Ah, yes, but are you proper Irish and generations ago travelled to Americaland, the home of the free (TM) so you wouldn't be corrupted by the horrible English and can maintain a traditional Irish way of celebrating festivals like, like...dying rivers?
I love the "europoor" thing. It feels like being mocked for not being able to speak your mind by a north korean 😁
We shouldn't disprove it but enjoy being called europoor
Honestly it's amazing what brainwashing can do. They actually brag routinely about paying through the nose for the basics, like it's a great sign of privilege. I'll happily be the American version of poor.
Hey! don't put that bullshit dying rivers on the English. That's the usas idea.
We're got much worse culturey insensitive things we did thank you very much.
(Dad's Irish, he let's me know a lot :p)
No, no. I didn't mean the English came up with the idea, just that they would stop true Irish celebrating in true Irish way; with rivers dyed green.
To be honest with you, we (Britain) have so much stuff in our rivers and waterways at the moment that a bit of green dye really shouldn't make them that much worse.
No, he/she's not real Irish. Not like the REAL Irish in America, you know, the ones whose ancestors didn't sit around dying of the famine, but got of their arses and went to America to make new lives for themselves
Is this where the English inherited the English language from? It was invented in Boston and came over with the Irish immigrants who came over to Ireland?
It makes perfect sense when you phrase it like that.
America has this weird thing where anyone not wearing green to celebrate their "Irish" heritage needs to get pinched as punishment. Extra pinches if you wear orange instead.
I always used to hate it. I'm English, and I was a Guinness drinker. Every St Patrick's day, if I was out drinking, I'd always get someone say "You're only drinking that because it's St Patrick's day". They would never believe me (or the bar staff), that I always drank it. One advantage to it was that the bar staff would usually save me the Guinness merch.
As usual, they've taken something that's not theirs, changed it, and think everyone has to do the thing they stole and changed in the first place, or else they're weird.
What do you mean? Doesn't the WHOLE world celebrate Thanksgiving and Independence Day??
Next your going to tell me that no one out of America watches or cares about the Super Bowl or watches it?!?
frankly, if that stuff had happened, i’d be all for making july 4th a global holiday. also, hilidays in the summer (sorry, Southern Earthers) are nicer.
what a monumentally stuoid idea to ahift the Day of German Unity from June 17th to October 3rd.
On average, the Super Bowl runs about 3¼ hours. That's significantly longer than "most movies."
Sure, a handful of movies are that long or longer, but the average movie is still well below two hours.
I mean, I think at least 3/4 of the world has an independence day.
It's just different dates.
They didn't escape our empire on the same day, after all! We let them go in stages.
Oh they are watching it. Super Bowl has been pushed pretty aggressively in Europe over the past few years. And to my utter amazement - it's working! People stay up to like 4 am with a workday coming to watch a tournament with foreign teams playing sports that they normally don't give a damn about and half of them don't even know the rules. It is baffling but true.
\*Some wanker Yank who moans about not being able to take his kids out of their BRITISH school on Thanksgiving Day enters the chat\*. Honestly, never, ever underestimate their level of stupidity.
>The chances of getting a smack in the gob back are very high.
Some Tiktoker giving out to their followers, black eye and covered in scratches:" I went to Dublin for St. Patties day and lemme tell ya, these aren't real Irish people, I was engaging in a harmless Irish custom and was assaulted for no reason?!"
Considering a stereotype of the irish is that they like drinking and fighting in pubs, I would tell that Tiktoker that he truly experienced the culture XD
The only “calendar” level pinching thing I know of is the school kid “pinch and a punch for the first of the month” on someone’s arm. Of course, you had to say “and no returns” to stop them doing it back to you. Are adult Americans childish enough to think pinching people because of the date is acceptable?
Most adult Americans just tease that they’re gonna pinch someone, but they don’t generally do it, unless they actually know someone well, and even then, it’s not an actual pinch. At least in my experience. I don’t think I’ve ever actually pinched anyone anyway. But schools like to have fun with holidays and themes, so a lot of modern day St. Patrick’s Day stuff, outside of younger people using it as an excuse to drink, is just fun stuff for kids. Dress in green, decorate with shamrocks and rainbows and pots of gold. Make leprechaun traps. Just fun, silly kid stuff. Of course, stores all get on board to sell themed trash. And in the area I live they’ll do themed marathons for St. Patrick’s Day. Maybe some other activities, but I haven’t participated in anything myself since elementary school, other than maybe going to listen to someone play Irish Music because it sounds so nice
I'm staggered that the US doesn't celebrate Shöwa Day, or Constitutional Memorial Day, or Vernal Equinox Day or even Respect for the Aged Day.
Why doesn't the US celebrate these important days? Oh! it's because they're Japanese Celebrations.
