Dreading my first Paddys Day
Feb 25th 2007, 4:56 am
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
I will do as I did in the UK ....dig out the old umbrella and orange sash.....
never really could abide people who celebrated another countries patron saint as if it were their own ....
So for me ..you can shove the shamrock as far as it will go ..roll on April 23rd
never really could abide people who celebrated another countries patron saint as if it were their own ....
So for me ..you can shove the shamrock as far as it will go ..roll on April 23rd
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Feb 26th 2007, 2:18 pm
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Well I'm a Mancunian and PROUD OF IT!!! Well except that I was born in North Wales and my dad's Welsh....Shit that makes me a Wancunian....DOH! 
Mar 8th 2007, 9:04 pm
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
OK It's started. My son is bringing home papers about the bloody little leprechaun, shamrocks and all that - arghhh... We still have another week to go! Maybe they should be worrying more about the State testing starting in just over a weeks time!
Mar 8th 2007, 9:24 pm
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Mar 8th 2007, 9:46 pm
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Mar 8th 2007, 9:56 pm
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Mar 8th 2007, 10:10 pm
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Mar 9th 2007, 12:31 am
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It's just a load of money making bullcrap !..... I have Irish relatives and spent almost every childhood holiday in Dublin, I have never seen anything like the things that go on here. .............. Wher the F**k did they get the idea that Irish eat Corned beef and cabbage ?
St Patricks day happens to be my birthday and all my life I have got 'Happy St Patricks day' cards from relatives, I couldn't give a shit about some 'WELSH' geyzer who moved to Ireland.
St Patricks day happens to be my birthday and all my life I have got 'Happy St Patricks day' cards from relatives, I couldn't give a shit about some 'WELSH' geyzer who moved to Ireland.
Mar 9th 2007, 2:55 am
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
It's just a load of money making bullcrap !..... I have Irish relatives and spent almost every childhood holiday in Dublin, I have never seen anything like the things that go on here. .............. Wher the F**k did they get the idea that Irish eat Corned beef and cabbage ?
Mar 9th 2007, 7:32 am
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
The Irish musicians who were in town for a music festie (SXSW) last year absolutely REFUSED to wear green on St Patricks. They didn't want to be stereotyped! On the other hand they didn't refuse to
everyone under the table.
Mar 9th 2007, 7:35 am
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I know if some country had a day of celebration where "everyone was an American" (I know, hell would freeze ) I would take it as a bit of a compliment. And as for people claiming various ancestries, that is a part of culture that I'm not sure I can explain without a little more time to think about it. It is sad that some get offended though.
) I would take it as a bit of a compliment. And as for people claiming various ancestries, that is a part of culture that I'm not sure I can explain without a little more time to think about it. It is sad that some get offended though.Think this is a joke? I know one of those airmen and he was very cross about being forced into it.
