Is There Still A Need For This Expensive And Disruptive Exercise, In This Country?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4677058/One-million-people-gather-London-UK-s-biggest-Pride.html

Perhaps in those countries that are not so acceptive to homosexuality, but surely there is now no longer need here?

[HansUrbancka]

I have Not bothered to read this thread because I abhor homosexuality.

However, perhaps Noel Coward was saying something :-



Hans.

[gness]

Exactly, SP.......Parades are very often made up of people celebrating one particular event or way of life.....
Pride has widened so much......to continue it as a tradition....an event that lots can enjoy just for the sheer fun of it....would be wonderful.....

There will always be a bit of me celebrating the fact that my nephew can walk down the street holding his partner's hand......my niece and her wife can wheel their daughter in her buggy....
That's a change I'm pleased and proud to have been part of.....but I will always have in mind those who suffered because they were not allowed to do those things....

Most of this thread has been good.....that makes me happy too....x

[sp1814]

gness

You have a gay nephew and niece?

Well done - as you get older, they will be able to protect you from bad fabrics and backlighting.

;-)

[jno]

Hans, you will note he nicked part of the tune of Deutschland Uber Alles.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Was that horrible attack on that person, due to him being homosexual?

If so then just like what is now called a hate crime, it would be condemned by most decent minded people, even those who are not prepared to accept certain factors of homosexuality.

But homosexuals are not the only people who can be attacked by such thugs, anyone can these days be them Straight, Gay, Jewish Black, White, Indian.Females or Males, or Ginger Haired, no one is excluded.

The difference being there are only certain groups that can say "I was attacked because I'm..........." and then everyone holds their hands up in sheer horror.

[-Talbot-]

sp1814
gness

You have a gay nephew and niece?

Well done




Well done for what?

[gness]

SP.....they do already......especially my nephew.....and the good back lighting is becoming a must!....... :-)
And I'm now Great Auntie G to a lovely little lass.....and she has the happiest family.....

My auntie is in her nineties.....so older than some on here.....she's never had a moments problem with any of us.......we're all the same to her......genuinely......
She'd be...well puzzled really....about what some are calling her family.....x

[New Judge]

I did present the case that I rested about three hundred posts ago.

"You could have been just as held up by a large group of folk you have no gripe with.....I doubt you would have used such nasty descriptions of them.....x"

Yes I could. And I have been. And my view of them is just the same. I don't really know how many times I can explain: it is not the individuals or their cause with which I take issue. It is nothing to do with my view on homosexuality (of which I have precious little as I've already said). It is the event itself. It is unnecessary and in an inappropriate location. It seems this contention of mine is not accepted and I keep hearing that it is my "dated" views on homosexuality which jaundices my argument. I've never expressed any views on homosexuality other than to say I have no particular views.

Strangely I was surprised that it took 320 posts to raise the annual Remembrance Parade. That event (like the State opening of Parliament, which causes similar disruption) is a State event organised by the government and attended by the Monarch and senior politicians. There is simply no comparison with other events and to try to equate them is simply daft. Having said that even that event took some cognisance of the inconvenience it placed on the populous when it was consigned to a Sunday and not the 11th November.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// they're planning to close London streets on Remembrance Sunday again this year, the weirdos., ///

You can't compare closing the streets so as to remember the dead of two World Wars and other War situations, to closing the streets so as to celebrate being gay.

If it hadn't been for those brave and gallant Veterans, the likes of you would not be free or even alive, to spout your ridiculous comments.

[jno]

you think only Thames Water should have the right to close roads, NJ?

[pixie374]

Well, I'd like to go partying with gness and sp :-).

[pixie374]

Aog- a minute ago it wasn't about the reasons, it was about the disruption. Now it's about the reasons?

[pixie374]

Or to NJ really...

[murraymints]

Can I come too...will bring picnic !

[gness]

I'm questioning your choice of words to describe people, NJ...that is what I find so shameful in your post....
You could have said all you wanted to about the parade.....its purpose and timing without being so insulting.

That you chose to use those words says much about you....x

[jno]

If it hadn't been for those brave and gallant Veterans, the likes of you would not be free or even alive, to spout your ridiculous comments.

Don't talk nonsense. Some of my countrymen (even a few members of my family) died to save your country. None of yours died to save mine.

[anotheoldgit]

gness

/// You have a gay nephew and niece? ///

That's a new slant, could it have anything to it being in the Genes? (ups I nearly typed Jeans)

[gness]

Okay...my nephew says I have to have the seat with the soft lighting behind me.....or if it's a picnic....in the dappled shade of a tree... :-)

[pixie374]

Can we have sp's friend dressed as Cher?

[douglas9401]

Is there such a thing as determinedly manic inclusivity?

I'm definitely getting a vibe of something.