happy St Padraig's Day/ Equinox

[Welsh cake]

Still, I don't think it much matters. Even the Saint himself wasn't an Irishman.

All that matters is whether its a bank/public holiday or not.

We Welsh aren't allowed to celebrate St David's Day proper as a public holiday, oh no, we're expected to find the will to work and celebrate at work *at the same time*. >.>

Damn you Tony Blair for blocking proposals to make it a proper holiday, you grinning little prick. >:C

[Jackalope]

Best holiday of the year - and falling on a weekend this year must mean something. What, I have no idea. I'll ponder that over a couple hundred pints.

[thesummerqueen]

My contribution - something I feel a lot about meeting any of you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksi3UgNbhRY

[reverendjeremiah]

I LOVE Guiness Draught, but not for the first one. Guiness is so dry I prefer a lager or something to get me started before I hit the dark side.

[The Grand Nudger]

"The first one" is whiskey territory.

[reverendjeremiah]

"The first one" is whiskey territory.

A shot of crown royal is nice...

Jagerbomb is even better.

[The Grand Nudger]

It's St Paddys day, order em both, and the beer as well.

[Minimalist]

Not that it will stop the Irish from drinking (nor should they) but "St. Patrick" seems like a bit of a phony, too. The Mitt Romney of his day!

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/17/world/euro...cnn_latest

"The traditional story that Patrick was kidnapped from Britain, forced to work as a slave, but managed to escape and reclaim his status, is likely to be fiction: the only way out of slavery in this period was to be redeemed, and Patrick was never redeemed. The traditional legend was instigated by Patrick himself in the letters he wrote, because this is how he wanted to be remembered," he said.

and,

While very little is known about Saint Patrick, one legend has credited him with having driven the snakes out of Ireland.

However, most biologists maintain there never were snakes in Ireland.

More catholic lies, it seems.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

An irish holiday, eh?
What is this one about?

It's a major excuse for a craic (party) Such affairs are not considered a complete success without the attendance of the police and an ambulance.



The official justification is to celebrate the life of St Patrick,patron Saint of Ireland.He is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland. But then,he is also credited with removing all the snakes,of which Ireland had none

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Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius; Primitive Irish: *Qatrikias;[2][3] Old Irish: Cothraige or Coithrige;[4] Middle Irish: Pátraic; Irish: Pádraig; Old Welsh: Patric; Middle Welsh: Padric; Welsh: Padrig; Old English: Patric; c. 387 – 17 March, 493[5] or c 460[6]) was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints.
Two authentic letters from him survive, from which come the only universally accepted details of his life.[7] When he was about 16, he was captured from Wales by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After entering the Church, he returned to Ireland as an ordained bishop in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he worked. By the seventh century, he had come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.
Most available details of his life are from later hagiographies from the seventh century onwards, and these are now not accepted without detailed criticism. Uncritical acceptance of the Annals of Ulster would imply that he lived from 340 to 440, and ministered in what is modern-day Northern Ireland from 428 AD onwards. The dates of Patrick's life cannot be fixed with certainty but, on a widespread interpretation, he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the second half of the 5th century.[8]
Saint Patrick's Day is observed on March 17, the date of Patrick's death.[9] It is celebrated both inside and outside Ireland, as both a liturgical and non-liturgical holiday. In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day of obligation; and, outside Ireland, it can be a celebration of Ireland itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick

[Jackalope]

It's St Paddys day, order em both, and the beer as well.

...then shotgun the first two before the waitress has a chance to get the third on the table and order another round. Hand her the (empty) third glass as she's leaving the table.

That's doing it right.

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Not that it will stop the Irish from drinking (nor should they) but "St. Patrick" seems like a bit of a phony, too.

I must admit that I know fuck all about St. Patrick, and care even less. It's a holiday with a tradition of drinking it up and having a good time.

I'm all for that, even if I'm not the least bit Irish.

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It's a major excuse for a craic (party) Such affairs are not considered a complete success without the attendance of the police and an ambulance.

Indeed. There is no shame in getting arrested for public drunkeness on St. Patrick's Day. Just don't drive.