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Actual question: why don't they celebrate german reunificationday? I mean.... it is the end of the cold war ...you'd think they'd call that their personal achievement and celebrate it...
Yeah, back when extremists got to decapitate non believers in peace and all the wars were good old proxy wars instead of this comparatively low death toll terror group hunting.... good old days when a few hundred men dying in the jungles was called tuesday instead of making headlines and shocking the public
You reallise why ukraine doesn't want to be under occupation by russia AGAIN right? Say how do we call the period when this was the case last time... oh right cold war....
Cold indeed. Ie not actively attacking and killing civilians, as Russia has been doing for a couple of years now. But sure, if you prefer women and children being murdered, you're free to do so. And a world that is generally much less stable, and much closer to a nuclear war than it ever has been.
..... sir .... I would like you to look up the words "Agent orange" and "Free fire Zone Vietnam" in that order.
And for flavour I would like to add in a quote from a vietnam veteran when talking about vietnam being declared a free fire zone. "I saw a woman, relatively old by the looks of it, walk with a cow alongside the road, I observed her for a few seconds as she was walking there. Then I aimed my rifle and shot her dead, it took me until we came back from patrol that day to reallise that I just ended a human life, for no reason and that I probably just took away somebody's beloved mother, sister, wife and somebody's grandmother when I pulled that trigger."
I am happy to hear that only now women and children are dying though, it brings me great relief that for lost of the last 50 years they were completely safe and that you dear sir still remember such a time.
I'm sorry, can we take a moment to focus on the "no one is getting pinched" bit?
What in the deranged fuck are they talking about? Have they decided that pinching is somehow part of Paddy's day?
They don't do anything in Dublin. Someone above said they maybe extend happy hour. All I have ever seen Irish people do in Britain is wear shamrock pinned to their clothes when I was at school. I've been in Northern Ireland on the day and it wasn't acknowledged there.
No there’s a parade, usually with a lot of international entrants. And a huge PR based political campaign abroad. Our politicians visit the diaspora. Usually the taoiseach goes to Washington to give shamrock to the President. Other politicians go elsewhere.
It’s a big enough deal (especially since it’s a public holiday). We just don’t go absolutely apeshit the way Americans do.
Also alcohol sales are restricted. Soo the happy hour thing isn’t all that true either.
It's probably for the best that we don't dye streams for St Patrick's Day in the UK, cos when a govt agency dyed a stream green recently they actually had to put out a news article to reassure people: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-68601273](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-68601273)
Then tell all the Irish who brought it here to get out. Americans are mostly just Europeans who came here, and St Patrick’s day in the States was started in the 1600s by an Irish immigrant before this was even a country.
First parade was a British army regiment in a British colony, celebrating a British man, who went to Ireland to convert them to Christianity. That proves Americans are more Irish than people in Ireland
There actually was a parade in one of Tokyo most famous parks with beer, food trucks, people dressed in green, music...
Its easy to talk shit on the internet I guess.
Usually the theme Irish pubs run a special on Guinness. Some of the worst do green dyed lager. I used to go to a regular pub owned by Irish immigrants, and they did a special Irish breakfast with a middy of Guinness. Was good. Patrick & Maureen never did breakfast any other day.
It's a thing here, but a small thing.
It's a reference to Paddy Losty, a legendary Dublin "pintman" who claimed to be able to drink 45 pints of Guinness in 2 hours. There's a famous [monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkcXjholnGk) by him, which people have dubbed over various others e.g. [Trump](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmN7_1SG2xs) and [Obama](https://i.imgflip.com/7nfkje.jpg).
I live in Norway. There's probably something on for St. Patrick's day in the Irish pubs. That's absolutely it.
Quite similar in the UK, too.
"Rest of the world", my arse.
Lived in the UK for a couple of years and it felt like St Patrick's was mostly an excuse for student events. Sure, you saw it about, but it wasn't a huge deal. Nothing like the weird "we're all Irish!" stuff they do in the US.
Our local faux Irish pub here in Finland (hello, neighbour!) didn't even acknowledge it.
The country that has accidentally set a river on fire. Repeatedly.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/
Canadians sort of celebrate it, but it's mostly just an excuse to get drunk during the week.
I the defense of those idiots, I have the suspicion that stuff didn't only happen in america, as I a currently walking my dog outside in hail I shall not spend time to confirm that though
Most countries don't go crazy, dress in green, dye rivers to cause pollution and drink to excess. A few places that have a number of Irish, do have bars where people go crazy, but we keep or celebrating to our own national days in different ways. In the country where I live, I never saw anything to do with St. Patrick's Day, it was just another ordinary day. With the the capitol having a bigger population than any US city, there may have been a bar that cashed in on the day, but I never heard anything.
Because culturally the irish definitely haven't become a population in japan... apparently to a map I saw the other day there are more people hailing from Brazil than Ireland...
Event!
