BAHAHA I was in it! I held a line for kermit

Looks like Casimir Pulaski Day just got a lot more popular.

I don't live in Chicago, so I don't care.

St Patty's sucks anyways.

Goddamn tourists.

WHAT! Bragh!

This is not relevant to my interests.

Car_Ramrod: Goddamn tourists.

Goddamn suburbanites who think Chicago is Great America - nobody actually lives there.

//Usta live next to Wrigley, knee deep in beer bottles BEFORE it got trendy.
///Am a suburbanite now.

GoSurfing: St Patty's sucks anyways.

Watch your mouth!

They should move it to the North side, the South is full of Sox fans.

/shudder

But the South Side Irish is the real parade. The downtown one isn't half as fun.

This blows, I marched in that thing for four years in the Marist Band.

Good. It's more fun without all of the puking slobs.

Also, the dyeing of the Chicago River is the most anti-climatic thing I've ever witnessed. This crowd:



Waited over 90 mins for this:



Which resulted in this:



Woo?

North siders win again!

netringer: Car_Ramrod: Goddamn tourists.

Goddamn suburbanites who think Chicago is Great America - nobody actually lives there.

//Usta live next to Wrigley, knee deep in beer bottles BEFORE it got trendy.
///Am a suburbanite now.

I'm living 3 blocks away from Wrigley right now, and I'm bracing for the start of another season.

What you're seeing is a total disregard of everything St Patrick's Day stands for. All this drinking, violence and destruction of property -- are these the things we think of when we think of the Irish?

NittLion78 Looks like Casimir Pulaski Day just got a lot more popular.

Ha I'm related to him on my Buscia's side, but I always thought St. Joseph's Day is the celebrated Polish holiday in March-& if you think the Irish drunks are bad there's all sorts of surprises for you-'specially in Chicago...
Link (new window)

/Chi-town friend claims "the only fans of the White Sox are the Poles & Blacks" Now why is that?

Erin go bragh humbug.

osdrcomputers: What you're seeing is a total disregard of everything St Patrick's Day stands for. All this drinking, violence and destruction of property -- are these the things we think of when we think of the Irish?

Thread. Over.

GoSurfing: St Patty's sucks anyways.

Much better holiday than Cinco de Mayo.

A catastrophe for the plastic bog trotters.

Car_Ramrod: Also, the dyeing of the Chicago River is the most anti-climatic thing I've ever witnessed. This crowd:
Waited over 90 mins for this:
Which resulted in this:
Woo?

Uh, wtf were you expecting?

Belatryx: They should move it to the North side, the South is full of Sox fans.

/shudder

...and a big Irish-American population, which is largely the reason St. Patty's is supposed to be such a big deal in Chicago. Besides, if you want the sloppy drunk fest on the north side, you already have it.

Car_Ramrod: Also, the dyeing of the Chicago River is the most anti-climatic thing I've ever witnessed. This crowd:



Waited over 90 mins for this:



Which resulted in this:



Woo?


And you...

Have photographic evidence...

Of the event.

Woo?

tim2028: North siders win again! haven't won in a hundred years!

FTFY

ill_83: Uh, wtf were you expecting?

More than one boat going down the river. Or maybe green fireworks over the river, coloring it that way:



Xed Ping: And you...

Have photographic evidence...

Of the event.

Woo?

You are very welcome!

its a farking zoo parade anyway, good riddance

Damn. I was gunna go this year, but got too drunk the night before to wake up early enough for it.

Car_Ramrod: Also, the dyeing of the Chicago River is the most anti-climatic thing I've ever witnessed. This crowd:

Waited over 90 mins for this:

Which resulted in this:

Woo?

tim2028: North siders win again!

That ought to get them to change their minds.

"That's okay - the North Side Irish Parade is more than capable of handling the increased crowds! Chicago doesn't need two parades - a single North Side one will work just fine!"

"OH YEAH?! WELL, WE CHANGED OUR MINDS! WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TWICE THE PARADE NEXT YEAR, YA FOOKIN' NORTH SIDE SHYTES!"

