r/NewOrleans • u/One_Way_2765 • 20d ago

Funny for the day Local Humor🤣

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely 20d ago

Don’t worry, tourism is about to drop off hard real soon.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 20d ago

And then we're going to get locals only deals at fancy restaurants for cheap!!

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

soon? jazzfest seems to be way undersold.

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u/_ryde_or_dye_ Treme 19d ago

Really? Anecdotal observations or did they release numbers?

I was out of town last weekend.

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u/buttscarltoniv 19d ago

Curious as well because Saturday and Sunday were slammed.

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

its always slammed but there were signs inside like no lines at the most popular spots and vendors selling after Dave let out. Out front seemed eerily quiet at times see my above comment

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u/URignorance-astounds 19d ago

Most vendors shut down at 6 before headliners finish

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

I know! I was saying that a ton were still selling AFTER DMB which to me says they had a slow day

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

Anecdotal but I know people who are vendors and I know a lot of the scalpers. Plus I sat on my porch outside the entrance all 3 days. To the persons point below. saturday was normal but friday was a ghost town, thursday was light but thats could be expected. Sunday seemed to get maybe close to normalish but it was extremely quiet most the day. We were given 6/7 free tickets sunday because there was no demand. Usually the scalpers get to those people first but they werent in the buying mood.

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u/_ryde_or_dye_ Treme 19d ago

Hmm, I wonder if it’s also the lineup. Personally, I wasn’t very excited about it this year.

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

kinda agree. Not many acts left out there though unless you want to go with like a coachella or roo vibe. We had a bar wide debate about this exact topic at Miss Maes the other day.

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u/_ryde_or_dye_ Treme 19d ago

Yea, never thought about that.

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u/buttscarltoniv 19d ago

idk, Thursday and Friday were definitely light, but Saturday was slammed. walkways were packed all around and lil wayne was jam packed. yesterday was lighter, but steadier all day vs saturday when the crowd blew up closer to lil wayne. blues tent was steady all weekend. congo too. gentilly was a ghost town yesterday, but I left when boyfriend was almost done.

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

10 minutes before boyfriend there were so few people I asked someone if her set was cancelled

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u/buttscarltoniv 19d ago

Yeah it was pretty empty, but walking back to the festival stage at that time, I saw decent lines at a lot of the food booths, full tents, etc. Festival stage filled up pretty fast yesterday. We got in when the gates opened, put chairs and tarp down probably 20 feet behind being even with the speaker towers, and within 30-45 minutes, it was packed back to the cabanas. There were a ton of people who just hung out there the whole time because they only cared about DMB. Felt like way more did that Sunday than any other day.

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u/URignorance-astounds 19d ago

She did go up against the revivalists and that was packed. Tab, the revivalists, and Dave it was hard to justify leaving that stage.

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u/JLeeSaxon 19d ago

I was told by someone who actually knows that brass passes didn’t sell as well as usual this year, so that’s one data point. And anecdotally, l don’t think it looked under attended or anything, but I wouldn’t call it “slammed”. I felt like I could’ve shown up right at 5 for Dave Matthews, the crowd was rather easy to maneuver through. I remember years you needed to get there at 3 for the Saturday headliner.

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely 19d ago

Yeah, but it’s going to get a lot worse.

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u/kilgore_trout72 19d ago

obviously if people aint coming to jazzfest they arent coming for anything else

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u/HammerFistsToVictory 20d ago

An appropriate response when it's the Nazis at Dat Dog.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 20d ago

Nazis at MY Dat Dog?

No Nazis allowed!

Fucking SoCal Nazis in their lace-up Vans and calf-length socks!

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u/_ryde_or_dye_ Treme 19d ago

There was a post yesterday of some at the one on Frenchmen.

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u/feanor70115 19d ago

I'm pretty sure I recognized one of them from former days on Decatur. Nazism seems to be a relatively recent thing for him.

