Hey, fucko. Yeah you. The one with your stupid face painted up all nice and green for St Patrick’s Day waiting outside The Split Crow.
Guess what? We’re all fucking cold, alright? We all want to get another drink. But there’s a fucking line, and you’re behind me in it. You think you can sneak and push and eventually barge your way through to the front because you’re… what? A doctor on a medical emergency call? Delivering a rush shipment of Guinness to the bar? Our lord Jesus Christ Almighty? Or are you just an ignorant fuckwit who doesn’t give two flying ones about the basic way that society hangs together? I bet I know the answer, and I don’t think you’ll be turning water into wine anytime soon, will you son? If you’re so cold, put on a fucking jacket. It’s Halifax, in March, at night. Wrap up or man up, dickhead.
Oh, and if you want to abbreviate it, it’s “St. Paddy’s Day”, not “St. Patty’s Day” you bloody idiots. If you’re going to appropriate Ireland’s Saints day the least you could do is fucking pay attention.
—Seething Queuer
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2009.
It seems to me the abbreviation, Patty is more appropriate for Patrick than paddy. After all it’s not Saint Paddyricks day. Also Saint Patrick is not a saint belonging just to Ireland, just as Jesus is not only worshipped by nationals from Israel. Saint Patrick is from the theology of the Roman Catholic religion, which is based in Rome. Finally, anyone who spent Saint Patrick ’s Day in a pub obviously has no idea what Saint Patrick’s day is actually about, or who saint Patrick was and what he allegedly did.
Amusing that the above comment questions the awareness of who Saint Patrick is, but seems blissfully unaware of some very important facts:
1. It is not a question of what is an “appropriate” abbreviation of Patrick. It is a question of what the actual abbreviation is. As any Irish person will tell you, Patrick is shortened to “Paddy” in Irish. “Patty” is never used for that purpose. It’s a girls name. End of.
2. Saint Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland. Jesus is not the Patron Saint of Israel. And when half of Halifax is colored green and covered in Shamrocks and “Party Like the Irish” T-Shirts, I don’t think you can suddenly declare the day to be independent of Irish connections.
3. I suppose Rafiki would prefer that we celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day in a more appropriate manner, presumably by banishing all snakes from the city. I am not so sure this take on the holiday would be so popular, to be honest.
Good points Happydumps. And if I could add:
If there was a decent Irish pub in town that didn’t get swarmed with hundreds of riled up 19 year olds, allowed you to get in the door, order a drink and *gasp* find a seat in under 45 minutes, who wouldn’t want to spend the day in a pub? Lord knows the Irish sure as hell would.
Instead of making a mental note about how you are going to rush home and write about this dastardly deed how about you don’t be such a pacifist pussy next time and say something?
Personally the Irish pride is really blown out of proportion. I can imagine the real Irish just looking down at us and shaking their heads. For the bloke with ants in his pants, Id’ve brought a hot glue gun to his heels and given him a St. Paddy’s day he wouldn’t forget…
And AS an Irish lass, I am quite offended.
Hasn’t drinking on St.Pat’s day been illegal in Ireland until very recently?
Just looked it up, it was a prohibition kind of dealio between the 20’s and the 60’s…..
Sidenote: For some reason I thought Dino was a dude. :|
What the hell were you doing at the Spit Crow for St. Patrick’s Day? Everyone knows the place to be is the Old Triangle. You’re arguing over getting into the same shitty bar. It’s not even an Irish pub.
So did I Pretty Kitty! It was my first thought reading HER comment…I even had to retype that. LOL
Perhaps I should change my avatar to a she-whale.
Just for general interest, if anyone cares, St. Patrick is actually only ONE of Ireland’s patron saints….St. Brigid and St. Columba also share this distinction.
And as much as I like Halifax and it’s selection of Irish/Celtic pubs, I have to say, NOTHING can beat the St. Paddy’s day celebration at my old local, the Olde Dublin Pub in Charlottetown, P.E.I. (Once known as “New Ireland” way back when)
I seriously do not see Halifax’s infatuation with St Patrick’s Day other than another excuse to get drunk. I was just in Boston recently and every other pub there is Irish, but on the other hand, a fair percentage of their population is of Irish descent. Not to say that there are not Irish people in Halifax, but largely, most are of Scottish descent. Anyway, the point is that our take on St Patrick’s Day seems silly and contrived
Broc— despite the city itself being primarily of Scottish decent, but the next group is Irish. I’d hazard a guess that it’s probably a 60-40% mix, and remember, the Mc prefix is Irish, not Scottish.