Happy St. Patricks Day

[PorkChopSandwiches]

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[Teh One Who Knocks]

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[DemonGeminiX]

Happy Saint Paddy's Day, guys and gals. Enjoy your corned beef and green beer.

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NSFW

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[PorkChopSandwiches]

Now I wanna see her roll back and pound it :tup:

[Jezter]

So what y'all doing today? Getting drunk or just treating it like any other day?

[Hal-9000]

just another day over here...I'm Irish so the getting pissed thing got old when I was still in grade school :lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I just want some corned beef and cabbage

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got some beef and guinness for me dinner tonight and a few pints of the guinness i didn't use in the meal :lol:

[Jezter]

I just want some corned beef and cabbage

Gun' be rippin' some massive farts tonight then!

[DemonGeminiX]

Having corned beef for dinner. Skipping out on the beer and the cabbage.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It's Tuesday

[DemonGeminiX]

That doesn't matter to some people. I guarantee you the Irish pub we have here will be slammed tonight.

[Jezter]

And tomorrow it will be St.Zombie day when all the people are trying to survive the shame and hangover at work. :P

[Hal-9000]

I've had some coworkers come in to work the next day in pretty rough shape :lol:

they look like death warmed over and say - green beer, I drank greeeeen beer all fckin night long

[PorkChopSandwiches]

That doesn't matter to some people. I guarantee you the Irish pub we have here will be slammed tonight.

The place by my house gets so packed they actually fence of parts of the parking lot for people to hang out, weekday/weekend makes no difference

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Slighty NSFW

one for porky :lol:

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[PorkChopSandwiches]

How long do I wait :twisted:

[Hal-9000]

no hidden shamrock cock :sad2:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I got my corned beef :dance:

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[Hal-9000]

:-s where's the beef?

[Hal-9000]

THIS is a proper corned beef sammich




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[Hal-9000]

cover it in some melted swiss cheese and it's :wank: time


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[PorkChopSandwiches]

:-s where's the beef?

It was all loaded in the bun, hard to tell from the pic. It was tasty though

[Hal-9000]

don't give me that shit....you're eating healthy again which really means corned beef = that kale crap and watercress covered in mustard, no meat near the plate [-(

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Oh no, this thing was at least 3000 calories, all from fat :lol:

[Hal-9000]

my man, welcome back :lol:

[RBP]

I need an official opinion from an Irishman. I am third generation and do not know the traditions.

I was taught to say St. Patrick's Day or St.Pat's. "Paddy" was a slur to the Irish immigrants, calling then drunks... which is where the term Paddy Wagon came from.

I have always considered Paddy an American Irish slur.

But then this.

http://i.imgur.com/uv7zxP8.png?1


Now I am confused. Perhaps it's both. Paddy in Ireland from Pádraig, which became an Irish American slur like WOP for Italians.

[RBP]

http://www.rsdb.org/race/irish

says...


Used mainly in Britain. Similar negativity connotations as "nigger". Comes from St. Patrick and/or from the common Irish name Padraig. Also spelled Patty.

[DemonGeminiX]

I've always considered it "Paddy", but for no real reason. And I'm only partially Irish. I'm more Wop than anything else.

[DemonGeminiX]

I've been looking around, and it really seems to depend on where it's used. According to several web sources that list Irish ethnic slurs, as well as what you've posted, if you're in Britain, Paddy's just about as bad as "the n-word". But in the Western hemisphere, it's like the article about Paddy being correct and how it explains its Irish Gaelic origins. So technically, Paddy's not a slur here in the US. But then again, we're not running around calling random Irish people 'Paddy'. We're just calling the day St. Paddy's day.

You never know. Find some old off-the-boat Irishmen and call them 'Paddy'. See if they take a swing at you. :idk:

[RBP]

I've been looking around, and it really seems to depend on where it's used. According to several web sources that list Irish ethnic slurs, as well as what you've posted, if you're in Britain, Paddy's just about as bad as "the n-word". But in the Western hemisphere, it's like the article about Paddy being correct and how it explains its Irish Gaelic origins. So technically, Paddy's not a slur here in the US. But then again, we're not running around calling random Irish people 'Paddy'. We're just calling the day St. Paddy's day.

You never know. Find some old off-the-boat Irishmen and call them 'Paddy'. See if they take a swing at you. :idk:

It's called a Paddy Wagon. That was the one that made me say "ok, it's a slur"

[DemonGeminiX]

I don't know. I thought that the 'Paddy Wagon' term was coined in the 20s or 30s when there was a ton of Irishmen who were police officers.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I always thought paddy wagon was for escorting drunken Irish to jail

[RBP]

I always thought paddy wagon was for escorting drunken Irish to jail

Exactly what the legend of the slur implies.

DGX's take is interesting though...

[DemonGeminiX]

Well, my Mom's uncle was a cop in the Philadelphia PD, and their side of the family is where the Irish in me came from. He's Irish, a lot of the cops he worked with are descended from Irish immigrants, and they always called it the Paddy Wagon. They really never made a distinction between crimes and I figure they wouldn't be insulting themselves, so...

:idk:

[DemonGeminiX]

But then again, they weren't cops when the term was established, so it could be and probably is the drunk Irish thing, but seeing as how words and languages evolve over time, maybe they just started extending it to anybody committing any crime being rounded up in the police van.

[RBP]

But then again, they weren't cops when the term was established, so it could be and probably is the drunk Irish thing, but seeing as how words and languages evolve over time, maybe they just started extending it to anybody committing any crime being rounded up in the police van.

That would be my take. Started as a slur then became the vernacular.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I've always considered it "Paddy", but for no real reason. And I'm only partially Irish. I'm more Wop than anything else.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajU0DPbb2bs

[Hal-9000]

For St Patrick's....paddy is not a slur in North America and Paddy wagon came from the background DGX is talking about. Late 1800's, early 1900's had a huge Irish immigrant population and the police force of the times was comprised of mainly Irish/English men...white if you will. They didn't want foreigners policing the street, even knowing that most of the eastern cities, New York specifically was populated with every type of immigrant from Italian to German to Polish...