Update: I’m guessing Saint Patrick’s day is effectively cancelled

"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland) 03/16/2020 at 20:59 • Filed to: Saint paddies day

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That’s too bad because I found my green ski hat.

Post: Green things, Irish music, Irish food, Lemmings, Snakes

AestheticsInMotion > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/16/2020 at 21:07

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I’ll pledge to drink too much at home. We can have an over-the-air St Paddy’s day

WilliamsSW > AestheticsInMotion 03/16/2020 at 21:10

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 I've got plenty of Irish whiskey!  I'm happy to share, but...

Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] > AestheticsInMotion 03/16/2020 at 21:11

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Aye. I’ll be cracking the bottle open for me, myself, and I, in the comfort of my own home. 

AestheticsInMotion > Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] 03/16/2020 at 21:14

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Okay, so I think we have ourselves a plan. Oppo-wide celebration? It'll be like a theme day, just... With more booze

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > AestheticsInMotion 03/16/2020 at 21:21

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Fuck yeah we got a plane.

someassemblyrequired > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/16/2020 at 21:33

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Bars are closed in Ireland until the 29th - so yes.

AestheticsInMotion > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/16/2020 at 21:37

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Better stock up on liquor! 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > someassemblyrequired 03/16/2020 at 21:39

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Isn’t it against the law to close the bars in Ireland?

Chariotoflove > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/16/2020 at 21:59

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All that means is you don’t have to share your booze.

Slainte. 

Chariotoflove > AestheticsInMotion 03/16/2020 at 22:00

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Okay, I am on board with this. Synchronized drinking. Someone just say “Go”. That’s all I need. 

someassemblyrequired > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/16/2020 at 22:01

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Just play this clip in reverse and that’s Ireland in a month

WRXforScience > AestheticsInMotion 03/16/2020 at 22:02

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I only have rum, but I can wear something green and get drunk. I think that’s probably close enough to count.

I have 20min tomorrow to get anything I need out of my classroom, they split out time slots organized alphabetically so I’ve got from 10am-10:20am tomorrow to grab anything I need.

We’re expected to make a short video to send to our students, but as a teacher, I don’t have a way to mass email all my students and really can just put up a link on the LMS (learning management system, ie online homework site).

We’ve had zero training for anything like this, but at least we spent a week learning about what to do for a school shooter (hey, they can’t shoot us all if we’re telecasting from home, two birds!).

We’ve got 2 confirmed cases in town and at least one of those is a parent of one of our students. Not to mention, last week was our spring break and a sizable portion of the students left the country.

Maybe, w e should just quarantine all the olds and let everyone else just get sick as quickly as possible. Huge dance raves and greeting each other by licking faces. So, basically a normal St. Patrick’s day but we share beer cups. We’d be done with all the shit by tax day, we could even make the next week or so a national holiday (anti-quarantine) and party like it’s the end of the world. If you’re going to get sick and have to put up with a ton of shit, at least you should get a great party out of the ordeal. And, it might help fix social security, two birds! Or, maybe that’s not the best idea.

Pretty much everyone in control of the government is over 70 and we basically have to elect an entirely new congress, senate, president, and most of the supreme court (I’m pretty sure the notorious RBG would either survive, or take Roberts and/or Beer me Brett with her). Damn, now I’m not so sure this a bad idea ... Wait, Pence is actually young, even though he looks and acts like he’s 80, that’s a fatal flaw in the plan. I guess we’ll just have to keep this social distancing up until the end of the summer. At least by the time this is wrapping up we’ll be at most intense part of an election year... The horror, THE HORROR!

Stupid 2020, it’s like every other decade is just terrible. 1980's there’s a stock market crash, inflation, and AIDS. 1990's, not too bad; crime rates drop precipitously, the economy does pretty well, equality and acceptance on the rise and the worse thing the President does is get a bj on the job. 2000's we get 9/11, stock market crash, Facebook, and a couple of forever wars. 2010's not too bad for a start, sure Orange Foolius is elected and racism reminds us that it’s still here but we just scraped by without anything too terrible. Now we’re in the 2020's and we’re kicking things off with a global pandemic, a stock market crash, and the possibility of suspended elections because (a) things get terrible and we have no plans or effective means to mitigate the disaster or (b) Trump thinks he’s going to lose and enough “people” go along with supporting the decision because it’s “for the good of the country”. Of course, he could also just get re-elected, confirming that this is the darkest timeline.

