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Do tell, Pinky.............sound like fun!

I remember a girls night out with my female boss years ago in Germany. We went to the Haufbra (spelling?)House and drank some beer and just looked in store windows. Just a fun..silly time. You know, girls just wanna have fun.

Anyway.............Happy St Patricks Day to ya!

I feel St. Patrick's day no longer celebrates the saint but has instead become a week long promotion for Guinness.

Take Guinness & all the stuff associated with it out of the St Patrick's Day celebrations & what's left? Not a lot.



A bit like Christmas, where we celebrate commercialism again but for many people Christ is left out.



OK, gripe over, happy St Patrick's Day everyone.

Happy St. Patrick's day Pinky!!

being un-employed....I forgot to wear GREEN today....:o

Pinky;806702 wrote: Thought I'd nip in and wish a happy one to our Irish friends!

Blimey, this time last year I was out local bothering and hat stealing in London with Koan!:wah::wah:


Someone told me the pope had it in mind to change the date of this particular celebration this year. I suppose we've had enough of the Pope doing whatever he wants. :p

I hope you wore the hat today. It was a good one.

Would have been nice if I could have got you singing an old Beatles tune or summat.

Happy Patricks Day (belated) Pinks!



And for the poster who mentioned about Patricks Day just becomming a commercial event, I am forced to agree in some respects, though funnily enough, in Ireland its not as bad in that regard, as most people just go to the Parade, and those that are so inclined will go to the pub and get locked in the traditional manner. We are kinda having a bit of a national debate about drinking and anti-social behaviour at the moment, a bit like in England.

Galbally;806942 wrote: Happy Patricks Day (belated) Pinks!



And for the poster who mentioned about Patricks Day just becomming a commercial event, I am forced to agree in some respects, though funnily enough, in Ireland its not as bad in that regard, as most people just go to the Parade, and those that are so inclined will go to the pub and get locked in the traditional manner. We are kinda having a bit of a national debate about drinking and anti-social behaviour at the moment, a bit like in England.


I'm a bit surprised I must admit - one of the many good parts of our trip last year was that we saw no drunken or anti-social behaviour. We saw lots of drinking (spending most of our evenings in the pubs as we did) but virtually no drunks and certainly no violence.

Bryn Mawr;806944 wrote: I'm a bit surprised I must admit - one of the many good parts of our trip last year was that we saw no drunken or anti-social behaviour. We saw lots of drinking (spending most of our evenings in the pubs as we did) but virtually no drunks and certainly no violence.


I agree that in general we don't seem to have the problem to the same extent as in some of the larger towns in the UK, but we do have problems with it as well. We have the same kinda drinking culture, which isn't that healthy really lets be honest, we do drink to excess here, and the young people tend to go a bit mental when they get drunk and cause lots of problems, but its all manageable over time if we adopt the right attitude toward it.

Pinky;807521 wrote: I'd have to agree to both points, but then everything inevitably becomes commercialised at some point. This in itself has both good and bad points.

As for anti-social behaviour, let's face it, it happens in every town centre most weekends of the year. Wherever you get a prolific number of people, you'll get problems. Drawing on my own experiences, the most that usually happens is that someone falls off their chair (usually me!):wah::wah:


Sure, just falling off your chair is fine, but when drunken gangs of kids under 14 spend all day drinking, and then for entertainment pull motorists out of their cars and set them on fire, you have a problem. I guess its a common feeling nowadays, but I really feel like that as a society (and I am thinking mostly of places like Ireland and the UK) we have lost hugely a sense of personal responsibility for our actions, and that a minority of people's terrible personal behaviour can be ascribed to just it being the way that things are, or because their is something wrong with society in general, or because they are bored, or don't have anything to do.

The answers always seem to be about pouring more money into pet projects of social engineering that rarely work, or saying its an education problem, as if teachers or the government should be made responsible for what is a ultimately about bad parenting, and bringing up young people with such a self-centred set of warped values based on the laws of the jungle that by the age of 14 they are already presenting as a very serious policing and enforcement problem.

Also, the usual comment that this is because of poverty or deprevation (while having some validity in the broad sense) is a bit of a red herring. If you think about it, people were in absolute terms infinitely more impoverished and deprived 50 years ago, but they certainly had higher general standards of personal behaviou in public. I think we need to have a debate in general about these issues, about drinking, anti-social behaviour and crime and what are acceptable standards of personal behaviour, so that we have clearly defined rules that (more importantly) are cleary enforced.

Pinky;808192 wrote: Crikey. I obviously live a far more sheltered life than I thought. Teenagers burning people are pretty thin on the ground in East Anglia. I don't think we can blame stuff like this on deprivation or poverty; if you're brought up to know right from wrong it doesn't make a jot of difference.

Anyway, I hope everyone had an enjoyable, trouble-free one! :-6




Erm, I meant the car not the driver pinks! :wah: