St Patricks Day is Crap Thread.

mike65

Whatever bits of Paddys Day nonsense you can find on the web post it here.

Proof the Yanks are best kept between two oceans

Irish Drunks everywhere

Police prep for St. Patrick's Day drivers
By TIM PRATT
Evening Sun Reporter
Article Launched: 03/16/2007 10:16:46 AM EDT

With St. Patrick's Day approaching, local and state law enforcement agencies are preparing for an onslaught of drunken drivers.

Increased DUI enforcement will take place between Friday and Sunday in Adams, York and Lancaster counties, according to a release from the Center for Traffic Safety.

The center is a department of York County government that uses federal grants and contracts administered by the state Department of Transportation to implement traffic safety programming.

No further information was released on exact locations of the patrols.

"Alcohol is a huge problem on St. Patty's Day," said Rebecca Shaver, regional executive director of MADD Pennsylvania and New Jersey. "We know that DUIs increase on practically every holiday because a majority of celebrations do involve alcohol."

According to the state Department of Transportation, there were 70 alcohol-related crashes resulting in seven fatalities statewide on St. Patrick's Day in 2006. That marked an increase over the 2005 holiday when there were 50 crashes and two fatalities statewide.

Shaver said that since many St. Patrick's Day celebrations take place in pubs or bars, the risk of drunken driving is greater than some holidays celebrated at home. For that reason, Shaver said, revelers should plan ahead to call a cab or sober friend to drive them home.

But the number of alcohol-related St. Patrick's Day fatal crashes pales in comparison with other holidays, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

In 2004, the last year statistics were available, there were 45 alcohol-related fatal crashes nationwide on St. Patrick's Day. By comparison, Super Bowl Sunday had 58 alcohol-related fatal crashes and New Year's Eve 2003 into New Year's Day 2004 had 131 alcohol-related fatal crashes.

American article with sense of knowing - shock

Agh! :eek:

Typical Paddy Day Meal Apparently

Corned Beef & Swiss Appetizers
From Kraft Foods

1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
2 tsp. dijon mustard
1/4 lb. corned beef, chopped
1/2 cup shredded swiss cheese, recommended gruyere
2 Tbsp. chopped green onion
36 slices cocktail rye bread, toasted

The only good news is that it'll be over by Sunday.

Mike.

WindSock

Paddies day is crap. Why anyone would want to celebrate Catholicism in Ireland goes beyond me. Baa slumbug.

Mossy Monk

St Patty's Day

heh

Ruu_Old

Mossy Monk wrote:

St Patty's Day

heh

Don't get me started! Americans and their Notre Dame hats and scarfs, bloody heck I'm staying at home.

St. Patty's Day Sting Catches Florida Speeders

"Lucky Charms" the same way ever again.

In Orange County, a "leprechaun" spent Thursday flagging down speeders near Orlando.

The man in the outfit is actually an Orange County Deputy, who says costumes are NOT uncommon for him.

Just last Christmas Deputy Richard Lockman dressed up as the "Grinch" to pull speeders over in the stretch of the road.

The "Leprechaun Sting" nailed more than 50 drivers in little more than an hour.

While some motorists would argue that a deputy dressing up in costume to catch traffic violators is deceptive and unfair. The long range of the laser gun will enable the on-duty leprechaun to clock a vehicle long before the driver would have seen him.

Giblet

boreds wrote:

Paddies day is crap. Why anyone would want to celebrate Catholicism in Ireland goes beyond me. Baa slumbug.

Home alone then?

Pherekydes

boreds wrote:

Paddies day is crap. Why anyone would want to celebrate Catholicism in Ireland goes beyond me. Baa slumbug.

And there was I thinking it was celebrating alcoholism...

WindSock

Giblet wrote:

Home alone then?

Yes...me Ma's goin out

I hope it rains.

zam

Ahh quit complaining we're getting a bank holiday out of this

bluto63

Who cares what Paddys day stands for, it makes people happy and that's all that matters.

zam

zam wrote:

Ahh quit complaining we're getting a bank holiday out of this

I'm working nights all the way through til Tuesday.

Thrill

boreds wrote:

Paddies day is crap.

Ssshhhhhh....for some of us it's a day off.:)

arbeitsscheuer

The fact that you very rarely see the actual Cross of St. Patrick anywhere on Paddies Day pretty much says it all about the occasion IMO.
If it was really about celebrating St Patrick, I wouldn't mind. As it is it's just an excuse (as if one were needed for our lot) to get tanked, sing loud vaguely Anglophobic songs and basically behave like massive children for an entire day. With shamrocks. Lots of shamrocks.

