Happy St. Patrick's Day

itboffin
itboffin Posts: 20,064
edited March 2009 in Commuting chat
Lá Fhéile Pádraig

Drink responsibly now :lol:

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  • mcmullej
    mcmullej Posts: 136
    Dia duit, 's muire, 's Padraig.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    It's my Dad's birthday as well.

    Happy Birthday Dad!*

    *chances of him reading this are Infinitesimal.
  • coffeecup
    coffeecup Posts: 128
    A day off work to get bladdered. Where else would you get it!!!

    Awesome!!
    Time you've enjoyed wasting, hasn't been wasted

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  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    Every weekend
    Dan
  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    Green pints tonight! :D

    They add blue food dye I guess.
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  • Dog Breath
    Dog Breath Posts: 314
    If you are Irish then fine. If not. WTF.

    If you are English you should be celebrating St.Georges Day instead of the patron saint of a foreign country. Would you equally celebrate the national day of Guatemala ? Then why Paddy's Day ??

    A few years ago on Paddy's Day, a big Irish parade went past my office with a marching band and Irish Tricolours flying everywhere. And this is in a major English city.

    Try having a similar St.George's Day parade in Dublin and see what reaction you get !!

    I'm not nationalistic or xenophobic, but celebrate Paddy's day in Ireland and not here.

    DB
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    :lol:

    I'm not bitter :wink:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,398
    Dog Breath wrote:
    If you are Irish then fine. If not. WTF.

    If you are English you should be celebrating St.Georges Day instead of the patron saint of a foreign country. Would you equally celebrate the national day of Guatemala ?


    Yes, mine's a pint 8)
    Dog Breath wrote:
    I'm not nationalistic or xenophobic, but celebrate Paddy's day in Ireland and not here.

    Your missing the key point....We don't really celebrate St Patrick's Day in Ireland with the same reckless abandon as the rest of the world. It's a bit like Riverdance, Guiness and Aran Jumpers in that respect.

    Dog Breath wrote:
    If you are English you should be celebrating St.Georges Day instead of the patron saint of a foreign country.


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  • Eau Rouge
    Eau Rouge Posts: 1,118
    Dog Breath wrote:
    A few years ago on Paddy's Day, a big Irish parade went past my office with a marching band and Irish Tricolours flying everywhere. And this is in a major English city.

    Try having a similar St.George's Day parade in Dublin and see what reaction you get !!

    That will be because the native Irish are the biggest (or were about 2 years ago) ethnic minority in the UK, to say nothing about second generation Irish, so there are lots of them to celebrate it.

    Thats far from the case for English people in Dublin.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Well this case of Guinness is not going to drink itself - Cheers!!! everyone :wink:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • Portrush Philly
    Portrush Philly Posts: 65
    something else to consider, St Patrick was actually Welsh! Now thats Irish!
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  • Dog Breath
    Dog Breath Posts: 314
    Eau Rouge wrote:
    That will be because the native Irish are the biggest (or were about 2 years ago) ethnic minority in the UK, to say nothing about second generation Irish, so there are lots of them to celebrate it.

    Thats far from the case for English people in Dublin.

    Well if they all think Ireland is so fantastic and worth celebrating then why don't they all live there !!

    Embrace the country you live in and earn your living from. Yes, many may have Irish ancestry, but what's on your birth certificate ?

    DB
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  • Eau Rouge
    Eau Rouge Posts: 1,118
    Dog Breath wrote:
    Embrace the country you live in and earn your living from. Yes, many may have Irish ancestry, but what's on your birth certificate ?

    DB

    Cork, Republic of Ireland :)
    The country I live in and the country I earn my living from are two different places too.

    Anyway, I do embrace where I live, I don't see why that should stop me remembering where I'm from too.
  • Dog Breath
    Dog Breath Posts: 314
    Eau Rouge wrote:
    Cork, Republic of Ireland :)
    The country I live in and the country I earn my living from are two different places too.

    Anyway, I do embrace where I live, I don't see why that should stop me remembering where I'm from too.

    Fair enough. But, the point I was making is that the majority out celebrating Paddy's day are British, born in Britain, have a British passports, and live and work in Britain. They may have had some distant Irish ancestry, but they are British - not Irish.

    So why celebrate Paddy's day if it's not your patron saint ?

    DB
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Eau Rouge wrote:
    Anyway, I do embrace where I live, I don't see why that should stop me remembering where I'm from too.

    +1

    I'll drink to that :wink::D
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,398
    itboffin wrote:
    Eau Rouge wrote:
    Anyway, I do embrace where I live, I don't see why that should stop me remembering where I'm from too.

    +1

    I'll drink to that :wink::D


    Sure you'll drink to anything :lol::lol::lol:
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Yep that'll be me I celebrate them all except the temperance stuff :shock:

    I was once tricked into attending an official dinner with some very important guests however my host neglected to inform me that the event was "DRY" :shock:

    Worst of all they had a bar but only served soft drinks, what kind of sick SOB does that :cry:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,398
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    I'll be drinking Guiness tonight, but only because I drink Guiness every Tuesday at the pub quiz.

    I've no motivation to be a plastic paddy, just seems stupid to me.
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  • Eau Rouge
    Eau Rouge Posts: 1,118
    Dog Breath wrote:
    So why celebrate Paddy's day if it's not your patron saint ?

    DB

    Yeah, who'd want to have fun and a bit of a party in March.
    You know most of them, Irish or otherwise, aren't even religious! Celebrating a saints day when you aren't even religious. Down with that sort of thing.

    :D
  • couldashouldawoulda
    couldashouldawoulda Posts: 186
    Yeah! And if we cant celebrate foreign 'saints' do we have to cancel Christmas aswell? And carrying on from that at least we wont see St George's Cross on mens underwear on the streets of the med.
  • DCulley
    DCulley Posts: 13
    Dog Breath wrote:
    If you are Irish then fine. If not. WTF.

    If you are English you should be celebrating St.Georges Day instead of the patron saint of a foreign country.
    DB

    St George is the patron saint of a foreign country! He's the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia!
    And he's from Palestine.

    Might as well celebrate Paddy's day as any other! At least you don't get barred from pubs for wearing a Guinness hat!
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I'm gobsmacked someone from the Wirral hasn't noticed one or two people of Irish descent on Merseyside...
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  • Chewy Cheeks
    Chewy Cheeks Posts: 234
    Plastic and Proud.

    I am English of Irish parents like thousands of others.

    A day off lent yesterday and feeling a bit tired today.

    Happy to celebrate both St Patricks and St Georges day
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