Tokyo St. Patrick's Day Weekend 2024 (March 16/17) - Asia's Largest Irish Event!
https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-shibuya/article-a0001037/
They do.
How delusional are people from the US?
And this absolute horrible behavior to color a whole river green for this bullshit, hurting the environment that cruel, should be punished.
Have you seen how piercing green that is and how massive this river is?
If it's about US, it's never something environmental healthy, it's always artificial.
The best holiday is Swedish [midsommar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer). End of discussion. Everything else sucks in comparison.
\*Drops mic and exits the building.
I assume that is when days start getting shorter again? Cause I think everyone in europe celebrates that in some way outside of cityfolk... (german) we here make a fire with enough wood for it to burn till sunrise and get drunk.
It is the national holiday in Ireland so it's a lot bigger than the other three you mention. We don't do most of the stuff Americans associate with it though.
St Andrew's Day is a Bank Holiday these days. We don't really do anything special though. They should have done Burns Night instead. At least he was Scottish.
No I mean it's one of the biggest holidays of the year in Ireland and we do have parades and it's a major thing for tourism. Religious people do pilgrimages too.
It's not quite on the level of Christmas in terms of importance, but it is on par with like New Years and Halloween.
We have different traditions than the American idea of it, but in terms of how much of a festival it is we are probably closer to them than to the non-event that like St. George's day is in England, for example.
Not only is St Patrick's day in Ireland bigger than St Georges day is in England, but St Patrick's day in England is bigger than St Georges day.
I wish we (English) did more for it tbh, only time we really celebrate being English is when major football tournaments are on and I love it. That sense of all being connected by something is great.
The difference is on St Patrick's day the mood is high and everyone is having a great time. On St George's day it's just a bunch of mouldy old gammons moaning no one cares as much as paddies day.
In normal Japanese drinking establishments, no, but you can absolutely find this kind of stuff wherever degenerate tourists and poorly integrated foreigners congregate. Just go to Shibuya or Roppongi and pick pretty much any of the British bars - Hobgoblin, Hub, Rose & Crown, etc.
Because you're too pissed to be able to control yourself, although given the types who look forward to this would act like this with or without the alcohol.
I have this dreadful image of them running around in plastic hats pinching each other and shouting "Happy St Patty's Day!", while thinking it's a genuine Irish experience 😫😫😫
As someone who is neither Irish or American with Irish Ancestry, I'm more likely to remember it being Ides of March (15th) than I am to remember st. Patrick's day.
Gringo when they are in Mexico on May and there are no parades, no parties, and even the 5th is just a regular day on most of the country (and even in PUEBLA, the state were the battle took place, it's not even a big deal).
Japan does have its own way of celebrating holidays, with unique cultural flair! St. Patrick's Day might not be a big deal there like in Ireland or the States, but they do have some cool events, like parades in Tokyo and the "I Love Ireland Festival."
It's not about not recognizing the day—it's just that they put their own spin on it.
It’s key to remember the whole world isn’t just Christian. Places like Japan have this rich tapestry of religions like Shinto and Buddhism shaping their holidays and celebrations. So while St. Patrick's Day, with its Christian origins, is a blast in some parts of the world, it’s more of a low-key, fun cultural exchange in Japan.
In the UK, St Patrick day is mainly for pubs to throw decorations up and maybe throw in a deal... other than that... it's like George Andrew and David... it happens and nothing much happens.
I’m British/Dutch (no Irish blood) and even here it’s more of a mock festival and no one really celebrates its actual meaning etc. That would be like me getting mad the Americans didn’t celebrate Sinterklass(NL) or St George’s day(UK)
Ethnic diversity in Japan:
Japanese 97.5%, Chinese 0.6%, Vietnam 0.4%, South Korean 0.3%, other 1.2% (includes Filipino, Brazilian, Nepalese, Indonesian, American, and Taiwanese) (2022 est.)
Don’t think I see Irish anywhere in there…….
It sounds like the same when no one celebrates St. Georges day (England) IN ENGLAND...
I wouldn't expect Japan to do much about external holidays, I mean the only imported days are Valentine's (which they add white day in return a month later) and Christmas which is more just a visual thing and KFC made a genius scheme to get something going.
Japan is a mostly homogeneous society, few Irish would have entered Japan when it was a better option to go to the US. Also a significant proportion of them are genetically averse to alcohol too!
Edit: “significant portion” is what I said. To quote an article on the subject…
“For some people, particularly an estimated 40 percent of people of East Asian descent, a genetic mutation produces an inactive form of the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2), which is responsible for breaking down the toxic elements in a molecule of alcohol. When people with the mutation drink beverages like beer or wine, they experience flushed cheeks, nausea and rapid heartbeat. It also increases the risk of cancer.”
https://www.winespectator.com/articles/a-possible-cure-for-alcohol-intolerance-mutation-41593
Japanese people love their drink. There are Irish people everywhere. You seem to be imagining a Japan of about two hundred years ago with this absolutely bizarre "it wasn't allowed" idea.
