St. Patrick's Day...on a Saturday? - Page 2

CABAL49 · 03-17-2012, 10:45 AM

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 · 03-17-2012, 10:57 AM

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

mauve · 03-17-2012, 11:57 AM

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 · 03-17-2012, 01:01 PM

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 · 03-17-2012, 01:10 PM

I have to work tonight. Fucking bullshit.

Osterbaum · 03-17-2012, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cabal

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 · 03-17-2012, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

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 · 03-17-2012, 03:45 PM

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 · 03-17-2012, 04:27 PM

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 · 03-17-2012, 04:58 PM

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

I feel bad now, sorry bats.

03-17-2012, 10:57 AM	#12
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	I'm wearing green, to avoid getting piunched, but really, I dislike the holiday. __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.

03-17-2012, 11:57 AM	#13
mauve So Dreamy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Someplace magical Posts: 6,863	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. __________________ Yoo Hoo!

03-17-2012, 10:45 AM	#11
CABAL49 Not bad. Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Senatus Populusque Americanus Posts: 1,584	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.

03-17-2012, 01:01 PM	#14
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	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.

03-17-2012, 03:45 PM	#18
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	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.

03-17-2012, 04:27 PM	#19
batgirl Aim for the top! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The Infield Posts: 2,583	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.