Unbelievably fúcking stupid.

mike65

mike65 wrote:

Whatever bits of Paddys Day nonsense you can find on the web post it here.

Proof the Yanks are best kept between two oceans

Irish Drunks everywhere


American article with sense of knowing - shock

Agh! :eek:

Typical Paddy Day Meal Apparently



The only good news is that it'll be over by Sunday.

Mike.

This one has to take the buscuit, Breakfast by post!!
http://www.shopirish.com/irish/HolidaysOccasions_C6/St-Patricks-Day_6D/Food_6D5/Item_A-Bit-of-Each-Traditional-Irish-Breakfast_FL310.html

WindSock

arbeitsscheuer wrote:

The fact that you very rarely see the actual Cross of St. Patrick anywhere on Paddies Day pretty much says it all about the occasion IMO.
If it was really about celebrating St Patrick, I wouldn't mind. As it is it's just an excuse (as if one were needed for our lot) to get tanked, sing loud vaguely Anglophobic songs and basically behave like massive children for an entire day. With shamrocks. Lots of shamrocks.

Unbelievably fúcking stupid.

Yes, Leprechauns and Santa are dancing away on Patricks n Jesus's Graves.

Ciaran500

Deleted User wrote:

This one has to take the buscuit, Breakfast by post!!
http://www.shopirish.com/irish/HolidaysOccasions_C6/St-Patricks-Day_6D/Food_6D5/Item_A-Bit-of-Each-Traditional-Irish-Breakfast_FL310.html

Healthy? Lol

WindSock

Ewwww, why would they mess it up with bits of fruit on the side?

Rabies

Paddies Day sucks this year.
Work starts in two hrs. Prob work from 3pm-6am. Then go for my paddies day drinks and stumble home about 10am tomorrow

Where abouts in the world are you Rabies?

Jamey

Contaminated water in Galway had ruined Paddy's Day. Bastards.

Rabies

The land of the long white cloud, New Zealand.

WindSock

the wrong white crowd

poobum

Deleted User wrote:

This one has to take the buscuit, Breakfast by post!!
http://www.shopirish.com/irish/HolidaysOccasions_C6/St-Patricks-Day_6D/Food_6D5/Item_A-Bit-of-Each-Traditional-Irish-Breakfast_FL310.html

wheres the egg?????
they could at least get it right...

iguana

Deleted User wrote:

This one has to take the buscuit, Breakfast by post!!
http://www.shopirish.com/irish/HolidaysOccasions_C6/St-Patricks-Day_6D/Food_6D5/Item_A-Bit-of-Each-Traditional-Irish-Breakfast_FL310.html

In fairness, the sausages and rashers available in other countries can be crap. Every time we have visitors from home we get them to bring us a few pounds of good sausages and rashers. I've just returned from a trip home with a big bag of rashers, the freezer's already full of sausages. And we only live in London.

Never underestimate the power of a proper Irish breakfast.

Basq

Girlfriend and her mate just went to the Parade in the pissing rain.

I'm happy staying here playing Poker.. then i'll meet them for the match later.

Bah.. St Paddy's Day.. utter muck!

WindSock

Hahahaa. I'm watching the pardade on telly and just saw a lot from colorado walking down the street looking lost because their instruments didn't arrive. Welcome to Ireland, enjoy the culture

Nightwish

I hate all this forced paddywhackery and plastic patriotism this country embraces every year. This day is a load of bollox...*goes back to bed*

lawhec

To me St.Patrick's Day brings out the worst in Irishness - namely that its a general excuse to get completely and totally pissed. As a non-alcohol drinker I just don't see the fuss in it.

I feel that the national holiday of the Republic would be better served on being on Easter Sunday/Monday in tune with the Easter Rising, but that would then mean one less bank holiday. :cool:

DarkJager

Paddys Day and Halloween....The 2 days I hate the most of each year. Look at the concept behind St patricks day. Some prick in a robe, supposedly banished all of the snakes from Ireland. Really? Did the snakes not think of reproducing while they were waiting for this freak to come along? How exactly did he get around the country and find them? You have to hand it to followers of organised religion...they'll follow anything even if there isn't a shred of sense behind it...

Max_Damage

DarkJager wrote:

. Some prick in a robe, supposedly banished all of the snakes from Ireland. Really? Did the snakes not think of reproducing while they were waiting for this freak to come along? How exactly did he get around the country and find them? You have to hand it to followers of organised religion...they'll follow anything even if there isn't a shred of sense behind it...

Not mention he wasn't even Irish.

