Re: St Patrick's Day
 

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.

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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 ?

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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!

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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!

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Neither is St George English.

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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.

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

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Good point. Who needs an excuse to get drunk? Certainly not the Irish.

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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:

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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