The G̶u̶l̶f̶ Gay Stream, or How to Get Half a City to Hate Gays in One Day

Alright, before you get your dick and/or tits in a twist (yowch!), I don't hate gays. Gotcha? Okay.

Now I'm gonna tell you about an experience I've had today. There was a gay carnival thing in Budapest today and I just so happened to have business there. I didn't know this was happening, nor did apparently the hundreds of other people I saw trying to go the same way I was. Let me explain.
I just got my grandma a new laptop. Her old, 12-year old computer finally gave in, and I had to deliver her shiny new lappy today. On my way I realised something was wrong. I was going by tram, but it stopped a stop before I had to get off. Turns out that stop was closed off. And not just that stop. The entirety of Andrássy Avenue was closed off. It's a very long avenue, so I couldn't just walk around it. Not if I wanted to finish today. There was some kind of gay festival going on. Thousands of gays went along the avenue, blocking thousands of other people's access to the other side.
My next idea was to go to the nearest Metro station and go under. I don't think I mentioned the long walk I had to make just to get from the tram stop to Andrássy Avenue. And now I had to go back, since the Metro station was in the same area as the tram stop. When I got there, I noticed that the Metro was closed off as well. I have no idea why they thought no one could go under the Gay Stream but they did and I couldn't change that fact. There was only one other thing I could do. Go to the tram line's end and get on another Metro. Thankfully that one was in operation. It dropped me off on the other side of the Gay Stream, about a kilometre walk away from my grandma. I got there, gave her the laptop and got home. Thankfully the avenue was opened again by the time I had to cross it again.
Why did they have to do this? I have no idea. Pride month was in June, right? Why do it now anyway? And this whole thing is a really bad idea. Only locals knew about it and it fucked with thousands of people's commutes and extended my trip from ~2.5 hours to 4...
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Viri said:
My brother works for the city, and he hates every single parade equally, because he is part of the clean up crew. :P When my city won the Super Bowl, he pretty much said fuck that, and took a personal day off.
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A win of the top sporting competition in the land and it only took a day to clean up? What kind of weak sauce nonsense is that.
 
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leon315
@Viri Try to think this way:
If there aren't any or less parades in ur city, that means your brother will have less places to clean, he or someone else will probably get cut off and lose the job :)
only few % of people hate parade, but statistically those kind of events attract a lot people especially tourists, and the more tourists you get there the more money ur city could get :)
Simple isn't it? guess who pays ur City cleaner's salary?
 
FAST6191
Simple isn't it? guess who pays ur City cleaner's salary?
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I knocked about with several city maintenance types when I was stateside. The best equipped ones tended to be the rich towns full of people working for big companies. No touristy spots, shops of any real note or any real reason to visit other than knowing someone that lived there (a nightmarish existence if you ask me but some seem to like it, or at least think they like it -- I understand the depression, drugs and suicide rates are rather higher than one might expect for such opulence otherwise).
To that end the overwhelming majority of those paying such things were local residents.
 
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@leon315

Oh trust me there will always be lots of places to clean up. He has to deal with homeless people almost daily. The company is privately owned. If you deal with keeping the streets cleaned though, you actually make friends with a lot of homeless people. :P

Parade days are a bitch to deal with, because you have to deal with the fallout, and public transportation goes to shit. So it takes way longer to get home. Hence why, he tends to take days off on parade days. Sometimes they offer a bit of over time for parade days, but they're not worth it.

Oh, and yeah, he only has to deal with down town. The city only cares about down town. The rest of the city can go to shit, and the city gives no fucks. You'll see litter everywhere, lol.
 
jt_1258
meh, same goes for any oversized event to put one group of people on a pedestal. we get it, your gay, or black, or a woman, or some other thing that exists. so what, you exist, move on. ya don't need to clog up trafic
 
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leon315
@Viri Ur bro's private company got job from city hall, run by The Mayor, which pays with tax payers money, and part of them came from shops, hotels, restaurants, pubs or cafe owners which provided services to tourists, when they came visit ur city's GAY PARADE! Are you a man? then a true one would never complain about little shit like this, and i would take a longer and healthier trip on feet!

Ofc, i'm not defending gays' parade, just to teach people to think from another prospect of view :)
 
spkuja
I think the very fact you're referring to it as a "Gay Stream" is a little offensive. It just makes you sound like an uneducated bigot. I very much doubt people weren't aware it was due to happen. There was a similar Pride March in London yesterday which has been known about for months. The LGBT community doesn't wake up on a Saturday and declare they'll march the streets of the nearest town with glitter, banners and rainbows just because they have nothing else to do.
 
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spkuja said:
I think the very fact you're referring to it as a "Gay Stream" is a little offensive. It just makes you sound like an uneducated bigot.
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Oh yeah, I forgot we're living in the age where you can't make a joke without being called racist/sexist/homophobic/etc.
 
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spkuja said:
I think the very fact you're referring to it as a "Gay Stream" is a little offensive. It just makes you sound like an uneducated bigot.
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I dare say that then means mission accomplished.

Setting off the easy to offend is generally considered good sport.
 
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[URL='https://gbatemp.net/members/fast6191.32303/' said:
FAST6191[/URL]]I dare say that then means mission accomplished.

Setting off the easy to offend is generally considered good sport.
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I'm not personally offended. I'm bi, and a lot of the stuff the LGBT community does pisses me off. But I don't see the point in trying to offend a group of people just for the hell of it.
 
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spkuja said:
I'm not personally offended. I'm bi, and a lot of the stuff the LGBT community does pisses me off. But I don't see the point in trying to offend a group of people just for the hell of it.
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The fact you're thinking I was trying to offend people is hilarious. You really can't take a joke, can you?
 
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TotalInsanity4
I've found in my experience that if you have to justify a joke in such a way that you have to convince the recieving party that they don't know how to take a joke, you're probably doing something wrong

I personally doubt that it was your intention to offend anyone, especially given the careful wording at the beginning of the blog entry, but there kind of comes a point when you have to accept that people might be taking issue, if not with WHAT you said, the way you said it
 
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leon315
I think TC didn't explicitly say anything about homophobia, i give you guys what A REAL HOMOPHOBIA is here :)

City of Vaticano disapproves the gays' marriage and none of gay's wedding are allowed to celebrate in any catholic churches here, pizzalandia's gov doesn't recognizes family's legitimacy if got gay marriage outside of this country.

At least it not as same as what they do in Russia :)
 
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smileyhead said:
The fact you're thinking I was trying to offend people is hilarious. You really can't take a joke, can you?
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And that's the problem with being a bigot, you don't realise when you're being inappropriate or not. The very fact you're lashing out at me for my own opinion proves this. It's not about whether or not I can take a joke, I've already stated it doesn't offend me; that doesn't alter the fact that it is offensive; especially to a group of people that are continually belittled.
 

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