St. Patrick's Day

[GeorgW]

In my country we don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day so I was wondering how it works. Why do you celebrate it and how? Is it important? Have everybody just forgotten the real meaning and just want an excuse to drink? Is that okay? Please specify if it's different in different countries and regions. It seems like a wonderful holiday, I would have celebrated it regardless but I'm sick and aren't allowed to drink alcohol.

Also, how will/did you spend St. Patrick's Day day?

 

[Haydyn]

You wear green or you get pinched. White people like to use it as an excuse to drink. I wore a green shirt not for St. Patrick's Day, but because I am eco friendly.

 

[BENZOOKA]

I would prefer Saint Patrick's Day \ St. Patrick's Day.

We don't celebrate it either, obviously.

 

[Littlee300]

McDonald sells a special mint milkshake on Saint Patricks day in America xD

They were sold out
(I am not fat)

 

[theamazingbean]

I object to it on general principle. Most people treat it as an excuse to get drunk, AND YOU DON'T NEED AN EXCUSE TO GET DRUNK. I get drunk when I feel like it.

 

[Crises^]

Well i'm Irish so obviously we celebrate it although we call it paddy's day, and yes its just one big excuses to get drunk oh and the McDonald shamrock shakes tasted like toothpaste this year

 

[g_hughes]

Mostly in England, it's an excuse for everyone to suddenly remember some distant relative that makes them part Irish and drink lots of cheap Guinness whilst wearing silly hats.

And yet St George's day is ignored...

 

[Mr. Omega]

In the US: It's an excuse for us Americans to get drunk and speak with terrible and borderline racist Irish accents. That's about it.

 

[GeorgW]

I would prefer Saint Patrick's Day \ St. Patrick's Day.

We don't celebrate it either, obviously.

Fixed. Thanks!

 

[GeorgW]

I object to it on general principle. Most people treat it as an excuse to get drunk, AND YOU DON'T NEED AN EXCUSE TO GET DRUNK. I get drunk when I feel like it.

Isn't it more of an excuse to get shitfaced? And that's not really good for you, so it's nice if you have a reason.

 

[chiefohara]

Here in Ireland we celebrate it lots of different ways, but what i like best about the way the holiday has changed is that it has become more inclusive. You don't have to be Irish to take part in the parade, and more of our floats are taking on an international flare, so you get to see aspects from all different parts of the world in the larger parades. As far as i know its the same through most parades in the world, but how i like how our national holiday is for everyone and not just us.

We do the usual stuff like get drunk etc, but a lot of people go to mass, plus a lot of people who have given up something for lent (a 46 day fast catholics do) generally break it on Saint Patricks day, plus its a public holiday so we all just chill out at home, and visit friends. We don't dye our rivers green or drink green beer though

 

[SirDeadly]

I believe this year was the first that I have ever worn green on St Patrick's Day and that is because there's a tiny bit of green on my year 12 school shirt.

 

[tommy15994]

Here in Ireland we celebrate it lots of different ways, but what i like best about the way the holiday has changed is that it has become more inclusive. You don't have to be Irish to take part in the parade, and more of our floats are taking on an international flare, so you get to see aspects from all different parts of the world in the larger parades. As far as i know its the same through most parades in the world, but how i like how our national holiday is for everyone and not just us.

We do the usual stuff like get drunk etc, but a lot of people go to mass, plus a lot of people who have given up something for lent (a 46 day fast catholics do) generally break it on Saint Patricks day, plus its a public holiday so we all just chill out at home, and visit friends. We don't dye our rivers green or drink green beer though

Eloquently Ninja'd

Sadly couldnt go to Limerick this year (had minor surgery on my back) but watch the Dublin Parade on Television, Always fun to watch it. Not the same Atmosphere though. So I spent the day pigging out Since its the one day i got off Lent

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Wear green, eat various green-colored food, get drunk.

 

[iDoom46]

Get the very Irish side of the family together (usually on the weekend before, since we don't get the day off in the US).
Drink.
Eat corned-beef and cabbage (with potatoes, obviously).
Drink.
Eat Irish soda bread.
Drink.
Wear green.
Drink.
Enjoy Irish-themed programming/the parade.
Drink.

 

[aether-x3]

As Far as I'm aware, In Scotland its just a normal day. o_o Of course I can only speak for the area I'm from.

 

[Abbyrose07]

Eat corn beef and cabbage, wear green if you don't you get pinched lol, drink green beer and get plastered...that's about it...

 

[Mr Somewhere]

Irish guy here.

On St. Patrick's day, an innumerable amount of people get drunk, to celebrate the spread of Christianty to Ireland...yay?
At any rate, I've always stayed in doors on that most horrid of days, but, sadly, yesterday was not the same...
Was strolling through Dublin with friends. It was the sloppiest experience I've ever had. The amount of abuse we got was harrowing, the stumbling stagnant drunks were frightening. The amount of obnoxious people we encountered...
It was an awful experience. A horrid holiday.

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

I spent it eating Soda Bread, Kimberley biscuits and drinking pink lemonade.

My nan made the soda bread, we have stockpiles of Kimberley biscuits around the place and pink lemonade because I always associate it with visiting my aunts and uncles over in Ireland.

At the weekend my cousins, uncles, aunts and assorted others are coming over here (England) and we are going for a meal and then a drink-the-bar-dry.

 

[Vakz]

Me and a few friends celebrated at a pub in town. I live in Sweden though, so it's not exactly big. We went to an irish pub at least, which celebrates it every year with cheaper beer and live bands and such. Basically, it was just drinking and singing, being very stereotypically irish.