It's a nice little statement, which I can get behind intellectually, but living in Butte that's asking for trouble. People can be beaten in this town for not wearing green, not just pinched for it. Orange is a deliberate invitation for pain. St. Paddy's Day is a volatile holiday here.
I, personally, am not going out of the house. I lock my door and leave it locked every year. So it doesn't matter what I wear, or if I wear anything at all! Nonetheless, I'll probably wear green when I slip out of my pjs...
Yeah, true, YMMV depending on where you're living and how many people have any kind of actual memory of the Troubles -- but Moscow's freakin' clueless, which is really sad for a University town.
By the sound of it, though, it's got a pretty skewed view of its Irish heritage to be into, as well :( The day's about celebrating, not fighting - and, since St Patrick is the patron saint of all Ireland (most of the legends are based in and around Antrim!), orange is also a perfectly respectable colour to wear. It is, after all, part of the flag!
Being half Mexican-Native American and half German St. Paddy's Day is a pretty meaningless holiday for me and my family tree (and neither side is Catholic either). It's also not a big holiday in New Mexico, where I live. Not that many Irish Americans here. Nonetheless, I did manage OD green by accident (don't know if that counts) since I forgot what day it was, and one of my co-workers purposely wore orange (over which we both had a chuckle).
But I really don't mean to be all Bah Humbug, so I hope that those of you of Irish descent enjoyed your green beer :)
*shudders again at the wearing green and green beer* ;)
In Ireland we don't do any of that on St Patrick's Day (never St Paddy's Day, though we do call it Paddy's Day). A beer or six, sure, but who'd desecrate Guinness by colouring it green? *blinks*
Would you even be able to tell if you put green dye in Guiness given how dark it is? Hmmm... deep thoughts!
And I thought this was quite fun, the White House fountain has gone green by edict of Michelle Obama (now there's a Chicago girl born and bred :)
Also a nice little article about Moneygall, Ireland's Obama connection (home of President Obama's great-great-great grandfather (on his mother's side), Fulmouth Kearney).
In Ireland we don't do any of that on St Patrick's Day...So I'd heard. I think in the states it's the nostalgia and missing home that brings on such roaring "patriotism" for a country few of us Irish/Americans have ever been to. Americans don't much belong anywhere, most of us being foreign invaders. And many Irish immigrants didn't leave willingly but rather out of necessity after the famine, so the loss of a homeland is all the more keenly felt (and remembered generation after generation). Any tie back to the old Emerald Isle makes us excessively sentimental
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I, personally, am not going out of the house. I lock my door and leave it locked every year. So it doesn't matter what I wear, or if I wear anything at all! Nonetheless, I'll probably wear green when I slip out of my pjs...
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But I really don't mean to be all Bah Humbug, so I hope that those of you of Irish descent enjoyed your green beer :)
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In Ireland we don't do any of that on St Patrick's Day (never St Paddy's Day, though we do call it Paddy's Day). A beer or six, sure, but who'd desecrate Guinness by colouring it green? *blinks*
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And I thought this was quite fun, the White House fountain has gone green by edict of Michelle Obama (now there's a Chicago girl born and bred :)
Also a nice little article about Moneygall, Ireland's Obama connection (home of President Obama's great-great-great grandfather (on his mother's side), Fulmouth Kearney).
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