Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Im almost full Irish. My grandfather came here from Ireland and meet my Grandma here. So im almost all Irish. I have yet to visit my homeland but i will someday when i get some time and some money.

people accuse me - wrongly - of looking like Colin Farrell. does that count?

[b][COLOR=limegreen]Im 1/4 Irish but really look the part(im my dads twin who looks like his 100% Irish mother).

Flogging Molly will be on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE tonight!

Im wearing green and heres something I conceived:

The Irish were always shat upon during the Civil War and the times around there. The immigrants were considered the lowest of the low. But now the Irish are the only ethnic group to have their own holiday.

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Cinco de Mayo

Damn, I should've posted the first one in green.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Wesley Sonck [/i]
[B]people accuse me - wrongly - of looking like Colin Farrell. does that count? [/B][/QUOTE]

Uh, sort of. If you ask me, I think you look a bit more like Giovanni Ribisi, but whatever. Do you kids down under celebrate St. Patty's Day all that intensely? I mean, probably a good portion of the US population isn't Irish, but it's been a long time since I can remember there NOT being some crazy party on St. Patrick's Day. For example, I had to celebrate a few days early because my school is currently in finals week, which means no partying on the weekdays for the most part. So Saturday I went over to my friend Steve's house, who is intensely Irish and always throws good parties. After consuming copious amounts of Irish Whiskey and Guinness, I jigged the night away to Flogging Molly and had the opportunity to sing for a cover band that was there. Fanastic amounts of fun. I was out til 3 and have been paying for it ever since, with a grand total of 7 hours of sleep these past two nights and two finals today. But it was all worth it because I love me a good St, Patty's Day.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by UnbelieverDjak [/i]
[B]Cinco de Mayo [/B][/QUOTE]

You're day will come, and there will be some mad parties that day too. American's don't give a shit whose independence day it is, as long as there's alcohol and a good party.

Germans contributed the largest population during immigration. But Irish were second with I think 18 million roughly. And without restrcited mating there is probably many people in the states with some percent of Irish in them. In Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland, there are so many Irish kids they closed all the public schools.

i'm not Irish at all, but i feel a little pride today since i do love my booze.

A 100% Irish friend of mine showed up at school today totally shiftaced. The Irish are some crazy folk.

[B][COLOR=limegreen][SIZE=4]ChosenJuan[/SIZE] [/COLOR] [/B],

How is St. Patrick's day celebrated in the homeland for this exploited holiday?

Well there's a giant green word I wasn't expecting.

[b]How is St. Patrick's day celebrated in the homeland for this exploited holiday?[/b]
Oh, you know. Parades, drinking, eating potatoes, general puzzlement at the behaviour of Americans...all the classic Irish pastimes. It's mostly an excuse to drink slightly more than usual, though most of that happens the weekends before and after. To be honest, Paddy's day in Ireland is nowhere near as "Irish" as it is in other countries.

Not to spoil anyone's fun, but Guinness isn't in any way Irish. It's an English-owned company and it's brewed in the Czech Republic. They're only pretending at this stage, the stinkin' hussies.

[b]Im almost full Irish. My grandfather came here from Ireland and meet my Grandma here.[/b]
Yeah, and my brother was in New York once. I guess that makes me true-blue American, eh?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by chosenJuan [/i]
[B]Yeah, and my brother was in New York once. I guess that makes me true-blue American, eh? [/B][/QUOTE]

Zzzzzing.

I didn't realize the irony until now, but it's St. Patrick's Day and I just watched The Boondock Saints for the first time.

That was a cool movie, just not as great as everyone made it seem to be.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by chosenJuan [/i]
[B]Yeah, and my brother was in New York once. I guess that makes me true-blue American, eh? [/B][/QUOTE]

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

i got a better saying than kiss me im irish

"BLOW ME IM IRISH YOU FOCKING PROSTITUTE!"

im 3/4 irish

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by leonardshelby [/i]
[B]I didn't realize the irony until now, but it's St. Patrick's Day and I just watched The Boondock Saints for the first time.
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that was quite a kool movie, and has been decreed to be our official st. patricks day movie. or maybe the fact that it takes place in boston makes it cooler

Rents bro, what the hell is going on..getting freaky now. all threads you create i am subscribed to, howd that happen? or is this just a new "screwed up weird family" sorta thing

Just testing something. Don't read this.

because of today, and the school that i go to...
i now hate st. patricks day.
i truly do not understand how kids refuse to get up before noon to go to class, but will gladly wake up at 7am to go to the bar on st. patricks day or, worse yet, to fucking tailgate.
i saw so many stupid drunk kids on the streets and in class today....
its one thing to go out and enjoy some green beer at night, but at 7am?????? honestly!

