St Patrick’s Day.

[Neil Watson]

Can anybody please enlighten me as why we celebrate this day over here.

Now i dont want this to become some sort of racial hatred post as i have got nothing in the slightest against Ireland and the Irish at all but in Manchester on Sunday they had the usual parade of Irish floats which was all well and good and people were on the streets having fun and enjoying themselves as this day always does.

One thing i would like to know is that on St Georges Day will their be a huge parade in Dublin,Belfast,Glasgow,Edinburgh and Cardiff of English people with the St George flag waving in the breeze with the crowds supping Tea,Tetleys Beer,London Pride and eating Fish and Chips,Scones with Jam and Devonshire Cream and Cornish Pasties.

Somehow i think not.

So please why do we go mad for this day with the wearing of Green and drinking Guiness when it is not even our National Day which is probably considered to be racist by all local councils and government.

[lollys mate]

Cos its simple fun.

I love it as much as I love the paddy’s. (sorry, the Irish) Some touchy folk on here!

Top of the morning to ya, and may you all feck arf.

[Andrew Hughes]

Lots of people want to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Not as many people want to celebrate St George’s Day. Simple as that really. But you want to paint your face red and white and go morris dancing on the big day, go knock yourself out. No-one’s stopping you. Lots of St George’s Day stuff goes on around here. It just doesn’t attract people the way St Patrick’s Day does. Personally, I don’t bother with either of them.

I wouldn’t waste your time worrying about why people do what they do, since you have no control over them. Unless you are suggesting banning St Patricks and making St George’s Day compulsory, which I’m sure you aren’t.

[Bulwark]

Firstly its worth remembering that during the potato famine etc, quite a lot of irish settled in liverpool and manchester, in much the same way as many went to the east coast of america. When I was in the air force, most of the scousers, all had irish surnames, and almsot all of them were quite proud of their irish ancestry.

Then theres the fact that St Patricks day is regarded as a big drinking day, which is obviously going to be popular on that basis, and that is first and foremost why it is so popular. What is the actual point of St George’s that it could have any other context than as a relatively insignificant patron saints day?

One thing i would like to know is that on St Georges Day will their be a huge parade in Dublin,Belfast,

Glasgow,Edinburgh

and

Cardiff

of English people with the St George flag waving in the breeze with the crowds supping Tea,Tetleys Beer,London Pride and eating Fish and Chips,Scones with Jam and Devonshire Cream and Cornish Pasties.

I think in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Cardiff there would more chance of seeing burning ephigys of St George, accompanied by drinking, and as for Dublin and Belfast, it isnt even worth thinking about how badly that one’s going to go down.

Generally in Northern Ireland people tend to either celebrate either St Patricks day or the 12th of July (Prince William’s Day), and I come from the side that celebrates the 12th of July, but I just celebrate both as I dont care, and a party is a party in my view.

[Imperial Call]

"It’s been St Patrick’s Day for hours and I’m still not drunk yet." (Homer Simpson)

[Drone]

Paddy’s Day, the Vernal Equinox, on hearing the first Cuckoo of Spring, Shakespeare’s birthday – a rare old month for the tired-and-emotionally inclined.

Dark glasses will accompany a high-tea this afternoon followed by the annual ritual of rolling my tongue around the landlady’s fragrant Black Bush

The Anglo-Irish relationship: a curious fusion of unease and warmly romantic atavism

[CarryOnKatie]

Apparently, until the 1970s the pubs used to be shut on St Patricks Day in Ireland! (anyone in London may have read this in today’s Metro)

[aaronizneez]

Dark glasses will accompany a high-tea this afternoon followed by the annual ritual of rolling my tongue around the landlady’s fragrant Black Bush

[dave jay]

LOL @ drone ..

I think Paddy’s Day is quite a good thing, I didn’t know anything about it mind, or I would have got guiness from Asda with the shopping ..

[Onthesteal]

Because it’s FUN, and I couldn’t give a flying **** if nobody else wants to celebrate ST Georges day tbh.

I wont cut

my

nose off to spite my face

[Gerald]

I think March 18th should be known as Black Poo Day.

[crizzy]

Gerald…

[sberry]

It’s that day again when Irish folk don’t bother working and get madly drunk and annoying – yes, Tuesday.

[lollys mate]

Gerald. Aint that the truth.

I once knew a young lad who wrote a song called "Dark poo" on March 18th.

He later became a member of a group called Leftfield.

They became quite popular by all accounts.

Ho hum!

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