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Catalina Vel-DuRay 1
Party pooper.

Besides, MLK existed. St. Patrick is one of those "iffy" saints.
Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay http://www.danlangdon.com on March 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM
wisepunk 2
Amatuer night. I usually lock myself in, but there is a soccer match tonight do I must go out. And it's snowing. Shit.
Posted by wisepunk on March 17, 2012 at 10:58 AM
GlibReaper 3
Happy All Snakes Day to you!
Posted by GlibReaper on March 17, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 4
Let me get back to you on that once I'm puking drunk.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on March 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Keister Button 5
Someone figured out Britain-born St. Patrick was a slave to the Irish.
Posted by Keister Button on March 17, 2012 at 11:04 AM
6
Except it's charming and not threatening to stereotype the Irish, because they earned their hard-won spot in the 'white' category. (By working hard and living the American Dream? No no no. They lynched the fuck out of black people.)
Posted by sahara29 on March 17, 2012 at 11:05 AM
7
Spot on. I'm in the Loop right now and it is a sea of puking green.
Posted by RVPMB on March 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Zebes 8
I'm wearing a green shirt today but have no intention of drinking or speaking in a fake Irish accent or anything. Does that make me racist?

What about pinching people who aren't wearing green? I realize that's mostly a thing that kids do, but does it have some sort of nefarious equivalent behavior?
Posted by Zebes http://www.badrap.org/rescue/index.html on March 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM
The Max 9
Fuck you. Celebrating St. Pat's in the traditional fashion of getting soused, wearing colors, and having a good time is no more threatening than celebrating Guy Fawkes' by dressing up as an Evil Pilgrim, shooting off fireworks, and shaving Natalie Portman's head.
Posted by The Max on March 17, 2012 at 11:14 AM
MrBaker 10
I call it "wearing green race".

Are you celebrating or mocking, am I impressed of offended?
Posted by MrBaker http://manywordsforrain.blogspot.com/ on March 17, 2012 at 11:27 AM
reverend dr dj riz 11
..the running of the drunken gingers ?.. i'm ON it !...
Posted by reverend dr dj riz on March 17, 2012 at 11:27 AM
12
I'm with Wyatt Cenac on this.
Posted by natalie on March 17, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Wicked Virgin 13
Celebrating St. Patrick's day by dressing in green and getting puking drunk is like fist-fighting your own brother at your father's funeral: a.k.a. proper Irish.
Posted by Wicked Virgin http://goo.gl/nBxVY on March 17, 2012 at 11:43 AM
14
A silly comparison that gives the more racist Irish Americans an excuse to put on blackface next January.
Posted by seatackled on March 17, 2012 at 11:55 AM
COMTE 15
Green happens to be prominently featured in my sliocht's tartan, so you bet I'll be wearing that particular tie today. But otherwise, I have an early start for a long day tomorrow, so I engaged in my over-indulgence last night screaming Pogues songs at the top of my lungs with a bunch of other drunken sots. And all of us had a great time, with nary a dribble of puke (green or otherwise) to be seen. But then, my guess most of us who were there qualify as at least near-professional level imbibers, so that's to be expected.
Posted by COMTE http://www.chriscomte.com on March 17, 2012 at 1:25 PM
16
Um, wrong.
Posted by Christy O on March 17, 2012 at 1:38 PM
rob! 17
"St. Patrick is one of those 'iffy' saints." - @1

Indeed:

One of Us: St. Patrick's Place in Gay History
March 14, 2012

...In his book on Irish gay history, Terrible Queer Creatures, Brian Lacey presents some evidence that Patrick may have had a long term intimate relationship with a man...

RTWT.

[Profile pic changed just for today.]
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on March 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Ian Awesome 18
I mean, I'm getting drunk tonight but I assure you it has nothing to do with a murderous religious demagogue.
Posted by Ian Awesome http://oneangryqueer.blogspot.com on March 17, 2012 at 1:46 PM
19
The only difference is the umber of years that have elapsed since the event/oppression took place.

