What's there to bitch about?

Some kids at my high school will dye their hair green. The local greasy spoon will serve green beer. Some guy from Ireland will give Trump a bowl full of clovers. Some family will sit down to a dinner of corned beef and cooked cabbage.

OK, I hate the smell of cooked cabbage, so there's that.

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"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.

Ask any bartender. They'll bitch about it at length, and with complete justification.

Seriously, there's a local bar that's generally pretty chill. Just a dive bar. Burgers, beers, they'll have a local band most weeks. Nothing fancy. I go to watch the fights when they're on. Last year I figured I'd hit it up on St. Patrick's Day, because, you know. Wall to wall douchebags.

My bartender is already dreading it.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

Ask any bar owner. They'll tell the bartender to quit being such a bitch, and with complete justification.

Over-priced shitty beer dyed green. Big money grab.

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Largest segment of revelers: 21 - 25 year olds.

Ah, the pride of the young Irish!

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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lol. True.

The capitalist owner pigs always win!

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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I never understood how any other nation would voluntarily identify....... oh wait.

I had. I idea how big St. Patrick's day was in Germany. This past Sunday there was a parade. It was madness.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Its my first as an irishman - whist the government may always have viewed me as irish, i just got my passport - tobesuretobesure...... - so i'm drinking

Because most of us are too drunk to be offended. Now, shut up and pass the Guiness, none of that speed poured shite either!

Fucking amateur day.

If you're Irish, you're the one who has to bitch.

Pretty sure I've got some Irish in me too, but I'm not going to bitch.

Owner might have justification but he'd be wrong. Bartending since it relies on tips for wage means you can go to work and essentially not get paid if the wrong crowd is there. Which St Patrick's day usually brings out.
Also it's extra liability on the owner since it is typically an ameteur day in the bar so you have to worry a little bit more about who is there and what they're going to do.
working St Patrick's Day in a bar sucks.

Erin go bragh

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"I think I've cracked the code. double letters are cheaters except for perfect squares (a, d, i, p and y). So Leddy isn't a cheater... "

I am sure the bar owners love it but the employees hate it. For me that ship has sailed and don't do that scene now. I might have a green beer or guiness at home to celebrate as I am Irish but that is the extent of it.

I'm definitely jaded. One too many Pattys Day behind the mahagony.

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"I think I've cracked the code. double letters are cheaters except for perfect squares (a, d, i, p and y). So Leddy isn't a cheater... "

This.

We have two bars within walking distance of my house that are part of the "Erin Express", a bus that basically loops around all the Irish bars in the area that participate on the day. The intersection between the two bars also has a trolley stop with service into Philly or out to other suburbs and that whole area is a shitshow of drunken stupidity the whole afternoon and night.

Admit it, you're just jealous because St. Patrick left Wales to become the Irish patron saint, and now they get to celebrate and you don't... ;-)

Honestly St. Patrick's day seems to be less of a day of the Irish and more of day of the drunks, although I understand there's a fair amount of overlap in the two.

Most if not all the people I've known who are way into it probably had a drinking problem to one degree or another.

Funny, I was just reading this story. The village is about 30 minutes up the valley from the village where I grew up.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/...-celebrated-12751064

Left/enslaved.. tomato/tomahto ;)

Well, he left by his own free will the second time round. Wonder what that says about Wales... :-)

I am of Irish extract in America (I have come to understand that even though all of my ancestors left the homeland when the fucking English tried to starve them that I am considered Not Irish in Eíre but an American. I had many discussions with one of my old lawyers about this who is from Ireland.) so consider this my official bitching.

Kilkenny or Bulmers since you don't have to wait for them.

This is part of the problem. Asshats have appropriated the holiday to get pass drunk instead of celebrating Ireland and our heritage.

I was attending a funeral near Penn's campus a couple of years ago and walked out into the middle of the Erin Express (or something similar) thing. Shitshow of drunken stupidity is a good description. Very drunk girl arguing with the cops, who were having none of it.

Although I did get a good laugh at the obviously Middle Eastern Penn students who had their green on for the day.

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Hell yea. Those were great times acting out the Irish. Dressing in green, drinking the green beer, and fornicating missionary-style.

Chillest St. Patrick's Day I've ever experienced was when I was in Ireland. There was some green tinsel over the bar and a 10% discount on beer, and that was it. Here in Boston it's a complete circus in some areas.

As my Irish friends would say, a Plastic Paddy :)

Isn't Cinco de Mayo also pretty much a non-thing in Mexico but another example of a drunkfest here in the states, and maybe elsewhere?

Yeah Boston turns into a shitshow. College city, lots of Irish heritage, many years mid-March will bring the first semi-nice weather (50+ degrees) in months and of course the March Madness alignment which is common everywhere. My college/post-college years were filled with some insane St. Paddy's benders, usually starting with the Thursday kickoff of the tournament and regaining consciousness Monday at some point. Once I hit my late 20's I lost all desire to be anywhere near that scene, but I can't pretend I wasn't a part of it for a stretch.

Probably only interesting to me but St. Paddy's day marked the one day a year where I realized I don't own green clothes of any sort. One year, I was probably 22 or 23, I bought a green hat on my way to a party, which I then wore for like four years in a row. I guess I don't like green, who knew?

My 'celebration' this year: wife and I are doing an Irish-themed cooking class. Mussels, shrimp and crab gratin, pork braised in cider with apples, minted peas, potato champ and porter stout cherry cake. Bringing some wine and Guinness to the class...should be fun!

