US Embassy claims America invented St Patricks Day"

sillyoulfool · 13-03-2014 02:01PM #1

Yup, you read the title correctly, the US embassy in Dublin has released a video claiming that St Patricks Day was "invented" by America!

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/americans-invented-st-patrick-s-day-claim-americans-1.1723637

They have previously claimed to also have invent Halloween (the ancient festival of Sabhan)

wazky · 13-03-2014 02:02PM

Well their parades are always better anyway.

sillyoulfool · 13-03-2014 02:04PM

wazky wrote: »

Well their parades are always better anyway.

Only if you are into discriminating against gays and lesbians I suppose!:rolleyes:

Lapin · 13-03-2014 02:06PM

The yanks are welcome to it.

I hate St Patrick's Day. :mad:

Its only a drunken paddywhackery cringefest.

Red Crow · 13-03-2014 02:07PM

sillyoulfool wrote: »

Only if you are into discriminating against gays and lesbians I suppose!:rolleyes:

They aren't discriminating against anyone. The LGBT groups wanted to turn it into a gay rights march and that's not what St. Patrick's Day is about.

The Master · 13-03-2014 02:07PM

wazky wrote: »

Well their parades are always better anyway.

Their parades consist of groups of people walking..... and are shit

petes · 13-03-2014 02:15PM

sillyoulfool wrote: »

Only if you are into discriminating against gays and lesbians I suppose!:rolleyes:

Who isn't!

Balmed Out · 13-03-2014 02:17PM

Does the party style of celebrating it rather then just mass not come from emigrants in the USA ?

jester77 · 13-03-2014 02:20PM

Must be a typo, is it not St. Pattys day that they invented?

Pumpkinseeds · 13-03-2014 02:21PM

wazky wrote: »

Well their parades are always better anyway.

Yep, they seem to actually enjoy themselves at their parades, not like the sh*t that's put on in the Dublin parade, Oh look, hear comes another pretentiously arty fish or whatever the Hell it's supposed to be. Jesus, there seems to be more art college style stuff in the Dublin parade than anything else, that and American marching bands. I don't even bother to watch it on tv anymore. That obnoxious ginger cow that presents it isn't exactly endearing either.

P_1 · 13-03-2014 02:22PM

I'd say they invented the mass commercialization of the day alright...

Davarus Walrus · 13-03-2014 02:24PM

I'm still trying to work out how people can use this thread to get a dig in at American foreign policy.

P_1 · 13-03-2014 02:26PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

I'm still trying to work out how people can use this thread to get a dig in at American foreign policy.

I'll put the over/under at 25.5 :P

Duggy747 · 13-03-2014 02:47PM

The Master wrote: »

Their parades consist of groups of people walking..... and are shit

I was in the New York parade 10 years ago and that's pretty much it, just walking for ages and ages.

It was cool though to be walking down the huge open road in Manhattan with just an endless amount of people either side of the road cheering.

The highlight was that before the parade, a cop was handing out coffee to people participating in it and was Irishing the fùck out of them with tons of whiskey. When he heard my accent he kept topping me up and asking me to speak in Irish.

The best I could do was "Chuaigh mé go dtí an siopa" and "Póg mo thóin" :pac:

paulbok · 13-03-2014 02:49PM

Lapin wrote: »

The yanks are welcome to it.

I hate St Patrick's Day. :mad:

Its only a drunken paddywhackery cringefest.

I quite like St Patricks Day.
It usually means that Cheltenham & the 6 nations are over with.

tin79 · 13-03-2014 02:52PM

How can you "invent" something 5 ways. Either you do or you don't. Edison didn't invent the light bulb 5 ways, he just invented it.

Foxhound38 · 13-03-2014 02:54PM

Doesn't bother me - they put on far more of a show for it anyway.

And shur wasn't St. Patrick Welsh at the end of the day! :pac:

P_1 · 13-03-2014 02:58PM

So according to the video they gave us.

1 - Parades - ok fair enough
2 - Turning everything green - Green beer? eh thanks but no thanks
3 - Corned beef and cabbage - Does anybody really eat corned beef outside of a sandwich here.
4 - Marching bands - is that not the same as #1?
5 - The keys to the White House - fair enough a guaranteed yearly appointment with POTUS is fairly decent.

And then at the end they withed us a St Patricks Day, before ye release something will ye make sure you've got the translation right will ye!

dan1895 · 13-03-2014 02:59PM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Doesn't bother me - they put on far more of a show for it anyway.

And shur wasn't St. Patrick Welsh at the end of the day! :pac:

To be shur, to be shur.

Fratton Fred · 13-03-2014 03:03PM

Red Crow wrote: »

They aren't discriminating against anyone. The LGBT groups wanted to turn it into a gay rights march and that's not what St. Patrick's Day is about.

What is it about?

Oranage2 · 13-03-2014 03:14PM

P_1 wrote: »

So according to the video they gave us.

1 - Parades - ok fair enough
2 - Turning everything green - Green beer? eh thanks but no thanks
3 - Corned beef and cabbage - Does anybody really eat corned beef outside of a sandwich here.
4 - Marching bands - is that not the same as #1?
5 - The keys to the White House - fair enough a guaranteed yearly appointment with POTUS is fairly decent.

And then at the end they withed us a St Patricks Day, before ye release something will ye make sure you've got the translation right will ye!

Corned beef is delicious with some spuds and veg.

Smiles35 · 13-03-2014 03:24PM

P_1 wrote: »

3 - Corned beef and cabbage - Does anybody really eat corned beef outside of a sandwich here.

It's not the type of sliced corned beef you get in packets or the canned kind. It's a solid lump of meat that you can get from butchers is what's tasty. Story is, it was bacon & cabbage invented here. Becuase it was cheap. But the butchers that sold bacon were hard to find in New York so Beef & Cabbage was born, over there.

maximoose · 13-03-2014 03:25PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

What is it about?

Getting drunk and being sick in the streets, duh!

GenieOz · 13-03-2014 03:32PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

What is it about?

Not gay rights anyway.

everdead.ie · 13-03-2014 03:33PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

What is it about?

I would have thought it was about a celebration of everything Irish?

For reference I have no idea what the story is with the New York Parade but if they wanted to put in a float or some bands or whatever that shouldn't be a problem if they were trying to turn it into a LGBT march than yes I would have a problem with that there are already parades which exclusively handle that issue.

Want to be LGBT and celebrate Ireland than that should be for St Patrick's Day.

MonstaMash · 13-03-2014 03:34PM

Ruu · 13-03-2014 03:40PM

Just an excuse to beat up the Irish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqf1d-8IccI

pickarooney · 13-03-2014 04:15PM

tin79 wrote: »

How can you "invent" something 5 ways. Either you do or you don't. Edison didn't invent the light bulb 5 ways, he just invented it.

Yeah, the way he 'invented' everything - by stealing, taking credit, patenting, copying and lying.

P_1 · 13-03-2014 04:17PM

Smell Badda wrote: »

It's not the type of sliced corned beef you get in packets or the canned kind. It's a solid lump of meat that you can get from butchers is what's tasty. Story is, it was bacon & cabbage invented here. Becuase it was cheap. But the butchers that sold bacon were hard to find in New York so Beef & Cabbage was born, over there.

Ah I see, do they cook it the same way we'd cook bacon?

Oafley Jones · 13-03-2014 04:20PM

Well the parades were created by them to get more Irish into the army.

ScumLord · 13-03-2014 04:21PM

So the Americans think they invented a Catholic saint by wearing green jumpers and eating corned beef?

US Embassy claims America invented St Patricks Day"

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