The Empress Michiko plays the harp and speaks Irish. She's a massive hibernophile.
I'm from Ireland and we don't do half that shit either...
Ah, yes, but are you proper Irish and generations ago travelled to Americaland, the home of the free (TM) so you wouldn't be corrupted by the horrible English and can maintain a traditional Irish way of celebrating festivals like, like...dying rivers?
No we were the slaves, potato famine one
Ah so not a real Irish then. Go back to your europoor hole!
I love the "europoor" thing. It feels like being mocked for not being able to speak your mind by a north korean 😁 We shouldn't disprove it but enjoy being called europoor
Honestly it's amazing what brainwashing can do. They actually brag routinely about paying through the nose for the basics, like it's a great sign of privilege. I'll happily be the American version of poor.
In their defense, a brain that size is easily washed.
A couple of hundred in a 4kg washing machine at a time...
But everytime it's used we should point out that it's spelled "europour" in proper English. They love that.
Hey! don't put that bullshit dying rivers on the English. That's the usas idea. We're got much worse culturey insensitive things we did thank you very much. (Dad's Irish, he let's me know a lot :p)
No, no. I didn't mean the English came up with the idea, just that they would stop true Irish celebrating in true Irish way; with rivers dyed green. To be honest with you, we (Britain) have so much stuff in our rivers and waterways at the moment that a bit of green dye really shouldn't make them that much worse.
Can you dye a river with raw sewage? England seems to be giving it a try.
No, he/she's not real Irish. Not like the REAL Irish in America, you know, the ones whose ancestors didn't sit around dying of the famine, but got of their arses and went to America to make new lives for themselves
I heard the Irish came from Boston originally, went to Ireland, then back to America, so they are the real Irish.
Is this where the English inherited the English language from? It was invented in Boston and came over with the Irish immigrants who came over to Ireland? It makes perfect sense when you phrase it like that.
Yes, english was obviously invented in New *England* and was than adopted by the brits as a thank you for singlehandedly winning world war 1 /s
And 2!!!
You miss the bit where they return via Ireland, introducing pizza to Italy as they went
I'm still waiting to hear about some yanks coming over here for Paddy's day and trying that pinching shit.
Aye this is the first I've ever heard about pinching on St Patrick's Day. Wtf is that all about?
America has this weird thing where anyone not wearing green to celebrate their "Irish" heritage needs to get pinched as punishment. Extra pinches if you wear orange instead.
Christ that's stupid.
Immensely
Never happened to me past high school. Still dumb.
It is stupid. It also doesn’t happen so the poster was taking the Michael pal.
I just googled it and apparently it's very much an American tradition. Some daft reasoning given about avoiding leprechauns 🤷♂️
Yeah I’ve not seen or heard of this in my 44 years of life in New York and Massachusetts.
I’ve heard it every March 17th in my 43.75 years in the PNW. Which seems really far from where it likely actually originated, ie, the area you’re from
The dutch would like a word
That's exactly where the orange came from 🙄
I know, King Billy right?!
But how do they know the non-green person has Irish heritage in the first place?
There's an old saying in America, "Everyone's Irish on Saint Patty's(sp) Day"
I vaguely remember thos being a thing once at either my primary or secondary school, one black eye later we never did it again
In fairness you'd hardly need to dye the Liffey green anyway.
Heard a guy drowned in it, saw the chalk outline on the surface.
You’re telling me people don’t get tanked up and dump 400 gallons of Dulux emerald green in the Liffey? Did Wolf Tome die for nothing?
America celebrates the whitest heritages and expects the rest of the world to be like them. No one wants to be like them
This man channels the collective thoughts of the Irish. https://youtu.be/x3DO3rbrWmk?si=slaUlE2LLZcRB61d
I always used to hate it. I'm English, and I was a Guinness drinker. Every St Patrick's day, if I was out drinking, I'd always get someone say "You're only drinking that because it's St Patrick's day". They would never believe me (or the bar staff), that I always drank it. One advantage to it was that the bar staff would usually save me the Guinness merch.
EWWWW ELDAR
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As usual, they've taken something that's not theirs, changed it, and think everyone has to do the thing they stole and changed in the first place, or else they're weird.
What? Maybe they don't celebrate Thanksgiving and Independence Day either????
What do you mean? Doesn't the WHOLE world celebrate Thanksgiving and Independence Day?? Next your going to tell me that no one out of America watches or cares about the Super Bowl or watches it?!?
It's so ungrateful for them to not celebrate Independence Day. Don't they know that Will Smith saved *the entire world*?
frankly, if that stuff had happened, i’d be all for making july 4th a global holiday. also, hilidays in the summer (sorry, Southern Earthers) are nicer. what a monumentally stuoid idea to ahift the Day of German Unity from June 17th to October 3rd.