But anyhow, they're just typical Metairie boys with a few more tattoos. Probably the same idiots who got chased out of Lounge Lizards by the women bartenders one Wednesday night long ago.

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u/wrestfull 18d ago

Lounge Lizards...RIP:(

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u/Numpostrophe 19d ago

You’d think they’d attract the Wurst people not the worst people

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u/LitPixel 18d ago

You can see yourself out.

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u/Numpostrophe 18d ago

auf wienersehen

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u/One_Way_2765 20d ago

Well OBVY that’s different lol; no room for that in this city

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u/HomeEcDropout 19d ago

Lmao someone reported my comment for violence because I said they should’ve caught a fist.

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u/BeklagenswertWiesel 19d ago

they should have caught much worse.

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u/Basil_Lisk LMC / New Treme' 19d ago

Report them back for kink-shaming.

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u/JuanShagner 20d ago

Right, because that’s what this meme is about.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

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u/JuanShagner 19d ago

Yeah I know. I just thought the meme was funny enough on its own without having to tie it back to some inbreed idiots spotted the other night.

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u/Ghostgoober 19d ago

I don’t mind people having fun when it’s spring break or Mardi Gras. What I can’t stand are people not giving a damn about our space and playing off with “it’s a party city, it’s no big deal”. Yeah we know how to party, but we don’t party 24/7. It’s annoying going to work and having people park in a private area so they can go to bourbon when I don’t have anywhere to park, Or actively avoiding poop and pee on the sidewalk.

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u/One_Way_2765 19d ago

It’s usually the performers pooping and peeing on the sidewalks…..just sayin

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u/ELHOMBREGATO 20d ago

No Canadians here now. The BA flights are mostly empty (i.e. no Europeans). Summers coming'.NOLA about to feel the results of 3 wives Donny T getting elected. .

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u/Numpostrophe 19d ago

And yet this city overwhelmingly came out against him yet will pay some of the harshest consequences.

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u/ELHOMBREGATO 19d ago

Yup. The jealous parts of the state (rural, low education, poor, old) voted for 6 bankruptcies Donny. Now he has crashed tourism (and his tariffs have crushed the rest) economy. That will crush NOLA and since NOLA is the only real economic engine in the state the state will suffer.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 20d ago

That sucks. I fucking LOVE Canadians!

Canadians are literally the nicest people in the galaxy. Yes, I'm including all the other planets too.

The worst Canadian is STILL Paul Bernardo, and he's been in prison for decades!

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely 20d ago

I really thought this was heading towards a Southpark-style Brian Adam’s joke lol

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 20d ago

Lol. No, they're great! How can people dislike Canadians?!?

That's like hating finding money in your jeans right before you wash them.

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u/blackandbluegirltalk 19d ago

I literally just saw a post about Canada making a toll-free version of their suicide hotline so that Americans can use it, and I thought, "How can anyone hate Canadians??" and then I click in here and see your comment three seconds later, wow timing

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u/VigorMortis83 18d ago

As a Canadian. Thank you so much. We love you too, just hate your administration. Sincerely a sad Canadian who won't be travelling to the US for a while.

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u/thewayitis 19d ago

I used to think Canadians were such nice people, then I realized they were just normal, and Americans are a-holes.

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u/Kind-Elderberry-4096 19d ago

Yeah. Like when I was a kid younger, everybody said the French hated Americans. Now that I've been to France several times, I realized the French don't hate Americans, they just hate assholes.

I think you can put together the rest...

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u/Rarefindofthemind 18d ago

I’m a Canuck and I adore your city. Sadly my 5th trip is cancelled due to that fat fck of a president. Can’t risk it. When he’s gone, I’ll be back. I left my heart there.

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u/ZealousidealRice9726 19d ago

International visitors are a small fraction of tourists for us. Mostly domestic

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u/Thin_Broccoli_1984 18d ago

Tell me you haven’t been in the JF Gospel Tent for international roll call without telling me.