Also Corned Beef is NOT traditional Irish fare

Yup. I work in Cambridge and leave the office early on St. Paddy's to get away from the Harvard/MIT/BU crazies who start stumbling somewhere around mid-afternoon. Stay way the hell away from Southie. I even went to the packie a couple days early just so I don't have to deal with the goof troops in there this evening.

Slàinte! :)

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How about bangers and champ?

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"The right to party is a battle we have fought, but we'll surrender and go Amish... NOT!" -Wayne Campbell

This is probably my biggest bitch about St. Patrick's Day. Fucking beef lobby pushing that crap on us!

I had chicken and leek pie, good eatin.

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I've been hearing "Irish" people bitch abou this since the 80s.

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb

'Xactly! Traditional Irish seven-course meal? Six-pack and a boiled potato!

Actually very interesting story and shows the melting pot of America.... the closest thing to traditional bacon was the corned beef they could get at kosher delis

I'm not Irish so why do people expect me to wear green today?

I don't

Top 5 Stripper names you're guaranteed to find on March 17th

Erin
Shannon
Kathleen
Bridget
Kelly

Extra points if she's wearing a ginger wig
Extra EXTRA points if she's wearing cross of some sort

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Funny story to me at least.

Was in Vegas for my birthday with a bunch of couples. Went to irish bar in NY NY and they opened the balcony for us. The band was really good and from Ireland. They were taking requests and I was the only person in the packed bar making them at 5 bucks a clip. I decided only a Republican (Irish version asshats) theme so I go up with my song slip and money in hand. The look on the guys face was priceless whether it was how the fuck does he know this song or oh shit we have to sing this song. By the 6th or 7th they were into as was the crowd. Probably no one else knew what was going on.

Because it's a god damn green holiday is why. Get in the fun, drunk Irish spirit, or do you hate fun?

Seriously, I own no green, and I've only seen one person in the office wearing green. Unless you're hanging with some college students today I think you'll be fine.

Corned beef to me as a kid was this canned, finely-chopped beef in gelatin. Pretty nasty, not quite Spam-level but close.

When I first came here and started hearing people raving about having corned beef and cabbage for St Patrick's Day I was like WTF, you actually like that shit?

Isn't the local Welsh delicacy fucking eels?

Jellied eels? That's a London thing.

Wherever that is foul

Corned beef is nasty; corned beef and BOILED CABBAGE is atrocious, the consistency of boiled cabbage is among the worst things I can remember eating. I would rather have spam than that shit.

Growing up in a very, very Irish family I never understood the corned beef and cabbage thing...only times I ever remember having it is at school on St Paddy's day.

You mean like this?

Target acquired

I work in a high school with a huge Irish and wannabe irish on 3/17 so I always get a couple comments about no green.

He won't be bitching after the amateur crowd gives him a bunch of tips.

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"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden

I wore a green shirt to the office today and have got some Guiness at home for tonight and I'm only 25% Irish. Nothing to bitch about IMHO.

In Mexico, it is a celebration of the Mexican Army's victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla. It is primarily a ceremonial celebration, often times with military parades.

In the US, it has developed into a Mexican-American day of pride. It is often mistaken in the US as Mexican independence day (not true). Yes, it has turned into a drinking holiday like St. Paddy's Day.

Wifie always makes a big feast and it was always an eating celebration when the kids were here more as fun than really a celebration of their "Mexicanity." Now that they moved out, wifie usually makes some traditional Mexican fare and we do tequila shots.

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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So your normal Tuesday

Now that the kids are gone? Yeah ... pretty much ...

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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You should follow my SJW family member on Facebook if you really want an answer to that question.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

That'll work

A girl friend of mine also mentioned "Extra Extra EXTRA for a ginger merkin"

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

I'm impressed that in 3 pages here, only one stooge has referred to it as "Patty's" day

I need this on a t-shirt. That's fantastic.

HaHaHa - that's my favorite joke: What's Irish and stays out all night?

I gotta get me that shirt.

Yeah Boston turns into a shitshow.

Yup. I work just up the street from the Black Rose and it was already packed when I walked by at 8:30 this morning. I stepped out an hour ago to grab lunch real quick and saw a huge guy in a kilt with a shamrock shaved into his head staggering out of a T station and holding a red solo cup in his hand, beer spilling out of it. At least he's taking public transportation rather than driving.

Perfect storm today where it's on a Friday, city and state offices closed for Evacuation Day (commemorating the British being forced out of the city in 1776 after cannons from Fort Ticonderoga put in place on Dorchester Heights and aimed at the British fleet moored in the harbor) and March Madness thrown in for good measure.

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"You can never win or lose if you don't run the race." - Richard Butler

Fuck Notre Dame

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Haha, I 'll wear that badge proudly today.

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"I think I've cracked the code. double letters are cheaters except for perfect squares (a, d, i, p and y). So Leddy isn't a cheater... "

This is one of my favorite shirts. But I never wear it on St Patrick's Day. It's an everyday shirt.

I had to google that one. I guess I was aware of the concept, but not the term.


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Mussels, shrimp and crab gratin, pork braised in cider with apples, minted peas, potato champ and porter stout cherry cake. Bringing some wine and Guinness to the class...should be fun!
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-and away witcha and yer hoity toity uppity airs and all

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Be Prepared-- Strike Swiftly -- Who Dares Wins- Without warning-"it will be hard. I can do it"

Only 49 more days, Gringo bitches...!

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"They've done studies, ya know... 60% of the time, it works EVERY time."

Eh, I'm still holding out for a 'Skee Ball' tramp stamp...

Nope, you come from a family of soup eaters.

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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Asshats have appropriated the holiday to get pass drunk instead of celebrating Ireland and our heritage
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I thought getting piss drunk is an imitation of the Irish, thus, celebrating them on their own terms.

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