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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Can anyone explain why in recent years the whole world (and I mean, the world) has gone mad over this non event ?
Its a mystery to me. 

[BazaJT]

Nope,sorry can't answer that.But if the English decided to celebrate St.Georges Day in the same fashion the whole world and its grandmother would claim we were being racist or something

[STEMO]

Can anyone explain why in recent years the whole world (and I mean, the world) has gone mad over this non event ?
Its a mystery to me. 

America. Mother's Day, Father's Day, Halloween, St. Patricks Day........if they do it big over there, it soon catches on here.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

The Yanks have always celebrated it in a big way in NYC, which although it seems to be a bit daft to me, is understandable, because half of them think they are Irish.
So, I get that bit, but its everywhere now. Someone on the radio this morning mentioned a large St Paddys celebration in Copenhagen, and I really don't get that.
And of course, its big in England too, but as said, it would be scorned upon, if the English celebrated their own patron saint in the same way.
I'm a fickin dinosaur. I just don't understand the way the world works any more. 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I do know that when I grew up in Norn Irn, it wasn't really a big thing. I'm no sure its even as big a thing in Ireland now as it is every where else, apart from Disney Dublin, where the tourists go.
I lived about 20 miles from his grave. I went once to take a look, out of curiosity, and that has been the extent of my interest in the whole thing.

[amba]

Well the Paddys had a nice result with the Rugby to celebrate St.Patricks Day.

Good on them ..thoroughly deserved the win and title

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

That's the game with the strangely shaped ball, yes ? 

[STEMO]

Liverpool is fickin bouncing from 10 in the morning till about 6 in the morning on St Patrick's day. By about 5 in the evening it's a half hour queue at the bar.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Most of them think they are Paddys too. 

[STEMO]

Most of them think they are Paddys too. 

Yep. It's the same on 12th July. Most Scousers get pissed up on both days, shouting "Hang the Pope" on the 12th, and singing "E aye Billy was a bastard" on the 17th. It is a piss up, after all. 

[Nick W]

Most of them think they are Paddys too. 

Yep. It's the same on 12th July. Most Scousers get pissed up on both days, shouting "Hang the Pope" on the 12th, and singing "E aye Billy was a bastard" on the 17th. It is a piss up, after all. 

I've a proper reason for a piss up on 12th July: it's my birthday. Apparently my grandmother's reaction was that as an Orangeman, her father would have been pleased.

[Olympia5776]

Can anyone explain why in recent years the whole world (and I mean, the world) has gone mad over this non event ?
Its a mystery to me. 

No mystery Albs , it's a business. The shrewd Irish have managed to capture (well almost) the world for this one day and commerce that that generates is enormous. Today , with the eyes of the world on them,virtually every sitting politician in the Irish Parliament is in another country milking every emotion remotely linked to "the auld country" and bringing home the bacon.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Ironically St Patrick was a Brit. 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Welsh iirc ? And he wasn't a Catholic either. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Most of them think they are Paddys too. 

Yep. It's the same on 12th July. Most Scousers get pissed up on both days, shouting "Hang the Pope" on the 12th, and singing "E aye Billy was a bastard" on the 17th. It is a piss up, after all. 

I'm surprised to learn there are scousers who drink alcohol.

Still, no harm done so long as the 'drinking days' are less in number than their 'bible reading days'