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You drinkin green beer today?

A) Aye laddie, Ahma gonna be swillin some o tha green juice.

B) Nay, for I'm not Irish, ya bloody flamin crumpet muncher!

C) Maybe. But damn dude, it's wednesday. Sucks when cool holidays fall on shitty days.

D) I'm too young to drink.

E) GMHowell drinks green beer year round! (Hint:it's not green food coloring in that crazy man's beer!)

happy St Patty's Day folks.

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  • Saint Patrick was the missionary credited with converting the Irish to Christianity in the late 300's A.D.

    Historical sources report that Saint Patrick was not even Irish! He was born around 373 A.D. in either Scotland or in Roman Britain (the Romans left Britain in 410 A.D.). His real name is believed to have been Maewyn Succat, but he changed it to Patrick after he became a priest. At the age of 16, while living in Ireland, he was kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery.

    During his 6-year captivity, he
    • As the saying goes, on this day "everybody is Irish!"

      Thing is, though, real Irish immigrants, especially middle- or upper-class ones are appalled by American Saint Patrick's Day trappings like leprechauns, corned beef and cabbage and public drunkenness. It's lower-class 19th century Irish culture that's as alien to them as a frontier Kansas July 4th celebration would be to us.

      • How are those middle- and upper- class Irish immigrants any more real than the millions of poor, illiterate ones, among which were my ancestors in all likelihood?
        • Of course they're not. "Real immigrant" was meant in contrast to a) fifth generation Irish Americans and b) random drunks of whatever ethnicity swilling green beer.

          There's nothing inauthentic about 19th century lower-class Irish culture -- I'm just saying elements of it have persisted here that are unrecognizable to pretty much all modern Irish. I'm hardly in a position to be a snob anyway, as all my grandparents fled here from eastern European shtetls, one step ahead of the Nazis, with only the clothes on

          • Of course they're not. "Real immigrant" was meant in contrast to a) fifth generation Irish Americans and b) random drunks of whatever ethnicity swilling green beer.

            Ahhhh.

            There's nothing inauthentic about 19th century lower-class Irish culture -- I'm just saying elements of it have persisted here that are unrecognizable to pretty much all modern Irish.

            I don't doubt that, especially after the English exported all of us barbarians to the US, Australia, etc. I've been told that St. Pat's is celebrated h

    • a color you wore last year to offend either the Catholics or Protestants

      I believe orange is the Protestant/Loyalist's colors. It's like wearing a blue bandana at a Blood's event (or is that red?).
      • Spot on. It's meant to offend the Catholics, but most of them don't know their own history well enough to be pissed.

        Sadly, my orange shirt a: is no longer orange (faded to a sorta pinkish color) and no longer fits. It MUST have shrunk in the wash. I can't think of any other reason it wouldn't fit;)

        As far as green beer, I've got, get this, 15 gallons of homebrew that I have to dump out. Brewed shortly before Angie either got sick or got worse, or something caused me to get into a serious funk, and ignore i
  • I'll stick to the black stuff, it that's all right with you.

    It is? Great, mine's a Beamish, then! :)

    -MT.
    • I had my first Beamish the other day. The ripples from the bubbles after it was tapped made it almost too pretty to drink.

      And when I finally did, it was like kissing the tears off an angel's cheek...

      Mmmmmmmm... I'll never drink another Guiness again!
  • But ahm scottish, not bloody irish.

    -Ab

    • Can't drink the brew, but ahm scottish too!
      • Hey! I'm 50% scotts! Hell my middle name is MacCrea.

        of course the other 50% is english... so I never know who to cheer for while watching Braveheart :-D

        • I never know who to cheer for while watching Braveheart

          A quarter each Irish and Scots here, if I'm not mistaken, so that makes the decision easy. :-)

          (The remaining half is German...nothing like being a "mutt." At least they all have decent beer. I don't know that I'll be having any of the green stuff, though, but that's mainly because it'll almost certainly be some putrid Budmilloors Light mega-swill.)

