The After Hours Official St Patricks Day Thread

Chaotic_Forces · 17-03-2011 10:23AM

ilovesleep wrote: »

I actually absolutely love christmas

But it's a holiday about stuffing your face and getting drunk! Surely you must hate it, right?

GrizzlyMan · 17-03-2011 10:25AM

no man flue will stop me getting sh1tfaced today

happy paddys day to all!

ilovesleep · 17-03-2011 10:25AM

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

But it's a holiday about stuffing your face and getting drunk! Surely you must hate it, right?

I love christmas

Chaotic_Forces · 17-03-2011 10:26AM

GrizzlyMan wrote: »

no man flue will stop me getting sh1tfaced todayhappy paddys day to all!

You should be a spokesman! Think about it: "Got man flu? WELL BEER IS THE CURE!".

You ever think of doing advertising?

Chaotic_Forces · 17-03-2011 10:27AM

ilovesleep wrote: »

I love christmas

Good for you, repeating the same thing over and over.

So explain to me why you can hate Paddy's day but love a day devoted to eating unhealthly food, drinking a lot of alcohol and generally getting together with people who, when drunk bring up arguments of years past WHILE you have homeless people out on the streets that could have been taken in by yourself but no, you just "love" Christmas yet despise Paddy's day?

Luxie · 17-03-2011 10:33AM

I work abroad, but the staff restaurant are offering Irish stew as the dish of the day.

Whether it will be up to Mammy standards is questionable, mind.

Luxie · 17-03-2011 10:34AM

Oh and I received a St. Paddy Day greetings from the President herself (not personalised, mind) via the Embassy. So get me.

WIZE · 17-03-2011 11:05AM

I work with alot of people from the Nordic countries eg Sweden , Norway .

They seem ready to go on a bender tonight , All are wearing Green

Dj Stiggie · 17-03-2011 11:11AM

I'm living in Berlin and quit my job yesterday so I'm going on a mad one

fryup · 17-03-2011 11:15AM

For the day thats in it........:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR5yDZO4nZE

Splendour · 17-03-2011 11:23AM

ilovesleep wrote: »

No I won't do that. Hypocrites the lot of ye taking part in st patricks day activities to celebrate being irish.

I find it weird how people will take to their streets to celebrate st.patricks day and yet there won't be one protest to get bertie ahern and the likes locked up. The real snakes for abusing and exploiting us and selling us to the banks and leading us up sh1ts creek in debt we had nothing to do with.

We have nothing to celebrate. Ye might as well parade around our streets about nazis.

I find it weird that people forget today is a celebration of St. Patrick bringing Christianity to Ireland-so technically it's about celebrating being Christian rather than being Irish!

pickarooney · 17-03-2011 11:30AM

who the fug wrote: »

I am talking about modern phenomenon of wishing people a happy St Patricks day not celebrating it.

Definitely since before I was born. The old 'Lá Féile Pádraig Shona' cards have been doing the rounds forever.

phasers · 17-03-2011 11:34AM

green text is really hard to read

TanG411 · 17-03-2011 11:35AM

I'm sick of all Irish celebrations involving a massive piss-up.

Deedsie · 17-03-2011 11:38AM

Hope everyone has a great day. I think we need a day off from the recession.

who the fug · 17-03-2011 11:38AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Definitely since before I was born. The old 'Lá Féile Pádraig Shona' cards have been doing the rounds forever.

Never saw them in when I was growing up in the seventies / eighties in Cork

Luxie · 17-03-2011 11:40AM

who the fug wrote: »

Never saw them in when I was growing up in the seventies / eighties in Cork

Neither did I, I thought it was a more recent concept.

evil_seed · 17-03-2011 11:45AM

In work right now. May go drinking later. Not too pushed tbh

Deedsie · 17-03-2011 12:00PM

evil_seed wrote: »

In work right now. May go drinking later. Not too pushed tbh

Ah go for one anyway!!!

Bonkers_xOx · 17-03-2011 12:17PM

The Irish grammar on peoples' facebook statuses is killing me.

who the fug · 17-03-2011 12:24PM

Bonkers_xOx wrote: »

The Irish grammar on peoples' facebook statuses is killing me.

