Why would you go out on St. Patricks day if you're not Irish? Why would foreign tourists come to see our Diamond Jubilee celebrations when they don't have our monarch? You're being very narrow minded about it all, Gay Pride(in Brighton at least) is a big party and no one's excluded if they want to join in and no one has to join in if they don't want to. Why is there any problem with the idea of gays getting together and celebrating their culture? Just like all other cultures and ethnicities do with various different celebrations. There isn't a "Hetro, White, British Male Pride Parade" because there's no need to have one, everyday already caters for it in every city in Britain. You're chosing to see it as "special treatment" but numerous other carnivals and festivals do similar for other communities across the country, do you begrudge them also? And what's wrong with "promoting" differences as you call it? We're all different, why should we hide that? A lack of education in the differences we have often causes the problems and these kind of events can only improve relations and help educate anyone who chooses to participate. And finally what's wrong with my name? It's a pun on my team's nickname "the Yid Army" or "Yiddos" and Sex Pistols' bass guitarist Sid Vicious.
So? It's still an Irish public holiday, not English so why do we celebrate it? It's quite clear from all the Guiness and clovers around that it's an Irish celebration too.
a lot of us have irish relations, so that could be the excuse along with the fact that it is an excuse to drink
Well I don't. I, like my parents and their parents before them and so on and so forth, was born in God's Own County. I do go out on the piss on Paddy's Day most years though, if only because I love a pint of the black stuff. Last year I made the mistake of having eleven pints of Guinness in a pub and then going to a club and having a few double-vodkas. I threw up.
Bingo! So is Gay Pride for many people around Brighton. Similarly the tourists for the Jubilee covers the sharing in a different culture side too. The idea that there's no reason anyone straight that would want to attend simply doesn't wash.
Who celebrates St Patricks day if they're English? Come on , really? As a rule I drink Guinness when I go out but would rather stick pins in my eyes than celebrate St Patricks day.
lmfao @ "gods own country" im sure if "god" was real and had a "country" the last fuking place it would be is England
It was like ****ting hot coal. Ring sting the likes of which I have never before or since experienced, and a smell like a rotting skunk carcass. I wanted to die.
Are you of the same opinion when they wore pink for breast cancer awareness? These things are started because the gay community is NOT currently accepted. They're not shagging on a float. Half the prides are filled with heterosexual supporters, mostly women and people who just want to party. and EVERY minority has some sort of celebration in that way (apart from Mormons and *****philes perhaps). If people didn't treat homosexuals as abnormal sub-civilians then perhaps they wouldn't feel the need to react to it. Gay PRIDE, it's in the name. Too long these minorities have been swept under the carpet, ordered to keep silent and hide how they feel. If being gay was accepted, it would become "normal" and therefore there'd be no need for a pride.
I don't go out on St Patrick 's Day for the same reason I don't go out on St.Davids's or St. Andrew's Day. They are not my nationality.The same reason I don't go out on the 4th or 14th July. I find it sad that we have people who will make themselves look pillocks celebrating a saints day they have no connection to but ignore their own Saints day. Even worse are councils who automatically grant extensions for St. Patrick's Day but not that of St.George. London contributes to staging Notting Hill Carnival and St Patrick's Day but not of someone connected with us. Stop spouting nonsense about everyday catering for heteros. Gay pride is a self indulgent exercise which goes against saying everyone is the same. My son has a friend who is gay, who has known since school days Who doesn't make an issue of it and is accepted by everyone. Again you failed to my post. I don't think your user name is inappropriate. I was alluding to what some of the po-faced types on here, who see offence and prejudice hiding everywhere would feel. I think it is a good thing, the same as Ajax fans associate themselves with the Jews in Holland betrayed by Nazi sympathisers in their country and a riposte to the more racist attitudes of Feyenoord fans. .
Sudocrem in the fridge the night before!!! FFS I've told you how to combat ring sting before haven't I? Basics El, basics.
Must be a southern thing, you can't go anywhere without seeing people with stupid foam Guiness and shamrock themed hats perched on the heads of pissed people trying to do Irish accents. It's quite a sight Sorry if I've failed to your post, I must admit I'm not sure I understand what points you're trying to make anymore. Do you think it's wrong that we celebrate different cultures in communities or do you think it's wrong that we don't have a specific day and celebration for the straight Englishman?
He said county, you illiterate scouse ****. Yorkshire is God's County - FACT **** Gay Pride Manchester is as hetro as it is gay. Wonderful weekend.
Understand was the missing word. Still it let you do a bit of typo spotting. I was on about daft English pillox and councils who celebrate some bloke who is the patron saint of another country and not their own. Do other countries like Ireland celebrate saints which have nothing to do with them? I don't think it is wrong to celebrate different different cultures in different communities. I look forward to the gay pride marches in area predominantly populated by Muslims, carnivals in the same areas with scantily clad females cavorting about and maybe some celebrations of Christian and Hindu culture. And of course the joint religious celebrations in Ireland in both parts.
I'm looking forward to the heterosexual-homophobic pride weekend. We're different, and looked down upon by society in general, swept under the carpet. We can't help who we are, and its nice to be open and proud of ourselves even just for one weekend a year.
