Are you grossed out when tourists in New Orleans show their boobs for plastic beads?
I don’t know a single person FROM New Orleans that has showed their boobies on Bourbon Street or anywhere else. I do however know a lot of people from the GNO suburbs that have done it.
It’s not common for "everyone" to show their boobies during Mardi Gras. You were misinformed. It’s only common for tourists and teens from the suburbs outside New Orleans.
Locals also do it. And while I don’t, I don’t find it to be so bad.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
I LOVE LOOKING AT BOOBS. YOU DON’T LIKE LOOKING AT THEM, THEN DON’T LOOK. BUT, BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIKE BOOB, DON’T DENY THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD THAT PLEASURE!!
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January 27th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Do not think it is only tourists. Local teens are doing the same thing.
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January 28th, 2010 at 3:14 am
I’m assuming your asking people from New Orleans this question, but I’ll answer anyway.
According to what I’ve seen and the people ( native and tourists ) I’ve talked to,
it’s a common practice for EVERYONE during the Mardi Gras.
Even Nola.com states,
"In fairness to Mardi Gras, this activity goes on year-round on Bourbon Street"
Year-round being when the "tourists" and "GNO suburbs" have gone home.
I’m also assuming that when you say that it’s "tourists" and "GNO suburbs" that are
doing the showing, that it’s everyone else that is "grossed" out are "FROM New Orleans"….
even though they "FROM New Orleans" are the ones in every shop, store, and
everywhere else they can find one square foot of space that is
-SELLING- the beads.
Hard to be upset and "grossed out" by people your selling beads to that you know what the beads are for and how they are used
So, I would say:
NO,
it’s only you that is "grossed out"
for the "From New Orleans" it’s money and fame
for the "tourists" it’s beads and boobies
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My life and Nola.com
Throw them beads!
January 28th, 2010 at 8:30 am
No, I’m not grossed out. It’ a boob; it’s not poop, it’s not vomit, it’s only a boob. I couldn’t care less if a tourist thinks that the only way they can get beads is by flashing body parts, I’m just not that judgmental. It’s obvious to locals that if you go to a parade route and know what you are doing you can get the good stuff without showing anything but your winning personality.
The only thing on the subject of tourists showing ta-tas that bothers me is that it portrays the holiday as a spring break instead of what it is, Mardi Gras. MTV and Girls Gone Wild have capitalized on the tourist tradition of drunken flashing as the MG culture. That said, as long as the tourists keep their MG/Spring Break on upper Bourbon I have no problem with what they do and hope they have fun doing what they do.
I am appalled by the ignorance of outsiders when it comes to the true spirit of MG and the reason it’s celebrated. I am offended when someone from the bible belt comes here to "save" me from MG or asks how I could consider myself decent and celebrate MG. When I travel there is always some dirty old man who wants to know if I show my boobs, (No, I am a native thank you.). I had a visitor from TN who was absolutely shocked to see kids playing football and people picnicking on the neutralground, and filmed it to take back home.
I know I’m going to offend you and hope you don’t hold it against me too long, but your comment over the suburbs vs those "FROM" New Orleans makes you look like one of those Tulane students from New Jersey. While I understand your pride in actually living in the city proper as opposed to those in the ‘burbs, the comment is so over the top that it makes you look like a newbie. I was born and raised both within the city proper and in the ‘burbs. I’ve never lived further than 7 miles away from the city when I wasn’t living in the city. My people have been here since 1721, my father grew up with Al Hirt and went to school with Ellen DeGeneres’ Father, my sister went to school with her brother, my grandmother was there for the RTA strike where poor boys were created, my great grandfather died in a yellow fever epidemic, my father chanted, "who killa da chief" as a kid, I have at least 5 grandfathers who were there with Galvez for both the American Revolution and in the Battle of New Orleans, and the family tomb is currently decorated with black & gold. Therefore I think I have the authority to say, someones address doesn’t make them a native, it makes them a local. Natives have history here, have had their families build this place and die doing it, they know the culture here and the cultural differences between neighborhoods and can live and let live. Bashing people in the burbs for not being as "New Orleanian" as they are is a favorite pastime for newbies who don’t know better. Natives just roll their eyes at each other over the cultural differences, and make comments like "Tulane student from New Jersey," "Metairie Moron," "Shrimp boot wearing Chalmette Yat" "Goofy no toothed Bestbank resident," and "the Northshore is another planet." Perhaps you’re new here and don’t understand the accepted local subtlety between razzing by neighborhood vs just hammering away at someone from the ‘burbs or as it is called locally, the metro area. I’d like to think you are just not native and don’t get the difference rather than to think you are a native and offering up a troll like question.
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January 28th, 2010 at 11:26 am
Locals also do it. And while I don’t, I don’t find it to be so bad.
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