Do you feel proud?

Local Goddess

Do you feel proud to be Irish on St.Patrick's day or does it depress you to look around and see pissed people everywhere?

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How do you feel?

Karl Hungus

Local Goddess wrote:

Do you feel proud to be Irish on St.Patrick's day or does it depress you to look around and see pissed people everywhere?

I feel proud to be me. How someone else chooses to celebrate our national holiday doesn't come into it.

Atomic Pineapple

Paddys day is just like any saturday night

Rhyme

As long as no-one spills their drink on me im indifferent to drunken revellers on St. Patricks day... i agree with Karl on this one, its their deal to spend a public holiday forgetting about it. I just want the green Liffey back.

Dave!

Rhyme wrote:

As long as no-one spills their drink on me

Got a f*cking pint spilled ALL down my leg last night, then, later on, someone spilled my pint down someone ELSE'S leg!!! :mad:

The_Minister

I love paddies day. You can feel the air in town. You get to see all the pissed foreigners stumbling about:)

Terry

Firespinner wrote:

I love paddies day. You can feel the air in town. You get to see all the pissed foreigners stumbling about:)

what are you talking about?
foreign people don't drink. it's only Irish people who fall around drunk. it's a damn disgrace too.

WhiteWashMan

Firespinner wrote:

I love paddies day. You can feel the air in town. You get to see all the pissed foreigners stumbling about:)

are you blind to the píssed irish people?

Mimikyu

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Lump

Last night in London was great, pleny of happy banter on the bus home, Irish Anthems being sung, random people joining in..... twas great

John

nlgbbbblth

Local Goddess wrote:

Do you feel proud to be Irish on St.Patrick's day or does it depress you to look around and see pissed people everywhere?

It's because of c*nts like the ones you describe that I have spent the last four St Patrick's Days at home.

Hagar

I was walking down the promenade in St. Rapheal today. There were 5 drunks thrown out of a restaurant. It was 3:00pm. The were causing a nuisance trying to take the helmet of a scooter rider at a set of traffic lights. They knocked over tables at the roadside cafes. They tried to take handbags, laughing wildly, from two passing women and frightened them. They were causing trouble all along the promenade as they came towards us. I made sure I got between them and my wife and child in case they started messing with my family. I stared down the first guy as they approached us and he stopped a couple of feet away. When the second guy came up he spoke to the first guy, the accent was un-mistakeable. They were Irish. I walked away without speaking in case I would be associated with them. They were the only drunks I have seen in a long time.

/edit They were also the first Irish people I have seen this far South since last October

Villain

Was out in my local for a while last night and while a lot of Irish people were drunk there was two Polish guys who totally locked and trying to start a fight with everyone.

Terry

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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perhaps because there are more Irish people around?
this is the land of the Irish people after all.

and yet another thread full of self flagellation and really tall equines.

dundalk cailin

Being away from home,i had a blast last night in an irish bar..the music,the people (irish and french/other) all gathered in the bar or on the streets,just a great atmosphere...:D

Hagar

julep wrote:

yet another thread full of self flagellation and really tall equines.

Precisely whom are you accusing of lying?

Local Goddess

Well I was passing my local last night and across the road a young fella,I'd say about 18,was hitting and throwing a girl onto the ground.Everytime he knocked her down he picked her up by the scruff of the neck and knocked her down again.But what the worst thing was was that there was a load of fellas outside the pub just watching,doing absolutely nothing.It was mad.Everyone was just so drunk,got me thinking

Piste

Why should I be proud to be Irish? My parents just ****ed here nine months before I was born and I'm only Irish because they are.

Eminem

I am proud to be irish everyday.

Demetrius

Pride shouldnt come into it. I dont know what the big deals about. Saint Patrick probably didnt even exist. Though I suppose if it makes people feel as if they belong, then well Ok. I dont feel as if Im Irish on St Pats Day though.

Aporia

Local Goddess wrote:

Well I was passing my local last night and across the road a young fella,I'd say about 18,was hitting and throwing a girl onto the ground.Everytime he knocked her down he picked her up by the scruff of the neck and knocked her down again.But what the worst thing was was that there was a load of fellas outside the pub just watching,doing absolutely nothing.It was mad.Everyone was just so drunk,got me thinking

and you were watching not doing anything either....

