Check in here if you're English and damn proud of it and think St. Patty's day is a waste of time

[LynneSin]

:hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. Fucking Brits...

[Drum]

2. Amen sister.

;)

[LynneSin]

3. At least we're not losers like the fucking idiots from New Jersey

:hide:

[JackBeck]

5. Umm...you live in...Delaware?

Those in glass houses...blah...blah...

[LostinVA]

8. It's just a landbridge between Maryland and New Jersey

That's what we learned in NJ History in sixth grade.

[LynneSin]

10. At least it's not the "Armpit of America"

And it's DELAWARE

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. It takes 15 minutes and $8 to get across Deleware. When they stop pretending to be a real state...

I'll call it Delaware.

[LostinVA]

18. I can't believe how much that one toll is

[LynneSin]

50. What about all the fricking money you have to spend in Maryland

And if you can't figure out a way around the DE/MD toll border then you deserve to boost the Delaware coffers with the extra money

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

62. Maryland's bigger plus how much extra time does it take to get around the toll border.

I'm all about making good time.

[JackBeck]

16. Your state sucks so bad that DU spell check doesn't even care.

On edit: You know I kid, right?

[JackBeck]

12. LOL.

No wonder NJ always ranks in the Top 5 for their superior education system!

[LostinVA]

20. Agreed!

hehehehehhehehe

[madinmaryland]

40. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! That and those darn tolls for five miles of highway!

:rofl:

[LostinVA]

42. Those tolls drive me crazy!

$8 for like 10 minutes of driving. WTF???

And they talk about NJ and the Mafia...

[madinmaryland]

49. NJ may have the mafia, but DE has the Credit Card industry.

Me thinks the Credit Card industry has become a worse plague than the mafia.

:hi:

[LostinVA]

54. Ugh -- I know

[deepthought42]

43. HA HA HA!!!

:rofl:

It's also where MD'ers go for "tax-free shopping!". Not that I do that...I'm not sitting in O.C.-bound traffic on 50!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. Jesus, Mary and Joseph...

at least it's a REAL state.

[amitten]

14. Ditto. n/t

[sammythecat]

41. Second amen to that!

worse than the goddamn Liechtensteiners!

:mad:

[Deep13]

58. I married a "fucking Brit."

She's the best person I know. Rule Britania.

[XemaSab]

61. word

n/t

[LostinVA]

4. Jesus Christ -- you're adopted

SLAINTE!

[LSK]

7. not English

But I will be protesting my Congressman on St Pats day.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=150x14270

[sg_]

9. No problem with Paddys day...

biggest gripe I really have with it comes on interweb forums (fortunatly not in real life) where the plastic "chucky ar la" brigade usually chip up with the usual mantras.

edit- im not English btw.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. What's the "plastic 'chucky ar la' brigade?"

:shrug:

[SteppingRazor]

17. I was wondering the same thing

:shrug:

[sg_]

21. its...

the ones who bring up IRA stuff in an attempt to show their "Irishness"

edit - (tiocfaidh ar la (sp??) is pronounced chucky ar la incase you're wondering), hence why i put that there, if anyone missed my point


Ive never "celebrated" it. For me its 2 days off work at the start of next week, so I cant complain :D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. Oooo-kay...

:crazy:

[REDKING]

66. I know exactly what you mean....

Anyway you cant be Irish unless you are born in Ireland,so I'm a paddy,a mick and very proud of it....Peace Rk Have a drink on me...Slainte:beer:

[LostinVA]

22. Too much Guinness a bit too early, methinks

[Miss_Strawberry]

13. Hush your mouth!

St. Pat was Welsh....so it is semi-relevant to you guys too!

[LostinVA]

23. Very true, that

[unpossibles]

19. always tryin to keep us down, aren't you?

figures.

;)

[MissMillie]

25. I am English

:hi:

and proud of it


(My son is Irish... I guess that makes me Irish by injection...)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

26. Mother fucking snakes...

In mother fucking Ireland!

[LynneSin]

51. And there's not a motherfucking thing you can do about it

:D

[BarenakedLady]

27. I'm both English and Irish

so I'm fighting with myself.

:dilemma:

[Drum]

29. (My family is too: 50/50)

:evilgrin: :evilfrown:


:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

31. Hey there.

:hi:

How are you doing?

[Drum]

35. Heya,

Doin' pretty well, darlin'...shaking off Winter doldrums, happy to be home from the road for a few weeks, and loving the hour-later sunsets.
How's by you?
:)

[toadzilla]

53. me too!

but only because my grandmother lied and said she was english too.

[Name removed]

28. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[LostinVA]

30. OOOOO -- good one

Have you ever seen "Bloody Sunday"?

[ohiosmith]

32. No but well aware of the incident.

Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) is the term used to describe an incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972 in which 26 civil rights protesters were shot by members of 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment led by Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Wilford and his second-in-command Captain Mike Jackson, who had joint responsibility for the operation; during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in the Bogside area of the city. Thirteen people, six of whom were minors, died immediately, while the death of another person 4½ months later has been attributed to the injuries he received on the day. Two protesters were injured when run down by army vehicles.<1> Many witnesses including bystanders and journalists testify that all those shot were unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back.

[LostinVA]

33. Rent the movie -- VERY good

[ohiosmith]

34. I will . Thanks LostinVA.

[LostinVA]

36. Some of the survivors and relatives of the murdered are in it

Many of the murdered are played by relatives, actually.

[Deep13]

84. 'course not. That would be rude.

