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I'm not Irish and I don't drink Guinness. That is all.

One of the few countries on the planet that has an even more unhealthy relationship with alcohol than we do.  Your smiley thing sums up the day perfectly!

This is my favourite guiness advert, just for the soundtrack alone I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcdDg30VBgo

The day you need to remember is Thursday 23rd of April.

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Why don't we celebrate St. George's Day? Is there no alcoholic beverage that can be used to market the day?

As long as they have some sort of gimmicky Guinness offers in the pub then I'm all for celebrating it.

What about this from St George distributors?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/05/MNQJTO9FM.DTL

Sir dan's has guinness on special today at under £2 a pint.

Fuck Saint Patricks Day, we cant celebrate our own Patron saint just in case we upset some ethnic minority so i dont see why we promote this shit.  

It's got to be Bombardier Bitter

I say Fuck you.

I can celebrate it if I want. I have irish connections.

Isn't Sonic part Irish too? ;)

That's not really the reason though is it? Or at least I never remember it being the reason when we didn't bother celebrating it 10 years ago, and I guess it wasn't the reason 20 years ago.

We don't celebrate our patron saints day for the same reason most other countries don't celebrate theirs - it hasn't been part of an very successful branding exercise turning the whole thing into a day of drinking Guinness.

The "in case we upset some ethnic minority" rubbish has gone further towards putting people off St. Georges day (and the flag) than anything else, by adding a nasty edge to the nationalism.

Same as - I'm half Irish and thats good enough for me!

I don't celebrate it. nothing to do with Ireland so for me it means nothing. I can see why people do though. Cheap Guiness is more than enough of an excuse. It's weird how some people celebrate Paddy day and not any of the other though even if they are English.

I dont....and never understood people who do.

It's because you get a whacky Guinness hat when you buy X amount of drinks :)

Fuck yeah! Better than some crappy rose or leek/daffodil anyway. Although they should hand out blow up sheep on St Davids Day, that'd be amusing.

Fuck off. There's no more room in the Righteous Brothers, start you're own group.



and get a fucking job.

Nice to see you're keeping up your nice wide repertoire of posts their ironside.

I remember being a little kid, when you think up something funny all by yourself and you're so proud of yourself you go around repeating it to anybody who makes the vaguest show of listening.

Your family must be so proud that your mental development has finally hit the 4 year old level.

I dont celebrate it because it is not my patron saints day, drinking Guinness and wearing a fucking stupid hat does not make you oirish. It appears that you can be a patriot as long as you are not English, and i anm very proud to be English.

I dont like guiness

i dont like irish

i dont celebrate it

Am I right in saying that Saint Paddy was from Roman England while beloved Saint George and Scotland's Saint Andy were from the Middle East?

Saint David was a pure Welshman though.

I'm proud to be English but I'm a sucker for drinks promotions on my favourite tipple. That doesn't make me Irish though, in much the same way going for the drinks promotions on (hypothetical) Gay Guinness day wouldn't make me homosexual.

It would make you at least bi I think

How you doin?

i have celebrated St Paddy's day with a slice of Baileys cheesecake in the canteen.

That'll do for me.

I dislike the Irish and don't really like Guiness but in the spirit of things I'm heading straight to the pubs from 5pm to pour shit loads of it down my neck.

Take that society.

I'm not Irish nor do I technically have a Patron Saint but as Patrick spent 3 years casting out the last of the druids, toads and snakes of my manor I think I'm entitled to raise a glass to him.

That said it's all a bunch of fucking plastic tomfoolery that's getting borderline NYE in its cringe worthy false sentiment and enforced fun.  If I was in Ireland I’d get shit faced and soak it all up otherwise I’ll leave it to the true Paddys to get on with it.

My (long dead) Grandad was like a walking Irish stereotype - he was a fucking catholic priest before he broke the rules and later turned into a mental drunk. So although only that small part of me comes from Ireland, I'd say it's beaming out some pretty strong Irishness.

Plus I drink quite a lot of Guinness anyway so it doesn't make a lot of difference.

Its my best mates sauls birthday today. a few years ago we celebrated his birthday (st pats day) in playa de carmen, mexico. It was slap bang in the middle of american spring break and we were surrounded by lierally hundreda of pissed up american teenagers. Without changing our accents in the slightest we told them we were irish and were bought fuck loads of beer. When they asked us what ireland was like we told them it was fucking horrible really racist and homophobic, we had moved to england and the english were amazing, the nicest people you could meet :)

and to add a typical mex side to the story got a nosh on the beach from some girl called hermione who as she was doing it i sang billy oceans carribean queen.

Is your family very proud of their son being a layabaout?

Wow Ironside. You've hit for it again. Magical. You must be so proud of yourself.

hehehe touchy....

Is that what you say when you want your care worker to give you a hug?

I think Ironside meant to write 'touché'.

nope, that'd be 'foreign'

KEEP SAINT GEORGE IN MY HEART KEEP ME ENGLISH KEEP SAINT GEORGE IN MY HEART I PRAY......

No I meant he's touchy.  Too much time confined in a small room with no daylight can do that to a man.  A job might help :)

Drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, fight, fight, fight, fight, argh i love this day

nah, i'm norwegian now

Cue "Norwegian wood" jokes.

I think I may not drink Guinness today. just for a change.

The sun is out so I am currently sat in the garden drinking Pimms 8)

I drank an adequate amount of Guinness and didn't get any additional discounts or a silly hat. I think this makes me a lot more Irish than any of you lot.

Bollocks. My great grandfather on my dad's side was Irish. His wife was Spanish. And that's why I like lumps of fruit floating around in my Guinness.

How much Guinness have you had today? I reckon 1 pint of Guinness = 1 Irish point.

5 points for me.

And an irish great-uncle.

I may turn a slight shade of green any moment.

Accountancy gone mad.

1 Irish strand of DNA = 5 x 10e6 Irish points.

I'm 50% Irish Libertarian I reckon

Which makes you half a Greenie. Probably.

I ac complished my7 mission and nw feel slightly sick. Cooooooooooooooool boarders!!

That's just pronunciation, not arithmetic.