TheSilverOne: But the South Side Irish is the real parade. The downtown one isn't half as fun.

and this is WHY YOU FAIL
the downtown parade WAS the REAL parade
but you far south tards decided you didnt want to go "into the city" and created your own special parade

well suck it

ill_83: Besides, if you want the sloppy drunk fest on the north side, you already have it.

Right. South siders aren't big on drinking. A regular bunch of teetotalers, they are.

I blame Bush.

tim2028: North siders win again!

Car_Ramrod: ill_83: Uh, wtf were you expecting?

More than one boat going down the river. Or maybe green fireworks over the river, coloring it that way:


Being the Chicago north side repper that you are, you should have realized that they have done the same anti-climactic thing for years.

Belatryx: They should move it to the North side, the South is full of Sox fans.

/shudder

The escalating drunkenness and asshattery couldn't possibly be related to more and more bars in Wrigleyville and Lincoln Park offering bus packages down to the parade. Nope, not related in any way.

Dang Europeans and their ethnic parades. If you guys are going to come to this country, you need to assimilate.

Farkin Pope and his condom rules. If they use condoms, there'd be less Irish congesting the streets.

It doesn't look like the South Side will ever have a crowd that large ever again.

FIBers

/just wanted to post that
//that is all

300,000 people attended (estimated)
54 arrest
.00018% arrest rate

Who complains about that? That is a pretty good average for an Irish parade.

NorCalLos: Dang Europeans and their ethnic parades. If you guys are going to come to this country, you need to assimilate.

And while you're at it, learn the language.

555-FILK: FIBers

/just wanted to post that
//that is all

Learn to drive and get back in the right lane.

ill_83: Being the Chicago north side repper that you are, you should have realized that they have done the same anti-climactic thing for years.

I've been to the downtown parade a few times, but never felt the desire to go see the river thing before. Now I never have to again.

Car_Ramrod: ill_83: Being the Chicago north side repper that you are, you should have realized that they have done the same anti-climactic thing for years.

I've been to the downtown parade a few times, but never felt the desire to go see the river thing before. Now I never have to again.

Haha, I went once when I was in junior high and made that decision back then.

Great Janitor: GoSurfing: St Patty's sucks anyways.

Much better holiday than Cinco de Mayo.

At least Cinco de Mayo has better food.

/Mexican food > Irish food
//but, to be fair, Irish beer > Mexican beer

Anyone who lives in Tampa... They are thinking of moving Gasparilla next year.

Apparently the wealthy residents of south Tampa don't appreciate underage drinkers puking and peeing all over their lawns.

/Who would have thought.

tim2028: North siders win again!

More like some North-Sider frat boy pays $30 to take a bus down to the south-side and so he can pay another $20 to get into Cork & Kerry's to then puke his JagerBomb on his girlfriend's Cubs jersey that she wore to the south-side Irish parade to 'show them'.

I used to go to this parade all through the 80's and 90's (I think I went for the first time with my parents in 1981) and back in the 80's it was a lot of fun for a kid. It wasn't until the northsiders started to arrive en masse in their chartered buses that it started to get out of hand.

Of course there was always partying and drinking of which I often took part in, especially on the West side of Western (I have fond memories of sneaking over to that side of the street and sneaking a few drinks when I was a teenager), but it was a much smaller affair back then with much less puking on ones shoes. Over the years it ceased to be a fun south-side event for families and a few unruly drunkards on 'the other side of the street' to a full-on frat party.

I went to the parade this year, and honestly did not enjoy myself that much despite the lovely weather, it was just way too much, and I'm glad that I didn't bring my niece and nephew this year as even the family side of Western seemed to be overrun with staggering, puking, urinating drunkards.

So... what happens when even more people show up next year? The police have already admitted that they can't control the crowd. If 350K people show up for and put on a parade, are they going to start doing mass arrests like they did in NYC during the RNC?

fta There were literal bottlenecks of people.

What the hell...? Metaphor much?