Wait till you look at the ones in English

Deedsie · 17-03-2011 12:27PM

Bonkers_xOx wrote: »

The Irish grammar on peoples' facebook statuses is killing me.

Have you nothing else to be worrying about? At least they are making an effort, better than ignoring it completely.

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig Oraibh

Chaotic_Forces · 17-03-2011 12:29PM

who the fug wrote: »

Wait till you look at the ones in English

You can forgive the ones in Irish, I think. Not everyone has perfect Irish. But the ones in English... they should be murdered, killed and flailed for purposely typing like an idiot.

opinion guy · 17-03-2011 12:33PM

Splendour wrote: »

I find it weird that people forget today is a celebration of St. Patrick bringing Christianity to Ireland-so technically it's about celebrating being Christian rather than being Irish!

Yeah I remember pre 2000 (ish) St Patricks Day was alot more tame and going to mass was a big thing, followed by parades, followed by visiting relatives then maybe going out in the evening. After then, when they deciced to commercialise it with a week long festival ****e, it became the scumbagged day long drinking session it is now.

Don't get me wrong - I like a drink as much as the next man, but Paddy's day these days is merely a celebrating of binge drinking and alcohol abuse

The_Wexican · 17-03-2011 12:38PM

I'm sick:(

Any good films to be watching?

Deedsie · 17-03-2011 12:40PM

opinion guy wrote: »

Don't get me wrong - I like a drink as much as the next man, but Paddy's day these days is merely a celebrating of binge drinking and alcohol abuse

I disagree, St Patricks Day to me is a day to meet up with your friends and have a good time. Its a national day to just enjoy the company of those you are closest too. Friends family etc etc

Its very easy to just say its binge drinking, but its also an opportunity to just kick back and relax, and celebrate our country, its taking a battering over the last few years. Needs its ego boosted a bit.

Victor_M · 17-03-2011 12:41PM

I always enjoy Paddys day when I'm overseas, it's generally an embarrassment to be Irish on the 17th of March when at home, scumbags puking all over the place and looking for trouble from lunchtime onwards.

I can never understand the all day drinking thing, particularly when everyone has work the next day, if I go for a few pints it tends to the the day before so I can sleep it off on my day off.

I'm in Israel at the moment and I cant believe the deal of it that's been made over here! It's Great, Guinness have put on a huge marketing campaign and all the pubs & Clubs are decked out in green, and there's half price pints all over Tel Aviv.

As an added bonus, the weekend here starts on Thursday too! Nice one

Deedsie · 17-03-2011 12:41PM

The_Wexican wrote: »

I'm sick:(

Any good films to be watching?

The Quiet Man, Darby O'Gill, The flight of the doves?

Chaotic_Forces · 17-03-2011 12:41PM

The_Wexican wrote: »

I'm sick:(

Any good films to be watching?

Sick as in hangover sick or something else? on RTÉ One at 3:30pm there's Around the World in 80 Days; basically it's Jackie Chan comedy helping a fella sail around the world in 80 days. It's not very fighty type like with a Chuck Norris flick, very good comedy.

That's really it I think, hope you feel better though.

Chaotic_Forces · 17-03-2011 12:44PM

Deedsie wrote: »

I disagree, St Patricks Day to me is a day to meet up with your friends and have a good time. Its a national day to just enjoy the company of those you are closest too. Friends family etc etc

Its very easy to just say its binge drinking, but its also an opportunity to just kick back and relax, and celebrate our country, its taking a battering over the last few years. Needs its ego boosted a bit.

Is alcohol not illegal there? I thought in some countries in the middle east it was.

Anyway, it's a day to get pissed, end of story. It should be a day about friends, family, a few pints or a nice meal or something. But it has a set age growth it's: under 12s = yay parade!, 13 -18, try find booze and get pissed watching the parade! 18 - 25, yay getting pissed while watching the parade!
25 - 100 = alright, I don't need to feel bad drinking all day!

Sad as it is, it's pretty much like that from what I've seen here.

The After Hours Official St Patricks Day Thread

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