The good thing about being named Sully is that nobody can sully your name.
YESsteveYES+15
GROOOOOAN i love you be my friend
RudyRed+19
I forgot to wear green today, but thus far no one has tried to pinch me, possibly because my oversized tan cardigan makes me vaguely resemble an early-twentieth century Irish rake.
VioletandIrises+18
I can’t stand St. Patrick’s Day in NYC. The idiots come out early and in full force. I saw people wandering around wearing celebratory attire at 11:30 a.m. while doing an errand for work. Don’t they have places to be? They definitely weren’t ALL college students…
merrite+13
I had a drunk, shamrocked old dude stumble onto me on the sidewalk while I was running errands. AT 2 PM. This holiday is not great.
Either_Ada+20
I accidentally wore green today, forgetting the holiday, and I’m rather miffed at myself. My Facebook feed is a wasteland of corny stereotypes and blessings in hideous font. The streets will be covered in green vomit. My preferred look would have been “glaring disapproval,” but now I’ll never achieve it.
Lily+8
Wow, I haven’t seen this episode since the first time I saw it, years ago, on BBC2. I am almost 100% sure it did not have the fish and chip shop being blown up. That completely took me out of the moment.
Ouch. March 1997 originally aired, apparently. The Good Friday Agreement was 1998.
Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin is going to be closed and locked down this Easter Sunday, because of the centenary of the Easter Rising.
speakingofcake+10
Agreed that the explosion was definitely not in the original airing on either BBC 2 or Sky One. Wow.
Glen H+2
They pulled an episode of Star Trek NG over Ireland as well…
jackan7+5
Syndication cuts out over two minutes per episode. Every now and then I know a line, and it does not make the cut.
isthismeta
Am I the only one who has never heard of this pinching nonsense? I thought it was another made up tradition on 30 Rock (like Leap Day William).
pretty_monster+18
coworker: you’re not wearing greeeeeeen…. me: would you like to have a serious discussion about personal space and consent or shall i begin filing my report with HR right now???
i am NOT having it with the pinching nonsense.
extrayarn
Never heard of it and I've got a fairly Irish maiden name (although my family affiliates more with the Scottish.)
If my kid ever winds up in public school around here though she's going to have to practice her "fuck off I'm Jewish" glare.
Orla
i don't know where it came from, but I can tell you that you do not get pinched OR punched in Ireland for not wearing green on Paddy's day.
You *will* however encounter wobbling hordes of drunken eejits everywhere here from ridiculously early in the day, a tradition that seems to have exported intact. That, and the having of a parade….
bookwormV
I have never heard of it, but I am in the UK. I did not see any signs yesterday that it was St Patrick's Day (no large amounts of green or drunkenness), which is fine with me.
geekcrackteam+1
*Le Sigh*
selma
*Le Sigh*
Erica_Stratton
It doesn't happen in Ireland, but to Midwestern US middle-schoolers who are looking for any excuse to torment their geeky peers. -_- (Our teachers literally handed green pendants out on St. Pat's in an effort to stem the tide of pre-teens pinching each other.)
The good thing about being named Sully is that nobody can sully your name.
GROOOOOAN i love you be my friend
I forgot to wear green today, but thus far no one has tried to pinch me, possibly because my oversized tan cardigan makes me vaguely resemble an early-twentieth century Irish rake.
I can’t stand St. Patrick’s Day in NYC. The idiots come out early and in full force. I saw people wandering around wearing celebratory attire at 11:30 a.m. while doing an errand for work. Don’t they have places to be? They definitely weren’t ALL college students…
I had a drunk, shamrocked old dude stumble onto me on the sidewalk while I was running errands. AT 2 PM. This holiday is not great.
I accidentally wore green today, forgetting the holiday, and I’m rather miffed at myself. My Facebook feed is a wasteland of corny stereotypes and blessings in hideous font. The streets will be covered in green vomit. My preferred look would have been “glaring disapproval,” but now I’ll never achieve it.
Wow, I haven’t seen this episode since the first time I saw it, years ago, on BBC2. I am almost 100% sure it did not have the fish and chip shop being blown up. That completely took me out of the moment.
Ouch. March 1997 originally aired, apparently. The Good Friday Agreement was 1998.
Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin is going to be closed and locked down this Easter Sunday, because of the centenary of the Easter Rising.
Agreed that the explosion was definitely not in the original airing on either BBC 2 or Sky One. Wow.
They pulled an episode of Star Trek NG over Ireland as well…
Syndication cuts out over two minutes per episode. Every now and then I know a line, and it does not make the cut.
Am I the only one who has never heard of this pinching nonsense? I thought it was another made up tradition on 30 Rock (like Leap Day William).
coworker: you’re not wearing greeeeeeen….
me: would you like to have a serious discussion about personal space and consent or shall i begin filing my report with HR right now???
i am NOT having it with the pinching nonsense.
Never heard of it and I've got a fairly Irish maiden name (although my family affiliates more with the Scottish.)
If my kid ever winds up in public school around here though she's going to have to practice her "fuck off I'm Jewish" glare.
i don't know where it came from, but I can tell you that you do not get pinched OR punched in Ireland for not wearing green on Paddy's day.
You *will* however encounter wobbling hordes of drunken eejits everywhere here from ridiculously early in the day, a tradition that seems to have exported intact. That, and the having of a parade….
I have never heard of it, but I am in the UK. I did not see any signs yesterday that it was St Patrick's Day (no large amounts of green or drunkenness), which is fine with me.
*Le Sigh*
*Le Sigh*
It doesn't happen in Ireland, but to Midwestern US middle-schoolers who are looking for any excuse to torment their geeky peers. -_- (Our teachers literally handed green pendants out on St. Pat's in an effort to stem the tide of pre-teens pinching each other.)