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by knoxville [/i]
[B]Rents bro, what the hell is going on..getting freaky now. all threads you create i am subscribed to, howd that happen? or is this just a new "screwed up weird family" sorta thing [/B][/QUOTE]

What'd I tell you, man? Just like I said: YOU'RE MINE NOW. MWUAAAHAHAHAHAH*cough*HAHAHA*HACK! followed by wet squelch* oh, that's not good.

I suppose I should say something like "Begorrah!" or "Top o' da mornin' to ya" but that just isn't going to happen.

Dammit, too late...

Green is a weird color.

st. patrick's day as a celebration of irish identity started in america. the irish picked it up from irish americans. look it up.

lol morning drinking is so fun. never did it at 7 am, but 9 is my record

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by insomnomaniac [/i]
[B]st. patrick's day as a celebration of irish identity started in america. the irish picked it up from irish americans. look it up. [/B][/QUOTE]

I can well believe that. It's pretty much the one day of the year that we acknowledge that we even [i]have[/i] a national identity. Except for the fanatics and the pretentious arsewipes who always give their name in Irish, who don't seem to realise that no one gives a monkey's.

i think it'd be cool if ppl started speaking irish again though.

Meh. There's an awful lot of people who hate the language because of the way it's taught and promoted. I do like to hear it every now and then, I wouldn't like to see it completely die, and I love the Anglo-Irish quirks that people use in their speech. Even that's in decline, more's the pity.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by chosenJuan [/i]
[B]Meh. There's an awful lot of people who hate the language because of the way it's taught and promoted. I do like to hear it every now and then, I wouldn't like to see it completely die, and I love the Anglo-Irish quirks that people use in their speech. Even that's in decline, more's the pity. [/B][/QUOTE]

My grandmother could speak Irish-gaielic fluently but the drinking kept her from ever having time to teach it to my father or his siblings.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by chosenJuan [/i]
[B]Well there's a giant green word I wasn't expecting.

Not to spoil anyone's fun, but Guinness isn't in any way Irish. It's an English-owned company and it's brewed in the Czech Republic. They're only pretending at this stage, the stinkin' hussies.
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Oh my god, those bastards. I went to their supposed brewing factory in Dublin. If what you're telling me is true, then everything they told me on the tour is bullshit. I feel cheated. Although, my trip to that "factory" is also my earliest morning drinking record. I went first thing and they give you vouchers for free pints at the bar at the end of the tour.

Funny, now that I think back, I guess they were pretending since I didn't actually see any brewing going on just read all kinds of facts posted on the walls.

They used to brew it there I believe, using alot of underground rail tracks for carring barrels around, which I would like to see. But I'm just a curious sort. And those Anglo-Irish quirks are quite nice.

....and by Anglo-Irish, I clearly meant Hiberno-English. I [i]knew[/i] I was using the wrong term.

I'm beginning to think there's some kind of political reason for killing off the Irish language. We get Irish lessons for 13 years and by the end of it we're still pretty shite at it. There's no reason why we shouldn't be fluent, and I don't see how the government could fail to realise how badly the language is being taught.

[QUOTE]Meh. There's an awful lot of people who hate the language because of the way it's taught and promoted. I do like to hear it every now and then, I wouldn't like to see it completely die, and I love the Anglo-Irish quirks that people use in their speech. Even that's in decline, more's the pity.

I'm beginning to think there's some kind of political reason for killing off the Irish language.[/QUOTE]

i don't always pick up on your sarcasm, chosen, but there's one hell of a political reason the irish language has been killed off--you know, english colonialism? banning the teaching or speaking of gaelic? and stuff?

if it's failing to catch on again that's because there isn't a single instance in history with the exception of biblical Hebrew of a dead language being successfully revived. and even biblical Hebrew is spoken by a teeny tiny population of highly educated people in a small enclave of the world.

as you said, more's the pity.

[i]B'rishit elohim bara et ha'aretz v'et ha'shamayim.[/i]

Does that make me highly educated? Heh, that's all the biblical hebrew I know. Speaking it is easy, since it's voweled and all. Understanding it, however...

And, no, I'm not jewish.

Ah, and don't forget about latin being used in Vatican City.

