so i live near the commons, but couldn’t afford to pay to see mccartney. no biggie. out of all of the hassles that come with it, about the biggest benefit to living this close to the show’s venue itself is that you don’t need a ticket to hear the music. lots of people in the hood planned to just enjoy the sounds coming from the park, cold (& affordable!) beer in hand, close friends by your side. the show has been planned for months, our own plans to bbq and enjoy sounds without sights have been on for a few weeks.
so to the neighbour down the block who decided to have a wedding party with a live band in their backyard this saturday, a big hearty fuck you! not only have you made enjoying the mccartney show near impossible for us with the terrible musical choices played by the band at your party, as i wrote this the sound of two bands playing simultaneously are giving me and my crew nothing but a pounding fucking headache. the only way to enjoy the bbq now was to put on our own stereo and try drown both bands out (unsuccessfully, i might add, this just made it worse). what on earth made you people think this wedding party with a band was not only a good idea for yourselves, but that it wouldn’t ruin the free audio show for every neighbour for two blocks in any direction? i really pity the people who live next door to you, whose parents had driven into the city for the express purpose of trying to enjoy the mccartney show from a distance on a visit with their kid(s).
you make me want to call in a bomb threat on our street so badly right now, it’s not even funny. between the noise during set up, the altered traffic, the inability to park near your own house, the loss of the use of the park for days, and all of the other shit we north-enders too poor to buy tickets have to endure with these concerts on the commons, the least you could do was have your party with a dj so the volume could be controlled so the rest of us could enjoy whatever we could of the big show. hope your party was fun because the good will it’s costing you with the neighbourhood right now won’t be easily won back i don’t think.
—my brain hurts
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2009.
there’s good will from North enders to be had? Hmmm Wonders never cease.
I feel bad for the poor fucks who had to deal with THREE competing soundtracks. Three wrongs makes a right?
Since you didn’t pay, don’t expect a concert. The world doesn’t stop (well maybe for the idiot politicains in Halifax) for Sir Paul. I hope the wedding party had a good time in spite of people breaking the noise law.
Good point Cranky.
Why didn’t you and the people next door to your neighbours suck it up and head down to the hill with a blanket like everyone else? He was playing in the commons, not your backyard.
sorry,but it was her wedding day,not yours..grow up and accept that people have the right to have a party on their own land,whether you agree or not…
Ohmygodohmygod OP, try to stay calm, breathe deep cleansing breaths, relax… relax… there.
This is as dire and frightening a situation as I have ever seen, but rest assured the proper authorities have been notified and are diligently working toward ensuring the universe returns to its correct axis, and expediently resumes rotation around you.
I personally spoke to one Mr. Stephen Hawking’s people, and they could not stress strongly enough how seriously the imminent physicists of the world are taking this matter; all available resources are being re-allocated to this most vital mission.
Be brave, OP. My thoughts are with you.
the person who posted this is a cry baby. Fuck, so someone had a wedding and ruined your chance to pretend that you were at the concert.
I hope this couple had a great wedding and all my best for the future.
weddings take months and months to plan, probably long before the concert was announced. you cheap fuck, you didnt pay for either event, so stop your booo hoooo’s
I say again…….
Why didn’t you call the cops? hahaha
That’s what I don’t get, folks pay about $100,000 more to live in the heart of the city, if you bought a house that is, or they’ll pay several hundred a month more if they rent; just to be nestled in tight with all the other like-minded-folk. Then the city behaves like a city and it’s “You dirty fuckers for disturbing me!” I don’t get that. That’s kinda lost with me. Why did you get so close to seathing humanity if you don’t like humanity’s ways.
The country is a great place for folks that like the peace ‘n quiet, EH!!!
But relevant to these commenters………..Crappy….please eat Kay…….you need the fiber in your diet …..by the looks of the steaming pile.
the steaming pile of… muffin. Very scary smee. Try again. Practice makes perfect. You too can be an asshole sheep!
The tomatoes are growing great in my backyard and I got a rebate on my car insurance. :p
People plan their weddings months in advance. Do you think they planned it after Paul McCartney decided to come here just to piss of the neighbourhood???
BUY A TICKET NEXT TIME (then you won’t have to worry about your neighbours)
No Kay…..the steaming pile of ‘crap’……….crappy’s picture posted by the crappy comment ……………..not the steaming pile of muffin……for fuck sake Kay, what the fuck is a steaming pile of muffin?
Oh wait…….that could be Kay when she’s on a tirade!
