So how was YOUR parade???

SpitfireIV

Just back from the Carlow town parade and it was complete and utter s*&^e..............I just wasted 30mins of my day!!! The same old stuff from last year (if even less this year!), a handful of Reserves (out of step as usual), screaming school kids from various football clubs, a few noisy tractors and a few business from around town with flags and balloons stuck on there vans!! :mad: Wheres the creativity and festival atmosphere???

Dissapointed!


So how was it for you??

rannerap

youre lucky you got to go to one i was stuck in bloody work with winos shouting at me and rave versions of the fields of athenry and the like in my ear for 7 hours!

Nightwish

Kilkenny don't have a parade for that exact reason. Tbh I don't know what is going on in town, apart from drinking.

biko

Galway was good, lots of school bands and dressed up people. Three different drum and pipes bands. Dunloy flute and drum band was down from the north. A few hurling clubs.
It ended with a few of the town fire trucks, blue blenders on and sirens blaring!

Caliden

haha tractors with baloons, classy!

Thrill

It was good for me. By the time i got out of bed, it was all over.

Seth Brundle

We went to the Lucan parade - it was the first time my 3YO son had seen one. From my POV it was weakish but he loved it and after all its for the kids!

The one thing that pissed me off was the young one sitting on the McDonalds wall beside us. After she wolfed down her chicken nuggets, burger and chips there was a collection of paper, foil top (from sauce) and its plastic container and a coke cup. She opened her box of smokes and stuck one into her gob after dropping the plastic wrapping on the ground beside the other crap.
I eventually went over to her as the parade was starting and the conversation was like this:
me: You seem to have dropped all this (pointing towards the paper bag)
it: yeah, I know but they are empty
me: but its rubbish
it: yeah but its empty so it doesn't count
me: do you not see the hyprocisy here?
it (grinning): yeah

So I left it after getting a dig in which I hope hurt her feelings long term!
I had planned on picking it up after the parade and putting it in the bin but by then I think a McDs lad had cleaned it up!

Brian Capture

You should have shoved the rubbish

(i) in her mouth
or
(ii) down her top

I hope she goes blind.

netwhizkid

I went to a parade in Sneem Co. Kerry and it was the most useless thing ever. About 10 entries and it was raining plus loads of knackers selling various conterfeit and stolen items. It was the worst st patricks day ever there not having been there for a few years.

The whole place is remnant of post civil-war Ireland with pubs and shops not much changed in forty years and people wearing Fianna Fail Stickers alongside the shamrock, I hurried out of it quickly as it is a perfect example of how backward some places in Ireland still are. My advice is avoid the place completely unless you drive a tank as the road into it should be put on that russian roads website that was posted a while back with mud tracks that became roads when the froze over in Winter. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Brian Capture

Did anyone see people wearing Celtic jersies today?

I did.

People trying to parade their Irishness by wearing the jersey of a Scottish club who play an English game.

The same people who would probably call you a 'unionist' if you admitted supporting an Eircom league club.

Rhyme

It was nice of RTÉ to show all the parade grand marshalls on the news except the grand marshall of the Cork parade... my Uncle :mad:

GerryRyan

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

...a handful of Reserves (out of step as usual)

Ah lovely, another bit of RDF/reserve bashing. That's all I needed to read just after doing my part in a similar parade :mad:

Ruu_Old

No parade in the schpot I'm living in the US, folks told me I missed nothing at home as I suspected. Usual tractor or two, girl guides, Naonrai, RDF and maybe a lorry from some of the local businesses.

Futureman

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

Just back from the Carlow town parade and it was complete and utter s*&^e..............I just wasted 30mins of my day!!! The same old stuff from last year (if even less this year!), a handful of Reserves (out of step as usual), screaming school kids from various football clubs, a few noisy tractors and a few business from around town with flags and balloons stuck on there vans!! :mad: Wheres the creativity and festival atmosphere???

Dissapointed!


So how was it for you??

