Heartland

I'm off to get steaming!

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Now I do have to go out tonight!

Whiskey for me. Have a good night, all!

St Paddy's was supposed to be when I was born. I was 11 days late (my poor mum!) and have been late for everything else ever since.

Happy Oirish day.

Happy St. Patrick's day my overseas friends

I'll have some in yours good health tonight

timsinister wrote:Whiskey for me. Have a good night, all!

Your signature says what I will be drinking....

Because of this day I will have a couple of Tullamore DEW as well...

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/content ... x?cid=1943

Not entirely safe for work, contains rude Irish language and nasty pictures.

Not really out of the ordinary for the Irish, so to say

Happy St Pats all!

IZ.

Stuck in work while everybody else is off. Oh well. Another excuse for a p*ss-up, eh?

I went to a Scottish pub in town before noon, and they were having St. Patricks Day already

Have a good one anyway

Obviousman wrote:I went to a Scottish pub in town before noon, and they were having St. Patricks Day already

Surprised ?

I saw some people in green plastic hats decorated with shamrocks at about 11am...

And they sounded about as Irish as Sean Connery does in The Untouchables

I'm Irish but skint so it's Just like most Friday nights then.

Driven wrote:I'm Irish but skint so it's Just like most Friday nights then.

You're not alone. I'm stuck with so much work to do.
Nevertheless

Badlander wrote:

Obviousman wrote:I went to a Scottish pub in town before noon, and they were having St. Patricks Day already

Surprised ?

No I wasn't, though I did laugh out loud when I saw some bald (probably shaved) guy waiting for a tram with the whole of his head and face painted as the Irish flag

here´s to our irish hl-branch - prost

Personally I have never understood why the English celebrate St Patrick's day more than their own saints day - anyone else?

Obviousman wrote:I went to a Scottish pub in town before noon, and they were having St. Patricks Day already

Any excuse Z.....any excuse

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Personally I have never understood why the English celebrate St Patrick's day more than their own saints day - anyone else?

It's the fear of a larger, more successful, more powerful nation to be too triumphalist about it. It grates less on most people when a smaller nation (when I say "small" I mean in terms of international clout as well) goes all patriotic. Essentially, I think the English feel they have a lot less to prove.
And they're reluctant to be associated with the kind of people who have "hijacked" the flag - i.e. BNP and similar charmers.

But all this is a side issue. What it really comes down to is Guinesss, and lots of it .

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Personally I have never understood why the English celebrate St Patrick's day more than their own saints day - anyone else?

As Scotty said : another reason to get pissed...

boudicca wrote:

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Personally I have never understood why the English celebrate St Patrick's day more than their own saints day - anyone else?

It's the fear of a larger, more successful, more powerful nation to be too triumphalist about it. It grates less on most people when a smaller nation (when I say "small" I mean in terms of international clout as well) goes all patriotic. Essentially, I think the English feel they have a lot less to prove.
And they're reluctant to be associated with the kind of people who have "hijacked" the flag - i.e. BNP and similar charmers.

That's pretty much what I was thinking.....

At festivals abroad people take flags of their own country's to put up next to their tents so I thought we could do that at Wacken in August, but my mate goes "Ooh noo people might trample on our tents!"

This annoys me somewhat

Oh well!

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:

boudicca wrote:

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Personally I have never understood why the English celebrate St Patrick's day more than their own saints day - anyone else?

It's the fear of a larger, more successful, more powerful nation to be too triumphalist about it. It grates less on most people when a smaller nation (when I say "small" I mean in terms of international clout as well) goes all patriotic. Essentially, I think the English feel they have a lot less to prove.
And they're reluctant to be associated with the kind of people who have "hijacked" the flag - i.e. BNP and similar charmers.

That's pretty much what I was thinking.....

At festivals abroad people take flags of their own country's to put up next to their tents so I thought we could do that at Wacken in August, but my mate goes "Ooh noo people might trample on our tents!"

This annoys me somewhat

Oh well!

Would you put up a "Union Jack" or a "St George" flag Libby?.

St George involves red and white. St Patrick involves lots of green.

Green is a better colour, therefore we celebrate it.

scotty wrote:Would you put up a "Union Jack" or a "St George" flag Libby?.

I think you mean St Andrew

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:

scotty wrote:Would you put up a "Union Jack" or a "St George" flag Libby?.

St George

Ah, when we lived in England, I always found that English friends thought the "Union Jack" was now a "Right Wing" flag and not a British flag any longer, I always saw the "Union Jack" as a Prodie bigots thing, either way, arse holes seem to have hi-jacked the Union Jack