OK, just for Kay …….lets spell it out so she understands…………Crappy needs fiber in the diet by the looks of the stool, ………..the muffin is a fibrous snack, …………you are the muffin Kay, ……………..crappy eats you to get fiber. Nobody was insulting you Kay……well, not Smee anyway……you are not a steaming pile of muffin!
(a muffin brain perhaps)
(OK, now that WAS an insult, now you can lash back with your sheepish shit)
LMFAO Smee. I think I’m in love with you… and I think some lucky co-worker (or boss??) is going to get called a steaming pile of muffin tomorrow. Let the head scratching begin.
(Seriously dude, I’m wiping tears)
OP, you make the fissures in my ass throb. Please pack up your mullet and buy a nice cabin in Cape Breton. You can take “your crew” with you.
*poster assumes no responsibility for perceived implied insult to Cape Bretoners, but ya know…it IS the Boonies. I could just as easily say: buy a cabin in Moose Factory, ON.; you get my gist, right?*
Wonder why they just didn’t dance to McCartney, as the concert was so close to their house. It would have saved them the cost of the band. Didn’t their band and McCartney’s clashing with it give them a head ache too? Again people, noise by-laws. You can’t play anything too loud because it does disturb others, McCartney or no McCartney, wedding or no wedding. That’s what a reception hall is for, the dance, so it doesn’t disturb all the neighbours. And as for those noise by-laws, oh, yeah, right, the by-laws were dispensed with that night (until 12 a.m.) for the McCartney concert. (I could hear it from where I live in Dartmouth and sang along. It was great but really, it must have been very loud!)And again people, lots of us don’t have money to afford to go see those concerts at those prices. Some of us have to settle for an honest life earning a little over minimum wage an hour. Seeing may cost, but hearing is free, or should have been for everyone. After all that concert was on Common land, land that belongs to all of us, not just those that can pay for private tickets. And do you know how much was paid to rent the Commons. $1.00! (seriously!) And whose pockets do you think the money for the clean up will come from, not just the middle class or wealthy but all taxpayers. Think on that!
Gee Querk, I hope I didn’t hurt feelings with that crap, I mean, with crappy anyway. I kinda shit all over him, or her…….it’s hard to tell……..ya… it’s a him. I shouldn’t have judged him by his looks…..that’s not nice. I didn’t mean to kick up a stink! Oh god,…..this is going down the toilet. Now I feel crappy…..oh crap….not with my fingers I hope. Ya know….he’s a good shit in the long run…..if ya like long runny shit.
OK, ……..I’ll stop now.
Oh gosh Smee, *tear wipe* I read that whole segment and fell off my bed-tower again. Let’s make out.
I think you, Dino and Quert, only want me for my mind and who I am,
not for my body!
i live 2 houses away from these people. i did NOT expect to “drift off to the sounds of mccartney” at all but i also didnt expect to hear these people bellowing a shitty rendition of ‘let it be” til 11pm. im not even a beatles fan, i could really give a crap about the concert but that fact that i couldnt even open the windows in my house on that (only) hot summer night was kind of a bummer. not to mention the lovely view of their port-a-potties from my bedroom window for days to come. sitting in my backyard, enjoying the summer breeze as the smell of human shit wafts through the air is just lovely. have a wedding all you want, but clean it up afterwards please.
i also dont think its fair to use the rebuttal “oh boo hoo you shouldve bought a ticket” they were expensive man, not everyone can afford it! plus, for people like me who had to work until 9pm, it wouldnt have made much sense to buy a ticket and only catch a few hours of the show. a few of my fellow waitresses who live near the commons were hoping to catch the show from their yard as well… is that so wrong?
not everyone can afford the take the day off for SIR PAUL and spend $150 while theyre at it.
To all the people on my Street I have planned my wedding for 1 year Paul planned this event maybe 2 months before he come to fucking bad for you This was my wedding day do you think I would have planned my wedding for this day had I known. growup as for you two fucking doors down suck it up Them potties didn’t stink and as they were rented they are picked up on Monday but because Sir paul was there they were to busy haha Next time buy a fucking ticket and you’ll hear it . suck it up people
To all the people on my Street I have planned my wedding for 1 year Paul planned this event maybe 2 months before he come to fucking bad for you This was my wedding day do you think I would have planned my wedding for this day had I known. growup as for you two fucking doors down suck it up Them potties didn’t stink and as they were rented they are picked up on Monday but because Sir paul was there they were to busy haha Next time buy a fucking ticket and you’ll hear it . suck it up people
YOUR WELCOME my brain hurts TAKE A FUCK OFF PILL AND A BOTTLE OF DON’T COME BACKS