Off Topic St Patrick's Day

Who says that though?
I know people do, but it always seems to be people complaining that it’s the case as opposed to anyone else significant actually holding that view
..?

 

These days, if you say you're English; you get arrested and thrown into jail. These days.

 

Scot Nat = good
Welsh Nat= good
English Nat= violent xenophobes

 

Just you saying it then?

 

You might if you protest that you should be called English.
Or if you protest about anything really

 

I've no idea how many people say or think it.

Just 'reading the room' as they say.

 

Bloody obvious to me what the general mood/leaning by the posters on this thread is.

I can't find the "puke" emoticon.

 

Try again old boy...practice makes perfect.

 

You've had plenty.

 

I haven't touched a drop

 

happy st Patrick's day to all those who celebrate it, personally I don't and never have cared much for it. each to their own.

 

You might be right
I don’t pay much attention to it
The whole ‘if I celebrate St Georges Day people will think I’m a racist’ often just sounds made up to me though.
It’s almost like people want to claim they’re being discriminated against for the sake of it?

It’s a spiral though. Only reason SPD is big is because it earns Guinness etc a fortune, so they spend a fortune advertising it, but the only reason it does is because people want to celebrate it in the first place.

Arrange a SGD bash next year?

 

The only connection I have with St Patrick's day is that when my son was born in March, just after Paddy's day, and the nurse who helped deliver him was Irish, so we called him Patrick.

 

I have spent a fair bit of time in Ireland over the years and never experienced or witnessed any racial abuse. However, living in Scotland is another story.

 

Now that is true. I think it's funny how the Scottish hate the English, but most of us are completely indifferent to them.

 

There are plenty of examples on social media and elsewhere of people calling those clebrating St George's Day xenephobes and racists. They are usually accompanied with comments about St George's nationality, although St Andrew being Israeli doesn't seem to get mentioned.

 

What a remarkable coincidence!

My son celebrated his 29th Birthday yesterday(St Patrick's day).He was born in Rottenrow maternity hospital Glasgow and remarkably he too was delivered by an Irish Midwife!!(Rottenrow was a teaching centre for midwifery and a lot of young Irish lasses would go there to train). I remember to this day holding him and the elderly midwife in her broad Irish accent saying "call him Patrick"...

Needless to say we called him











Paul....

 

As it's a football forum we should all be celebrating the patron saint of footballers St Off

 

He of Off as Dyke fame? Solid defender that lad.

 

That is my experience of Ireland and especially Scotland.