Two things:

1) What exactly did you expect from a parade in Carlow? Ferraris & hot cheerleaders?
2) Why are you going to a parade anwyay - are you 9?

looksee

Look Patricks day is about Tradition, and its Traditional to go and stand in the freezing cold waving a paper flag at a traffic jam. Most of the people who do this are mammies and daddies keeping an eye on their small purple offspring, inadequately dressed in judo kit, Bridgin uniforms or GAA kit.

Maybe next year you could either (1) get on the committee and see if you have any more luck persuading people to organise colourful, imaginative, interesting floats, or (2) have a lie in and ignore it. Or go to the pub.

SpitfireIV

Futureman wrote:

Two things:

1) What exactly did you expect from a parade in Carlow? Ferraris & hot cheerleaders?
2) Why are you going to a parade anwyay - are you 9?

1) Yes.........that would have been nice!

2) I didnt realise that St Patrick day parade were reserved for under 9 years old now :mad:. Why was I going......because I wanted to, good enough answer for you???

ThatGuy wrote:

Ah lovely, another bit of RDF/reserve bashing. That's all I needed to read just after doing my part in a similar parade

Just telling it as it is ThatGuy, not bashing them at all, I was once 'one of them'. Dont take it too badly.

Gaspode

Brian Capture wrote:

Did anyone see people wearing Celtic jersies today?

I did.

People trying to parade their Irishness by wearing the jersey of a Scottish club who play an English game.

The same people who would probably call you a 'unionist' if you admitted supporting an Eircom league club.

Hear hear! And a pretty crap soccer club at that!

anyway,
I was at the parade in Trim, co. Meath. It was fantastic. Tractors, goats, skips, slurry tanks, the fire brigade, frozen scouts and guides, some really weird tree huggers giving out about the M3, more goats, and the town mayor with a really cool and hip hair cutin him. Tremendous.
Far better than the one I saw in Arva, Co. Cavan last year, though to be fair the one in Arva did have a good selection of septic tanks on the back of some trucks that were sadly lacking in the Trim parade.

Both though were far better than any time I've ventured in to my local parade (dublin city) which you can never see unless you have a ladder, and you have to run the gauntlet of every breed of drunken skanger you can imagine.

Futureman

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

2) I didnt realise that St Patrick day parade were reserved for under 9 years old now :mad:. Why was I going......because I wanted to, good enough answer for you???

The parade is for 1) kids, 2) parents bringing their kids, 3) American tourists, 4) boggers with no lives, and 5) teenage skangers on the piss.
Isn't it obvious by just looking at the crowd? The parade itself is just a bunch of naff floats from retailers, kooky student groups, and the odd crap marching band....and you're shocked when that's excatly what you got? Go figure...

rediguana

Parades are unbelievably gay. Since I became cool six or seven years ago (annoyingly, just after I finished college), I haven't bothered to look at any parades. I'm sorry it'll be another full year before I get the chance to not look at one again.

mike65

The best thing that can be done to the Parade is move it to the June weekend then we can have topless Ferraris and covertable cheerleaders.

Mike.

rediguana

mike65 wrote:

The best thing that can be done to the Parade is move it to the June weekend then we can have topless Ferraris and covertable cheerleaders.

Mike.

Is that a mistake? Don't you mean "topless cheerleaders"?

Owen

I was actually in the Fermoy Parade, we took 25 New MINIs and classic Minis down the street, and people seemed to genuinely enjoy it. Photos here :

http://miniclub.ie/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=761

Futureman

ned78 wrote:

I was actually in the Fermoy Parade, we took 25 New MINIs and classic Minis down the street, and people seemed to genuinely enjoy it. Photos here :

http://miniclub.ie/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=761

WOW - that sounds so amazingly exciting - 25 of the same car in a row! Pissed I missed it! Where else can you see that kind of thing??!

Owen

Futureman wrote:

WOW - that sounds so amazingly exciting - 25 of the same car in a row! Pissed I missed it! Where else can you see that kind of thing??!

Well, if you call 25 cars ranging for 1962 to 2007 with estates, convertibles, turbos, shorties all the same, then try the M50. For the non-cynical public it made a change from the usual Massey Ferguson hauling school kids butchering trad on a hay bale.

