I fucking despise Santa Con in NYC ... I mean really?

It’s one day, get over it.

It’s actually fun see to see everyone in costumes having a great time. The mood is always so positive.

I look forward to it every year

It’s lame r1. Not OP, but I too find it ridiculous and a Waste of time. They are why NYC is the sanitized boring dump it has become.

Can we see some Santa peen?

OP here r1. It is nonsense and these people have helped destroy NYC and turn it into a suburban city that feels like every other city now.

Its energy is draining away.

Team Naked Hot Santas.

Fuck SantaCon and all those fucking TRANSPLANTS

Well, they are probably not transplants. They are third or fourth generation NYers - from Long Island.

Yup, but not NYC natives. Most people from LI do not ever wanna live in NYC.

They do this in San Francisco, too. Straight bridge and tunnel types getting drunk and puking all over the city. It's not fun, funny, or positive. It's fucking gross. And so is Bay to Breakers.

All my NYC and Brooklyn friends are participating.

isn't it racist to constantly point out someone's color? Seriously asking, not trying to step on anyone's feelings.

All of r10 NYC and Brooklyn friends must be transplants. Because I don’t know any Natives that participate.

R11 not when it is entitled and privileged white folks.

[quote] All my NYC and Brooklyn friends are participating.

This.

Not anymore--at 35 they've mostly outgrown it--but ten years ago all the former frat types I knew who lived in Murray Hill were all in, as were a lot of the Williamsburg hipster crew.

R13 so TRANSPLANTS???

Cause r12 knows every NYer, particularly my friends.

And yes. I'm a fourth-generation Manhattanite.

And for about a year after college it would bug me when friends who'd recently moved to New York started to refer to themselves as "New Yorkers"

And then I turned 24 and got over it.

It looks fun. I love pointless merriment like this. Loosen up you old unfucked ninnies!

Some were TRANSPLANTS R14.

Some were kids I grew up with.

Most were transplants

well a few years ago we had a "Santa" incident in the local high school, a young kid who is black dressed as Santa, guess what the teacher said to him in the class? "You can't be Santa, Santa is white!" So R11, unfortunately for some people, Santa is indeed has a race "factor" in it, and OP's observation of "all white" is very accurate here.

The Long Island Rail Road, MetroNorth, and NJ Transit have prohibited alcohol on their trains today. They learned from experience about suburban drunks.

It's not as great as The Night Of 1,000 Caftans, that's for sure!

I’m a native NYer and agree that this seems to have come in with the recent (last 20 years) wave of new residents. One thing that’s great about this city is that few people are “from here” but everyone can get into the spirit, and part of what makes it great is the energy new people bring. But yeah...this is not a “NY tradition,” per se. It has come here, like pub crawls, from elsewhere.

What energy do new people bring to NYC? Racism? Homophobia? Ignorance?

Used to work on St. Marks; SantaCon was a shitshow. It's so bridge and tunnel bro-like, but I guess if you're into "straight" dudes from Jersey -- have fun?

“I fucking despise Santa Con in NYC”

Oh Rudolph (Giuliani) with your nose so bright...

Some of them, R24, but even a diehard like me knows not all of that comes from outside the city.

They also bring new traditions, ideas and perspectives which is something that benefits any place. And not every transplant from elsewhere is a white trustafarian from Flyoverstan.

Halloween for straight people.

How is it any different from Mardi Gras? Times Square on New Years Eve? St. Pats Day? Some people hate the noise and revelry at those events---but it's all been a long tradition.

Santa Con is just one fucking day a year--so get over it. The only thing I would like is maybe more police presence to fine the drunken bros and hos who puke/piss on the sidewalks.

I think most "real New Yorkers" know to stay inside or minimize errand-running during Santa Con.

It is similar to St Patrick’s Day. Similar - if more diverse- crowd. A day for bar hopping in the city. It’s fine, whatever. I also leave the city for Gay Pride for similar reasons - crowds of bridge and tunnel kids getting drunk even if they are gay.

From these descriptions, it sounds like the Daily Mail should be covering this.

R11 is correct. R23 needs to learn to grasp abstract thought. If it's "necessary" to highlight the race of these people to understand this event, then I'm sure he won't call "racist!" when we underscore the races of others in certain places and pursuits. Right?

Huh, R31? I didn’t bring up race. My second post was in response to the next poster challenging my remark that racism, homophobia etc. wasn’t the only thing people bring here from elsewhere. I assumed they were referring to white racism from all these folks from middle America (or the suburbs) they seemed to think were taking over. My point was that NY attracts people from all over the world and they do contribute positive things to our city as well. Oh, and that we have racism here to begin with, just like everywhere else on the planet.