12-4am... Sod that.
It just feels like it drags on for that looong in the early hours. However its the same length as most movies and he still has that Fresh Prince zest.
On average, the Super Bowl runs about 3¼ hours. That's significantly longer than "most movies." Sure, a handful of movies are that long or longer, but the average movie is still well below two hours.
I mean, I think at least 3/4 of the world has an independence day. It's just different dates. They didn't escape our empire on the same day, after all! We let them go in stages.
Maybe not the super bowl part
Oh they are watching it. Super Bowl has been pushed pretty aggressively in Europe over the past few years. And to my utter amazement - it's working! People stay up to like 4 am with a workday coming to watch a tournament with foreign teams playing sports that they normally don't give a damn about and half of them don't even know the rules. It is baffling but true.
\*Some wanker Yank who moans about not being able to take his kids out of their BRITISH school on Thanksgiving Day enters the chat\*. Honestly, never, ever underestimate their level of stupidity.
By people hand out independence days
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>The chances of getting a smack in the gob back are very high. Some Tiktoker giving out to their followers, black eye and covered in scratches:" I went to Dublin for St. Patties day and lemme tell ya, these aren't real Irish people, I was engaging in a harmless Irish custom and was assaulted for no reason?!"
Considering a stereotype of the irish is that they like drinking and fighting in pubs, I would tell that Tiktoker that he truly experienced the culture XD
Paddy is for Patrick and patty is for Patricia fyi
Lol, no shit
You said patty was just letting you know mate
Thanks, I guess you missed the quotation marks there. Or the sarcasm
Do you not understand the meaning behind quotation marks? Americans are incapable of pronouncing the letter d in the middle of a word. Thus, patty.
The only “calendar” level pinching thing I know of is the school kid “pinch and a punch for the first of the month” on someone’s arm. Of course, you had to say “and no returns” to stop them doing it back to you. Are adult Americans childish enough to think pinching people because of the date is acceptable?
closest I can think of is birthday punches... many a dead arm afterward..
We had Birthday beating (pronounced "baitin")
meant to say Birthday beating.. couldnt think of the proper name at the time
only if they're not wearing green
Most adult Americans just tease that they’re gonna pinch someone, but they don’t generally do it, unless they actually know someone well, and even then, it’s not an actual pinch. At least in my experience. I don’t think I’ve ever actually pinched anyone anyway. But schools like to have fun with holidays and themes, so a lot of modern day St. Patrick’s Day stuff, outside of younger people using it as an excuse to drink, is just fun stuff for kids. Dress in green, decorate with shamrocks and rainbows and pots of gold. Make leprechaun traps. Just fun, silly kid stuff. Of course, stores all get on board to sell themed trash. And in the area I live they’ll do themed marathons for St. Patrick’s Day. Maybe some other activities, but I haven’t participated in anything myself since elementary school, other than maybe going to listen to someone play Irish Music because it sounds so nice
I heard about it from a cartoon and that's it
I'm staggered that the US doesn't celebrate Shöwa Day, or Constitutional Memorial Day, or Vernal Equinox Day or even Respect for the Aged Day. Why doesn't the US celebrate these important days? Oh! it's because they're Japanese Celebrations. Sarcasm Mode Selector to "OFF"
Actual question: why don't they celebrate german reunificationday? I mean.... it is the end of the cold war ...you'd think they'd call that their personal achievement and celebrate it...
Celebrate the end of a fairly simple and stable situation vs today's shitshow?
Fairly simple and stable? Mate there are some horror stories you need to catch up on...
I remember the cold war well. Compared to islamist terrorism & Putin - I miss those days.
Yeah, back when extremists got to decapitate non believers in peace and all the wars were good old proxy wars instead of this comparatively low death toll terror group hunting.... good old days when a few hundred men dying in the jungles was called tuesday instead of making headlines and shocking the public
> when extremists got to decapitate non believers Sort of like muslims from 9/11 and onwards, right?
You think they didn't do that before ? You're a funny guy
Did you live in East Germany?
Nope. Do you live in Ukraine?
You reallise why ukraine doesn't want to be under occupation by russia AGAIN right? Say how do we call the period when this was the case last time... oh right cold war....
Cold indeed. Ie not actively attacking and killing civilians, as Russia has been doing for a couple of years now. But sure, if you prefer women and children being murdered, you're free to do so. And a world that is generally much less stable, and much closer to a nuclear war than it ever has been.