Futureman

ned78 wrote:

Well, if you call 25 cars ranging for 1962 to 2007 with estates, convertibles, turbos, shorties all the same, then try the M50. For the non-cynical public it made a change from the usual Massey Ferguson hauling school kids butchering trad on a hay bale.

Sorry man - I'm only taking the piss. It does actually sound quite good compared to the usual parade tripe!

connundrum

rediguana wrote:

Is that a mistake? Don't you mean "topless cheerleaders"?

Its been a few years since I was at a parade. Its not meant to be great for adults unless its in a big city. Small town parades are pretty much for kids who like seeing fire trucks and tractors and the likes.

NeMiSiS

CroppyBoy1798,
My band was playing by the fountain, we had a great laugh, but yeh the parade was awful.. I remeber thinking "Wow a truck, don't see 200 of them a day". Anyway I had a ball.
TK

cue

deswalsh wrote:

anyway,
I was at the parade in Trim, co. Meath. It was fantastic. Tractors, goats, skips, slurry tanks, the fire brigade, frozen scouts and guides, some really weird tree huggers giving out about the M3, more goats, and the town mayor with a really cool and hip hair cutin him. Tremendous.

Did ya not see the raft race then? That was good fun. Next year will be even better

Den_M

Futureman wrote:

WOW - that sounds so amazingly exciting - 25 of the same car in a row! Pissed I missed it! Where else can you see that kind of thing??!

SpitfireIV

Futureman wrote:

The parade is for 1) kids, 2) parents bringing their kids, 3) American tourists, 4) boggers with no lives, and 5) teenage skangers on the piss.
Isn't it obvious by just looking at the crowd? The parade itself is just a bunch of naff floats from retailers, kooky student groups, and the odd crap marching band....and you're shocked when that's excatly what you got? Go figure...

Ahhh so thats why it was such a bad experience for me! I must remember to consult you Futureman before I attend any other public events so as you can advise me on whats right and wrong oh wise one!

Oh, and I dont fall into any of the categories you mentioned, sorry, just visiting my county parade hoping to see something interesting.

John Mason

missed it everything, was in the RDS all day - got to see the rugby though - what a let down and i can i just say, it was all the scots fault, it they could have just tried a bit harder, (shakes head in disappointment at the whole scottish nation)

'Twas our own fault. All that fannying about at the end of our match when we shoulda went for a penalty.

lostexpectation

which parade has sadamn and bin laden in it? saw a clip on rte

Unpossible

An Irish guy in Helsinki organised a parade and an "Irish day", so myself and the girlfriend went down to see it and to make a weekend out of it (we stayed with some Irish friends). The week leading up to the parade had great weather, sun was out, snow was melted from the paths it was looking good... until saturday morning when nature decided winter should not be over yet and we got two days of snow. The parade was really simple there was an Irish and modern dance group, a group of people from a local pub and then any Irish person dressed in green or flags who decided to join in (they were trying to increase numbers). My friends and I fell into the last group , we were frozen during the parade because the snow would hit us then melt quickly drenching us and making the freezing conditions worse, but sure it was all in good fun. It was Helsinki's first parade, hopefully next year they will have a float or two. The locals had never seen anything like it before so we got a great reception (the police were everywhere, they must have thought there was going to be a riot or something)

Oriel

Futureman wrote:

WOW - that sounds so amazingly exciting - 25 of the same car in a row! Pissed I missed it! Where else can you see that kind of thing??!

At a F1 race? In a bus station?

Gaspode

cue wrote:

Did ya not see the raft race then? That was good fun. Next year will be even better

Too cold at that stage. Fair play to the nutters who volunteered to do it.

Futureman

sinecurea wrote:

At a F1 race? In a bus station?

Yes - and every car dealer's forecourt in the country. Pity you missed the sarcasm - it couldn't have been more obvious. I pity you for being so slow.

cue

deswalsh wrote:

Too cold at that stage. Fair play to the nutters who volunteered to do it.

The adrenalin kept us warm