Shit, now I’m depressed and I don’t have enough rum to get drunk tonight and tomorrow afternoon. I guess while I’m out retrieving whatever teaching supplies I can carry out of my classroom in 20min I can try to find a liquor store with some whisky and maybe some other ‘essentials’. One nice thing about distance l earning is tha t I’m only not allowed to drink at school, the rules don’t say anything about telecasting sober!

PyramidHat > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/16/2020 at 23:32

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Well...you can still get dickfaced drunk...you just gotta do it at home...

phenotyp > Chariotoflove 03/17/2020 at 12:36

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I’m not waiting for the starting gun. New project starts tomorrow, my girls are still out of town, new episodes of shows queued up... Might have to draw some cars this afternoon.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > WRXforScience 03/17/2020 at 12:47

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We’ve had zero training for anything like this, but at least we spent a week learning about what to do for a school shooter (hey, they can’t shoot us all if we’re telecasting from home, two birds!).

You know that is true, school shootings will be way down for the foreseeable future.

Thomas Donohue > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/17/2020 at 12:59

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Baileys Irish Cream in the morning coffee.

Some Guinness for lunch (I have it on tap at home! )

A wee bit o’ Irish whiskey later on tonight, and the local Irish pub is delivering food.

Paddy’s day is still on.....you just had to be prepared at home this year.

Don’t worry...... We’ll March Again.

Svend > AestheticsInMotion 03/17/2020 at 13:01

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So, well, ern, theme day then!? 

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/17/2020 at 13:02

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MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > WRXforScience 03/17/2020 at 13:58

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lol, my first move was to stock up on booze. That wasn’t your first thought ?

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Chariotoflove 03/17/2020 at 13:58

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Oh I’ll still be drinking my Irish share of whiskey tonight!

WRXforScience > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 03/17/2020 at 14:04

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I’m not much of a drinker, a beer after an autox or trackday is about all I regularly drink. The rum was “medicinal” after I threw out my back last weekend. Plus, I have to drive a town over to get to a liquor store (better than the past, used to be a “dry county”).

Chariotoflove > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 03/17/2020 at 14:36

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See you at the end of the rainbow then. 

Chariotoflove > phenotyp 03/17/2020 at 14:37

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Wonder how drunk car designs will differ from sober ones. 

phenotyp > Chariotoflove 03/17/2020 at 14:57

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Time will tell. Suggestions welcome.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Chariotoflove 03/17/2020 at 15:10

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Slainte!

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > WRXforScience 03/17/2020 at 15:11

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I guess that’s why it wasn’t your first thought. If I wasn’t much of a drinker I wouldn’t have run a whiskey review column on here for as long as I did haha. (The Cask)

WRXforScience > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 03/17/2020 at 15:46

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I spend as many of my weekends as possible either at the track or autox (32 trackdays and 11 autox events last year, and 7 trackdays and 1 autox so far this year). When your getting up early on the weekends to go racing there aren’t many days you feel like drinking too much. Now, a beer after a full day racing is a beautiful thing.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > WRXforScience 03/17/2020 at 16:50

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That makes sense!

Chariotoflove > phenotyp 03/17/2020 at 18:02

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You may wish you hadn’t opened that door.  For starters, what if Herbie had a kid that grew up to be a Veyron?

phenotyp > Chariotoflove 03/17/2020 at 18:21

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I’ve done it before, and will do again.

(not mine, but I love it)

Chariotoflove > phenotyp 03/17/2020 at 18:31

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Missing Herbie’s race livery though.

phenotyp > Chariotoflove 03/17/2020 at 18:34

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Hey, I said it wasn’t mine :)

kanadanmajava1 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/18/2020 at 13:17

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Fun fact:

“Here’s a little tip for men in China hoping to avoid public castigation: don’t wear a green hat . 

In China “wearing a green hat” ( or dài l mào z) is an expression that Chinese use when a woman cheats on her husband or boyfriend because the phrase sounds similar to the word for cuckold . This apparently dates back to the Yuan dynasty when the relatives of prostitutes were forced to wear green hats. ”

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > kanadanmajava1 03/18/2020 at 13:58

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I was wondering why I was getting so many women hitting on me when I wear my green hat.