Drink responsibly, have a designated driver. If the DD gets drunk, call a cab. It's cheaper than a DUI.
Messy kids are messy.
Or purposefully stay sober just to piss off all the wannabie Irish today!
Actually, everybody's Irish today. For these few brief hours, all mankind can share in the Glory o' the Isle. (So sayeth this 1/4 Irish OTTer ;))
In other news, IIRC, Irish-American is the most common claimed ancestry in the US. Something like 4 times the population of Ireland claims to be descended from there in the US alone. 'course, without other claimed-ancestry numbers, I don't have much of an idea if that's really a large factor or not, but it's interesting.
(for the record, I have Scottish ancestry, not Irish. Interestingly though, my grandmothered remarried an Irish man after her first husband (the Scot) died, so all my cousins on that side of the family tree do have Irish ancestry)
It's actually about Catholicsm.. if you're not Roman Catholic then it's a bit hypocritical to celebrate its feast days when it suits you..
Nope. Nobody is celebrating the Feast Day as the Church intended it to be celebrated (unless it's all about gettin' hammered all day long). It's a secular celebration that happens to coincide with a religious feast. At least that's how it is now. Nobody is using the Church's holidays to suit themselves. They've bastardized them to suit themselves long ago and have no need to do it now. If it helps, think of each of these holidays as really being two separate celebrations - one in the Church and one out of it. Cuz that's what happens.
They've bastardized them to suit themselves long ago and have no need to do it now.
And so the circle of stealing holidays from other people takes another step! Huzzah!
Good thing too, drinking is funner then praying anyway.
Drinking is a religion all its own. Full of ritualistic behavior, common chants, loud singing, pontification, brotherly love, brotherly violence, occasional speaking in tongues and an uplifted feeling that can change one's entire world view, I truly feel there isn't anything out there that's more religious.
And so the circle of stealing holidays from other people takes another step! Huzzah!
Just remember: It's all good so long as everyone is allowed to do it.
I truly feel there isn't anything out there that's more religious.
Aye, aye!
I truly feel there isn't anything out there that's more religious.
Aye, aye!
I just wish I could remember what this religion taught me. Oh well, I can always get hammered again and see what sticks this go 'round.
If you're of age, go drink something with alcohol in it.
Drink responsibly, have a designated driver. If the DD gets drunk, call a cab. It's cheaper than a DUI.
this reminds me, why did they choose to star encounters this week. they are officially asking people (most dnd players are old enough) to decide between playing one encounter of dnd or going and getting drunk/partying.
XD good move wizards.
this reminds me, why did they choose to star encounters this week. they are officially asking people (most dnd players are old enough) to decide between playing one encounter of dnd or going and getting drunk/partying.
XD good move wizards.
And that reminds me of a funny story about my school. You see, St. Patrick's day used to be a big thing 'round here. 'pparently he's the patron saint of engineers or something. Anyway, so the St. Patty's day celebrations were big. We're talking beer wagons on campus big, with a parade, jumping over donkey's, mud slides, all sorts of weird things. Kinda impressive for being a tiny town of just 8000 people (with about a sixth to a quarter being the university).
So eventually the school administration got tired of it and moved our spring break to overlap St. Patrick's day. No more big parade, no more crazy alcohol-induced parties, no more silly fun and games. 'cause, ya know, everyone's gone.
Sadly, all of this was before I started attending.
It's actually about Catholicsm.. if you're not Roman Catholic then it's a bit hypocritical to celebrate its feast days when it suits you..
St. Patrick's Day morphed from a religious holiday into a secular day celebrating Irish culture a very long time ago. Now you know.
But tell you what, Irish have some of the best drinking songs.
I don't drink regular beer, I have no idea why would I drink green one.
Any beer they dye green isn't worth drinking in the first place.
But tell you what, Irish have some of the best drinking songs.
Well yeah, they have to .
Yeah, the only beer you should be drinkin' on St Patty's Day is black. ;)
That's why I always were green and black on the 17th.
I had some slim hope of making it out for a beer or two last night. No such luck. The kid's band concert was so poorly organized I didn't even get home until nearly 9. I almost want to pull him out of band it was so bad. The one teacher even went so far as to hold everyone up afterwards so he could pass out music that he could have passed out before the concert or in class today. What a bunch of fools. I don't want the kid thinking that stupid is the way to do things. And they just let the kids do whatever before and after the show, too. It's amazing, really. Oh well.
I call dragon dung as being 100% born in the republic Irish its still customary for many people to go to a Mass and then onto a parade then get bladdered.
Good for them.
Sure it's been hijacked
Loaded language accomplishes nothing.
by all sorts but that fuels the hypocracy of it.
There is nothing hypocritical about it.
Why not make May 15th Rock Day where we celebrate all the rocks in the world?
Err…'kay. I'm not seeing the connection but whatever floats your boat.
I call dragon dung as being 100% born in the republic Irish its still customary for many people to go to a Mass and then onto a parade then get bladdered.
Sure it's been hijacked by all sorts but that fuels the hypocracy of it. Why not make May 15th Rock Day where we celebrate all the rocks in the world?
It's both. As it is, it's firmly in the realm of the possible for a participant to only engage in one version - either the secular or the religious - in addition to, of course, doing both. Picking one does not in any way diminish the validity of the other.
I call dragon dung as being 100% born in the republic Irish its still customary for many people to go to a Mass and then onto a parade then get bladdered.
St. Patrick's Day is just a saint's feast day. There's lots of them, and most Catholics don't pay any particular attention to them. When acknowledged, they generally aren't exactly "celebrated."
St. Valentine's, St. Patrick's, and St. Nicholas's days (and possibly others that I'm not thinking of?) have inspired largely secular celebrations that have little to do with the actual saints (particularly St. Patrick's).
Why would you go to Mass?