David Manley | 17 Mar 2015 3:01 a.m. PST |
Dammit, another St Patrick's Day ruined by the TMP banner with that feckless hypocrite toting a toy missile. Please can we have a new banner next year? |
MajorB | 17 Mar 2015 3:19 a.m. PST |
Drink Guinness. You know it makes sense. |
Rebelyell2006 | 17 Mar 2015 3:52 a.m. PST |
I'm looking at it on my phone and the quality is too poor for an identification. Who is it? |
Florida Tory | 17 Mar 2015 4:19 a.m. PST |
I'm not sure how a TMP banner makes or ruins St.Patricks Day. The quality and quantity are much more important! Rick |
Winston Smith | 17 Mar 2015 5:31 a.m. PST |
Let he who is without feckless hypocrisy toss the first shillelaghe!! |
OSchmidt | 17 Mar 2015 5:37 a.m. PST |
I don't care. Not Irish and will celebrate St. Patricks day when people celebrate Von Steuben Day. But I did wear my "colors for the day." Black Pants, tan shirt and an Orange tie." On the twelfth of July as it yearly did come Bob played on flute to the beat of the drum Ye can talk o' your piano your harp and your lute But there's none can compare with the old Orange Flute. and on and on and on |
OldGrenadier at work | 17 Mar 2015 5:59 a.m. PST |
I'm wearing feldgrau pants. Does that count? |
MajorB | 17 Mar 2015 6:19 a.m. PST |
I'm wearing feldgrau pants. Does that count? I am not discussing my underwear in public!! |
Oh Bugger | 17 Mar 2015 6:22 a.m. PST |
I'll raise a glass tonight and sigh for the days when I was young and in the pub at 10 in the morning. Happy St Patrick's Day! Thanks for that Otto good to know you not Irish but can still manage a bit of begrudgery. Well done. |
Weasel | 17 Mar 2015 8:17 a.m. PST |
My army trenchcoat is kind of green. |
RavenscraftCybernetics | 17 Mar 2015 8:39 a.m. PST |
Now, now, don't get your Irish up! |
Rogues1 | 17 Mar 2015 9:45 a.m. PST |
I celebrate. As my mum from Scotland use to say, only the Irish can understand how miserable it is to be a Scot. Happy St Patrick's Day everyone. |
Col Durnford | 17 Mar 2015 10:20 a.m. PST |
"But I did wear my "colors for the day." Black Pants, tan shirt and an Orange tie." So on MLK day do you wear your white sheet and pointy hood? |
Guthroth | 17 Mar 2015 11:25 a.m. PST |
I celebrate. It's our 31st wedding anniversary. It's a date I have trouble forgetting …. |
OSchmidt | 17 Mar 2015 11:36 a.m. PST |
Dear V Carter No, as here is no mandatory wearing of any type of color of clothing on that day. It's the mandatory wearing of a color giving support for something I don't believe in. So get off your high horse, you wouldn't wear it either if you were "forced" by public pressure to wear it. Nor do I wear red and green at Christmas, red white and Green on Columbus Day, Red white and blue on 4th of July, or anything else. Only the Irish, so far, feel the need to make everyone conform to them. |
Col Durnford | 17 Mar 2015 12:01 p.m. PST |
I'm not wearing green today as well. As a matter of fact, I have on a Gray shirt and Black slacks. You, on the other hand, selected an outfit that appears to be designed as an insult. The comparison to your attire and a KKK suit on MLK day stands. |
OSchmidt | 17 Mar 2015 12:14 p.m. PST |
Dear M Carter You may feel as you wish. However, from a young person I was always bullied to wear green on this day. Always it was the Irish who did so, often with threats of violence when I was wearing blue or black or yellow or whatever. So later yes, I designed that as an insult to them- an insult to the bullies. Wearing green when I was a young lad was taken as supporting the IRA, a bunch of murdering thugs. So- sorry. As a wee lad, it was these same Irish kids who made fun of my name and called me a Nazi, and they weren't joking. You apparently are a bully too. Dear Kyoteblue. Are you REALLY making a joke? If so fine. But it's not the back of my hand to the Irish or any other group. I just won't be bullied. If you try and force me to take sides in other peoples quarrels, I will take the side you don't like. |
Col Durnford | 17 Mar 2015 12:17 p.m. PST |
Sorry you were bullied as a child. Let's end this now. |
JimDuncanUK | 17 Mar 2015 12:47 p.m. PST |
@Rebelyell2006 He appears to be someone called Bono. |
Editor in Chief Bill | 17 Mar 2015 1:13 p.m. PST |
Please can we have a new banner next year? If you ask He Who Makes The Banners nicely, perhaps he will respond to your request… |
JimDuncanUK | 17 Mar 2015 1:24 p.m. PST |
