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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sarkwalvein
To be honest, you're being a selfish intolerant prick.

In the one hand, they stop services and cut streets for all kind of events, like e.g. some running course or marathon... so what then? "Hate the athletes"?

In the other hand, you're blaming the group of people taking part on the event for the inefficiency of your city government to correctly reschedule and replace affected services (and probably also of your own ignorance of what is going on in your city).

That's some blatant (and quite biased) way of redirecting responsibility there.

Just reconsider those points and perhaps you will understand how stupid your statement sounds to me.
 
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Veho
I know traffic blocks and/or redirection are minor inconveniences but they make me irrationally angry, and any event/gathering/parade that interrupts my commute gets the full power of my impotent petty rage.
 
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smileyhead
I think it's pretty rational for me to be angry about an event that I didn't even know about, made me travel half the city by foot, and prolonged my trip by hours.
 
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sarkwalvein
It is common to be angry, not rational really, but common it is. That said, that would make you hate events in general, but you putting the blame on a specific kind of event is biased.

In the other hand, getting to know what happens in your city is your responsibility, that is the way it is, not realizing that will make you repeat the same mistake in the future, any kind of events, strikes or whatever are not going anywhere anytime soon, you should get a clue of what happens where you live.

Of course you could blame the government for not putting enough effort informing the population about it, but I believe blaming what you don't have any control about is just irresponsible and it won't make things change in any way.
 
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Kingy
@sarkwalvein If anything, you're the intolerant prick. He doesn't like his routes blocked, and he clearly said he didn't hate gays. What, is it "homophobic" and "morally wrong" to not like when your route gets blocked by a parade? Pathetic.
 
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sarkwalvein
Not at all, if you read my first post and the following post of mine perhaps you would understand my point. I gladly redirect you to actually read what I wrote.
 
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dimmidice
Be angry at the event sure. But your post seems to be angry at "the gays". FYI, not everyone in the march was even gay. Your post would've sounded a lot better if you just said people instead.
 
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smileyhead
Budapest isn't where I live. It's where my grandma lives. Also, here's a correction to my blog I found out since: not even she (a local) knew about it.
 
Kingy
Oh I read it alright. I'll deconstruct for you:
like e.g. some running course or marathon... so what then? "Hate the athletes"?
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He clearly said "I don't hate gays.". The first sentence literally contradicts your point. The title is satire, it's not something to be taken literally

In the other hand, you're blaming the group of people taking part on the event for the inefficiency of your city government to correctly reschedule and replace affected services (and probably also of your own ignorance of what is going on in your city).
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He has to research every turn he takes? It's his responsibility if the parade is there or not?
I get it, it would've been a lot easier if he had known. But, the people are the ones blocking the route, literally the people taking part are the ones to blame.

I believe blaming what you don't have any control about is just irresponsible and it won't make things change in any way.
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Sure, it won't make things change (because it already happened). But how is it irresponsible? If your blaming on somebody, most of the time you don't have control of what happened. Please explain some more, I might be wrong, who knows.
 
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sarkwalvein
@Kingy_

Just from the blog title, that "The G̶u̶l̶f̶ Gay Stream, or How to Get Half a City to Hate Gays in One Day"
The blog title contradicts your point, as well as the rest of the blog write up actually.

@Kingy_
Yes, you have to research where are you travelling to and what happens in a city you are going to, that is being responsible. The same applies to finding out if your train or flight is cancelled, or if you should vaccinate when you are taking vacations in some other country. Do you leave your life to chaos actually? of course you can, but don't blame others for your lack of responsibility.
Parades, sport events, strikes, all of that will keep happening.
Blaming that it just happens will not make your next experience any better, instead you could learn from your mistakes and research the next time you travel. One of those approaches changes things and makes your experience better, choose whatever you want of course, you are free to repeat mistakes. And that is what I am talking about, instead of blaming learn from what one does and what went wrong and get it better next time. Blaming others doesn't improve your life.
 
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dimmidice
Also saying "I dont hate gays" doesn't mean it's true. You can say whatever you want, doesn't mean it's true. I can say "Trump isn't a retarded senile cheeto" but it doesn't make it true Just for example.
 
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Kingy
I see no reason to belive that smiley hates gays. The title was wholey ment to catch attention, since well, that's what titles do. And the whole blog entry doesn't seem anti-gay at all, it's just him complaining about an event taking place in the wrong area (It's a blog after all.)
Even if he did say he doesn't like pride (He didn't btw)... How is that hateful? You can dislike pride and accept homosexuals as well.
 
dimmidice
I'm not saying the OP is a homophobe, Haven't seen anyone say that actually. What i am saying is that his reasoning's a bit off. That his title was poorly chosen, and that the language he used in the OP was poorly chosen as well. "Thousands of gays went along the avenue, blocking thousands of other people's access to the other side." for example. It's factually incorrect, because not everyone there was gay. Just supported gay rights. And it's also poor phrasing, could've used people just as easily.
 
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Pacheko17
I don't hate gays, but I hate pride parades.
It's so much degeneracy and such a major nuisance. Stop trying to shove shit down the throats of people who just want to get on with their day, stop blocking the roads, stop being so annoyingly flamboyant for no reason. It's ok to love whoever you want to love, just leave me the fuck alone and let me have opinions on you just like you have opinions on me.
 
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Kingy
@dimmidice I do apologise for that. I'm just a bit tired tonight.
I do see why he said "gays" though, because they're the majority. Sure, it would've been more correct to say "LGBT supporters" but is it really neccesary? It's easier just to say "gays".
 
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sarkwalvein
I also don't bide well with any kind of event that stops services from running or cuts streets.
Be that parades, sport events, manifestations, and specially strikes.
I really can't stand Argentine style strikes/manifestations, where the people participating cut entire highways and disrupt the entire city because they just are on the whim to do so. But those strikes in particular are not an agreed event with the government, those syndicate mafia organized crimes should be punished IMHO.

But oh well, I am really getting off topic.
 
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Depravo
@mrdude You seem to have gone wildly off topic. In this blog we're discussing a municipal event that was woefully under-promoted.
 
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