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QOTD 3/17

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Do you celebrate St Pattys Day?

What do you think about all of the sponsors (especially beer companies) pulling out of certain St Pattys Day parades this year?

Eta: an article about Guiness pull out of the NYC parade. http://nytimes.com/2014/03/17/nyregion/guinness-withdraws-sponsorship-of-st-patricks-day-parade.html?_r=0&referrer=
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  • H and I are both a wee bit Irish (hehe)...both of us are 25%. We don't really celebrate St. Patrick's Day though.

    I applaud sponsors for stand up for equality. I understand that St. Patrick's Day has a religious aspect to it...but at the same time it's a day where tons of people get drunk (where is the religion in that?). Religious groups can believe whatever they want to believe in their church, but when the parades exclude certain people from participating on public property, that's just wrong.



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  • We don't celebrate it even though H is Irish (his family used to own castles in Ireland!).  

    I hadn't heard about about the parade thing...
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  • No celebrating here. There isn't an ounce of Irish in either of us. I used to go out for a few drinks years ago, but was never one to make a big deal about it. I think the last year I went out was 2008.

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  • I've only been out for St. Patrick's day once a couple of years ago and really it was just to get out of the house.  I don't have any Irish in me and I don't think H does either, so it's not that big of a deal to us.

    I haven't heard of the parade issue either.
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  • Last night we celebrated St Patty's day and my grandfather's 94th birthday together with family. It was awesome.

    Tonight we'll just have leftover corned beef and Irish soda bread - YUM!

    Saturday night we're having a big St Patty's day and DH's birthday party at our house with friends. It will be amazing per usual!

    So yes, we celebrate!

    I don't know anything about this parade controversy. 
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  • My husband is half Irish and they do a big family meal every year. We did it yesterday at my in laws house. We wear silly green accessories like beads and headbands with bouncy shamrocks. We have tons of corned beef and cabbage along with soda bread and honey butter ! It's one of my favorite days . I'm not irish at all and didn't celebrate growing up.
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    I am part Irish American, and I will probably make something Irish for dinner and force DH to choke down a Guinness ;)

    I agree with @Nic on the parade thing, I mean that part of it really has little religious import today.  If you need a religious fix for St. Patricks' I recommend going to Mass or praying to St. Patrick instead :)  And you all know I say that as a crazy Catholic, too!


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  • We don't celebrate although I do want to have a shamrock shake from McDonald's.

    As for the parade, I am glad they they pulled their sponsorships. I mean everyone else in the parade can say what organization they represents, so why can't gay and lesbian groups? I mean leprechauns do live at the end on the rainbow which is the gay pride symbol. Lol.
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  • We don't celebrate it anymore. We used to go out drinking.

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  • We don't do anything for it except wear green! I've always wanted to, but we're big homebodies. 

    I hadn't heard anything about the sponsorship issues until reading that article, and I say good for them! It's ridiculous that we can't get past this issue of people being gay.
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  • Just wearing green for the most part. We had corned beef and Guinness last night.

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  • Also I hadn't heard anything about the parade but good for them!!!

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  • I used to celebrate when I was young and into partying, but now I don't care.  My grandmother's birthday is today, so my family always celebrates that.  She's 100 today :)

    As for the NYC parade.  It is organized by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, traditionally an Irish-Catholic organization.  The organization follows the teachings and beliefs of the Church.  The Catholic Church does not support homosexuals.  The organization is keeping up that belief.  Although many people have made St. Patrick's Day a drinking holiday, it's not really.  St. Patrick is the patron saint of the New York Archdiocese and the patron saint of Ireland.  The AOH keeps to that tradition and not to the drinking, even though they have alcohol companies as sponsors.

    I do agree that any groups who wish to participate should be allowed to march and show their pride for their cultural background.  I agree that sponsors have pulled out.  I don't agree that the city council is not supporting the parade. 
  • We don't really celebrate it. The most i did today was wear a ton of green apparel to work.

    Although reading a food post earlier has made me nostalgic for my honeymoon. We had dinner at an Irish pub the first night.

    Glad to hear about the parade sponsorships. I had not heard too much about it until today.
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  • I didn't even wear green. Caleb did though!
  • DH has had a tradition since 21 that they all go to the parade in the morning and then pub crawl all day after.  St. Paul has a ton of Irish pubs, so it's the place to be.  I joined in this tradition when DH and I started dating.  It's been a lot of fun.  We had fun this year but I don't know how much longer the tradition will last.  It was just DH, me and one of his friends.  I shattered the screen on my phone trying to take a picture, it was cold out and I was ready to go home by 3.  Once we have LOs I can't see this being something that we can do anymore. 

     

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