"Please can we have a new banner next year?" Oh come on Bill, that is perfectly polite. |
Oh Bugger | 17 Mar 2015 1:27 p.m. PST |
" As a wee lad, it was these same Irish kids who made fun of my name and called me a Nazi, and they weren't joking." Well its good to see you got over it and grew up to be a well balanced individual. T'would be a rhyme so no doubt. Cutting I can see that but really bad enough to bear a grudge to the grave? God be with the youth of us. |
B6GOBOS | 17 Mar 2015 1:53 p.m. PST |
I don't know Otto. Seems there is a lot bullying in your past and a lot of anger in you. I mean wearing black tan and orange is kinda picking a fight? I grew up in Boston (lived in Charlestown for three years) and seldom if ever wore green. Never gave to the "widows and orphan fund". No one ever called me a Nazi or bullied me. Still I had great fun at a number of the local watering hole having a glass and singing the songs. One fine soul taught me a drink called a car bomb. Drop a shot glass of Bailey's and whiskey into a Guinness and drink it down. There now feeling better lad? |
Rebelyell2006 | 17 Mar 2015 2:33 p.m. PST |
I mean wearing black tan and orange is kinda picking a fight? I'd say the cultural expectation of wearing green and supporting the IRA terrorists would be bullying and fight-picking against those of us with Protestant ancestors, particularly those of us with English and Scotch-Irish ancestors. |
War Panda | 17 Mar 2015 3:07 p.m. PST |
" ….feel the need to make everyone conform to them." What a lot of total …Originally I gave you the benefit of the doubt and presumed you were merely making a completely humorless joke while displaying incredibly poor taste not to mention a serious lack of human decency and any semblance of a genuine knowledge of history. But since I've read your responses its fairly obvious we're unfortunately dealing with the one of those sad individuals that have nothing substantial to contribute to this world. Instead they seem only content to share their own miserable disposition with the rest of us. I'm on holidays in Madrid right now and I can assure you there were no Irish forcing the fun loving Spaniards here I came across to wear green. But wearing green they were. Sadly I left home without bringing anything green to wear but one of these very pleasant and friendly Spaniards gave me some green decorative paper to wrap around my shoulders…perhaps you should be blaming spaniards for coercing the Irish to wear green. Whatever age you are you really should grow up and begin to appraise and appreciate life. If this seems beyond you I'd advise you to persevere in your wearing of Black and Tan; By the sounds of things its far more appropriate attire for you. |
Henry Martini | 17 Mar 2015 3:13 p.m. PST |
My mother is originally from Belfast and my maternal grandfather was an ignorant, bigoted Orange Order dock worker who, with hard work and scrupulous saving, bought his way into a 'mixed' middle-class neighbourhood. Many of my mum's childhood friends were Catholic, but 'Granda' maintained an island of bigotry in a sea of compromise. Despite the strong national historical and genetic Irish connection (now well diluted with successive immigration waves), for most Aussies the St Patricks day nonsense is just an excuse to look and act silly and go to the pub (of course, no excuse is really necessary). As a non-drinker I have little reason to participate. Paradoxically, my non-alcoholic drink-of-choice would warm my Grandad's heart. |
Rebelyell2006 | 17 Mar 2015 3:14 p.m. PST |
Whatever age you are you really should grow up and begin to appraise and appreciate life. I can appreciate life without wearing battleflags on my hats or ISIS flags on my shirts. Growing up also requires understanding that people carry cultural and family baggage. |
vtsaogames | 17 Mar 2015 3:21 p.m. PST |
Today my name is O'Tsao and after a few drinks my gills should be green. |
War Panda | 17 Mar 2015 3:28 p.m. PST |
I can appreciate life without wearing battleflags on my hats or ISIS flags on my shirts Wearing green for me is appreciating my nationality and my genuine love for the man we call St Patrick. As I mentioned elsewhere today (in a far more pleasant conversation) the man of the day was most likely Welsh or even English :O |
Robert Kennedy | 17 Mar 2015 3:54 p.m. PST |
Being a Civil War Reenactor I am wearing my Union 116th PVI forage cap with the Harp of Ireland on it .