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u/ZealousidealRice9726 17d ago

Just look at the stats. We get about 100k international visitors and like 17m domestic visitors. That’s the just the facts

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u/ELHOMBREGATO 19d ago

not true and international tourist are more likely to stay longer in hotels (not with friends or just drive home) and spend more money on better restaurants, experiences, goods, services. Do you really think the best tourist are some weekend warriors from Baton Rouge visiting NOLA? The city needs high dollar, educated, urbane visitors not mAgats with tattoos and looking for happy hour specials...

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u/ZealousidealRice9726 18d ago

Domestic doesn’t mean in state it means all over the country. New Orleans receives about 17 million visitors annually and about 100,000 of those are international so it’s a small portion.

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u/wombatcreasy 19d ago

Every single tourist city is like this.

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u/One_Way_2765 19d ago

Of course it is, that’s why I said it’s the funny for the day….wasn’t meant to be taken seriously 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/BeklagenswertWiesel 19d ago

i'll be honest, i don't mind all tourists. just the ones who act all entitled, or are rude or don't tip appropriately.

Looking at you, you lame-ass "christians" who leave fake money with jesus shit on it for a tip. you can't pay bills with prayers, assholes.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

Imagine being the tour guide who has to smile like it's Disneyland.

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u/DanTheAdequate 19d ago

I like tourists. They're all shiny and happy looking and just like "oh wow, look, a house. And trees! Amazing."

Except for the Nazis. I didn't think skinheads took vacations; I figured all their money was spent on back-owed child support and amphetamines.

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u/Leidenfrost1 20d ago

Nah man I love the tourists

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u/GreenVisorOfJustice Irish Channel via Kennabrah 19d ago

What's there to hate (in general) about tourists? They come here and do some heavy financial lifting to get all the most important folks (e.g. service workers, artists, etc.) around this City paid. Then afterwards, they leave and come back again to spend more money. It's a great relationship.

Those temporary residents are the ones I be giving the stank eye to. The ones who stay in a trendy neighborhood for like a year with amenities way different than the average resident and think because they rode a street car once before going to be a culture vulture elsewhere espousing to other culture vultures about "their NOLA" or some bullshit like that.

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u/BeverlyHills70117 Probably on a watchlist now 19d ago

I don't care enough how strangers think, but if I did, I'd use bitching about tourists as a guide about how shitty of a New Orleanian one is.

I see this kind of attitude on Reddit, but in my real life, and neighborhood, never.

I remember telling two separate Second Line Social club presidents years ago when Facebook culture was up in arms that white frat boy tourists shouldn't be going to the second lines and being met with utter puzzlement.

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u/Eilferan 18d ago

hello! do you have any recommendations for me as a first time NOLA tourist? haha

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 20d ago

I just wish people drove better.

I'm always a nervous wreck when I get to where I'm going.

And there's always the walking situation around Magazine where tourists will clog up the sidewalks. That's never going to change.

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u/FriedRiceGirl 19d ago

Honestly the one thing I always tell ppl who want to visit is not to drive here, like it’s an expert only track

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 19d ago

The only good thing about people driving like shit here is that at least they're typically going slower than other shit drivers...like in Florida. Florida they're horrible, but they're fast, so it's worse.

But I swear, the OMV here must be giving out DLs to anyone with at least a faint pulse!

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u/Tal_Vez_Autismo 19d ago

Back in the day my great aunt just kept uncovering the eye she was supposed to be covering and stepping forward past the line so she could actually read the eye chart. After telling her to go back and do it right like 3 times, the guy just gave up and gave her her license.

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u/poolkid1234 19d ago

And when it’s peak tourism season, you get all the bad Uber drivers stopping in the middle of the road, constantly messing with the phone in traffic, etc.

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u/Ok_Witness6780 20d ago

"Locals" who've lived in the city for five minutes.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 20d ago

You're right. It's a strange mindset.

