When I lived on Gloucester and Church a few years, I didn’t mind Pride at all dumping portapotties on my front lawn. I didn’t even mind the constant thumping of disco from beer tents. Nor did I mind the crowds just outside my door or the late night revelry.
The biggest problem I had was lesbian poetry at 8am the Saturday of the dyke march. One Pride they had a “morning ritual” where some flowerchildren decided to greet the dawn of a lesbian new day with a bull horn and uterus filled lyrical (?!) poetry. At 8am. When the night before I got home at 5am after a bar shift.
Behind the South Stage at Mutual and Wood Street sits a poor lowly Co-op that we walked by every day of the celebrations this year. For the most part, people were hanging out on their front door step and partying right along in their own manner (one unit had their music so loud, it nearly drowned out the stage act in the parking lot).
Today, all around the co-op someone is playing scrouge:
Judging by the usage of Comic Sans, redundant hand written “Sign our petition!” and the use of “ipetition” it’s a straight person.*
*I’m kidding. For all I know it could be a tranny who needs her beauty rest.
8 thoughts on “Pride Annoys the Neighbours”
Tired of living in a “city” where you have to “get along with other humans”?
Stop torturing normal people.
It’s time to MOVE TO A CABIN IN THE WOODS.
comic sans is a terrible crime. fuck him/her/it.
one additional ridiculous point: this person lives immediately beside a construction site that over the past year and a half has seen the demolition and erection of an apartment building. this same site was also the scene of a botched renovation project that took about eight months to finish (as much as it was ever finished) about a year before the demolition started. i’m just guessing here, but i think that living beside that site would be one hell of a lot more problematic and stressful than a few days of pride week soundstages. to further hammer the point home, that part of mutual street (and wood street, on many days) is blocked constantly with the various cranes and trucks used by the builders.
nice try, co-op person. i would like to see the parade end at city hall again, but i doubt we’ll have that occur anytime soon.
It’s from an older, yet techno-savvy gay couple who have 3 darling bichon frises who can’t stand the noise. Or da funk.
Hey… quit knock’n the crazy cat ladies… we are good people. š
Nah, sounds more like a crazy bird lady, a crazy cat lady would have written: Blarghadgadlabhwalkdaweadaeheawasakeiaehaswh. I know I watch The Simpsons.
Pride generates $$$ for the city that I am sure helps pays for assisted rent… The options could be much worse, like living under a bridge. If this person included their pets in the notice I’m sure it’s some sort of crazy cat lady.
If the sign came from someone within the Co-op, there might be a chance they’re under assisted rent and I would wonder if they had a *much* of a choice of moving downtown, let alone getting out of town during Pride.
But I agree, you’re in the core. Deal with it.
Grr.. this sort of thing always grinds my gears.
If you wanted peace and quiet, why the fuck would you move to the downtown core of the biggest city in Canada? And I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the person complaining probably moved into the village BECAUSE of the lively street life.
dumbfucks.