I suppose there are many things not to like about it, but a St. Paddy’s Day celebration does not require drunken stooges vomiting in the street.
If I still have energy after the parade tomorrow, we will take the family to the Heritage Center for traditional music and Irish step dancing. And draft Guinness at $5 a pop.
I avoid the bar scene as that’s just full of tools. Not that I go to bars much anymore anyway…
We’re long time Border Collie lovers and owners and have been to several trials (although only as spectators). I think maybe they need to add this event to them!
I’m upset about it because it’s the weekend my girlfriend and I decided to go to Madison, WI to visit some friends. My main plan for the trip was to go out, drink good beer and eat good food. Then I realized it was St. Pat’s weekend and I thought, “Damn it all! Every bar will be swarming with “Kiss me I’m Irish” tshirt wearing idiots who probably aren’t even Irish in the least!” Oh well, I’ll make do and it’ll still be a fun weekend. No Irish in me hence the not celebrating St. Patrick’s Day thing I got going on. Don’t really celebrate holidays that don’t apply to me or my heritage.
I was in Dublin a few years back on St. Pat’s. The parade was awesome. Honestly the best parade I’ve ever seen. It just kept going and going and going.
But the locals - at least the one’s I know - can’t stand it because the City gets flooded with tourists and people are literally vomiting in the street by nights end.
We got in for the parade. Had a pint or two before it got crazy and headed out to Johnnie Fox’s in the Dublin mountains. My wife actually tried to order Belgian beer and they looked at her like she was from Mars.
It’s particularly ridiculous for the Irish to celebrate st patricks day given that patrick wasn’t irish, He was Roman, and he got cannonized for killing irish kings. I am irish, at least a little, but I am not catholic and I do not like drunken idiots.
Saint George may never have been in England, but they celebrate Saint George day. Been there and it was going on in the pubs. England’s flag is the cross of St. George, the red on white flag seen in many paintings of the crusades.
Saint Andrew probably was never in Scotland, and they have the cross of Saint Andrew on the Scotish flag, the white diagonal cross on the blue background.
Of course if one combines the cross of Saint George with the cross of Saint Andrew and the Cross of Saint Patrick (N. Ireland) you get the Union Jack.
Just saying that the Saints are imbraced by many, including the sinners on the Saint’s day.