Same stuff, but different

JPennant: Would you like to see the SF Pride images I took on sunday?
Glinessa: sure
JPennant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/itinerant/sets/514753/show/
JPennant: Just a few of the 950 pictures I took
Glinessa: lol...that's a lot of pics
JPennant: yar
Glinessa: nice, but didn't expect teh nakedness
JPennant: Um.. what you are seeing is TONED DOWN from what was there.
JPennant: This is San Francisco
Glinessa: i know :-)
JPennant: What surprised me how little I was shocked.
Glinessa: lol...spoken like a true new yorker
Glinessa: same shit, different town
JPennant: Its the same shit, done different.
Glinessa: yep
JPennant: Imagine New York where the cops wont bring you in for smoking weed in public.
JPennant: Not that theyre so laid back, but they will cut you some slack
Glinessa: ok
JPennant: Hrm. Not a good analogy, but sufficient. :-)
Glinessa: i understand and that's all that matters
JPennant: right on :-)
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Actually, a flckr reader from New York who had gone to the NY Pride parade commented at seeing one pic:

joeinqueens says: Wow! I wish I was able to be that way in the NYC pride.

Yeah, in NY - you simply cant be as .. free .. as you can be in Frisco. Rebellious, yes. Different. Definitely. But not as free to be ...