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Yeah, those are all the things that make a parade a parade. Watching floats with a bunch of cross-dressers and gay men in g-strings performing sex acts and promoting their deviant lifestyle is not. Keep it in the bedroom.
They should be banned from the parade so you aren't sad.
Exactly! If you're a proud Irish what does it matter who you prefer to sleep with at night? That's your business. No need to announce it to a bunch of people who really dont care! Its about Irish pride and heritage. Not about what your sexual preference is.
If you really don't care then....you really don't care. So why all the whining about it?
I do agree, parades are lame and pretty much of a waste of time. I rarely go to parades unless I have to.
Parades and Zoo's, just a couple of things I don't "get". I do enjoy certain museums though, but I would not say I'm a connoisseur of the arts. Watching drunk Irishmen and gay people walk down the street is not my idea of a good time. But I hope they all have fun. Still weird that this upsets people. Especially people who do not or would not go to the NYC St Patricks Day parade.
I'm surprised it took this long actually. You'd think with all that great progressive liberalism in NY that this would have been done years ago.
All parades are lame. Does this mean I cannot call someone "Gay as a parade" anymore?
Progressive liberalism you speak of is of a recent vintage and mostly confined to areas of Manhattan and the western areas of Brooklyn such as Park Slope. For wide swaths of Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx you'll hear a different, much different story.
Progressive liberalism you speak of is of a recent vintage and mostly confined to areas of Manhattan and the western areas of Brooklyn such as Park Slope. For wide swaths of Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx you'll hear a different, much different story.
What are you talking about? All of NYC, except for parts of the Bronx and SI, is pretty liberal. I would not call any of Queens or Brooklyn conservative at all.
What are you talking about? All of NYC, except for parts of the Bronx and SI, is pretty liberal. I would not call any of Queens or Brooklyn conservative at all.
You are joking aren't you? Off the bat the Hasidic areas of Williamsburg and Crown Heights for a start are hardly social liberal bastions. Nor are or historically was much of South Brooklyn (Gravesend, Bensonhurst, Bayridge, etc...). Astoria and Jackson Heights have changed as many former Manhattan residents have moved there after being priced out. Then there is the large and growing LGBT community.
Parades and Zoo's, just a couple of things I don't "get". I do enjoy certain museums though, but I would not say I'm a connoisseur of the arts. Watching drunk Irishmen and gay people walk down the street is not my idea of a good time. But I hope they all have fun. Still weird that this upsets people. Especially people who do not or would not go to the NYC St Patricks Day parade.
Their are three reasons to attend a parade:
1. A show of support if it is for a person being honored who you feel deserves it.
2. A place to take the kids when they still don't realize it's boring (until point 3).
3. Lot's of good bars along the parade route with people having fun and partying.
The only reason to visit the zoo is to slip the maintenance guy $50 to allow you to kidney punch a lama.
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