I'm from fully Irish stock, but I could give two shits and a fuck less about St. Patrick's Day because A) I don't drink anymore, B) I'm not Catholic, and C) I hate dealing with drunken douchebags.

Alowishus wrote:

username wrote: im not irish either, but if i could, i would donate money to the IRA Which one? aeonic wrote: I'm from fully Irish stock, but I could give two shits and a fuck less about St. Patrick's Day because A) I don't drink anymore, B) I'm not Catholic, and C) I hate dealing with drunken douchebags. You don't have to be catholic to celebrate St. Patricks. Though some other people said as well...if you don't like drunk people do not come here. Especially if you would want to go for a night out, even dinner or the cinema. Drunk people everywhere - and it's worse on St. Patricks.

I'm actually sending the wife over there next week. We'd paid for her, her mother, her grandmother, aunt and female cousin to all go out for a week, have kind of a girls' vacation thing; I'll be sitting at home all mopey. Luckily, most of her family are semi-functional alcoholics. She doesn't drink, though. Should be nice and harrowing for her!

As for the Catholic thing, since my particular brand of faith doesn't do the whole 'veneration of saints' thing, I don't really see the point in celebrating a holiday I don't believe in; if I ever need an excuse for binge drinking, I'll turn on a cable news channel and chug. I mean, St. Cyril has a holiday too, and what'd he do? Had a mob of people flense Hypatea alive with scallop shells because she was pagan, killing one of the most brilliant minds of that era in Constantinople.