St Patrick’s Day as a major Irish holiday is an American invention. They have parades and festivals in Ireland now, but those traditions were imported mainly for tourists
no idea where in the world you are but you posted this at a time when it was slightly past 5 pm on St. Patrick's Day (2025-03-17) in the Irish time zone, so no
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athairmor@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y
St Patrick’s Day as a major Irish holiday is an American invention. They have parades and festivals in Ireland now, but those traditions were imported mainly for tourists
Irelephant@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y
I am irish, and its very major here anyway.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y
No, don't you see? This person knows better than your lived experience. /s
9point6@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Of course it is, they're out enjoying the holiday
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Everyone is out drinking and hopefully having a good time. Let them disconnect for a bit and be social.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 1y
Indeed.
Difficult to thumb type when both hands are holding a pint.
Mac@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
Use T9. lol
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
With what? His knob? Pal's just said they've got a pint in each hand!
Mac@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Huh. Must have misread that.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
That's fair, hard to read a Lemmy post with your phone balanced on your knob while guzzling a double fistful of pint ;)
sramder@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Wasn’t it yesterday there already? I still find the international dateline confusing 🫤 
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y
no idea where in the world you are but you posted this at a time when it was slightly past 5 pm on St. Patrick's Day (2025-03-17) in the Irish time zone, so no
sramder@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I was momentarily so certain! 😌
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
To be fair, it's been yesterday everywhere already
Irelephant@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Its the 17th of march here in Ireland:
sramder@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Thanks. I’ve suspected my only Irish friend has been messing with me for the last 20 years. This was the proof I needed ;-)
Eddy@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Haha yeah they'll do that
Aidenwill@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 1y
Still on depression for losing the 6 Nations
TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y