Silverfish

DarkJager wrote:

Paddys Day and Halloween....The 2 days I hate the most of each year. Look at the concept behind St patricks day. Some prick in a robe, supposedly banished all of the snakes from Ireland. Really? Did the snakes not think of reproducing while they were waiting for this freak to come along? How exactly did he get around the country and find them? You have to hand it to followers of organised religion...they'll follow anything even if there isn't a shred of sense behind it...

The snake was a symbol of the pagan religion. He banished all the pagans, except Thaed, who will explain it better.


I spent the day in bed with a book, because I have been struck down in the prime of life with a terrible illness which will be gone by 6pm when I hit Rathmines.

Its a stupid hateful day.

iguana

Listen to ye all complaining about getting a holiday. Wait until you are working in a foreign country and have to go to work on the day for no extra pay, then you'll have something to complain about.

metrovelvet

How funny - the most famous man in Irish history was an Italian.

Max_Damage

metrovelvet wrote:

How funny - the most famous man in Irish history was an Italian.

He was Welsh actually.

Thrill

metrovelvet wrote:

How funny - the most famous man in Irish history was an Italian.

The most famous man in German history is Austrian (Hitler)
The most famous man in American history is Spanish (Columbus)
The most famous man in Lunar history is American (Armstrong):)

I don't care where he came from. I can stay in bed on Monday.

Thank you St Patrick.

toiletduck

I hate this day.

Bah work in a few hours

wow sierra

Get a f&cking life people - seize the day etc etc etc.

Its an extra day off work loads of parades, endless sport, music in pubs, some people are walking from Howth to Dun Laoghaire along the coast to collect money for aware.

Theres a whole world out there - stop whingeing. Actually why am I wasting time here? Byeee:)

ODS

I just wasted 4 hours in the vain hope that Ireland would win the 6 Nations, only for another McDowell prick to wreck my day in the last minute :mad:

Sums up my Patricks day.

WindSock

iguana wrote:

Listen to ye all complaining about getting a holiday. Wait until you are working in a foreign country and have to go to work on the day for no extra pay, then you'll have something to complain about.

Other countries have their equivalents.

Esmereldina

boreds wrote:

Other countries have their equivalents.

Yep, loads more holidays in Italy, and apart from Saints' days they celebrate much more wholesome things like Liberation Day (April 25) and Day of the Republic (June 2). None of this shamrock/green wearing/parading/general bad taste mostly dominated by dodgy American ideas of Irishness :rolleyes:

Volvoboy

I'm proud and glad to be Irish but i dont need to go into town and get rat arsed and get into fights with other rat arsed Irish men, as a poster said before sieze the day, finally got around to service me car would'nt have the time if it wasnt St Every-muppet-goes-into-town-get-pissed-and-gets-into-fights-and-wakes-in-fitzgibbon-st-garda-station-wondering-what-happned Day.

-VB-

Seth Brundle

boreds wrote:

Paddies day is crap. Why anyone would want to celebrate Catholicism in Ireland goes beyond me. Baa slumbug.

Saint Patrick didn't have anything to do with Catholicism - it was Christianity that he brought to Ireland, not Catholicism (which didn't exist)!

Slow coach wrote:

And there was I thinking it was celebrating alcoholism...

No thats just a side effect of the event

bluto63 wrote:

Who cares what Paddys day stands for, it makes people happy and that's all that matters.

Quite right! But don't forget that the alcohol often plays a part in that

arbeitsscheuer wrote:

The fact that you very rarely see the actual Cross of St. Patrick anywhere on Paddies Day pretty much says it all about the occasion IMO.
If it was really about celebrating St Patrick, I wouldn't mind. As it is it's just an excuse (as if one were needed for our lot) to get tanked, sing loud vaguely Anglophobic songs and basically behave like massive children for an entire day. With shamrocks. Lots of shamrocks.

Unbelievably fúcking stupid.

I haven't heard any 'Anglophobic' songs today. IN fact I can't remember the last time I heard one.
I do love mentioning the Irish element of the Union Jack to British people (who are generally dumbstruck when they find out)!

Max_Damage

Max_Damage wrote:

He was Welsh actually.

From an area of what is now part of the English midlands (near Daventry) alledgely!

Just down the road from where I used to live

YeatsCounty

St. Patrick's Day can be utter crap if you fall foul of the pissheads who just want to get completely wasted and annoy/agitate people for no reason. Getting wasted is fine, I do it myself but I keep to myself (or to my group of friends) when I do so. I don't go looking for fights and I try not to annoy people by talking crap to them.