          • Three, and you call yourself a mutt? Puh-leeeze.

            In no particular order:

            English (My mother's maternal grandmother couldn't join DAR, as her family sold weapons to the Redcoats in the 1700's)
            Welsh (Can you say debtor's prison?)
            French (Father's mother's family, somewhere)
            German (Lots of people in my mother's family)
            American Indian (This and the next one go back about five generations. The exact identities are lost to the fact that this family thread is filled with unbelievable levels of alcoholism and youthf
            • Three, and you call yourself a mutt? Puh-leeeze.

              That's just going back a couple of generations, which is about all I know. There's more than likely some more stuff I don't know about.

              Just got back from lunch...saw more than a few people wearing orange. WTF?

          • but that's mainly because it'll almost certainly be some putrid Budmilloors Light mega-swill.)

            Then you probably should add green food coloring. It has both more alcohol and more beer flavor than Budmilloors.

      • I'm 50% English, 25% Scottish, 25% Polish. In terms of drink, the Polish side seems to be winning out. Can't beat a good vodka...
    • Brother Celts from across the strait!

      Some of my ancestors are from Rathlin Island, just across the water from Islay (source of my preferred single malts). There's a strong Scots influence there, to the extent that it's likely that my Irish was enriched with some Scottish at some point.

      Slainte!
  • That's what I'm drinkin tonight. Guinness and a borger in me green shirt.

    Slainte!
  • Can't even drink white wine with green food coloring added to it. (Diet restrictions: red wine only!)

    ALthough I suppose I could drink some Wild Irish Rose... however that stuffs better left for taking the paint off your car. A friend used to drink that in college while we were drinking Boones and '40s of Malt licka. We had no class. Heck, we didn't even have a valid drivers license! Three cheers for Baltimorons!

    On a related note: Quite by accident, both my wife and I are wearing green today. It wasn

  • Z) (Score:2)

    by arb ( 452787 )
    I don't drink beer you insensitive clod!

    Would a coupla stiff whiskeys do instead? ;-)

    Well, I woulda done the whiskey thing, but I didn't realise it was St Pat's day yesterday, and it's tomorrow here already and I'm just about off to bed...

    • Re:Z) (Score:2)

      by btlzu2 ( 99039 ) *
      Yeah, but make it a Jameson, the finest whiskey in the entire world! :)

      AAMOF, make it a double. straight. awesome.
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        • I prefer me the Bushmills. Rocks.

          Sam, you really need to discover the wonders of "Bushmills Malt". This single malt Irish Whiskey, sold in 10 and 16 yr varieties, may possibly be the "Best Whiskey Evah".

      • Re:Z) (Score:2)

        by arb ( 452787 )
        AAMOF, make it a double. straight.

        Naturally. There are only two things that should be added to a good whiskey - water, and more whiskey. Considering what fish do in water, I'll stick with the whiskey. ;-)
        • There are only two things that should be added to a good whiskey - water [..].

          For that heresy, lad, when you get to heaven, may the devil be your judge. Adding water to whisky, why would you want to ruin a drink like that?

          Oh, and Glenmorangie beats the pants off Jameson any day.

          • Re:Z) (Score:2)

            by arb ( 452787 )
            For that heresy, lad, when you get to heaven, may the devil be your judge. Adding water to whisky, why would you want to ruin a drink like that?

            I don't - do you know what fish do in water? Ewwww! ;-)

            I will however allow others the option of poll^w diluting their whiskey that way, but if I ever see anyone put Coke in a good whiskey... (Coke in a cheap scotch like Johnny Walker is merely a minor offence. If I use a mixer in cheap whiskey/scotch, it will only ever be Dry Ginger or soda - never coke - keep t

  • No (Score:2)

    by sulli ( 195030 ) *
    Guinness, Beamish, and/or Murphy's for me.
  • I'm gonna be in Chicago tonight!
    Green river and everything!
    Oh, and uh, I didn't look at the poll answers so I.)

    As in I'll be drinking Stout tonight.
    • Excellent.

