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re: Someone explain the appeal of Mardi Gras to me
Posted on 1/31/16 at 3:05 am to zacata88
Posted on 1/31/16 at 3:05 am to zacata88
quote:As a young lad of 17 - found out how to use my tongue on that little man in the boat thingy - from a Jewish girl from Queens - she was a grad student 6 years older than me - that is all I got - can't think of anything else right now - BTW - that was in 1963 and she was a greenie weenie student.
Someone explain the appeal of Mardi Gras to me by zacata88
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Posted on 1/31/16 at 6:24 am to zacata88
You don't get it?
Then why even worry about it? simply don't participate and go do something else. You've already come off as a judgemental prick with your description of the attendees, throws, and parades themselves, so you know you will anger at least some other posters.
So why even bother? Why not just let people enjoy whatever it is they do without asking why they do it and be content knowing they are enjoying it?
No you aren't! You're asking this because you don't like carnival season and want others not to like it as well. You should be asking yourself why you can't just let others enjoy themselves and mind you own business.
That would be a better use of your time.
Then why even worry about it? simply don't participate and go do something else. You've already come off as a judgemental prick with your description of the attendees, throws, and parades themselves, so you know you will anger at least some other posters.
So why even bother? Why not just let people enjoy whatever it is they do without asking why they do it and be content knowing they are enjoying it?
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I am genuinely curious to hear real answers from the die hards.
No you aren't! You're asking this because you don't like carnival season and want others not to like it as well. You should be asking yourself why you can't just let others enjoy themselves and mind you own business.
That would be a better use of your time.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 6:31 am to zacata88
I've been once. Glad I had the experience, don't care to go again.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 6:34 am to zacata88
It's an opportunity to get your dick sucked by a total stranger at the cost of 1 set of plastic beads....or so I've heard....
Posted on 1/31/16 at 6:34 am to zacata88
It's plain and simply about fun. Looking into the history and meaning of it, and how it has evolved, may be enlightning as well.
Personally, I prefer the celebrations In the smaller towns.
Personally, I prefer the celebrations In the smaller towns.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:06 am to zacata88
In my experience, Mardi Gras is great if you have a place of refuge, like a hotel downtown or family/friends with a place along or near the parade route. Otherwise, packing up the car with food/drink, finding a place to park, hauling your stuff, dealing with limited bathrooms, dealing with the crowds in general, just to see a parade can be hassle to me.
I love King cakes, the excitement of the season, the music, the tradition, etc.
I love King cakes, the excitement of the season, the music, the tradition, etc.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:09 am to zacata88
Kids: actual throws from parades are fun.
No kids: good opportunity to hang out and party. Don't care about stuff from floats.
That's my take on it.
No kids: good opportunity to hang out and party. Don't care about stuff from floats.
That's my take on it.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:10 am to urinetrouble
It's a great chance to get shot at by a black kid, usually age 16.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:18 am to zacata88
It's essentially a party, of an extremely large scale. If you enjoy parties occasionally then you should enjoy Mardi Gras and see it for what it is.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:19 am to urinetrouble
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Mardi Gras is great if you have a place of refuge, like a hotel downtown or family/friends with a place along or near the parade route
Only way to do it
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:20 am to BRgetthenet
You can't tell me there aren't some 16 year old black youths thinking that there are some white dudes dressed in masks launching beads at them at 90 mph and them not getting pissed off. They are angry. I have been hit in the face by beads in 30 degree Temps I was angry also.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:26 am to FLBooGoTigs1
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90 mph
Must be OT'ers with a cannon like that.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:30 am to zacata88
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Mardi Gras is not a parade. Mardi Gras is not girls flashing on French Quarter balconies. Mardi Gras is not an alcoholic binge.
Mardi Gras is bars and restaurants changing out all the CD's in their jukeboxes to Professor Longhair and the Neville Brothers, and it is annual front-porch crawfish boils hours before the parades so your stomach and attitude reach a state of grace, and it is returning to the same street corner, year after year, and standing next to the same people, year after year--people whose names you may or may not even know but you've watched their kids grow up in this public tableau and when they're not there, you wonder: Where are those guys this year?
It is dressing your dog in a stupid costume and cheering when the marching bands go crazy and clapping and saluting the military bands when they crisply snap to.
Now that part, more than ever.
It's mad piano professors converging on our city from all over the world and banging the 88's until dawn and laughing at the hairy-shouldered men in dresses too tight and stalking the Indians under Claiborne overpass and thrilling the years you find them and lamenting the years you don't and promising yourself you will next year.
It's wearing frightful color combination in public and rolling your eyes at the guy in your office who--like clockwork, year after year--denies that he got the baby in the king cake and now someone else has to pony up the ten bucks for the next one.
Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:33 am to FLBooGoTigs1
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white dudes dressed in masks launching beads at them at 90 mph
It's actually Tyler Hanover under that mask. And it's 100mph.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:34 am to zacata88
I don't like it either but I'm not complaining bc it gets me a whole week off of work.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:38 am to MightyYat
OP hates fun.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:38 am to zacata88
if parades are not your thing, head on over to mamou and watch a real mardi gras celebration.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:39 am to BRgetthenet
Heaven forbid they gotta jump off the float. Those youths don't stand a chance. I mean 6'5" 235 lbs, 4.4 forty time. God bless em
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:39 am to zacata88
IMO it sucks.
Parades in general suck bc it's free entertainment that always attracts majority of the poors and thugs.
For some reason Mardi Gras gets a pass?
Nah. Not a fan.
Couldn't give a crap less about it.
Parades in general suck bc it's free entertainment that always attracts majority of the poors and thugs.
For some reason Mardi Gras gets a pass?
Nah. Not a fan.
Couldn't give a crap less about it.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:40 am to zacata88
try courir de mardi gras instead
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