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holly_evolving) wrote2004-03-17 07:15 am
holly_evolving) wrote2004-03-17 07:15 am
Amateur Day
Today is the day we celebrate the Feast of St. Patrick, honoring his miraculous act of driving the snakes out of Ireland. Looks like he got all fossil evidence of them as well. THERE WERE NEVER SNAKES IN IRELAND!!!
Ok, fine, so it's a celebration of Irish culture. For everyone. Who isn't Irish. I hate this day and I am Irish.
It's almost 7:30 in the morning, and I've spent the last hour driving. Which was cool, up until the last 20 minutes when I got near to home and had to change my radio station over to a Philly one. There's three people talking about green, and being lucky, and trying to do an Irish accent. I guess it's ok to mock my culture. People tell me it's not a mockery and I say, fucker, take off the damn plastic shamrock necklace, put down the green beer you got in a Chili's fucking southwest restaurant and go the fuck home! And don't give me that "but everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day" bullshit. If I said everyone was black on Kwanzaa I'd get shot. If you're not Irish 365 days a year (366 this year), then you're not fucking Irish and no amount of "cultural appreciation" is going to get you there. And how many of these assholes actually know what Irish culture is? Ever read any Jonathan Swift? Listened to Aine Mogue lately? About when was the potato famine? What does Black Irish mean? What does IRA stand for? What's a Hibernian?
Yeah, that's what I thought, asshole. Sit down, shut up, and take off that fucking foam leprechaun hat.
Platypus
Ok, fine, so it's a celebration of Irish culture. For everyone. Who isn't Irish. I hate this day and I am Irish.
It's almost 7:30 in the morning, and I've spent the last hour driving. Which was cool, up until the last 20 minutes when I got near to home and had to change my radio station over to a Philly one. There's three people talking about green, and being lucky, and trying to do an Irish accent. I guess it's ok to mock my culture. People tell me it's not a mockery and I say, fucker, take off the damn plastic shamrock necklace, put down the green beer you got in a Chili's fucking southwest restaurant and go the fuck home! And don't give me that "but everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day" bullshit. If I said everyone was black on Kwanzaa I'd get shot. If you're not Irish 365 days a year (366 this year), then you're not fucking Irish and no amount of "cultural appreciation" is going to get you there. And how many of these assholes actually know what Irish culture is? Ever read any Jonathan Swift? Listened to Aine Mogue lately? About when was the potato famine? What does Black Irish mean? What does IRA stand for? What's a Hibernian?
Yeah, that's what I thought, asshole. Sit down, shut up, and take off that fucking foam leprechaun hat.
Platypus
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