Happy Saint Patrick

  On 3/17/2012 at 7:53 PM, sirch said:

  On 3/17/2012 at 6:07 PM, Hoodie said:

it's a big deal in the united states because it's an excuse to get drunk and party, like mardi gras and super bowl sunday.

 

..and because everyone reckons they're Irish, somehow. lol

well youd be surprised at how many Irish and other white folk integrated into American families around the turn of the century. but yeah, too many people make it a big deal. its an excuse to get drunk. every nation/population is guilty of this.

  On 3/17/2012 at 2:32 PM, BCM said:

I still don't get why this is such a big deal in the US... like, you ain't Irish! no more so than you are English, Dutch, German or what have you. I know there's a big (originally a hundred or so years ago) Irish population in some cities - New York, Boston etc, but the UK has, for example, very large (originally a few decades ago) Italian populations in places like Bedford and Peterborough, but you don't find the whole country celebrating Francis of Assisi day or whatever. I dunno, don't care really, just think it's a bit strange.

My thoughts exactly. I don't really understand why it's such a cultural event in America. You have plenty of holidays to get drunk already. Whatever.

horrible day

  On 3/17/2012 at 9:03 PM, Gary C said:

  On 3/17/2012 at 2:32 PM, BCM said:

I still don't get why this is such a big deal in the US... like, you ain't Irish! no more so than you are English, Dutch, German or what have you. I know there's a big (originally a hundred or so years ago) Irish population in some cities - New York, Boston etc, but the UK has, for example, very large (originally a few decades ago) Italian populations in places like Bedford and Peterborough, but you don't find the whole country celebrating Francis of Assisi day or whatever. I dunno, don't care really, just think it's a bit strange.

 

My thoughts exactly. I don't really understand why it's such a cultural event in America. You have plenty of holidays to get drunk already. Whatever.

don't we always have big Christmas threads? Is everyone here a Christian? Why not the anger and criticism about that?

  On 3/17/2012 at 9:03 PM, kaini said:

horrible day

great day

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my st patty day started playing the remastered halo then -all of a sudden- a car flipped off a ridge and capsized

true story.

then all the african americans ran away, i'm thinking they took it for a joyride

hahahaha, i can see why people like chassis and kaini hate St. Paddy's day... when you look at that shite ^

it's pretty awful.

it's also known as the day when people will randomly pick a fight with you for looking at them funny and the streets are strewn with vomit after 6pm. it's the shittiest day of the year here.

  On 3/18/2012 at 2:44 AM, kaini said:

it's also known as the day when people will randomly pick a fight with you for looking at them funny and the streets are strewn with vomit after 6pm. it's the shittiest day of the year here.

sounds like a regular Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday night in England!

sometimes i feel like i've completely lost it. today was one of those days.

turns out it was man.

a very un-holiday

I was at work, now I am unceremoniously drinking a Dos Equis.

I drank Czech and Belgian lager. and ate Fajitas. BIg Up mainland Europe... and , errr, Mexico?

Lots of people drunk driving in the rain.

I bet they're not even Irish.

Not that I am. Not that I care.

Damn, I'm so drunk1

I fucking despise drinking holidays. I am largely irish in genetic heritage, but like (at least) 95% of everyone who celebrates st. patrick's, I do not have a single bit of the actual cultural heritage. If you asked most celebrators who Saint Patrick was, they would probably say that he was a leprechaun. The whole thing is just a huge load of shit, and an excuse for douchebags to act even douchier than they normally are.

  On 3/18/2012 at 7:57 AM, ganus said:

I fucking despise drinking holidays. I am largely irish in genetic heritage, but like (at least) 95% of everyone who celebrates st. patrick's, I do not have a single bit of the actual cultural heritage. If you asked most celebrators who Saint Patrick was, they would probably say that he was a leprechaun. The whole thing is just a huge load of shit, and an excuse for douchebags to act even douchier than they normally are.

i could name quite a few holidays in which most people celebrating have no relation to the actual original premises of said holiday. I could also state from personal experience that these holidays also involve tons of drunk driving and fighting for no reason.

I dunno where everyone lives, but I know I don't drive after midnight on Christmas or Independence Day or Easter or Halloween. Drinkers drink regardless of any stupid shit to do with the Irish.

-ate some cabbage stew n 'taters n corn beef at an irish pub, there was something else too it was a boiled egg cut in half in a "bowl" of something that was fried, not sure what it was tho.

-had loads of irish car bombs

-played foosball (terribly)

-went to some hotel to get a room so i didnt have to drive home then got shots of green jack daniels at their bar (lol?)

-had a few sets of these necklaces with flashing green LEDs on them.

-then went to a strip club and passed out my led necklaces and threw dolla bills everywhere

-was worried id have a hangover powerful enough to slay even the mightiest viking, but alas I'm feeling great, albeit quite hungry.

oh i wore a green boc shirt [/idm]

  On 3/18/2012 at 6:15 AM, Luke Fucking Hazard said:

sometimes i feel like i've completely lost it. today was one of those days.

 

turns out it was man.

 

a very un-holiday

i know that feel

  On 3/17/2012 at 11:58 PM, viscosity said:

my st patty day started playing the remastered halo then -all of a sudden- a car flipped off a ridge and capsized

 

true story.

*paddys