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03-17-2009, 09:29 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Lansing, Iowa. Come visit me, yes, no?
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Happy Saint Patricks day.
Happy st Patricks day lovely ladies. Hope you all have a wonderful and Irish day.
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03-17-2009, 09:34 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Any reason as to your exclusion of men?
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03-17-2009, 09:55 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Lansing, Iowa. Come visit me, yes, no?
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Lolz Oh I wasn't excluding the boys at all. I just use "ladies" as an affectionate term for the peeps I care about. x
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but someday i'll steal your car and switch the gears
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03-17-2009, 10:43 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: USA
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You too!
I need me some irish potatos and corned beef and green beer...and and oh, wait, I volunteered to babysit my neighbor's spawn til midnight while they go out and get drunk.
Oh, fiddlesticks.
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03-17-2009, 10:52 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
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Happy St. Patty's Day! =D
I really should have painted my fingernails green for the occasion. heh heh.
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03-17-2009, 11:13 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
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I dyed my hair green.
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03-17-2009, 11:16 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Necro: Awesome. =D
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03-17-2009, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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I am wearing an Irish flag!!
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but someday i'll steal your car and switch the gears
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03-17-2009, 11:42 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Nowhere
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If you're going to say it, say it with skulls!
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03-17-2009, 12:19 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Oh, cool pic! =D
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03-17-2009, 02:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Wooo! I made corn beef and cabbage. Should be good. Happy St.P Day!
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03-17-2009, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Tam, it's Paddy's day.
Original spelling of 'Patrick' is 'Padraig', hence 'Paddy'. 'Patty' is short for Patricia.
Also, just on the QI/ General Ignorance front, Patrick's colour was originally blue, green is a recent thing. See the term "St Patrick's Blue" for the colour used in many Irish governmental documents and flags. Patrick is also not from Ireland, he simply moved there.
Dear assorted deities of choice, I am sick of seeing drunkards in green shirts using a dead man favoured by a country and religion they're not part of as an excuse to get shitfaced and wear big green hats.
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03-17-2009, 05:38 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Delkaetre
Tam, it's Paddy's day.
Original spelling of 'Patrick' is 'Padraig', hence 'Paddy'. 'Patty' is short for Patricia.
Also, just on the QI/ General Ignorance front, Patrick's colour was originally blue, green is a recent thing. See the term "St Patrick's Blue" for the colour used in many Irish governmental documents and flags. Patrick is also not from Ireland, he simply moved there.
Dear assorted deities of choice, I am sick of seeing drunkards in green shirts using a dead man favoured by a country and religion they're not part of as an excuse to get shitfaced and wear big green hats.
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Considering an earlier post you made on this topic I totally saw this coming.
I'm generally sick of people just getting drunk period. Drunkeness is overrated and someone getting shitfaced just lowers my opinion of them a great many points.
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03-17-2009, 05:59 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Originally Posted by Delkaetre
Patrick is also not from Ireland, he simply moved there.
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I can't remember the story exactly but as a little kid I watched a video on it. He was taken to Ireland as a slave by the druids, and then was helped to escape. Ee was then compelled by god to go back and rescue the people of Ireland from the terrible reign of the druids. Somthing like that, it's been more than a decade since I saw the video.
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03-18-2009, 05:42 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
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Happy St. Patricks day!
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03-19-2009, 05:54 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Delkaetre: Don't you think you're taking it a bit too seriously?
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03-19-2009, 06:42 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Most people don't know why the colour green is relevant.
The Shamrock was used as an emblem by the Irish Volunteers (IRA) in the era of Grattan's Parliament in the 1770's, The Act of Union. When it became an emblem of rebellion in the 19th century, Queen Victoria made wearing a seamrog punishable by death by hanging. It was during this time that the phrase "the Wearing of the Green" began.
Today on St. Paddys day everyone across America still wears green to signify defiance of the brits.
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03-19-2009, 06:44 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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I just get mad when people drink Guinness on St. Pat's thinking it's Irish, when it's owned by a British company. Drink Murphy's instead, it tastes better anyway.
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03-19-2009, 06:55 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Luxembourg
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Or Kilkenny.
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03-19-2009, 02:12 PM
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CptSternn - except, well, they don't. They wear green because it's what everyone else does. The origin is lost.
Tam- having spent vast, extensive amounts of time surrounded by drunken English who find my Irish passport to be an object of great fascination, having listened to that many fucking repeats of the Dubliners, having had that many drinks split on me or my stuff, having had my flinch reflex fucked with by the sudden outbursts of drunken yelling in a pub that is usually my quiet and sensible local.... no, to me it is not too serious. I am sick of the whole thing. If they need an excuse to get trashed, there are lots of holidays out there. Picking up the worst stereotypes of the Irish and magnifying them to the point of obnoxious volume has, shall we say, irritated me for some time.
I'm just increasingly tired of the increasing and apparently wilful ignorance and brash quasi-culture that seem so prevalent. It's not just Paddy's Day. But Paddy's Day is a very good example of it.
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03-19-2009, 02:56 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Lets face it. People who like to drink as though their lives depend on it, will use any excuse. Having a baby, various public holidays, going on holiday, waking up alive (I know an alchy), moving house, the list is endless! It annoys me that people celebrate days like this, when it isnt even a part of their culture, they just do it because everyone's doing it. I suppose a bit like christmas, which I'm guilty of in that respect (the celebrating bit, not the getting blind drunk bit). I've never celebrated St Patricks day, and never knew what it was about either. Yeah I'm ignorant, but I admit it freely.
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03-19-2009, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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I seem to know more than most what paddy's day is about, though I still don't really know how it got to be so widespread in the States. Honestly I wouldn't do anything special for the day if it wasn't for the fact that there is a city funded celebration across the street from where I live which includes a free concert by Carbon Leaf
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03-20-2009, 02:21 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity
I just get mad when people drink Guinness on St. Pat's thinking it's Irish, when it's owned by a British company.
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You would be amazed what brands that company actually owns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diageo
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03-20-2009, 08:29 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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I seem to know more than most what paddy's day is about, though I still don't really know how it got to be so widespread in the States.
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I would assume it was a result of the large Irish imigration during the early-mid 19th century, wherein hundreds of thousands of Irish families came to the U.S. during the potato famine. Often the Irish were forced to live in segregated communities where they attempted to keep their traditions alive in a strange and mostly unwelcoming new country.
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03-20-2009, 08:32 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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That's crazy! I knew about the beers, but the other stuff was a shocker man.
Isn't Jameson British owned too? I just saw Bushmills on that list.
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