Keep in mind that this vote uses the PRE 2024 district lines and not the new ones that will be used this November. There was a lot of confusion at the primary for this.

and granted as a richmond native, i knew it was gonna be bad but not THAT bad 😭

agreed. saw some really good friends there but the boyfriend and i tapped out after about an hour. the cider beer i had was pretty good and was the first beer i ever liked, but i doubt we’ll be back next year or ever.

I feel like I’m Bill Murray in the Groundhog Day of elections

It was definitely worse this year. I’m not a fan of it in general, but enjoy the people watching. I stayed for all of 10 minutes then booed outta there

I also know some vendors didn’t set up/didn’t stay because of the insane wind speed, at least in the morning when they had to set up. So it sucked for both vendors and y’all

>I can only imagine packing the place with amateur drunks.

The worst part were the feral drunken high school students. I don't know if it was just parents getting lit early in the day and forgetting to pay attention to their kids, but literally packs of drunk high schoolers would roam down St. Charles making mayhem. I was in college there so I could handle a few beers, but I was still shocked each year at the sheer level of drunkeness on full display by almost everyone.

Not fun without the police brutality, also the move has always been to byob

It's Richmond what do you expect

it wasn’t

i’ve never really had a good time until last year tbh. it was the best shamrock the block i’ve attended. probably because i was plastered. i think that’s the trick!

If baggy doesn’t get 70% he is a clown.

Omg I laughed waaaayyyy too hard at this!!! (Mechanicsville escapee here)

This is all events of this scale in Richmond. Shamrock, Watermelon, Strawberry Hill, July 4th...

I've visited New Orleans a few times on just some random weekends. It seems like there's plenty of opportunities for drunken mayhem there year round. I can only imagine packing the place with amateur drunks.

It’s the same pretty much wherever you are. Just stay home and make colcannon and lamb and have a Guinness.

It was a shitshow back then too. Waaaayyyy too many people crammed into the Bottom.

It was butts to nuts there last year and took 40+ min to get drink tix bc their card readers lost WiFi for some reason and they could only accept cash.

Still likely better than Shamrock the Block though.

Once upon a time Shamrock the Block was amazing,When it was downtown on 16th and 17th. There is an actual Irish pub you can go. I feel after this year they should just go ahead and cancel it. Or move it back downtown.

No shame in that.

Mods need to pin this post tbh

I just go where the food and music is 🤷‍♂️

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It’s also an evergreen statement

Ahhhh the reinforcing of stereotypes from white folks touting their great great great great great great grandparents heritage while I hear lovely comments from the neighborhood folks like, “the Irish had it just as bad as black people” which is a real thing I heard on my shift last year. The Irish fest might be better than Shamrock but it’s not by much.