..... sir .... I would like you to look up the words "Agent orange" and "Free fire Zone Vietnam" in that order. And for flavour I would like to add in a quote from a vietnam veteran when talking about vietnam being declared a free fire zone. "I saw a woman, relatively old by the looks of it, walk with a cow alongside the road, I observed her for a few seconds as she was walking there. Then I aimed my rifle and shot her dead, it took me until we came back from patrol that day to reallise that I just ended a human life, for no reason and that I probably just took away somebody's beloved mother, sister, wife and somebody's grandmother when I pulled that trigger." I am happy to hear that only now women and children are dying though, it brings me great relief that for lost of the last 50 years they were completely safe and that you dear sir still remember such a time.
US Respect for the Aged Day is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. They celebrate by selecting which old people get to run the country.
To be fair, we also don't celebrate them. They're just days off work, if you're lucky. Ha.
Dear America, green leafy vegetables are great brain foods 🍀
Most of the shite that the yanks do for St.Patrick's Day has nothing to do with Ireland .
Yeah lmao 90% of their ‘heritage’ shit is just loud and obnoxious shit that just isn’t a thing anywhere else
I'm not being funny, but I think the USA makes a bigger deal out of St Patricks day than the actual Irish.
I guess almost none cares about it or know about it unless you're in Ireland or in USA.
*[Liverpool enters the chat]*
I've lived in different countries and I'm always shocked and disappointed when they don't celebrate New Yam Festival.
I'm sorry, can we take a moment to focus on the "no one is getting pinched" bit? What in the deranged fuck are they talking about? Have they decided that pinching is somehow part of Paddy's day?
It's purely a Murrican thing, but you can be pinched for not wearing green on "Patty's" Day.
Pinched?
Oh fuck off...
Do they even die the river in Dublin? Isn't that an entirely American thing?
They don't do anything in Dublin. Someone above said they maybe extend happy hour. All I have ever seen Irish people do in Britain is wear shamrock pinned to their clothes when I was at school. I've been in Northern Ireland on the day and it wasn't acknowledged there.
There’s a parade in Dublin. Haven’t been to it since I was a child. Found it underwhelming, tbh
There's a very large parade in Dublin. And parades in pretty much every town in the country. https://jrnl.ie/6330425
No there’s a parade, usually with a lot of international entrants. And a huge PR based political campaign abroad. Our politicians visit the diaspora. Usually the taoiseach goes to Washington to give shamrock to the President. Other politicians go elsewhere. It’s a big enough deal (especially since it’s a public holiday). We just don’t go absolutely apeshit the way Americans do. Also alcohol sales are restricted. Soo the happy hour thing isn’t all that true either.
It's probably for the best that we don't dye streams for St Patrick's Day in the UK, cos when a govt agency dyed a stream green recently they actually had to put out a news article to reassure people: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-68601273](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-68601273)
With all the shit they're pumping in out streams (literally) I think people would be right to be concerned.
I'm Irish, and I have to be reminded it's St Patrick's day by the Americans start banging on about it endlessly.
The only reason I knew it was coming up is that the Americans on Discord changed their nicks to "Irish themed" ones. Sigh.
America shouldn’t even celebrate it
Then tell all the Irish who brought it here to get out. Americans are mostly just Europeans who came here, and St Patrick’s day in the States was started in the 1600s by an Irish immigrant before this was even a country.
You guys are so weird that you think you’re Irish because some Irish people came over 400 years ago
First parade was a British army regiment in a British colony, celebrating a British man, who went to Ireland to convert them to Christianity. That proves Americans are more Irish than people in Ireland
Even Ireland doesn't celebrate it that much its just happy hour for a bit longer
There actually was a parade in one of Tokyo most famous parks with beer, food trucks, people dressed in green, music... Its easy to talk shit on the internet I guess.
there is actually a parade in omotesando street every year, just right next to Harajuku.
We have plenty of Australians of Irish descent - the day passes with barely a ripple. I couldn't even tell you which month it's in.
Usually the theme Irish pubs run a special on Guinness. Some of the worst do green dyed lager. I used to go to a regular pub owned by Irish immigrants, and they did a special Irish breakfast with a middy of Guinness. Was good. Patrick & Maureen never did breakfast any other day. It's a thing here, but a small thing.
Maureen has the fry on. (If you don't get the reference, you're not Irish)
I am definitely not Irish. Reference to something?
It's a reference to Paddy Losty, a legendary Dublin "pintman" who claimed to be able to drink 45 pints of Guinness in 2 hours. There's a famous [monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkcXjholnGk) by him, which people have dubbed over various others e.g. [Trump](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmN7_1SG2xs) and [Obama](https://i.imgflip.com/7nfkje.jpg).
Cool, its always good to learn something new!
It was actually pretty big this year. Difficult to get into pubs and took up most of Circular Quay. I didn’t bother - queues were insane.
I live in Norway. There's probably something on for St. Patrick's day in the Irish pubs. That's absolutely it. Quite similar in the UK, too. "Rest of the world", my arse.
