I don't get it.

"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
03/17/2016 at 09:57 • Filed to: None

I’m not Mexican, so I don’t celebrate Cinco de Mayo. I’m not Irish, so I don’t celebrate St. Patty’s day. Yet, these days and others like them seem to have taken over and become far greater than the original intent. Why?

Is it nothing more than a dumbass excuse to go and get wasted?

DISCUSSION (26)

GTI Sprinks > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:00

Because cultural appropriation that includes excuses for people to binge drink is a good enough excuse for really really poor minded individuals.

PowderHound > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:02

It's a great excuse to get wasted

64Mali > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:02

As Jamie Foxx would say “blame it on the Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Alcohol”

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:03

...because people like to drink when they see other people drinking and excuses for drinking are really, really popular?

not for canada - australian in disguise > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:04

Is it nothing more than a dumbass excuse to go and get wasted?

Nope!

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:04

Socially acceptable binge drinking.

Svend > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:05

I celebrate St. Patrick’s Day because I’m British and so was St. Patrick.

Sure St. George is the patron saint of England but he never came to England where St. Patrick is believed to of been born not far from me and his grand father from what is now the middle of Cumbria.

So I celebrate because his grand father was a Cummerlan, St. Patrick was from Romano Britain and I love Irish drinks.

Oh and it’s a good an excuse as any to get wasted. Sláinte.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:05

No it’s actually just a fucking dumb excuse to get wasted.

Ash78, voting early and often > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:07

St. Patty’s day seems popular (a) wherever there are a lot of people of recent Irish descent or (b) in college towns. I imagine South Bend, Indiana is pretty crazy about it. I’m in neither camp...it just comes and goes without notice around here, except for the occasional sports bar luring people in. Also, I don’t drink any beers so light that they would accept green food coloring without turning a horrible brown color :D

For Sweden > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:08

Don’t tell me what’s dumb you’re the one wearing a question mark as a toga

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:16

Because my heritage is 75% Irish (25% Scottish).

The Irish used to be treated like trash in the United States and it’s fantastic that we can now have a day to celebrate our heritage as opposed to hiding it.

There was once a time during the Great Irish Immigration that despite the insane and terrible racism towards blacks, they were respected and paid more money than Irish Immigrants.

It tends to piss me off that it’s a day of binge drinking and not a day to celebrate Irish Heritage.

But I WILL be drinking some Irish Whiskey tonight, that’s for sure.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:19

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Yes.

Well, in Boston it’s a dumbass excuse to get wasted and listen to the Dropkick Murphys.

Nibby > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:20

Going to work then straight home. Avoiding anything and everything else today.

cazzyodo > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:25

Is it nothing more than a dumbass excuse to go and get wasted?

Basically.

Can’t wait to bring the dog for a walk tonight...should be a shit show with all the bars. The stereotypical wasted white girl loves this little thing:

Kinja'd!!!

BorkBorkBjork > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:27

I am Irish, but I also celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Yom Kippur, and May Day, because I identify as a Jewish Mexican Soviet.

Kinja'd!!!

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:27

As a kid of Irish descent, born in Chicago to an alum of Notre Dame and then spending time in Boston it bugs me to see a day of heritage pride turn into a drunk fest. But we minimize the significance of every holiday we can, be it as important as Christmas or minimal (to Americans) as Cinco de Mayo.

Living in NJ now, it really upset me at my local St Patrick’s parade to see the “I’m not Irish, but I’m hammered and my kids are here for the candy” crowd. I don’t go to Columbus day parades, or the Puerto Rican parades, etc. (at all) but especially not inebriated and with my kids shoving other kids to get to the candy being tossed from floats.

We won’t go down the path discussing the cultural issues that the Irish have long faced, globally, and the treatment of them when they arrived in droves to America. Mostly because it’s hard to separate fact from fiction, but also because the story has been lost among green beer and ridiculous hats.

St Patrick’s Day is about drinking now, because that’s all the Irish are worth, haha. ( I laugh because I would cry otherwise)

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:27

Is it nothing more than a dumbass excuse to go and get wasted?

Kinja'd!!!

have you met “the bros”?

HammerheadFistpunch > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:28

I dont like football buti still celibrate the superbowl

macanamera > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:48

TIL one needs an excuse to get wasted

WiscoProud > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:52

Pretty much. Its an excuse to walk up at 6am and start drinking. As American's we're always looking for a good excuse to day drink.

BKosher84 > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 10:52

Is it nothing more than a dumbass excuse to go and get wasted?

Yes. I have a co-worker, who doesn’t have a Irish bone in his body, take off work today/tomorrow so he can go to the bar down the street from 8am to I’m an alcoholic and drink himself stupid.

Birddog > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 11:14

I think you’re reading a bit too deep. You don’t celebrate, that’s fine. Don’t try to understand the actions of others based on your own behavior.

PS9 > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 11:26

Meh. They’re just holidays. Participate if you want, leave yourself out if you don’t.

mycarneverruns87 > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 11:48

Very simple, people just look for any excuse to consume mass quantities of alcohol and eat bar foods. Also, St. Patty’s day is so different than any other day at a bar...because there was green beer which totally changed the experience.

Note: I actually greatly enjoy the bar foods though

The Dummy Gummy > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 13:31

Every party has a pooper and that pooper is you.

Kinja'd!!!

Alex Zapata > mkbruin, Atlas VP
03/17/2016 at 16:02

I am Mexican, living in Mexico and I don’t celebrate the 5th of May, nor do I personally know anyone who does.