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Thursday, March 18, 2010
st pats day
so i rly dont see the big deal in st pats day..its rly stupid i think for a holiday.. why not just call it get drunk until 6 in the morning and do complete shit..and then complain about the headache the next day. seriously..people are ridiculous.
it's supposed to be an Irish feast day celebrating a patron saint...many European countries have days like this for their own patron saints, it's kind of like Thanksgiving. Somehow it's turned into a bunch of idiots getting drunk and pinching each other though. I'm okay with this, I just choose not to take part in it since I'm not Irish....
Yeah but that can almost be said for any holiday, I realize that some holidays are more important then st. Patricks day but in our society when people celebrate normally there is drinking involved
Its actually more of a midwest, specifically a Wisconsin, thing. Many states I've been to(which is all of them) don't really centralize their downtime around alcohol. I've been to several weddings that did not even serve alcohol. While I'm proud to live in a state known for beer, at the same time it's quite grinding knowing that every weekend 9 out of 10 of my friends are going to try to get me to go to the bars with them. While 9 out of the 10 of those left will either be drinking at home/party, doing drugs, or sitting around playing video games/watching movie.
It's difficult to find people to hang out with that just enjoy the fact that they're able to enjoy themselves. I don't mind having a beer or two there, but I'd rather go somewhere for a weekend or go hiking or go enjoy being outside. I do party on occasion, but after doing it from the time I was 15 till I was 21 and ended up waking up outside in the middle of the street in a pile of my own vomit with raccoons crawling all over me, I realized how stupid it all is. Of course it's hard to find people that want to go on a spontaneous trip to Boston, and even harder to find people that want to go to Boston and not get hammered, so I've just accepted it as something I'll have to deal with until I can move somewhere else. I'm not trying to sound "holier than thou" but I don't understand how people don't get bored of the same thing day after day or realize what all they're missing out on because they don't want to go farther from their houses than north or water st.
I guess being from Green Bay and experiencing St. Pat's day in Milwaukee being surrounded by bars at almost every corner and college students sitting outside their homes, it was weird and surprising. I was walking from campus back to my dorms in RiverView on this beautiful day and students were playing beer pong outside, bars were full packed, drunks were walking outside in the daylight running into people, and students were walking around with just bought beer...it was probably a busy day for the cops. It's really not for me either.
Being from Green Bay as well, I have always been brought up around alcohol. Even at church picnics the main place to hang out was the beer tent. Packer games, tailgating as well. Some of the nicest people I have met have been at Packer/Brewer games getting hammered. I admit there are some weekends where I just dont feel like going out and drinking, but hey. God is great, beer is good.
it's supposed to be an Irish feast day celebrating a patron saint...many European countries have days like this for their own patron saints, it's kind of like Thanksgiving. Somehow it's turned into a bunch of idiots getting drunk and pinching each other though. I'm okay with this, I just choose not to take part in it since I'm not Irish....
ReplyDeleteYeah but that can almost be said for any holiday, I realize that some holidays are more important then st. Patricks day but in our society when people celebrate normally there is drinking involved
ReplyDeleteIts actually more of a midwest, specifically a Wisconsin, thing. Many states I've been to(which is all of them) don't really centralize their downtime around alcohol. I've been to several weddings that did not even serve alcohol. While I'm proud to live in a state known for beer, at the same time it's quite grinding knowing that every weekend 9 out of 10 of my friends are going to try to get me to go to the bars with them. While 9 out of the 10 of those left will either be drinking at home/party, doing drugs, or sitting around playing video games/watching movie.
ReplyDeleteIt's difficult to find people to hang out with that just enjoy the fact that they're able to enjoy themselves. I don't mind having a beer or two there, but I'd rather go somewhere for a weekend or go hiking or go enjoy being outside. I do party on occasion, but after doing it from the time I was 15 till I was 21 and ended up waking up outside in the middle of the street in a pile of my own vomit with raccoons crawling all over me, I realized how stupid it all is. Of course it's hard to find people that want to go on a spontaneous trip to Boston, and even harder to find people that want to go to Boston and not get hammered, so I've just accepted it as something I'll have to deal with until I can move somewhere else. I'm not trying to sound "holier than thou" but I don't understand how people don't get bored of the same thing day after day or realize what all they're missing out on because they don't want to go farther from their houses than north or water st.
I don't know, that's my bitch of the day
I guess being from Green Bay and experiencing St. Pat's day in Milwaukee being surrounded by bars at almost every corner and college students sitting outside their homes, it was weird and surprising. I was walking from campus back to my dorms in RiverView on this beautiful day and students were playing beer pong outside, bars were full packed, drunks were walking outside in the daylight running into people, and students were walking around with just bought beer...it was probably a busy day for the cops. It's really not for me either.
ReplyDeleteBeing from Green Bay as well, I have always been brought up around alcohol. Even at church picnics the main place to hang out was the beer tent. Packer games, tailgating as well. Some of the nicest people I have met have been at Packer/Brewer games getting hammered. I admit there are some weekends where I just dont feel like going out and drinking, but hey. God is great, beer is good.
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