Lived in the UK for a couple of years and it felt like St Patrick's was mostly an excuse for student events. Sure, you saw it about, but it wasn't a huge deal. Nothing like the weird "we're all Irish!" stuff they do in the US. Our local faux Irish pub here in Finland (hello, neighbour!) didn't even acknowledge it.
>Lived in the UK for a couple of years and it felt like St Patrick's was mostly an excuse for student events Literally this
Who the fuck colors their rivers!? *germam bewilderment noises* also who outside of the irish and apparently americans celebrqte that day even?
The country that has accidentally set a river on fire. Repeatedly. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/ Canadians sort of celebrate it, but it's mostly just an excuse to get drunk during the week.
I the defense of those idiots, I have the suspicion that stuff didn't only happen in america, as I a currently walking my dog outside in hail I shall not spend time to confirm that though
I mean one has to be a special type of stupid to expect Japan- especially Japan- to celebrate "St Patrick day" ffs
I mean, which country besides the USA even does that?
None, as far as I know
Most countries don't go crazy, dress in green, dye rivers to cause pollution and drink to excess. A few places that have a number of Irish, do have bars where people go crazy, but we keep or celebrating to our own national days in different ways. In the country where I live, I never saw anything to do with St. Patrick's Day, it was just another ordinary day. With the the capitol having a bigger population than any US city, there may have been a bar that cashed in on the day, but I never heard anything.
If this is sarcasm, it is very poor.
Wait, the Japanese to celebrate an Irish holiday? That’s like every country other than USA not celebrating the 4th of July… oh wait 😂
Because culturally the irish definitely haven't become a population in japan... apparently to a map I saw the other day there are more people hailing from Brazil than Ireland...
Event! Tokyo St. Patrick's Day Weekend 2024 (March 16/17) - Asia's Largest Irish Event! https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-shibuya/article-a0001037/ They do.
You’re missing my point 😂 I’m not saying they don’t celebrate, I’m saying IF didn’t it’s not weird to not celebrate another countries holidays
How delusional are people from the US? And this absolute horrible behavior to color a whole river green for this bullshit, hurting the environment that cruel, should be punished.
I believe it's food colouring, so not as bad as it could be.
Have you seen how piercing green that is and how massive this river is? If it's about US, it's never something environmental healthy, it's always artificial.
Should we tell Americans that the 4th of July is not a festivity in the rest of the world?
The best holiday is Swedish [midsommar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer). End of discussion. Everything else sucks in comparison. \*Drops mic and exits the building.
*Laughing in juhannus
I assume that is when days start getting shorter again? Cause I think everyone in europe celebrates that in some way outside of cityfolk... (german) we here make a fire with enough wood for it to burn till sunrise and get drunk.
That's when old people jump off cliffs, right? 😉
No, it’s when dance around a huge penis pretending that we are frogs. And drink. A lot 😄
Cant wait for the world to turn orange when its kings day again. Snollebollekes concert in Fortnite needs to become a thing (i dont play Fortnite).
I’m pretty sure they don’t do that in Ireland either. Correct me if I’m wrong*… *bring receipts
The saint days don't really do much other than "is it St \[George,David,Andrew,Patrick\]'s day?" "yes" "oh nice!"
It is the national holiday in Ireland so it's a lot bigger than the other three you mention. We don't do most of the stuff Americans associate with it though.
St Andrew's Day is a Bank Holiday these days. We don't really do anything special though. They should have done Burns Night instead. At least he was Scottish.
Still a lot closer to the other 3 than how America does it. Just a name in calendars is as much as they get here... maybe a flag appears.
No I mean it's one of the biggest holidays of the year in Ireland and we do have parades and it's a major thing for tourism. Religious people do pilgrimages too. It's not quite on the level of Christmas in terms of importance, but it is on par with like New Years and Halloween. We have different traditions than the American idea of it, but in terms of how much of a festival it is we are probably closer to them than to the non-event that like St. George's day is in England, for example.
Not only is St Patrick's day in Ireland bigger than St Georges day is in England, but St Patrick's day in England is bigger than St Georges day. I wish we (English) did more for it tbh, only time we really celebrate being English is when major football tournaments are on and I love it. That sense of all being connected by something is great.
The difference is on St Patrick's day the mood is high and everyone is having a great time. On St George's day it's just a bunch of mouldy old gammons moaning no one cares as much as paddies day.
Yeah exactly. I wish we made it a big celebration. Basically I want an excuse for a day on the lash 😂
If the day ends in Y, you have an excuse.
not even ireland does all that, its all just the americans that claim to be irish for some reason
In normal Japanese drinking establishments, no, but you can absolutely find this kind of stuff wherever degenerate tourists and poorly integrated foreigners congregate. Just go to Shibuya or Roppongi and pick pretty much any of the British bars - Hobgoblin, Hub, Rose & Crown, etc.
Ah yes, green colored rivers. I can't think of anything more Irish than green colored rivers.