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Weasel | 17 Mar 2015 4:21 p.m. PST |
I tend not to celebrate any national events, whether of my own countries or elsewhere. I have no ill will against those who do though. Life is dreary enough without taking opportunities to celebrate. |
David Manley | 17 Mar 2015 4:41 p.m. PST |
Anyway, back to the original point, can they who make the banners please come up with one featuring a less irksome Irishman or woman next year? Ta :) |
Col Durnford | 17 Mar 2015 4:54 p.m. PST |
I second David Manley's proposal. |
Jemima Fawr | 17 Mar 2015 5:40 p.m. PST |
"As I mentioned elsewhere today (in a far more pleasant conversation) the man of the day was most likely Welsh or even English" Well, Welsh or Romano-British (much the same thing then). As mentioned earlier in that other thread, it does seem strange to celebrate a foreigner who came over and single-handedly destroyed the traditional pagan Irish culture… |
enfant perdus | 17 Mar 2015 6:02 p.m. PST |
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Editor in Chief Bill | 17 Mar 2015 6:13 p.m. PST |
Oh come on Bill, that is perfectly polite. The person you want to talk to is Wyatt the Odd |
Winston Smith | 17 Mar 2015 7:09 p.m. PST |
Otto, who is forcing or compelling anybody to wear green? I am of 100% Irish American ancestry and did not wear green today, mostly because a green tie with a Comcast uniform polo shirt would …. clash. Nor am I attending a Friendly Sons dinner, mainly because Joe Biden ("Scrappy kid from Scranton") is featured guest speaker. |
Editor in Chief Bill | 17 Mar 2015 7:27 p.m. PST |
Winston is only virtual Irish. |
skinkmasterreturns | 17 Mar 2015 7:41 p.m. PST |
I recall one year that I drank so much that Leprechauns came and compelled me to wear green, but that was the only time,I think. |
138SquadronRAF | 17 Mar 2015 7:54 p.m. PST |
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zoneofcontrol | 17 Mar 2015 8:04 p.m. PST |
The usual St. Paddy's Day tasting specialties are Guinness Beer and Jameson Irish Whiskey. Today throughout TMPland, there seems to be quite a bit of whine tasting too. |
tkdguy | 17 Mar 2015 11:56 p.m. PST |
I usually wear red on St. Patrick's Day and green on Valentine's Day. I did that by accident and kept it as my tradition. This year, I didn't wear green on Valentine's Day (or red IIRC), so today I wore green for once. I'm not very big on tradition. |
War Panda | 18 Mar 2015 4:52 a.m. PST |
My Valentine's tradition is to refer to it as Halloween to my wife. |
Old Slow Trot | 18 Mar 2015 6:53 a.m. PST |
Was at a program at my local library where the Celtic music group Foley Road was performing,followed by the McGing Irish Dancers kicking it up quite beautifully. |
Patrick Sexton | 18 Mar 2015 8:49 a.m. PST |
Sorry for the belated post. I just got back from an evening of enforcing the mandatory wearing of the green dress code. |
Oh Bugger | 18 Mar 2015 10:03 a.m. PST |
You'll be worn out Patrick. |
COL Scott ret | 20 Mar 2015 10:21 a.m. PST |
As a by the way if wearing green is to show the tradional colors of Ireland than I see nothing wrong with wearing orange it is the color of N. Ireland and part of the Irish flag. Go ahead and try to pinch me if I wear orange(BTW pinching is an American tradition begun by the recent Irish immigrants during the late 1700's-early 1800's( trying to get others to show visual support to their country). The actual tradional color of St Patrick was blue not green until the 1700's. |
mashrewba | 20 Mar 2015 12:17 p.m. PST |
I wonder why people drink Guinness when it tastes like e? |
Henry Martini | 21 Mar 2015 6:28 a.m. PST |
They say it puts hares on your chest… well, leporidae of some description, anyway. |
Oh Bugger | 21 Mar 2015 7:20 a.m. PST |
A good pint of Guinness is a wonderful thing it goes down very easy and is very moreish. I rarely drink it these days prefering real ale you can have half a dozen of them and go home. With six pints of Guinness its time for more and Blackbush or Paddy whiskey chasers. Or so I find anyhow having reached the conclusion that I'm far too old to be out at two in the morning. Might be different for you. |