Tragedy + Time = Comedy
Posted by Mason on March 17, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Karlheinz Arschbomber 20
Spending the day driving around Denmark & Germany, avoiding gratuitous drunks.
Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arschbombe on March 17, 2012 at 2:16 PM
gloomy gus 21
That was a lovely talk - I've never known anyone to celebrate this other than ironically, and I hope that continues. Thanks, fancypants Ph.D.
Posted by gloomy gus on March 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM
22
Yeah I never understood what goes on in America on St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick was a missionary who indoctrinated the country of Ireland with Christianity. St. Patrick's Day is a public, religious holiday in Ireland. In America it's just another reason to get sh*tfaced and behave badly (after having a parade, of course).
Posted by xina on March 17, 2012 at 2:42 PM
23
I guess you've finally put a stop to that nonsense!

GOOD JOB, Chicago fan!
Posted by RonK, Seattle on March 17, 2012 at 2:58 PM
balderdash 24
A lot of the same people who get uptight about Columbus Day celebrating cultural imperialism and Euro-Christian invasion go out and get happily drunk on St. Patrick's Day, which, would you look at that? Celebrates cultural imperialism and Euro-Christian invasion. If you think real hard about your history lessons you may notice that Catholicism is not, in fact, an Irish institution.
Posted by balderdash http://introverse.blogspot.com on March 17, 2012 at 2:58 PM
Lilliable 25
From what I saw today on most women, the forced-sexy-green-outfit is now as ingrained as the forced-sexy-halloween-outfit.
Posted by Lilliable on March 17, 2012 at 4:09 PM
26
I guess me as a black man making corned beef in my crock pot for St. Patty's day is the same as a white person making fried chicken, collard greens and sweet potato pie with watermelon for dessert and serving red kool-aid on MLK day?
Posted by apres_moi on March 17, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe 27

On Columbus Day, I make sure and sprinkle Meso-Americans with smallpox and syphilis.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe http://www.you-read-it-here-first.com on March 17, 2012 at 5:58 PM
28
Poor analogy. It's more like celebrating Cinco de Mayo by getting piss drunk while wearing a sombrero.
Posted by Proteus on March 17, 2012 at 6:19 PM
DOUG. 29
Cubs suck.
Posted by DOUG. http://www.dougsvotersguide.com on March 18, 2012 at 12:07 AM
HellboundAlleee 30
Not until you beat your wife and kids, it's not.
Posted by HellboundAlleee http://hellboundalleee.blogspot.com on March 18, 2012 at 6:36 AM
31
Many cultures have festivals or holidays centered on (or at least involving) inebriation. It's not a surprise that in melting-pot America that these festivals transcend their origins - and that insobriety becomes part of the festivals of other cultures as they assimilate. Consider Oktoberfest (Germans) and Purim (Jews) and the proximity of Irish immigrant groups to these in the cities of the east coast.

Sometimes, these "ethnic-themed drinking days" are (or are almost) whole-cloth inventions like Columbus Day (Italian-Americans, though its ethnic-pride connection is dying out outside NYC, AFAICT) or Cinco de Mayo (minor festival in Puebla, colossal piss-up in America.) It seems to be a major marker of widespread assimilation (or at least critical-mass acceptance) in this country to have one's ethnicity represented by a day on the drunkard's calendar. Woo-hoo.
Posted by edd on March 18, 2012 at 1:55 PM
32
"Celebrating St. Patrick's day by dressing in green and getting puking drunk is like celebrating Martin Luther King Day by wearing blackface and putting on a minstrel show."

I think we do everyone, and the dream itself, a grave disservice by appropriating MLK Day as a "black" holiday. Civil Rights are not special rights for African Americans, and we should understand the movement as being positive for everyone.

In so far as that leaves us without an African American holiday equivalent to St. Pat's or Cinco, I think we should educate the remaining 29 states about Juneteenth, or failing that, ironically take Black Friday over, making it fried chicken and 40s day.

@26 I wanted to agree with you, but MLK is an important holiday, and it is demeaning for your hypothetical white person not to spring for Fanta.
Posted by Drinking The Kool-Aid on March 18, 2012 at 8:11 PM
slade 33
All we asked is that you celebrate and party and you go and turn it into one of your bitch fights?
Its the luck of the Irish as many a Black man with red hair and freckles who sing the Blues about the Irish father they Knew or didn't Know?
More green river at the soda shop and less Biotchin.
Posted by slade http://www.youtube.com/user/guppygator on March 19, 2012 at 11:40 AM

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