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It's St Paddy's Tomorrow

#41
dlloyd said:
I just think it's odd that people would celebrate the life of the man who brought christianity to Ireland by drinking something called an 'Irish Car Bomb', given the misery they caused to the Irish, republican and loyalist alike...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Friday_(1972)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Monaghan_bombings
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I think it's odd that you look into the name of a drink this much. It's just a drink. If it offends you this much, should womens groups try to stop the sales of 'Red Headed Sluts,' or should protests be organized every time someone orders a 'Flaming Nazi?'

I'm pure Irish, I was born in Dublin, I happen to like Irish Car Bombs.
 
#42
TrooperFarva said:
I think it's odd that you look into the name of a drink this much. It's just a drink. If it offends you this much, should womens groups try to stop the sales of 'Red Headed Sluts,' or should protests be organized every time someone orders a 'Flaming Nazi?'

I'm pure Irish, I was born in Dublin, I happen to like Irish Car Bombs.
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Maybe you're right. Maybe I'm insufficiently Irish to realise I'm just being too PC.
 
#46
dlloyd said:
I just think it's odd that people would celebrate the life of the man who brought christianity to Ireland by drinking something called an 'Irish Car Bomb'
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People in America aren't celebrating the life of St Patrick. We are celebrating the pseudoculture which grew up from the actual culture brought over here by the original Irish immigrants. This includes jolly leprechauns with fiddles and pots of gold, the idea of an entire country of alcoholic pugilists, the color green in general, kissing a stone with super powers, and hot women with red hair who in addition to being alcoholic pugilists are also wicked folk musicians. As has been pointed out a couple times already, those of us in the One Nation Under God can't even be bothered to get Christmas and Easter right. The idea of Christians in America coming anywhere close to celebrating St Patrick respectfully is just silly.

Please also consider that part of the Irish stereotype we hold dear over here involves the Irish fighting for independence for, what, 900 years now? That is the kind of tenacious spirit we love. Add to that the fact that we're talking about using an icon of America as an explosive weapon instead of its intended purpose and you have a recipe for pure awesome. If you were celebrating an entire country of alcoholic pugilist freedom fighters, how could you not drink a drink with a name like that?
 
#50
In ireland it was moved from the 17th to the 15th so you could celebrate it, but officially the catholic and Anglican churchesb arent recognizing st patricks day this year as it falls during holy week. Holy week takes precedence over all saints feast days and other minor religious days.
 
#54
lowenduser said:
The Catholic day of obligation has been moved to the 15th as you can't have a day of celebration on Holy Week BUT St. Patrick's Day stays on the 17th!
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Edit: Well, paint me green and call me wrong...

When the conflict became apparent, officials from the Irish bishops' conference wrote the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments. The congregation approved the move earlier this year, but it only was made public in mid-July.

A source at the Irish bishops' conference who did not wish to be named told Catholic News Service that the bishops were "keen to keep a link with the civic celebrations by moving the feast to the nearest Saturday, in this case March 15."

"We hope that this will facilitate the religious celebration of the holy day while not interfering too much with people who wish to celebrate the importance of St. Patrick's Day as a symbol of all things Irish," he said.

It is the first time in almost 100 years that the feast of St Patrick will not be celebrated March 17. In 1913, the same conflict occurred, and in that case the church marked the feast April 1.

According to historians, March 17 is the traditional date given for the death of St. Patrick, and his feast has been celebrated on this day since the seventh century....

The next time St. Patrick's Day will fall during Holy Week will be 2160.
 
#56
I am so glad I did not celebrate last night. I gave up counting cop cars after 13. I went to my 2nd band's practice room to install shelving and reinforce the existing shelving, and my drummer came and loaded in his drums so he won't have to tonight for band practice. Then we heard another drummer we know practicing so we went to his room and ended up blabbering drum stuff and band and studio stuff for an hour plus. We really REALLY wanted to just abandon everything and go hit a pub and talk music the rest of the night, but none of us want to get arrested. And we KNEW we'd all be cop bait if we even tried.

On the way home I past the irish pub by my house. That parking lot was PAAAAACKED and the cops were camped two driveways away on either side of the road. Just waiting. Screw it man, I don't need that happening to me.

So I had not a single drop of alcohol on St. Paddy's Day. Boring and not in jail.
 
#60
Yeah, because it's just a drink. I'm sure there are those who wouldn't. But it takes more than that to offend me personally.

Im devoid of religion and politics so stuff like that isn't going rile me up. So maybe I'm not the best one to ask.

Plus car bombs or bombs in general have affected people from many different walks of life in many different countries. Sticking Irish or anything else in front of it isn't going to make much a difference.

Edit: Just thinking about it. No one here in Ireland is going to ask for an "Irish" car bomb. It would just end up being called a car bomb. Which would make finding offence in the name more difficult
 

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