St. Patrick's Day...on a Saturday?

[Magus]

This will not end well.

[Osterbaum]

St. Patrick's Day celebrations in the US are racist. You're all racist.

e: actually I'm just jealous because we don't celebrate it :(

[lazy man]

I'm honestly glad I got out of the city this weekend. So many college kids... so many parties... so many drunk idiots... the smell in the hallways of my apartment building...

Well it's my aunt's birthday so I'm probably drinking anyway, just with the family instead of friends. Fun!

[Specterbane]

Here's to hoping it's drunk night on an NPF Steam night for me. I've been away from them for a while.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Happy St Patricks day. Ah the day when everyone's drunk off there ass and partying hard enough to piss off the gods.

[synkr0nized]

My town is so obsessed with finding excuses to drink -- apparently the predominantly undergrad population is unable to just go out with friends and have a few and MUST use any and everything they can to trigger party mode -- and for several years have been celebrating this "holiday" twice.

It makes going downtown terrible. ***



Oh man it's St. Patty's! Let's all get shitfaced! 'cause we can't just call it Saturday and do that anyway!


e: *** Though it has motivated a couple ace places to turn away anyone at the door wearing green.

[MSperoni]

I got a party to go to, but I'm only going to stay there an hour or two (I'm going early as well). Holidays where people who normally don't drink get an excuse to drink and then do always make me wanna just stay home. I wouldn't go at all if not for the fact I haven't seen these people in awhile and feel a bit obligated to attend.

I drink quite a bit on my own, but I think tomorrow I'm gonna stay pretty dry. Which is ironic I guess :D

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Imma wrestle some snakes and evict some pagans.

[Seil]

Apparently St. Patrick was all about guilt. (http://www.cracked.com/blog/8-insulting-ways-people-act-irish-st.-patricks-day/)

[Shyria Dracnoir]

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[CABAL49]

The only reason I would want to embrace my Irish heritage is so I can get my EU citizenship and live in Europe forever. Ireland has loose laws regarding those who left. But seriously fuck Saint Patrick's Day.

[rpgdemon]

I'm wearing green, to avoid getting punched, but really, I dislike the holiday.

[mauve]

By my understanding, St Patrick's Day is celebrated (or was originally celebrated) in Ireland like Americans and Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving. And technically, our custom of using the day as an excuse to drink is playing off old stereotypes of the Irish being drunkards, which when you think about it is actually a little offensive.

Also, according to my mother, apparently if you wear orange on St Patrick's Day in certain Irish neighborhoods of Chicago, you're basically asking to get the crap beaten out of you.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

That is because orange is the colour of the LOYALIST BASTARDS!
YOU WON'T GET ME I'M PART OF THE UNION.
TILL THE DAY I DIE.
TILL THE DAY I DIE.

[Ecks]

I have to work tonight. Fucking bullshit.

[Osterbaum]

so I can get my EU citizenship and live in Europe forever
yes, we have turned this one to the right path my fellow europeans

[MSperoni]

And technically, our custom of using the day as an excuse to drink is playing off old stereotypes of the Irish being drunkards, which when you think about it is actually a little offensive..

I've always wondered what a real Irish person thought about this kinda thing. Is drinking just a custom that goes with the holiday or was drinking tacked on later as a way of stereotyping Irish people?

It's like "Hey, MLK day, let's celebrate African-American civil rights by eating a bunch of fried chicken."

I don't know anything about Saint Patrick's Day and am too lazy to study up on it...I probably should though. If I actually knew what the holiday meant it would separate me from probably 100% of my local friends, some of whom like to pretend their Irish despite having never been to the country, not knowing any Irish people, and being unable to name any city/town besides Dublin... :\

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Drinking in Ireland on St Patricks day is so bad that for most of the 20gth centuryy bars weren't allowed to open. They only allowed them to opena gai from the 80s and nowadays it boozefest.
Also massive religionspurge though- it been celebrated for 1000s of years as patrick is the patron saint of ireland but particularly strongly after all the english shenanigans because catholicism is strongly linked to anti-englishness so it all spins together in superpack.

[batgirl]

I'm working on the ambulance right now hauling stupid drunk dumb asses to the er. I hate this holiday right now. It's going to take forever to get crusted vomit off my boots.

[Ecks]

Christ I never realized how many assholes wound up in an ambulance on st patties day.

I feel bad now, sorry bats.

[Darth SS]

My hockey team has our first playoff game tonight. We are playing at 6:45. The plan is to leave from the rink and go to a pub. So, essentially, the plan is to sweat out 5 pounds of water weight and then replace that sissy water with BEER.

I might die.

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[Seil]

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[synkr0nized]

Christ I never realized how many assholes wound up in an ambulance on st patties day.


It's definitely a lot, especially in large college towns. I think that's what ruined this holiday for me -- not the green, not any goofy costumes, not the desire to just be silly with friends, but the off-the-wall desire to be so drunk and beyond. I'm sure that's not everyone, but wow it can be ridiculous.

I was pleased to see the number of taxi cabs and groups using the buses tonight, though. Good for them.





Also a friend of mine from undergrad posted the best picture of himself as a leprechaun. Oh man. Terrific. Any of you don costumes for it?

[Osterbaum]

My costume was that of a young adult male staying home and playing video games. I think I pulled it off pretty good.

[Kim]

ST PATRICK WHY HAVE YOU BETRAYED ME

[Professor Smarmiarty]

the reason for that one should be pretty obvious.

[DarkDrgon]

best part about the day was getting to wear a ridiculous hat while i worked.

[kyrtuck]

I had a completely sober, boring day yestereday, despite being 21. What is wrong with me?

[Flarecobra]

Absolutely nothing, as it's not about getting drunk.

I prefer the "Enjoy a nice dinner with family" version of StPD.

[01d55]

I asked chat where Solid_Snake was and nobody made it a joke about how St. Patrick chased away all the snakes. I was so disappointed.

[Amake]

I was invited to a booze party in a small soundproofed room containing a small ratty couch, drum sets, microphones, electric guitars and an unknown number of teenagers. Stayed in and watched Dexter with my teenage brother instead; I think it was the right choice.

[Magus]

Stayed in and watched Dexter with my teenage brother instead; I think it was the right choice.

Depends on what season of Dexter. If it was this last season I hope you watched it drunk as that might actually make it pretty hilarious!

[Amake]

Afraid not. It was season 2 and we were all hopped up on pepsi.