The traditions and pageantry of bullfighting are far from being universally loved in the sports native country. Take these people for example…

That was a anti-bullfighting protest that took place in Las Ventas in May that was staged by the animal rights group, Equanimal. The participants stripped down to their ropa interior and covered themselves in fake blood and picadores – which are the spears that matadors use to stab the bull during the bull fight.

The people of San Sebastien, a small town in Central Spain which is best known as a great place to go on a country jaunt if you’re living in a Hemingway novel, have come up with their own alternative to Bullfighting that they feel is more humane. It’s called bull dallying – as in dillydallying? – and involves no swords and certainly no killing of the bull. You just bait the bull into running at you, then hope that your range of joint motion doesn’t fail you now.

According to Google translator, the word dally does not exist in the Spanish language. However, in English, it can mean to waste time or to play mockingly. One of these guys is definitely dallying. The other has murder/death/kill in mind.

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These photos make the spectral sport of synchronized swimming look awesome, exciting, titillating and full of death defying, aerial madness. And then the video quickly disposes of that whole load of untruth.

Photo gallery c/o The Telegraph

On the Stairway to Heaven song pick – bold move, considering that most teams go with selections a la this (hint: in the world of synchronized swimming, Enya wins championships). The Spanish lady rockers of the chlorinated deep will inevitably open the door for other countries to choose tunes from the likes of AC/DC, Rod Stewart, Maiden, and anything off The Police album Syncronicity.