My old biology teacher is an irish man that can was known to head down to the pub after school. When this song played a montage of him raising a beaker in Biology, saying "Cheers to that" then breaking out into irish dancing.
[QUOTE=Jackald;35251654]I find it weird how the Americans get so into St. Patrick's day. Here in England you might see a few themed events at nightclubs, but that's pretty much it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah! Other places in the world being different is so weird, why is everyone not exactly like England?
Being drunk is the only way we put up with our shitty country sometimes, why would we not make a big deal about a holiday that's pretty much all about getting wasted?
Well... if you count "descendants" of Irish people, we have a lot more Irish folks than Ireland and/or Britain!
The video is 3:14.
(cheesy science Pi joke here)
Britain subjugates the Irish people since basically the 12th century.
Tons of irish immigrate to the United States to try to get a better life. The majority came after the great Irish famine, but even before that they were coming. Most of the land in Ireland was owned by Catholic Britons.
Tons of irish immigrants have sex and make children and a large portion of our population has irish heritage (37 million reported Irish in one of the recent censuses).
Tons of irish descendants feel the need to celebrate (mainly as an excuse to get drunk) and the rest go along with it (mainly to have fun and/or get drunk).
Am I the only one thinking he kinda look drunk??
or maybe he smoke weed :v:
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[QUOTE=DDmaster;35260529]Am I the only one thinking he kinda look drunk??
or maybe he smoke weed :v:
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sigh
[QUOTE=Jackald;35251930]I didn't say it was a bad thing, just that I personally find it strange that America celebrates it more even though they're a lot further away, that's all.[/QUOTE]
Ireland doesn't even care as much about St. Patrick's day as much as we Americans do. Why? Well simply because the Irish needed a way to connect with their homeland as a group when they came over to the United States. The first St. Patrick's Day celebrations here in the US weren't even religious, since most people living in the colonies were protestant. After that people found it an excuse to eat, drink, and be merry, and others adopted the celebration as a way to connect to Irish culture. In all honesty nobody gives a shit about St. Patrick over here, it might as well be called "Irish Pride Day".
In Ireland on the other hand everyone is sitting in church bored off their asses and abstaining from alcohol cuz it's smack dab in the middle of lent. Wearing green on St. Patrick's Day in Dublin is a good way to look like a fucking tourist.
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