Local Goddess wrote:

Do you feel proud to be Irish on St.Patrick's day or does it depress you to look around and see pissed people everywhere?

But there's always pissed people everywhere.
we get plenty of tourists as it...is nothing's new really.

slipss

of course saint patrick existed lol the same as jesus or ryan giggs or abraham lincoln existed, the fact that Irish people get drunk on Paddys Day is no different to the fact that Americans get drunk on the forth of july or frenchman get drunk on bastille day, alcohol is sinominous( could someone please lt me know how to spell that,thanks) with celebration in many cultures wether its a wedding or a wake or the end of a war, people let loose when celebrating, they drink have sex and dance, the fact is Irish people for one reason or another like thier drink, and like to get drunk, its all legal and above bored so whats the problem?

Demetrius

In fact Saint Patrick may not have existed. There were a number of different missionaries in the country at that time and he may have been based on them. It was the one of the main monasteries in Ireland at the time in Armagh that churned out the Patrick legend. The thinking goes that if that monastery was asssociated with patrick, tributes from the daughter and sister monasteries would pour in, with that monastery seen as legeitimate. Confession is supposadly a fabrication

Dave!

slipss wrote:

yeah and in 100 years time there will be people saying Alex Fergusen didn't exist and that he was based on several premiership managers and a cult calling themselves MUAT ect ect ect ect ect ect

More like 2000 years mate

slipss

yeah and in 100 years time there will be people saying Alex Fergusen didn't exist and that he was based on several premiership managers and a cult calling themselves MUAT ect ect ect ect ect ect

jonny68

I'm always proud to be Irish anyway but last nite i felt immensely proud to be Irish,im only back from Barcelona,was over there for Paddy's Day and what a wonderful city,we had an amazing time last nite in Flahertys Bar,the craic was absolutely brilliant,loads of Irish as you would expect but i spoke to people there from all over the world,i kissed so many babes i lost count a brilliant brilliant session and not a hint of trouble,although there were riots later on in Las Ramblas but nothing to do with Paddy's Day it was to do with this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4818180.stm :eek: scary stuff indeed we nearly got caught up in it,anyway as i said a brilliant session,i was told by so many people that we as Irish are beautiful people met people from USA,Australia,New Zealand,Ukraine,France,Holland,Sweden,Norway,Italy,Argentina,England,Scotland,Wales,Germany, not to mention the Catalunyan locals who came out to celebrate Paddy's Day

westcoastcooler

Local Goddess wrote:

Do you feel proud to be Irish on St.Patrick's day or does it depress you to look around and see pissed people everywhere?

when im sober im proud- but last night i saw 15 year olds(i know their 15 cuz der in my little sisters class) LANGERS in my local club- and i was like"the americans dyed their local river green in honour of st patricks"- but all were doing is getting twisted

All the irish are destined to be ARE DRUNKS

Terry

westcoastcooler wrote:

when im sober im proud- but last night i saw 15 year olds(i know their 15 cuz der in my little sisters class) LANGERS in my local club- and i was like"the americans dyed their local river green in honour of st patricks"- but all were doing is getting twisted

All the irish are destined to be ARE DRUNKS

huh?

although there were riots later on in Las Ramblas but nothing to do with Paddy's Day it was to do with this

what?
people riot in other western countries?
that's going to hurt tourism over there and other nonsensical ramblings.

gilroyb

Yes.

westcoastcooler

Local Goddess wrote:

Well I was passing my local last night and across the road a young fella,I'd say about 18,was hitting and throwing a girl onto the ground.Everytime he knocked her down he picked her up by the scruff of the neck and knocked her down again.But what the worst thing was was that there was a load of fellas outside the pub just watching,doing absolutely nothing.It was mad.Everyone was just so drunk,got me thinking

why didnt u do sumtn den u chicken ****

Terry

bye bye.

Macker

westcoastcooler wrote:

when im sober im proud- but last night i saw 15 year olds(i know their 15 cuz der in my little sisters class) LANGERS in my local club- and i was like"the americans dyed their local river green in honour of st patricks"- but all were doing is getting twisted

All the irish are destined to be ARE DRUNKS

You should have said older sister ...because when i see "cuz der" I think 10 year old