[GoneOffShore]

37. No problem with St Patrick's Day in Ireland

Don't like what we've done to it here.

[GalleryGod]

38. JAFO

eom:puke:

[Deep13]

80. JAFO?

Jill asks Fred for an Oreo.

Jump and fetch an olive.

Jesse's Afro fans out.

Jesus and Frankenstein oscillate.

[pdx_prog]

39. Yeah, and these damn Irish

that are moving to America need to learn english damn it! We speak english here and if you can't learn the language then the hell with you. I get so tired of the, "press 1 for enlish, 2 for Irish" crap....I mean COME ON!

[Reverend_Smitty]

44. At least it's not the Welsh migrating over here...

that many consonants in a row ought to be illegal :P

[KatyMan]

45. I

am a US born person with an Irish passport living in England. I'm happy to celebrate St Paddy's day AND St George's day (23 April), as long as there's Guinness in March and Spitfire (or a suitable alternative) in April.

I celebrate beer.

:toast:

[LostinVA]

48. Spitfire

[Deep13]

73. Hawker Hurricane

[Beer Snob-50]

46. long live the italians

who really don't need a holiday to get drunk (unlike the irish) and know how to cook (unlike the british)

[Deep13]

81. S P Q R !!!

:-)

[cwydro]

47. I'm half English/half Welsh

first generation American and will drink to any damn nationality.:toast:

[1gobluedem]

52. It's PADDY, not Patty

Paddy for males, Patty for females.

:toast: to St. Paddy's Day from this Irishwoman.

[LostinVA]

55. THANK YOU

That drives me bonkers.

[Deep13]

63. I was under the impression that "Paddy" is a derogatory expression...

...for an Irishman.

[SteppingRazor]

68. It's both. Just like Mick.

Paddy and Mick are both common nicknames (For Patrick or Padraic and Michael), but because they're so common, they were used as names to call all Irish people by and became derogatory. But they're also still common nicknames.

[T_i_B]

56. It's not a waste of time at all

It's a wonderful opportunity for Guiness to make loads of money!

BTW, there are a lot of English who wonder why we don't celebrate St George's day in the same fashion, to which I always reply that people just haven't worked out how best to commercialise it just yet.

[mr blur]

57. And the Guinness family, of course,

is English.

[Deep13]

72. These are not the droids you're looking for.

:evilgrin:

[Deep13]

59. Well, I don't waste time on St. P's day.

I waste it on the stuff I usually waste time on. I'm English, but it is hard to be proud of something that is entirely beyond my control.

[Arugula Latte]

60. Screw St. Patrick...We'd all be better off if he'd led the

Christians out of Ireland and left the snakes (pagans).

[gizmonic]

65. I agree...

Another "fucking Brit" checking in.

[Dervill Crow]

69. But we get the last laugh having Pagan Faire XVII on St. Patrick's Day. eom

[Giant Robot]

64. More Italian than anything else

So I got no dog in this fight. But if someone wants to get blitzed for no good reason I won't hold it against them.

[Ramsey]

67. I'm a WASP

But I like St Patty's Day. It was always a good time in Philly at least! As is any excuse to drink heavily and carouse.

[treestar]

70. Gaddammedenglish!

All one word!

:hi:

[Alexander]

71. What do I do if I'm English and Irish?

:shrug:

[Deep13]

74. Green shirt, orange tie.

[Alexander]

77. Aren't those the Catholic/Protestant colors?

I was hoping to avoid the religious aspect since there seems to be a different religion for just about every member of my family (Methodist, Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, Agnostic, Presbyterian, etc)

Now you've done it. ;)

[Deep13]

79. Avoid the religious aspects of Saint Patrick's Day,...

...the celebration of the conversion of Ireland to Christianity?

Green is identified with the Irish Republicans, the PC term for Catholics, and Orange is identified with the Unionists, the PC term for Protestants.

[T_i_B]

87. It's not a matter of PC terms

It's a matter of sectarian Northern Ireland politics. Ulster Catholics tend to wish for a united Ireland and Ulster Protestants tend to want to keep the union with Britain. And it all goes downhill from there.

[Name removed]

75. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Deep13]

78. I'd respond in kind, except...

...I don't know any extinct languages.

[mduffy31]

86. Well it is Gaelic

and it is the official language of Ireland, along with English

[sg_]

85. Always someone

:nopity:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

76. I'm an Englishman of Irish extraction

St. Patrick's Day is no more or less a waste of time than Christmas or Easter.

EDIT: and what is the deal with the anti-English terms? Being Irish is not being about everything anti-England or anti-Britain. Ireland has many positive cultures and institutions, and the Irish and British working classes share many cultural traits.

[deucemagnet]

82. I have Irish ancestors, and I don't give a damn about St. Patty's day.

Ireland had a cool, lusty pagan thing going on before St. Patrick came along. Thanks to him, I've got a family full of uptight Catholics. Bastard!

[Deep13]

83. here, here!

The Druids on the neighboring island (don't know if they were in Ireland too) were way cooler than the Christians.

[GaYellowDawg]

88. You'd better be glad you didn't say that in person.

I'd tie you to a chair, spray paint you green (water soluble, I'm not a monster), make you drink Guinness, get sloshed myself, sing "Danny Boy" horribly off-key for a couple of hours, glue plastic shamrocks to your hair (Elmer's), put a sign in your lap that said, "I (shamrock) the Irish!," take several pictures to post on DU, and only then free you.

So THERE! :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P