A good Paddy's Day for me is going to a nice pub with a group of friends or just staying in with said friends. A rockin' Paddy's Day is not important at all to me (I didn't celebrate it at all until last year) but if I do decide to do something on that day, having fun with friends is what I'm aiming for. I was supposed to do that with friends today but my stomach and intestines have decided to annex themselves from my body. Word of warning: swiftly consumed Harp lager immediately followed by a chicken schwarma can lead to bad results........ My Paddy's Day is over. :-/ At least I got to see the rugby.

Deleted User wrote:

This one has to take the buscuit, Breakfast by post!!
http://www.shopirish.com/irish/HolidaysOccasions_C6/St-Patricks-Day_6D/Food_6D5/Item_A-Bit-of-Each-Traditional-Irish-Breakfast_FL310.html

I don't think its neccessarily silly. Just like iguana said, it can be quite difficult to get what us Irish would call 'good quality' sausages and rashers in North America (depending on where you live). Sure, sausages to us are merely breakfast sausages over here in my experience and rashers = thin strips of bacon, which are damn good on a burger or in a BLT but not too great for a full Irish.

And as for missing the eggs? Sending eggs by post is just absurd.

</me senses a market>

nesf

kbannon wrote:

I haven't heard any 'Anglophobic' songs today. IN fact I can't remember the last time I heard one.
I do love mentioning the Irish element of the Union Jack to British people (who are generally dumbstruck when they find out)!

There were a couple played in the bar I was in earlier, but it was the Welsh guys who requested them.


Apart from that, it's the people who really have drunk far too much that get to me. There are always a couple around on a night out but it's hard to escape them on Paddy's day and I like being able to move around in a pub without feeling like I'm between two angry rugby packs.

InFront

Well it was a great day sports wise (for ireland). But yeah not a fan of patricks day. There is so much more to Ireland than shamrocks and alcohol. Not enough people know that. I hear the parade was good though.

Xavi6

Well I had the best Paddy's Day ever and that's probably cause it was the first one I didn't spend in Ireland. Perth WA was buzzing. Started drinking with breakfast at half 9 and went for the day. There's a great Irish bar here and they closed off the street outside. Everyone was just on a good buzz and there wasn't an ounce of trouble. My opinion on the day has completely changed.

Sarky

YeatsCounty wrote:

Getting wasted is fine,

This is where your whole argument falls apart, like so much plane-enriched skyscraper.

Curse St. Patrick's day. It made cafés open for business yesterday and led me to thinking they'd be open again today. I wanted pancakes and bacon, damn it.

YeatsCounty

Sarky wrote:

This is where your whole argument falls apart, like so much plane-enriched skyscraper.

Nice symbolism..... :eek:

When I say 'wasted', I don't mean lying in the middle of the street on a pool of green vomit. That's not for me and I have been close to that a couple of times (thank God for mates). Once was because I was drinking after an all-nighter at college and another one was when I came over to Montreal and discovered pitchers.

But my original point stands, I believe. Getting 'wasted' (as in, getting quite drunk) is fine as long as you're not an annoying arse to all and sundry around you. If you keep to yourself and it's not a nightly event, then it won't bother anyone.

The Corinthian

Max_Damage wrote:

He was Welsh actually.

Romano-British. Wales didn't actually exist until later. Even the name Patrick, is not actually a name, but derived from the Latin Patricius, which was the Roman noble title or rank of patrician and was thus most likely a term of respect rather than his real name.

thrill wrote:

The most famous man in German history is Austrian (Hitler)

The most famous German man in non-German history, more like.

The most famous man in American history is Spanish (Columbus)

It's not actually known for certain, but by most accounts he was Italian, or more specifically Genoese.

I don't care where he came from. I can stay in bed on Monday.

Reading lots of books, no doubt.

Thrill

The Corinthian wrote:

Reading lots of books, no doubt.

Nah, sleeping.

Hitler was born in Austria. He is part of German history.

F**ked up with Columbus, got my countries wrong.

Point i was making was that you don't have to be born in a country to be it's most famous person.

Making a mistake doesn't mean a person doesn't read books. To insinuate otherwise is petty.

nesf

The Corinthian wrote:

Even the name Patrick, is not actually a name, but derived from the Latin Patricius, which was the Roman noble title or rank of patrician and was thus most likely a term of respect rather than his real name.

I disagree tbh, while Pádraig, Patrick, Patrice etc did descend from the latin "root" Patricius, your line of argument above does not immediately follow. Patrick (or Pádraig) could have existed as a name in that time period, i.e. the fifth century. Though, the name Pádraig, was not used as a personal name until the 16th/17th century, as was common with saints names (The form Giolla Pádraig etc would have been used instead). Also the whole "Two Patricks thing" comes into play with Pallidius and Patrick.