St Patrick's Day

[Ed]

Watched the St Pat's Day march here in Liverpool today. It was pathetic, probably about 20 people with Irish flags, a small band and a huge police escort. Went into the town centre, the pubs are festooned with tacky 'Irish' bunting, those huge plastic hands, leprechauns, and Guinness posters. And more importantly, rammed with English drunks:drink:

[davepreston]

today is the day were all english people want to be irish, i find it quite amusing actually

[Dave20046]

I like chicago's effort tbh
http://reefharbour.com/Photos/P1001018%20-%20Chicago%20River,%20St%20Patrick%27s%20Day.jpg

[Dave20046]

Dave do your relatives send you shamrock in the post? It gets me every time. "hmm can't remember ordering anythi...*tear*...oh there's soil all over the kitchen, cheers nan"

[ophic]

today is the day were all english people want to be irish, i find it quite amusing actually
well... we get it right 364 days of the year :D

[maviczap]

It's an Irish event, so why do we try and jump on the bandwagon. Just another publicity stunt to get us in the pub.

I vote for a St Georges day or something similar. St Patrick can stay in the Emerald Isle, that's where he's meant to be celebrated

[keithd]

today is the day were all english people want to be irish, i find it quite amusing actually

i find it pathetic personally! as i said on a previous thread plastic paddys wind me up for sure

[CheGuevara]

Met my wife 5 years ago today, while celebrating in Canada. So tonight it'll be dinner and a bottle of wine rather than green beer :)

[Biker Biggles]

Im just off to Ireland.Hopefully it will be all over by the time I get there.

[zsv650]

i wouldnt mind but most of those yank's swanning about celebrating st patrick's day are spawned from the loin's of our english forefather's quite amusing.

[neio79]

Watched the St Pat's Day march here in Liverpool today. It was pathetic,

Good, i hate the way we have a foreign country patron saints day rammed down out throat every year, and it annoys me all the idiots who go celebrate it.

I refuse point blank to drink anything on March 17th just in case someone thinks i am celebrating the ****ing thing.

Shame people of this country arent as into celebrating our own Saints day.

[fizzwheel]

Shame people of this country arent as into celebrating our own Saints day.

I kinda agree. But what are we supposed to do on St Georges day. Walk round in a chavy england football shirt, drink lager and then go and have a fight ?

TBH they might as well rename it as "Guiness Day" in this country, I go out every year with a group of friends for St Patricks day, we use it as excuse to get together and catchup and get p*ssed out of our faces.

I did go to waterford one year for it, loads of people drinking Taunton Dry Blackthorn cider, which was kinda ironic considering where I come from :D

So what how should we celebrate St Georges day ?

[Sir Trev]

Half of my colleagues are Irish and none of them were in the office today. The ones based here were all "working from home" and the ones based in Dublin or Limerick had a public holiday. It was so quiet I got a lot done!

[Littlepeahead]

Isn't St Patrick most famous for driving all the snakes out of Ireland and he wasn't even Irish. Why exactly do they celebrate him? If some Austrian bloke turned up in a neighbouring country and tried to drive out a whole innocent species should be celebrate him? I think Hitler tried it and look how that ended up!

[ophic]

Neither is St George English.

[Sean_C]

It makes a change for me not to be 'celebrating' St Patrick day, being of Irish descent and heavily involved in all things Irish around Cambridge (mostly music). To be honest, it's a very nice change. I don't think much of drunk people, whatever their nationality, and for a lot of people, drinking is all the day seems to be about.

[Lozzo]

Neither is St George English.

Neither do I care about any of them. It's a religious thing.

[ophic]

Neither do I care about any of them. It's a religious thing.
Good point. Who needs an excuse to get drunk? Certainly not the Irish.

[Ed]

My mother is Irish, from Castlebar, Co Mayo. Very Irish too, Gaelic is her first language, she started to learn English at age 7, and even after all these years of living in England (since 1942) she still has quite a strong Irish accent. So she would watch a 'fill-um' rather than a film, for example.

I'm Irish when I want to be:lol:

[BanditPat]

Means the pubs busier, wasn't this busy last Tuesday. I don't need an excuse to go to the pub i'll go most days pretty much because I can and then twie a week i can go stupid and end up in a right state :D woooo

[BanannaMan]

Here it's become more of a pub holiday than anything else.
There are more drunkards celebrating St Paddy's in the US than there are people in all of Ireland. :rolleyes:



I have a lovely mate from Ireland who left 30 years ago due to the troubles.
That lass cooks the best pastries you've ever dreamed of!
(and often stops by work with samples for us to try)
The only person I know from Ireland, and one of the nicest people I've ever met, she is.





I'm Irish when I want to be:lol:


That's what all the dissidents say, innit? ;)

[davepreston]

hahahahahahahahaha
it was mint
that is all
now where did i leave my pint

[metalangel]

Didn't matter to me, I just drank half a can more Guinness (Mrs had the other half) than I usually do anyway.

WHAT did St Patrick say to the snakes as he was driving them out of Ireland?

...

"You fellas alright back there then?"

[Viney]

Wellt hey say do something Irish, so last night i took the roof off the house and dug up the road!