St Patricks day - Hurrah. A celebration of the life of St. Patrick... Or for most, just a reason to get insanely drunk on a work night..
Now, don't mistake me for a bit of a spoil sport, I love a good piss up just as much as the next person, but question.. Why do I want to celebrate something some bloke did for Ireland, ANOTHER COUNTRY, who knows how many years ago? Answer.. I DON'T. I JUST WANT TO GET PISSED, and for that I could think of a better reason than "Some Irish man did something good for another country, lets dance!"
If you divulge deep enough into my family tree, then yeah, some Irish does come into it somewhere, but I'm not Irish myself, and my parents aren't Irish and damnit my grandparents aren't even Irish, so just because some of my ancestors may of been Irish, I don't find that a good enough reason to celebrate the life of another countries saint! I mean for god sake, St Patrick wasn't even Irish, he was Welsh!! He just went to Ireland to study and become a priest. He taught people about God - Something people now days do ALL THE TIME. I mean what he did was so humdrum, so ordinary, that the Irish have made up some bullshit myths about him chasing snakes out of Ireland to try and justify why his life should be celebrated. So that covers that. What did St. Patrick do? Well... Nothing really..
I don't see any reason as to why I should celebrate St Patricks day - Or as to why the whole planet should celebrate St Patricks day when only about 5% of the worlds population is Irish.
Yesterday, in NOTTINGHAM city centre. NOTTINGHAM in ENGLAND (note: not IRELAND) There was a St Patricks Day Parade. Stuck up around the city centre were posters stating
"ST PATRICKS DAY PARADE - EXPECT DELAYS"
WHAT? Its an absolute JOKE. People have jobs to go to, schools and colleges to attend, Mums and Dads have things to do before having to arrive at said schools to collect their children, and yet some absolute MUPPET thinks that its acceptable to put everyones days behind because of some FUCKING PARADE. I've thought it over and over and over and I just can't get my head around it. You see in ENGLAND we don't get a bank holiday day like the Irish do, so holding up traffic for some parade about a man thousands of years ago, I can see really pissing some people off (One of them being me, obs..)
Its just irritaiting that the English feel the need to celebrate St Patricks day, afterall, the english don't celebrate Divali unless they're Muslim, or Hannukah unless they were Jewish, so why is St Patricks day different?
Ive nothing against the Irish celebrating it, I mean, I guess Ireland deserve to celebrate their Saints day, just like every other country does, right? ...WRONG.
Good old St George. Legend has it, he slayed a dragon.. Probably not true but in comparison to old Paddys mythic bullshit story,I'd say George is pretty heroic. More so than St fucking Padster who chased away the fucking snakes, and yet, Ireland get a bank holiday or St Patricks day, and we get fuck all.. Why is that. Oh yeah .. Incase we offend other religions yeah thats right.. I totally understand and agree.
WHAT?!
WHAT?!
WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?!
This is ENGLAND. This is OUR COUNTRY, If I wanna celebrate the life of an English Saint then so help me god I fucking will wether that means I offend people whos ethnic origin ISNT English or not. If they're offended by St Georges day, then fuck you, cos quite frankly, in that case, I'm offended by every non-english celebration out there.
So round it all up, I don't care about St Patrick because he didn't do anything for us, if Iwanna get drunk, I just will, I don't need to justify it with a stupid excuse for a celebration. If we don't a day off work for it, and we don't get a day off work for our saints day, then I couldn't care any fucking less.
Ah-thank you.