[QUOTE]that's all the biblical hebrew I know.[/QUOTE]

right, so you don't speak it. you can say that phrase. j'nu parle pas francais. does that mean i speak french?

and latin being used in the catholic church does not make it a living language. a living language is one people with little education speak as a native language, and use in their daily lives. you don't hear classical Latin at too many drive-thrus, do you?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by UnbelieverDjak [/i]
[B][i]B'rishit elohim bara et ha'aretz v'et ha'shamayim.[/i]

Does that make me highly educated? Heh, that's all the biblical hebrew I know. Speaking it is easy, since it's voweled and all. Understanding it, however...

And, no, I'm not jewish.

Ah, and don't forget about latin being used in Vatican City. [/B][/QUOTE]

Ah, but is not that Hebrew written in the wrong order. Should it not be right to left? ok, I'm a smart ass.

Uhhhh, yeah. I was being facetious. I can say the first line of Genesis. Big fucking deal, right?

My unstated point about the Vatican, if it's really worth nitpicking, is that as long as the language is known and used in some form, there is always the possibility for it to live once again, like it did with Hebrew. Who knows if a hundred years from know some new country decides to take up Modern Latin.

tsb, I thought about writing it backwards, but it required way too much work. 'Sides, I think standard transliteration goes left to right. Good eye, though.

anyways to get back on topic, colin farrell spoke gaelic at the oscars last night, and i had to excuse myself from the room.

omfg he is like the hottest guy ireland has ever, ever produced.

And heres me missing the oscars! What did he say?
If I wasn't the modest gentleman I think I am, and if I thought I was the hottets thing Ireland ever produced I'd say something like "Ireland produced me didn't it", but I am, and I don't, so I won't...

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by insomnomaniac [/i]
[B]there's one hell of a political reason the irish language has been killed off--you know, english colonialism? banning the teaching or speaking of gaelic? and stuff?

if it's failing to catch on again that's because there isn't a single instance in history with the exception of biblical Hebrew of a dead language being successfully revived.[/B][/QUOTE]

I'm talking more about modern political reasons, something the Irish government thinks they can gain. The English didn't kill the language, not even close. After the establishment of the free state in the 20s it was still the first language of a very large portion of western Ireland. The numbers have fallen vastly since, despite the fact that it's now a compulsory part of primary and secondary education (that's between the ages of 5 and 18). As I say, I've been doing it all that time and I'm still suspiciously un-fluent. The plot....doesn't thicken, to be honest, but nevertheless.

Just a word to the wise...if you're going to go suggesting that it's a dead language, you'll want to keep away from burly fishermen in huge woolly jumpers. You'll get yourself a right good stabbin' and no mistake...

ok, chosen, uncle. UNCLE!!

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paggy-- i don't know what he said. i was kinda not paying attention. ::giggles::

i mean, he is hot enough to fry bacon on. damn.

Un...cle. Yes. It's all so so clear now.

Nut bunnies... Damn you Colin, you can't hide forever!!!!

sorry uncle is a boston-area colloquialism that means, "dear god, please stop. i surrender."

I have absolutely nothing of any relevance to say, but I am going to have to think of something to say tomorrow, damn oral exam. But it's apparently not the quality of the irish I speak, but the quantity, so thats all dandy then....

Are gaelic and irish the same thing? Is the gaelic spoken in Ireland the same that's spoken in Scotland? Well, kinda spoken. Something like less than 1% of the population or some such shite. Anyway, just curious.

You surrender! BWAHAHAHAHAHA! And so forth...

I think the Scottish form is closer to the original Celtic language. Though I could be completely arse-backwards on that one. I've only ever heard Johnny Foreigner call it Gaelic, probably because we don't use the proper term for anything if we can help it.

i may surrender, but you're still not colin farrell.

i'd make a whole new irish population with him. godDAMN.

when you irish boys are cute, you're CUTE.

That rules me out, I've never been called cute, sweet, cool, stylish, scary, gentle-faced, but never cute.....

Wouldn't that be bad for the genepool?

there, there, paggy. i didn't say i don't love you. i just want to boink CF. bad.

His hair looks kind of stupid in The Recruit. Or maybe that's just me. Mmmm...man-pretty.

I think Heat has ruined Al Pachino in all other films for me, except maybe The Devils advocate, I had seen Heat a day or so before the Recruit and I wasn't quite expecting the voice.... And I've got a line stuck in my head from Heat
"Dont waste my motherfuckin time!!!"

And on another note: hehe, boink!