Is It Time To Make Paddy's Day A Thing Of The Past?

Voltwad wrote: »

I think there may have been a thread about this in the Gaeilge section but I would love a debate on it through something I can at least half understand =/

Now I'm as patriotic as the next Irishman (I also drink as much as the next 3rd level student) but having seen the vandalism of Tuesday gone, the little 15 year olds running riot etc etc I just feel like this day as a whole is more hassle than it is worth. As well as this, the stereotype that people live up to and take to a whole new level on March 17th just degrades our country.

Now I'm not a racist but...
Oh wait. This is about Ireland.
Now I'm not anti-Irish, but I think anthing Irish should be odne away with because 15 scumbags ran riot,

I completely agree. We should also ban sex because it aids AIDS.

Or we could embrace the national holiday and say **** you to the small minority who act the bollix, then stop being hysterical about it.

You'll all be sorry when the snakes come back!

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

I actually thought Jade Goody was gonna die on Tuesday and it would then be known as Saint Jades Day...the patron Saint of slapheads. Thus making everyone forget St Patricks Day ever existed.

Maybe next year.

I have to say that this was both the lamest Jade Goody and Paddy's joke ever.
Even if they were seperate the would have been really crap.
It's really easy to take two pop culture items, put them together and say they both should die.
Wow. You made a joke against Paddy's day and Jade Goody. You must really hate being Irish and hate the fact that you are really close to being British. I'd make a joke about Nina and her 99 red baloons, but that might ruin Germany for you and you wouldn't be able to tell us how seperior Germany is to Ireland.
Hit Australia. We haven't heard enough about that place from world weary travellers.
Oh no. I called you a traveller. Sorry. I meant journeyman or journeywoman.
Either way, you rule because you dissed Ireland.

shouldn't the title be
Is It Time To Make Paddy's Day A ting Of The Past?

dr.sucks.bollocko wrote: »

Why can't they just give you an extra 5 days off a year to just celebrate whatever the **** you want to celebrate? Steak and BJ day for example. There's a day you don't want to be working.
I'd like to just choose to substitute march 17 St. Patricks day for say April 28th, Led Zeppelin day. Either way I will be drunk and won't be wearing green.

Yes, my busy friend, if you had a day off, you might have had a Zep day!

and indeed :P



(in joke)

It's a lovely day Casey. Why not play outside?

Captain-America wrote: »

While we scrapping St Patrick's Day, we should probably scrap New Year's Eve too.

That means getting rid of New Year's Day too. And making no distinction between the end of one year and the start of the next. Do you know what that would do to an already crippled motor industry?

We must never get rid of Paddy's day. It's the only opportunity to get all of our incompetent and meddling ministers at once out of the feckin' way for a few days:D

Incidentally, is there any truth in the rumour that Obama and his wife thought the shamrock Biffo gave him was for making sandwiches and ate it the next day?

I normally would kind of feel a little like the OP but this year I had a great day, not least because of the fecking lovely weather. There is an obscene amount of under age drinking but that needs to be sorted out by the parents and shouldn't harm the rest of us who were having a few cans in the sun with friends celebrating being Irish. If parents would not let their children run wild we wouldn't be facing the problems we get every St Patricks day.