if you been on the farm. The little fuckers come at you and attack you..they'll have a go at dogs, people, whatever.

Sic semper tyrannis

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dwmte7 says on Oct 14, 2009, 17:13:

heh, rocco..........did ya'll have rabbits. now there's some mean mo fo's. we had this black buck, (we kept our rabbits in a pen so they could burrough with their young. it's more fun to watch than keeping them in hutches) well we had this rabbit named 'blackjack' that when one of my sons and i would go in to clean the pen, we'ld have to throw a basket over blackjack or he'ld rip our levis apart. he ruined a new pair of luchessi cowboy boots....just bit a big as hole in the side. what a trip he was. he got out and attacked my neighbors doberman and got his life shortened.
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patriarch

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dwmte7 says on Oct 14, 2009, 17:17:

man you don't have to train anything to fight....not even men. the first time i got a fist in the face, i knew all i needed to know.....................fight back--KILL--or die. first time i got bloused in the lip, that sucker swelled up to my eyeball by the next morning. that prick sucker punched me, so i had to remove a couple of his teeth. i hated fighting, but how do you grow up and never get in a fight?

and you're right about roosters. know why they call em roosters? if you let em free range, they all roost in the trees. and chickens is blind at night.
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patriarch

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excavator59 says on Oct 14, 2009, 22:27:

I once bought a 12 ft high chicken as I could not afford a car, however one day I went for a run in the country I happened to look round before passing under a low bridge & knocked myself out,the chicken just ran on. I was just coming round when a police car pulled up (Hello,hello what's going on here then ,he asked.You're not going to believe this officer but my Big Hens gone (Think about it).

Life is like a Pubic Hair on a Toilet Seat (Sooner or Later you get Pissed Off)

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dwmte7 says on Oct 15, 2009, 12:05:

duh

patriarch

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Rikito says on Oct 15, 2009, 13:04:

kat...I think if you check you will find that bull fighting has become illegal in several parts of Spain and the banning of it s becoming more and more. There was an article in the news last week or so that said that becasue the number of fans are decreasing bull fights are disappearing. Also, animal rights groups are having a bigger say. Whatever..cockfighting or bull fighting is still useless especially bulll fighting. It sure is not an art when you render the bull senseless and unable to fight with all of the spears jammed in his back. (I don't know what the spears are called and don't want to know)

and then you have those cute little macho bull fighters that do not come out to play with the bull until he is almost dead.

...and so it goes

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kramer says on Oct 15, 2009, 19:13:

I visited 2 cock fights in the Philippines, something I had always wanted to do. It was actually more brutal than I expected. In order to fully understand the culture there, you have to understand cockfighting, it is more popular there, by far, than anywhere else in the world.

The winner gets everything, including the carcasses. One guy had a boiling pot of water waiting and the losing rooster was in it within one minute of the end of the fight.

It seemed like there was a real gambling problem in the countryside, with many men gambling too much of their money.

That being said, and even though I probably wouldn't visit another one, I don't really think it should be against the law.

Kramer

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excavator59 says on Oct 15, 2009, 21:22:

Douglas Dwmte 7 (Big Hens) Big Ends are the bearings in the Con rods (connecting Rods) on a car crankshaft ok?.

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dwmte7 says on Oct 17, 2009, 07:28:

brother, i would have labored thought to the ends of the world trying to figure that out. as a kid we used to race flat head fords and i never heard that one and tore down many.....not to mention tractor motors as well.
douglas

patriarch

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David Pristupa says on Oct 19, 2009, 18:52:

Many Canadians go to hockey games to watch the fights! In Silicon valley there are regular fight clubs amongst highly the highly educated. It used to be legal to drive with an open can of beer in your hand in Texas. We have micromanaged our sins to oblivion and yetthe beastly behavior still morphs itself in different forms

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