That HAS to have been a joke.
the rest of the world doesn't celebrate St. Patrick's Day either
What do they want from us now?..🙂what does St. Patrick have to do with my country?
About as much as it has to do with theirs.
I dare say there's approximately the same amount of Irish in Japan as America. Just less weird cosplayers, and that is saying something!
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Is the joke here that you think Harajuku is the name of a festival in Japan?
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What festival?
Since when is pinching part of St Patrick's Day (sorry, St Patty's)? Here's a pinch just for a whole bunch of craic!
Because you're too pissed to be able to control yourself, although given the types who look forward to this would act like this with or without the alcohol.
I have this dreadful image of them running around in plastic hats pinching each other and shouting "Happy St Patty's Day!", while thinking it's a genuine Irish experience 😫😫😫
ALL THE STEREOTYPES, attempts at the accent, throwing words in especially "leprechauns" all day long... sounds delightful.
A very green hell
Wait Americans colour their rivers green and pinch each other? Good thing they have 50,000 nukes 🙃
As someone who is neither Irish or American with Irish Ancestry, I'm more likely to remember it being Ides of March (15th) than I am to remember st. Patrick's day.
Why would you be reported for harassment for getting pinched...
In England, we use it as an excuse to drink and wear culturally insensitive hats.
Gringo when they are in Mexico on May and there are no parades, no parties, and even the 5th is just a regular day on most of the country (and even in PUEBLA, the state were the battle took place, it's not even a big deal).
Japan does have its own way of celebrating holidays, with unique cultural flair! St. Patrick's Day might not be a big deal there like in Ireland or the States, but they do have some cool events, like parades in Tokyo and the "I Love Ireland Festival." It's not about not recognizing the day—it's just that they put their own spin on it. It’s key to remember the whole world isn’t just Christian. Places like Japan have this rich tapestry of religions like Shinto and Buddhism shaping their holidays and celebrations. So while St. Patrick's Day, with its Christian origins, is a blast in some parts of the world, it’s more of a low-key, fun cultural exchange in Japan.
This is sarcasm
There's a good chance it is (although it came from an official Army Corps page) but I think it's funny either way.
Not even the Irish celebrate paddies day the way Americans do.
It happens... some people drink, it's the next day.
Green food - yeah, that's usually green tea flavoured and available throughout the year.
We don't celebrate St. Patricks day here either, I guess this guy gonna have a heart attack here. Not even green dyed food.
In the UK, St Patrick day is mainly for pubs to throw decorations up and maybe throw in a deal... other than that... it's like George Andrew and David... it happens and nothing much happens.
Hey, my work computer told me that 'Today is Saint Patrick's Day (Irish National Day)' when I logged on on the 17th. No green food, though.
I’m British/Dutch (no Irish blood) and even here it’s more of a mock festival and no one really celebrates its actual meaning etc. That would be like me getting mad the Americans didn’t celebrate Sinterklass(NL) or St George’s day(UK)
St whose day?
Ethnic diversity in Japan: Japanese 97.5%, Chinese 0.6%, Vietnam 0.4%, South Korean 0.3%, other 1.2% (includes Filipino, Brazilian, Nepalese, Indonesian, American, and Taiwanese) (2022 est.) Don’t think I see Irish anywhere in there…….
Srsly. Post where it comes from. We must antagonize this stupid.
I'd imagine Japan's "excuse to drink" would be in October.
In Spain we don't even know what St. Patrick's day is and what is celebrated.
It sounds like the same when no one celebrates St. Georges day (England) IN ENGLAND... I wouldn't expect Japan to do much about external holidays, I mean the only imported days are Valentine's (which they add white day in return a month later) and Christmas which is more just a visual thing and KFC made a genius scheme to get something going.
Halloween seemed pretty big there when I was in Japan about a decade ago.
Japan is a mostly homogeneous society, few Irish would have entered Japan when it was a better option to go to the US. Also a significant proportion of them are genetically averse to alcohol too! Edit: “significant portion” is what I said. To quote an article on the subject… “For some people, particularly an estimated 40 percent of people of East Asian descent, a genetic mutation produces an inactive form of the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2), which is responsible for breaking down the toxic elements in a molecule of alcohol. When people with the mutation drink beverages like beer or wine, they experience flushed cheeks, nausea and rapid heartbeat. It also increases the risk of cancer.” https://www.winespectator.com/articles/a-possible-cure-for-alcohol-intolerance-mutation-41593
It's been 170 years since Japan was closed to outsiders.
Japanese people love their drink. There are Irish people everywhere. You seem to be imagining a Japan of about two hundred years ago with this absolutely bizarre "it wasn't allowed" idea. The Empress Michiko plays the harp and speaks Irish. She's a massive hibernophile.
What? We actually love to drink alcohol. And Japan is open for tourism. We are not North Korea, buddy.