it sure ain't Rio

[waider]

Just watching some of the parade coverage on TV; it's 4°C with windchill down to -1, occasional flurries of light snow, and there are a bunch of girls out on O'Connell street in genuine Brazillian samba outfits, i.e. those bits of shiny metal and cloth with the square footage of a postage stamp. They're claiming that all the moving around is keeping them warm, but seriously now.

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[zadcat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the temperatures we get for the Montreal parade: ours is a bfd but is always done on the nearest Sunday. A couple years ago the whole thing was held in the midst of a blizzard – at least you're not likely to see that.

[veep.livejournal.com]

You sure complain about the weirdest things.

[waider.livejournal.com]

I am looking for complaint of any sort in the above, and damned if I can find any. You sure infer complaint in the weirdest places.

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

Des centaines de milliers de personnes, en Irlande, bravent le temps froid pour assister au défilé de la Saint-Patrick. Leur fête nationale est la plus célébrée à travers le monde.

Dans plusieurs grandes villes de la planète, les fêtards se réunissent pour marquer le jour du saint patron de l'Irlande. Paris, Moscou, Tokyo, Toronto et Montréal sont notamment le théâtre de festivités marquées du trèfle et colorées de vert.

Le plus ancien défilé de la Saint-Patrick en Amérique est celui de Montréal.[...] Au début des années 2000, environ 13 % de la population canadienne s'identifiait comme étant de descendance irlandaise.

[waider.livejournal.com]

I am amused. My first take on this was that many people braved the could to assist in the defiling of St. Patrick.

[kehoea.livejournal.com]

〈Fêtard〉 est un mot très péjoratif en Europe. Est-ce que c'est ainsi en l'Amérique du Nord?