Buck Mad
By pgn
@pgntwo (22412)
Derry, Northern Ireland
March 16, 2018 1:37pm CST
T'was the night before the day after. Saint Patrick's Day. 17th of March. The day when many hot-blooded individuals with any Irish in them go buck mad, and green.
All reason goes out the window. Beer and booze flow off the supermarket shelves like Liffey water across a weir. People will be enjoying themselves, hard.
I wonder sometimes what the Bishop, who later became Ireland's patron saint, would think were he around today. I'm not sure if the phrase "spinning in his grave" applies...
©pgntwo/16-Mar-2018
7283 Media Promotional Video for St. Patrick's Day 2017 in Derry-Londonderry. Myself and Conor Rabbett filmed the parade and local markets for the event. We ...
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@JudyEv (325336)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Mar 18
By coincidence our musician tonight was born in Ireland and, being St Pats Day, we have the Irish flag and some shamrocks on the back wall of the Music Shack.
And here's a joke for you and @xFiacre I'll try to cut it short and the bits I can't remember I'll make up. An Irish priest was actually co-habiting with his house-keeper and they had a son. Eventually his bishop found out and told him to go to confession. As he was known throughout Ireland he decided to go to Cardinal Sin in the Philippines to ask the cardinal himself for absolution.
So he goes into the confession box, kneels and says 'Forgive me Sin for I have fathered'. 
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@LadyDuck (457320)
• Switzerland
17 Mar 18
@pgntwo 
I do not know if in your country there are parades and other official celebrations like in the United States. We do not celebrate St Patrick, but we do celebrate St Joseph on Monday, both here in the south of Switzerland and in Italy and it is Father's Day.
I do not know if in your country there are parades and other official celebrations like in the United States. We do not celebrate St Patrick, but we do celebrate St Joseph on Monday, both here in the south of Switzerland and in Italy and it is Father's Day.2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
18 Mar 18
So, you took a picture of the bar-back while you were getting sloshed on Saint Patty's Day, huh? How many bottles did you drain dry, pgn?
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
19 Mar 18
@pgntwo *sigh* How can I live vicariously through you if you don't do any of the things I still wish I could do, pgn? SMH!
? SMH!1 person likes this
@pgntwo (22412)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
19 Mar 18
@DaddyEvil Appearances can be deceptive...
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@xFiacre (12613)
• Ireland
16 Mar 18
@pgntwo Methinks that since it’s hard to get bishops to resign because of their own ‘oversights’, maybe this one might contemplate resigning in shame for the sins of the modern many who self inebriate in his good name. I’ll observe with a modest glass of good Malbec.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
17 Mar 18
I have no idea how people celebrate St. Patrick's day as it's something that we don't have here. But I did get a glimpse from Scott about that.
