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Americans celebrating St. Patricks Day

Mentalist

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I know it's been tradition for a long time and I know there are plenty of Irish Americans but I still find it a bit....off. Always have.

Anyway... Happy St. Paddy's I guess!
 
Anymore it's just an excuse to consume food and drink thats been colored green and to start in on alcohol before noon.

And there ARE snakes in Ireland.

;)
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I cant go to the parties, I have to go to the ear doctor. :(
 
I do not much care for St. Patrick's Day, it's just boring.
 
I imagine it was invented by some corporation in 1922 as an excuse to sell MORE BEER.
 
*drinking a Guinness*

CaptainWacky said:
I imagine it was invented by some corporation in 1922 as an excuse to sell MORE BEER.
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nahhhhhhh...
 
youdf know what yer problems. is? you lpokk like mah mother. i hated me mothere. she was such a good pershon!! don't you tlakd bad aboot me mothers! SHE WAS A SAINT, GOD HOW I HATED HER!!!

*falls down, pukes, cries*
 
I'm wearing green undies, does that count?
 
St. Patrick's Day changes a lot in America between when you're a kid and when you're an adult.

Kids' St. Patrick's Day: leprechauns everywhere, pots of gold, lucky charms, wear green or you may get pinched

Adults' St. Patrick's Day: green beer, frat boys, barfing

Maybe I'm just bitter b/c I have kids so I don't get to party on the "party like a crazy person" holidays, but honestly it seems like a holiday that wouldn't be up my alley in any event.
 
I guess Columbus day really should add the tradition of snorting cocaine to properly compete.

-SB
 
Menty, I'm the same. The Irish people I know celebrate it too, but in a much more understated way. Sure, they get drunk, but... when don't they?

Americans just seem to be overcompensating, jumping on cliched ways of expressing their Irishness so they don't have to feel culturally homogenised.
 
I really think Americans also freak out on St. Patrick's Day because it falls in our longest gap between holidays in the calendar. We don't have another excuse for getting crazy-drunk midweek between Presidents' Day (February 16) and Memorial Day (May 26).
 
Nah, that's not it at all. It's just an excuse to party, and pinch people. If that's the case, then we also overcompensate on the 4th of July and New Year's Eve.
 
Good point, Cassie. If there's one thing Americans do NOT feel, it is culturally inferior.
 
Surely not every american is irish? I mean, what about the blacks? They're all from Finland, right?
 
No. We call the blacks "Canadians" because apparently you're not supposed to call them "darkies" anymore.
 
You are forgetting about Cinco de Mayo-that is celebrated here sometimes too. Someone at my work brought in a whole bunch of "kiss me I'm Irish" pins and what not for everyone to wear. Its funny, I work in a culturally diverse environment, and those that have only been here a couple years really didn't get it-can't say I could explain it to them either.
 
Most ethnicities have their "day" in America. It's just that the Irish and Italians got here before a lot of the other boats, so St. Patrick's Day and Columbus Day are more ingrained as "holidays" in the mainstream culture.

As for me, this Oirish boy didn't do a damn thing. Didn't drink, didn't wear green, didn't watch the parade on TV let alone go to it.

It was my day off. Nobody messes with my day off.
 
I wore me green toiy to wairk yesterd'y.
 
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