So when do we start the annual complaints thread regarding plastic paddies?

Seattle Sounders first MLS game of the year on Saturday and they play in green. Me being the contrarian will be wearing the old blue away shirt.

My daughter is already expecting to see green footprints on Saturday morning (it is what has happened at school the last two years) no doubt the missus will do something to placate her.

Anyone doing anything, or avoiding doing anything?

Green footprints? Haven't heard of that before.

My daughter has just informed me she wants a "St Paddy's Day kickback" on Saturday.

Is that just a way of doing nothing on Saturday?

That's what I was hoping, but I think it involves having people over.

At some point I would hope Americans start to realize that an "Irish car bomb" shouldn't be a fun name for a drink.

I'll have a 9/11 on the rocks.

My first thought was that it involved a cash payment.

I've been living in Chicago too long.

Me too.

The cash payment bit...not the Chicago bit

I'm going to the pub to watch England vs Ireland in the rugby though I'd have done that whether they were playing Ireland or not.

I'll be hiding...and watching the rugby at home...before the in-laws arrive, I think...

People really should wear orange rather than green, but then the meaning would be lost.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/8-insult...-patricks-day/

That's a good read

I'll be bartending. I have worked in several Irish Pubs over the years and it's a day from hell in NYC! I work at a nice Italian place now. Basically we don't get a crazy crowd on Paddy's day . I just turn away the odd drunk and tell people the bathroom is for customers only. It's amateur idiot drinking day in New York

Yes, I always wear orange to work that day.. but it's a Saturday this year!! Rats!!!

It's fantastic that it's on a Saturday this year - no f**kwits at work, asking me why I'm not dressed in green and presuming that, as Ireland is near England, I'll be celebrating. I don't have to go anywhere .

On the downside, we can't even go out to a restaurant, because they'll all be green-themed and I'm likely to, at best, get rather pissed off.

This year it's officially renamed "Grand Slam Day".

St Patrick was Welsh anyway...

If anybody pinches me I'll stab them in the eye with a pen.

So long as it is green ink, they'll have scored..