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Seattle's famous naked bike parade
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World Cup visitors (and us locals) looking for a hilariously authentic experience can count a slew of naked cyclists pedaling through The Fremont Solstice Parade as one uniquely Seattle option.


Led by the famed Solstice Cyclists — wearing little more than elaborate body paint — and followed by giant puppets, handmade floats, dancers, stilt walkers and more. The celebration coincides with the two-day Fremont Fair.


For first-time visitors, hundreds of painted cyclists rolling through Fremont might seem a little unusual. For Seattleites, it's one of the surest signs of summer.

Whole lot of mental illness in that part of the country.

CiscoKid said:

Whole lot of mental illness in that part of the country.

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You are absolutely correct!
.....but I gotta say there's something about a naked (and fit) female riding a bike down the street that'll make ya wanna look. Lol

If it were all dudes, that shit would get shut down before it made it halfway down the first block. Only thing that allows stuff like that are the girls doing it.

"Girls just wanna have fun"
Glad I don't live in your areas of compliant sanity.
Y'all'd be most happy with yer wimmins in burkhas — no thanks, I'll stick with crazy.
The Fremont Solstice Parade debuted in 1989 so we've been crazy quite a while.

Bottom Feeder said:

"Girls just wanna have fun"
Glad I don't live in your areas of compliant sanity.
Y'all'd be most happy with yer wimmins in burkhas — no thanks, I'll stick with crazy.
The Fremont Solstice Parade debuted in 1989 so we've been crazy quite a while.

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Don't take my comment wrong, as I am perfectly fine naked girls riding bikes.
....but even you gotta admit Cisco wasn't exactly wrong in his comment, in general about the overall area. Lotta wacky shit has gone on there. Are you down with every bit of it? From an observers view, it's "woke central".

Joe King said:

You are absolutely correct!
.....but I gotta say there's something about a naked (and fit) female riding a bike down the street that'll make ya wanna look. Lol

If it were all dudes, that shit would get shut down before it made it halfway down the first block. Only thing that allows stuff like that are the girls doing it.

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Joe King said:

If it were all dudes, that shit would get shut down before it made it halfway down the first block. Only thing that allows stuff like that are the girls doing it

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It was just dudes the first year or two — no paint.
Females started riding also and the po-po shut it down with threats of arrests for indecent exposure.
So there was a compromise; body paint and shorts required.
Peoples who discourage fun and whackyness can just drive by Snowflake City, they don't have to participate, condone or condemn, or even watch. Just go about your boring little lives and allow us lunatics our deranged behavior.
we be havin fun!!
bottom feeder

Joe King said:

If it were all dudes, that shit would get shut down before it made it halfway down the first block. Only thing that allows stuff like that are the girls doing it.

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Nonsense.

You ever hear of the Folsom Street Festival? Down the Interstate, in San fried Sicko.

Yeah, they have a fair number of grotesquely fat dykes there, now...but it all started as a great big sausage party, with the Tight Ends becoming Wide Receivers.

Bottom Feeder said:

It was just dudes the first year or two — no paint.
Females started riding also and the po-po shut it down with threats of arrests for indecent exposure.
So there was a compromise; body paint and shorts required.

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Ok, so in the end it's exactly as I said. Shorts? Because no one really wants to see sausages on bikes.

So in reality, it's basically a topless bike ride for girls. Guys can already go shirtless. So no change from any other bike ride for a dude., if he wants to ride shirtless.

Bottom Feeder said:

Peoples who discourage fun and whackyness can just drive by Snowflake City, they don't have to participate, condone or condemn, or even watch. Just go about your boring little lives and allow us lunatics our deranged behavior.
we be havin fun!!
bottom feeder

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Again, don't take me wrong as I have no problem with it. I'd be happy to watch naked girls ride bikes all day long.

Casey Jones said:

Nonsense.

You ever hear of the Folsom Street Festival? Down the Interstate, in San fried Sicko.

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Well that don't really count. SF is not a normal town.

Joe King said:

Well that don't really count. SF is not a normal town.

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normal town??
heh
wtf is "normal" anymoar?

Bottom Feeder said:

normal town??
heh
wtf is "normal" anymoar?

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Wherever it is, it's not where the fruitcakes reign.

Bottom Feeder said:

normal town??
heh
wtf is "normal" anymoar?

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You got that right. Seems like every town is Freak Central, now. The Woketards paid for agitprop protesting in Portlandia. Government-gone-wild in Seattle...one thing Washington did RIGHT was, NOT impose an Income Tax. Now they're doing it; and now all the businesses that came to Seattle or the state...don't have a reason to be there.

Chicago is a killing field. Detroit is literally dead. Denver is fake and ghey...LITERALLY. It just hurts me to see what happened to that city and how fast.

Just about every major city...either a hyphenated population group, or the Government Class, has gone insane. Give the vote to illegals. Make aliens into police. Flock cameras everywhere...fortunately Montana has avoided that scourge...SO FAR. There's only one in our town of 75k; and it's near a major bank.

You know...it's to where I don't want to anywhere NEAR any of those places! I was considering whether it might be worth it to go roughing-it Van-Life in Arizona this winter...just to be away from the endless Montana winter with six hours of daylight...and I get to thinking, all the things that can go wrong. Parts of Arizona and Texas I'd want to see or revisit. But the violence unchecked by hobbled police; the potential to get either persecuted by the law, as a vagrant homeless, or rolled by other homeless drug-user crazies, doesn't appeal.

If I were younger, I'd say it's time to think about Alaska; but I'm not younger. I'm older.

Freaking at the freakers ball...Dr Hook I wish I could post it.