is St Patrick's Day a big holiday in the rest of the world? - GoFuckYourself.com

Mutt · 03-17-2008, 11:50 AM

or is this another holiday that the US and its subsidiary Canada have blown up into something big?

is it big in Australia? England? Italy? Netherlands? France?

calista · 03-17-2008, 12:45 PM

Happy St Patrick's Day!!

ffmihai · 03-17-2008, 01:06 PM

sorry, when is it?

ffmihai · 03-17-2008, 01:07 PM

sorry, when is it?

frank7799 · 03-17-2008, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mutt

or is this another holiday that the US and its subsidiary Canada have blown up into something big?

is it big in Australia? England? Italy? Netherlands? France?

I just read it´s a bank holiday in Northern Ireland, but I haven´t heard of it being holiday in other European countries.

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 03-17-2008, 01:16 PM

Its pretty big in Iraq, Iran, N. Korea and Saudi Arabia.

Why hell I even heard the Taliban shoot extra heroine on St Pat's day.

CosmicTang · 03-17-2008, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mutt

or is this another holiday that the US and its subsidiary Canada have blown up into something big?

is it big in Australia? England? Italy? Netherlands? France?

I'm pretty sure it's a big deal in Ireland.

digifan · 03-17-2008, 03:12 PM

But the rest of the world has no idea about it.

Diligent · 03-17-2008, 03:44 PM

^-- What she (right?) said.

It happens to be as big as it is in the U.S. (and Canada? New knowledge of the day for me) because...:

You had shitloads of Irish immigrants within the same timeframe as Swedes and people of a few other european nationalites immigrated into the states.
There was a rush over somewhere between 1820 and 1920 (off the top of my head) when the times got hard on mostly farmers in Europe...
and there was plenty of U.S. land deals available for immigrants at the time.

So it's just imported traditions from one of the larger nationality groups who emigrated from Europe.

rowan · 03-17-2008, 03:51 PM

It's celebrated in Australia but it's not a big thing. Same with Halloween.

DutchTeenCash · 03-17-2008, 03:52 PM

noone knows it here - holland that is

but offcourse Im celebrating it with friends and the Green Fairy

Mutt · 03-17-2008, 04:10 PM

thats what i figured - another North American concoction.

Useless Warrior · 03-17-2008, 04:15 PM

I don't consider it to be big here in the U.S. I suppose it must depend on how close you live to bars.

Fletch XXX · 03-17-2008, 04:18 PM

He wasnt even a Saint, (never canonized by church) he was a slave and its a wage slave holiday.

I dont celebrate it, nor do I celebrate any of the major christian "holy days."

get real, days of superstition and puritan fairy tale have been long dead...

bushwacker · 03-17-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

He wasnt even a Saint, (never canonized by church) he was a slave and its a wage slave holiday.

I dont celebrate it, nor do I celebrate any of the major christian "holy days."

get real, days of superstition and puritan fairy tale have been long dead...

I guess you are not wearing any green today?

Fletch XXX · 03-17-2008, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bushwacker

I guess you are not wearing any green today?

Ive worn black every day for over a decade or so now... as an antitheist i gotta shoot down this religious crap, its an insult to those of us with brains.

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