Have a great day!!! 😂😂😂

Real New Yorkers vs transplants. What's the point? So sad and lame.

Way to be racist, OP.

I don't see a thing wrong with it

My mistake, R23/R32. I suppose I mistyped as I meant R20. Didn't read the rest of your post, since I don't care, but here's some advice aimed at YOU: Lay off the damn emoticons. I say this with all love.

Have a great day yourself!!!!

Transplants aren’t New Yorkers.

You’re the one who’s pathetic, OP. Jeez, find something worthwhile to care about. This is harmless.

Kiss my ass. We do not need so many white straight men running around this city.

r39 you are a fool.

OP ...hordes of white of white people? An entire train "all filled with young white people".

Well OP, we all know it could have been worse.

Worst fucking people ever

SantaCon is literally an accumulation of all the frat bros and sorority girls of present and yesteryear who gather in a shocking display of white belligerence (for the most part.)

It is only second to St. Patrick's Day in the list of days to not leave your apartment.

In fairness, R43, you had better add the Puerto Rican Day Parade to your list.

R44: Fair point, but Puerto Ricans are not as deranged as the Irish or Santas. Loud but not violent drunks.

I take it you aren't aware of the sexual assaults in central park and how businesses in the area used to board up their windows because of vandalism, r45.

I think I'd probably blow the Santa with his arm in the air. He's cute :)

Oh, tell the truth, R47. You'd blow all the guys in that photo.

Stop Already! We are all Americans! Can Immigrants be Americans? If they are transplants?

From what I gather, "native New Yorkers" are mostly dour, crotchety, funless cranks that look for any opportunity to yell at the kids to "Get off my lawn!" If you had lawns.

SantaCon proves Santa exists; and he’s a tool who barely graduated from Hofstra.

There are SantaCons all over the Country. The biggest ones are NYC and San Francisco, but I know they have it in parts of NJ, Chicago and in Boston also.

r11 those who are minorities are used to having their color be a point of issue. So the only people I find ask this question are white people who are not used to be called out for their color. Instead of calling it out why not watch it happen and see what it feels like to have your color precede your humanity?

R53 PREACH PREACH PREACH

My gosh you're right! You make me blush R48.

White trash frat boos.

Black Twitter is furious about Santa Con, for some reason.

R55 is a giver

Completely furious R57

SMH

So lit, r59

Those white folks and their SantaCon

Black Twitter is complaining about SantaCon because of the white Santas jumping the turnstiles and saying if they were black they would have been gunned down.

R62 they are right.

I see white people jump the turnstile DAILY and not once have I seen one stopped yet. Born and raised in Brooklyn and have only seen black or Hispanic people stopped. Never ever a white person.

r63 I'm sure your anecdotal evidence would hold up in a court of law.

R64 grow up. Jesus.

r65 Please, find me a 10-year old who can spell "anecdotal".

Wtf???

R64: no, but the statistical evidence and disproportionate amount of citations given to black and brown people would hold up in court. As well as the fact that there's cameras recording, which could ostensibly hold footage of white people jumping with no consequences.

In any case, why would that be your standard of measure? Not all racism can be proven in a court of law because the justice system is not perfect, nor does it allow for the reading of minds. While nonwhites know whites are racist based on their own experiences, it only takes a white victim to shout "racist is an INSULT" to turn the tide.

OP, I doubt they'll be going to your shitty black (is that redundant?) hood, so you can relax.

Santa Speedo Runs are better. They're short, guys (and gals) strip down and raise funds, then get drunk in bar in skimpies and undies.

R69 FUCK YOU. SO SICK OF RACISTS.

OP is a the racist piece of shit.

OP is racist? No. Look at all these anti black threads, those are racist. And you stay quiet

What anti-black threads?

the Santa con madness was in full force last night...but it’s fun to imagine those gangs of drunk, horny post-frat bros going home and having circle jerks...

R41 for real, the people bitching about all the "young suburban whites" don't even consider the alternatives

But that doesn’t happen often. I have never taken a train in my 32 years where a fight has broken out like that

R73, started this thread based on racism, Wake up.

My apologizes, R73, I meant to posted that OP started this thread based on racism.

R63 R64 I once got a citation for fare evasion from the subway police. I let a homeless dude in with me. He got arrested. Guess which one of us is white?

Some of those Santas look hot, I don't mind.

In London, we call this a typical week end.

OP - You're a mean one, Mr Grinch!