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Mike

Titusville, FL

OLD SKOOL

MAR 17, 2005 06:58 AM

Akrasia said:
another special occasion designed to sell beer and greeting cards.

I have never given a greeting card to anyone for St. Patrick's day.

Flannery

Havertown, PA

March 2004

MAR 17, 2005 02:39 PM

and drink and fight and drink and fight and drink!

is that today? i thought it was tomorrow...

why am i not out drinking?

your loyal servant,
the great danfango

p.s. loving that i am am now also TheGreatDanfango over to the left...

UpTight

I'm lost

December 2003

MAR 17, 2005 04:40 PM

WHY WHY WHY?

What did St Patrick do for us?

So he drove the rats out if Ireland. I notice nobody celebrates a day for the Pied Piper of Hamelin. So I guess it is all about celebrating a national day of Ireland.

Do we celebrate Greece? Norway? Chad? So why does the world celebrate Ireland?

As an Englishman this irks me. I mean, would the Irish go out on massive bender to celebrate St George's Day?

Shit - we don't celebrate St George's Day ourselves - so why should we go out of our way to kiss Ireland's arse once a year?

It's not even like our two countries have been the best of friends over the years either....

Could you imagine the Belgians celebrating Bastile Day?

Do the Mexicans & Canadians become "mock Americans" and go apeshit on July 4th?

No

So no - I didn't wear shamrock today. I didn't go on a pub crawl wearing an Irish rugby shirt and silly tricolour hat (like a certain crowd of obnoxious Pikies on the number 95 bus this evening).

And unlike some of my compatriots, I didn't become "ersatz Irish" this evening or claim an obscure Irish heritage by virtue of a Irish Setter that my great Aunt once owned.

Sorry Ireland - no sale.

ClockworkJim

Levittown, NY

February 2004

MAR 17, 2005 05:08 PM

St Patrick drove the snakes out of ireland, not rats.

And the reason there are irish the world over is thanks the wonderull way the british helped the irish during the blight. Namely doing nothing. And at the time they were the greatest country in the world. But they couldnt be bothered to send some aid on a ferry across the water. Could occupy South Africa and India yes, but not send food to Ireland. Thereby forcing the massive irish exodus to america, canada, and elsewere.

And, during the revolutionary war, Irish conscripts would traditionally have parties and celebrations on March 17th.

bitter_end

Waltham, MA

February 2005

MAR 17, 2005 05:22 PM

Happy St. Paddies Day

Cash

I'm lost

OLD SKOOL

MAR 17, 2005 05:24 PM

Albion said:
As an Englishman this irks me.

Funny...as an Englishman, I suppose you irk a fair lot of Irishmen. Besides...we DO have a celebration for England: National Tooth Decay Awareness Month.

Cash

I'm lost

OLD SKOOL

MAR 17, 2005 05:26 PM

AclockworkJim said:
St Patrick drove the snakes out of ireland, not rats.

And the reason there are irish the world over is thanks the wonderull way the british helped the irish during the blight. Namely doing nothing. And at the time they were the greatest country in the world. But they couldnt be bothered to send some aid on a ferry across the water. Could occupy South Africa and India yes, but not send food to Ireland. Thereby forcing the massive irish exodus to america, canada, and elsewere.

And, during the revolutionary war, Irish conscripts would traditionally have parties and celebrations on March 17th.

Shame on you....England DID send aid to Ireland during the famine....in the form of completely inedible feed corn.

UpTight

I'm lost

December 2003

MAR 17, 2005 05:27 PM

So hundreds of years ago Britain didn't do the Live Aid thing for Ireland...so loads of Irish people emigrated to other countries.

My great grand parents fled persecution by cossacks - yet I curiously resist the urge to pretend to be Ukranian every 24th August.

Oh well - I don't mind Irish people doing what they want on their national day - as long as I don't get pestered with it. I'll return the favour by not shoving England's national day down their throats.

MarginWalker2002

San Diego, CA

April 2004

MAR 17, 2005 05:27 PM

s5

STAFF

San Francisco, CA

MAR 17, 2005 05:28 PM

Albion said:
Do we celebrate Greece?

and why DON'T we celebrate greece? my people brought you democracy, philosophy, anal sex, and dolmas, and we don't even get a lousy bank holiday.

Velouria1

Buffalo, NY

November 2004

MAR 17, 2005 05:28 PM

GoGo said:
what is st patrick's day???

It is a day they dye the beer green

Cash

I'm lost

OLD SKOOL

MAR 17, 2005 05:30 PM

s5 said:

Albion said:
Do we celebrate Greece?

and why DON'T we celebrate greece? my people brought you democracy, philosophy, anal sex, and dolmas, ..........

You forgot pedophilia.

s5

STAFF

San Francisco, CA

MAR 17, 2005 05:31 PM

Cash said:
You forgot pedophilia.

born in greece, perfected over thousands of years by the catholic church.

s5

STAFF

San Francisco, CA

MAR 17, 2005 05:32 PM

oh crap - my posts are green. it looks i'm celebrating st. patrick's day after all.

Cash

I'm lost

OLD SKOOL

MAR 17, 2005 05:33 PM

s5 said:

Cash said:
You forgot pedophilia.

born in greece, perfected over thousands of years by the catholic church.

zing!

Lit_the_Filter

Tacoma, WA

August 2004

MAR 17, 2005 05:36 PM

Albion said:My great grand parents fled persecution by cossacks - yet I curiously resist the urge to pretend to be Ukranian every 24th August.

HAH!

And I agree. The whole "Irish for a day" thing is obnoxious schtick.

UpTight

I'm lost

December 2003

MAR 17, 2005 05:38 PM

Cash said:

Albion said:
As an Englishman this irks me.

Funny...as an Englishman, I suppose you irk a fair lot of Irishmen.

According a quite a few Irish people I've spoken to, that's because their teachers taught them to hate the English for stuff that happened centuries ago.

English schools don't teach our kids to hate the Germans for WW2.

We aren't taught to hate the Irish for all the bombs the IRA planted in our shops.

Besides...we DO have a celebration for England: National Tooth Decay Awareness Month.

Just be sure it doesn't clash with your own national "fat ass, junk food addict, MOR, plastic surgery obssesive, loopy Christian extremist, cultural ignorance, piss off the Native Americans, Mexicans and most of the World Jamboree"

I didn't mean that - I like Americans, but you forced my hand

Cash

I'm lost

OLD SKOOL

MAR 17, 2005 05:44 PM

Albion said:

Cash said:

Albion said:
As an Englishman this irks me.

Funny...as an Englishman, I suppose you irk a fair lot of Irishmen.

Besides...we DO have a celebration for England: National Tooth Decay Awareness Month.

I have nothing against the English either. I'm American...I just have Irish heritage. The tone of your posts is rather catty, though. So a bunch of drunken idiots caused you discomfort on the way home...like that's specifically the fault of St. Patrick's Day?

Suck it up and move on. There's nothing wrogn with St. Patrick's Day. Any partially-sane person will readily admit that it's a silly holiday.....but it's a silly FUN holiday.

wottan

Richmond, BC

July 2004

MAR 17, 2005 05:44 PM

/me listens to the theme theme of boondock saints, the only remotely irish thing on his computer.

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