St Patrick's Day

POSTED BY: peacekeeper
UPDATED: Monday, March 31, 2014 07:23
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PEACEKEEPER

Monday, March 17, 2014 12:37 AM

I have no idea what it is like in The States, but in the UK, the whole country seems to celebrate Paddy's Day, despite the majority of revellers having not a speck of Irish blood running through their alcohol ridden veins.Yet,St George's,St Andrew's and St David's Days pass almost unrecognised.???? Or is it merely because the Irish are just great at monumental piss ups???? I don't mind it, it just puzzles me.

REAVERFAN

Monday, March 17, 2014 12:45 AM

We do it up here, too. Green beer in all the bars, parades, and in Chicago they even dye the river.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/River-Dying-to-Mark-Start-of-St-P
atricks-Day-Weekend-250455091.html

WISHIMAY

Monday, March 17, 2014 1:08 AM

We're more Irish than anything else, so we just got our green on and our bling green....and went out for MEXICAN, HAH.
Since our weather is shit today, it was more like a funeral than anything else, and our waitress was an airhead

SIGNYM

Monday, March 17, 2014 1:32 AM

It's a holiday (holy day?) dedicated to DRINKING BEER! What's not to like???

Also- Cinco de Mayo... another holiday, that one dedicated to drinking tequila and all its variations. Another successfully transplanted holiday!

AURAPTOR

Monday, March 17, 2014 2:29 AM

It's kind of a big deal here in the States,especially for the 20-30 something crowd.

Savannah GA does it up big time too. Beads, green rivers, all manner of green hats, t-shirts,etc...

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

OONJERAH

Monday, March 17, 2014 7:43 AM

During the Mexican American War, Gen John C. Fremont militarily
acquired control of California, 1846, then occupied by about 4,000
Spanish-Mexican citizens & I dunno how many Native Americans.
There were also a handful of Anglos well established here; but I've
no idea how many. The history of CA from my kid-hood was that
Fremont defeated what little there was of Spanish army to claim
the territory.

Factank, 2014: "According to California Governor Jerry Brown’s
new state budget, Latinos are projected to become the largest
single racial/ethnic group in the state by March of this year, making
up 39% of the state’s population."

In California, Cinco de Mayo does/always has made sense - not
a transplant. Probably in Arizona, New Mexico, & Texas, as well.

BTW, is One allowed to claim they are celebrating St. Patrick's Day
without getting drunk, excessively drunk? There's a lotta holidays
where sobriety is accepted. I don't think SP is one of them.

====================== :>

Never argue with a drunk. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”

SIGNYM

Monday, March 17, 2014 10:18 AM

Quote:
I want my Scottish equivalent

Vote for independence and celebrate the anniversary with lots and lots of single malt. We'll all be happy to celebrate with you!

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Monday, March 17, 2014 12:56 PM

I'm 90% irish, but don't celebrate it in any particular way.

It's waxed and waned as a fesitival here. In my Dad's youth, there was a huge march through the city. I guess the Irish catholics were more of a community in those days.

Now its an exuse for a piss up, so of course its popular in Australia.

One of the world's great diasporas, I suppose.

FREMDFIRMA

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 6:31 AM

Oh I am well aware that "saint" patrick was a genocidal fuckhead.

Thing is, I don't care for cultural oppression of ANY stripe, not when WE do it, and not when anyone else does, and while my convoluted heritage is more scottish/arabic (long story) than irish, given my ancestors humped ANYTHING THAT HELD STILL LONG ENOUGH, I am sure there's a little in there.

And so I take this day (mind, I am very, very drunk at the moment) to spit at the English for being shitheads, even as I firmly and fully acknowledge us Americans are even WORSE shitheads when it comes to it.

So for me, this "holiday" is about pissing in the eyes of folks who think power gives them some kinda right to dictate anything.
And well, what would the Irish/Scottish BE without a healthy dose of (IMHO, entirely appropriate) belligerance ?

-Frem

FREMDFIRMA

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 6:37 AM

Not quiiiite done yet...

Yanno, one reason I am so completely *rabid* about the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms is thus: so long as there is ONE asshole with a rifle, your oppression is not complete, and never will be, cause it only takes ONE.

-Frem

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