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Not a fan of Guinness, but I understand you need to drink the draft version in Ireland. Had Beamish on draft once, made Guinness taste like Near Beer.

 

Going to the Khoffner brewpub in Lauderdale later, get me some of their Helles Bock. Slainte!

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Be NICE to each other EVERY DAY! Ya don't need a greeting card holiday to be NICE! JUST DO IT!

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I was reading over some newspaper articles, and I found out that many Irish people feel embarrassed by St. Patrick's Day because they find it tacky and commercialized. It oversimplifies Irish culture and perpetuates negative stereotypes. According to one survey, one in four Irish don't like the holiday at all. Seeing people from other ethnic backgrounds pretending to be Irish can be offensive to actual Irish people. Some would consider that to be cultural appropriation. One individual on Facebook called it a racist holiday. One of my Irish friends considers it to be a holy day. It means different things to different people. My half sister is Irish, but she doesn't celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

 

https://www.irishpost.com/st-patrick-2016/i-love-country-st-patricks-day-embarrassment-83403

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I was reading over some newspaper articles, and I found out that many Irish people feel embarrassed by St. Patrick's Day because they find it tacky and commercialized. It oversimplifies Irish culture and perpetuates negative stereotypes. According to one survey, one in four Irish don't like the holiday at all. Seeing people from other ethnic backgrounds pretending to be Irish can be offensive to actual Irish people. Some would consider that to be cultural appropriation. One individual on Facebook called it a racist holiday. One of my Irish friends considers it to be a holy day. It means different things to different people. My half sister is Irish, but she doesn't celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

 

https://www.irishpost.com/st-patrick-2016/i-love-country-st-patricks-day-embarrassment-83403

 

Some great points.

 

Someone called it a greeting card day or something similar earlier. Quite insulting if you're actually Irish, but not as insulting as the commercialisation of the day, the endless bad jokes, the "St. Patty's" thing, whatever the f**k that is.

 

It's celebrated by us because as a people we've been through 800 years of occupation, a few famines, wars, and emigration.

 

If those who miss home want to celebrate it around the world, good for them.

 

It's still a holy day over here, St. Patrick allegedly converted us to Christianity, so that's still celebrated.

When I was a kid it was strictly a holy day.

 

Today, we went for a walk in the woods, there's a chicken in the oven, Neil Young on the stereo. It's a nice family day.

 

 

Funnily enough, we don't exchange Patrick's Day cards.

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From a fellow Celt, but Cornish, not Irish, in descent, I'll wish you a happy saint's day as well. I put out the flag for St. Piran's Day on the 5th, but nobody had any parades!

 

Like Super Bowl Sunday or something, it's just an excuse for a certain segment of the population who like to have excuses.

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