      Recommendation: Fado Irish Pub [chicagotribune.com]. An awesome pub with great atmosphere and great stout.

      You're not too far from the Billy Goat tavern either!!!
  • Beer is gross anyway.
  • That's what I'm having tonight.

    I'm not Irish, but I do have some Scottish and Welsh blood. The relevant point - we all hate the English ;-) (just kidding, I know lots of cool Englishmen and Englishwomen)

    • The relevant point - we all hate the English

      I was about to respond with a remark about how we all hated Norwegians... then I remembered that it was one of my favourite countries, and I'm rather fond of it and its inhabitants :-)

  • C) (Score:2)

    by sielwolf ( 246764 ) *
    Really, sucks. Group of kids from the lab have it all planned to get shitzy at 6:30 tonight. Problem is I have to get this Roth IRA paperwork done and the check out by the end of this week.

    Weighing a night of drinking to my longterm financial status.

    Sorry but even the 15% of me that's Irish thinks that's a stupid idea.

    • Re:C) (Score:2)

      by anto ( 41846 )
      I read the comment & thought is someone being so politically incorrect as to bring up the IRA on good 'ol St Pat's day? Then I realised it was so totally un-related as to make me look silly. Too much time staring at job applications carefully avoiding accidentally insulting ppl....
      • hah. I just realized that... and it seems pretty damn plausible. Don't know why I didn't see it before 'cause now its all I can see. Like that picture of the vase where it looks like people copulating... until someone points out the dolphins.

        Ok, that sounds a bit wierd. Need to find a link to it...
  • Guinness and/or Murphy's most likely.
  • I might go beerless today!

    I had a heavy drinking night last night, with metal bands and "The Jagerettes" who were giving swag (I got a lame T shirt) to people who did Jagermeister shots. I had a little more than is my normal policy. And tomorrow is going to be another bar night too. (This is turning out to be an unusual week.) I think I need tonight off, so I don't end up "partied out" like Slurms McKenzie. Poor Slurms.

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    • Here's your heresy:

      I Irish. (ok, 75%--25% mutt--English, welsh, Danish) I can't stand the taste of Guiness.

      yeah, yeah, blasphemer, etc., etc...deal, fuckwits.

      Anywho...I prolly won't even drink tonight. Call it Em being fashionably hip: I'm so cool I don't need to drink on St Patty's day ;)

      besides...dude, it's a fricking wensday*. I mean, how shitty is that?

      *I refuse to call it wednesday.
  • I don't give a FSOF about St. Patricks day, just another BS holiday.
  • Damn time not moving fast enough. 10 more months.

    And if I were drinking, I'd have to admit that I haven't liked any beer I've had, but the most tolerable were Yeungling Lager and the Black and Tan of the same brand.

    Later this month some friends and I are going to have a drinking/paintballing/anime(cowboy bebop, of course) get together, it will be a good break from the daily routine of computer games and Perkins. No clubs for us, they are a 2 hour drive away and none of us like crowds of(or) stupid peo
    • At your age, I thought I didn't like beer. It turned out I just had taste in beer, and I hadn't had tasty beers yet. Also, as you become old and bitter like the rest of us, your tastes will probably turn more toward bitter things. There's no rush, just don't let peer pressure sucker you into drinking piss (the kind Em drinks) in vast quantities.
      • as you become old and bitter like the rest of us, your tastes will probably turn more toward bitter things

        Ah, one of the most true comments I've read recently. In the past few months I've gone from my childhood disliking of coffee to liking it with three sugars to preferring it (not necessarily liking, though) with nothing extra. Funny how the timing of those events correspond with other things that have been happening socially around me.
  • Just got home after downing three pints of Guinness and a shot of Jamesons. That's more alcohol than I've consumed in the rest of the year so far. Something tells me that at some point between now and the same time tommorow I'm going to regret it.

    Still, it can't be that bad if I'm able to post (semi-)coherent messages on Slashdot.

  • f (Score:1)

    by subgeek ( 263292 ) *
    i do not consume alcohol, even though i am well over the required age.

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