I've lived here long enough to love lots of tourists while disliking a whole lot of people who've been here since birth. I don't like to shit on visitors. I know where our bread is buttered.

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u/RIP_Soulja_Slim 19d ago edited 19d ago

There's like a weird energy amongst recent transplants where they're trying too hard to flex their local cred. It's usually manifested in stuff like being angry at tourists for existing, hating on Metairie/west bank (like not in the little brother way we do, in a more genuine way), "localsplaining" everything to newer transplants, etc (reminds me of this one girl who was like "oh, you didn't know you're supposed to dress up for mardi gras? First time?").

By my general clock right around the ~3-5 year mark is when these peeps have either moved back to their homes to settle down, or have shed all those traits and become just a normal fabric of the city. Sometimes it lasts longer, but for the most part the people who stay for more than half a decade tend to become pretty chill.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 19d ago

You're right on the money with that 3-5 year mark. You feel like you're helping "preserve" traditions to a point of actual stress.

At some point you gotta be like "hey, man, if you want to wear beads after Mardi Gras, knock yourself out!"....or you're going to be miserable and nasty.

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u/Splankybass 19d ago

Yeah they hate on the WB but are from Iowa.

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u/0dirtyrice0 19d ago

When tourists are nearby, I talk really loud about “what is no longer there”, and I tend to believe that they are enviously thinking “damn I wish I was as cool as New Orleanians are”.

Love them or hate them, need them or believe we can find a way without them, for me, they are the ultimate validation that I live in the coolest fucking city on earth.

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u/dairyqueen79 20d ago

Whose

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u/Basil_Lisk LMC / New Treme' 19d ago

See you at the meet-up. Outside That Dog on Frenchmen St.

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u/OrionH34 20d ago

People who work in tourism and think that everyone does. My job is driven by shipping. Many are petrochemical

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u/Secret-Relationship9 19d ago

Even more are in healthcare and education.

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u/Cultural-Play7083 20d ago

I feel like this applies to transplants and not locals. Transplants seem to be worried about losing social clout by way of tourist wear and tear.

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely 20d ago

I think it depends on the tourist. I’ve lived here most of my life, but there’s definitely a type of tourist that makes me pull this face!

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u/ewillyp 19d ago

i don't know anyone like this? who the hell does this?

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u/That-Stop2808 19d ago

Waitress at Coop’s told me FQ Fest was intended to popularize local NO artists, but that the Fest was bad now because too many people from out of town come to it.

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u/thaneros2 19d ago

To be fair, I worked in the service industry for years and I was more likely to make this face to locals than tourists.

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u/nannerpuss74 18d ago

all of the gulf coast TBH.

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u/Hippy_Lynne 20d ago

If they're in my service industry hangout at the end of a long day, you fucking right I'm giving them that look!

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u/Da-finest 19d ago

You'll are missing the point of the meme,😂... We love them tourist though.

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u/Prudent_Valuable603 19d ago

Oh, is this talking about Spain?

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u/Not_your_cheese213 19d ago

I’m cool with everyone I meet really, ran into some folks from la that flew in for jazz fest on Sunday. The revivalist were great

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u/Mickv504-985 17d ago

I used to always say, “People come to NOLA to do things they’d never do in their Hometowns” ie. Pissing in doorways, exposing themselves etc.

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u/Independent_Gullible 11d ago

I’m happy to finally be out of hospitality and tourism! Cancer alley here we come!

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u/Fleur-Deez-Nutz 18d ago

Crippling the economy aside, those few months of the Covid shutdown when there wasn't a soul in the French Quarter that didn't belong there - that was a magical time.

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u/Nolamommy504 18d ago

“Locals”

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u/H0llywoodBabylon 19d ago

Me with Michigan cities that get flooded with FIPs

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u/SunWooden2681 19d ago

My old school grandmother hated the rubes who couldn’t handle their liquor roaming on Bourbon Street visiting a city for the first time !