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  2. It’s a big deal in my family, because my father-in-law (mistakenly) thought he was Irish. I only learned otherwise after he died.

    So we eat corned beef and cabbage, we drink his favorite whiskey, and we tell stories about him.

  5. I’ll try to stay off the roads at night. As someone who had a serious drinking problem in the past, St. Paddy’s is like Amateur Alcoholic Day.

  6. I’ll try and hit up one of the local Irish pubs with some friends/coworkers. They usually do something fun, plus I love Guinness

  9. On the day: Guinness, usually at a local Irish bar, and have a few friends that I play music with. We usually play some pretty cliche St. Patty’s day stuff, but we only play it this time of year.

    The Saturday before: I live in Rochester, Ny. There is a big parade that’s held the day before. I’m 30 now, but it’s a great excuse to be about ten years younger for a day, bouncing between bars, having Irish drinks, and having all in all a great time.

  10. Drink

    Edit: also, we read comments on Reddit from Irish redditors complaining and making fun of us for celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day.

  12. – Pretend to be Irish

    – Wear green

    – Get drunk

    – Make that WHOOOOOOOOOOO sound

    – Fight people

  13. I have some soda bread I’m going to eat, and I might make some green pancakes and listen to some Flogging Molly.

  15. Savannah GA goes hard for SPD. I’d really like to go one of these years. It’s like the Mardi Gras of Savannah I’ve been told

  16. Pray for his intercession, eat some not really Irish food, wear some green, listen to IRA songs, realize St. Columba is a bit more badass anyway, and call it a day.

  18. This year? Having a pelvic MRI, and then a consult with the OBGYN to yeetus the uterus.

    Last year? It was the week before gallbladder surgery.

    Pretty sure that the warranty on the original body parts has expired.

  19. I have off Friday so I might actually go drink myself to near death like the rest of the idiots.

  20. I’ll spend the entire day one pinch away from a fucking fistfight. Don’t TOUCH ME.

    I don’t much like beer and I’m not Irish, so I don’t really celebrate lol

  21. Usually make something Irish-ish for dinner. Bangers and mash last year (I know, not wholly Irish but I had it in a pub there so I’m counting it, plus I made boxty the next day). We don’t go out for the same reason we don’t go out drinking on NYE or to a restaurant on Valentine’s Day or Mother’s day. It’s fucking amateur hour. We know how to drink, way too many people don’t.

  22. I can’t go out because I have young kids, but my wife and I will have a drink and rewatch the recent Shane MacGowan documentary.

    Question for OP, do young people in Ireland care about Shane? How is he viewed?

  23. Surprisingly, my friends and I get stoned, instead of getting drunk. I don’t drink. We think it’s kinda nice to go green on everything. But, either way, sláinte.

  24. Bar crawls, wear green, everyone suddenly has Irish heritage, make Irish potatoes, give gold chocolate coins to kids, get drunk and have a great time!

  25. St. Patrick’s day parade in 20 degree weather. Drink and eat corned beef and cabbage.

  26. On St. Paddy’s day we drink Guinness and Harp

    On Cinco de Mayo we drink Tequila and Corona

    On Independence Day we drink Bud Light and Coors and then handle explosives.

    On Thanksgiving, we drink wine until we hate each other and get fat.

    On Christmas, egg nog with rum or bandy and get fat from a single 400 calorie glass of milk fat and liquor.

    On New Years we drink champagne and make a resolution to lose that Winter holiday weight.

  28. It’s pretty big in Massachusetts, decorations are literally everywhere and the Irish bar in town is jam packed all day. I know they have 30 kegs of Guinness in the cooler for tomorrow.

  30. Watch an Irish movie (like an actual Irish movie with actual Irish actors, not Americans pretending to be Irish), eat potatoes, cabbage, sausages & drink….aaand wear green to work.

  31. Wake up, go to work, threaten to press charges for battery if anyone pinches me for not wearing green, not follow through on that threat but bitch to my spouse over text about people that pinch me, go home, get shit faced, then call out the next day for being too hung over to work.

  32. Wear a tactical kilt from “damn near kilt em” to work. High socks. Steel toes for forklift work. Get made fun of.

  33. I can actually walk to an Irish pub for the first time in many years so I’ll be going to Finnegan’s Wake for a pint or two of stout.

  34. Irish on my grandmother’s side, we say happy St.Partick’s day to ourselves and we go on with our lives.

  35. It’s the first St. Patricks Day since finding out I’m 19% Irish (thanks Ancestry DNA), so I feel like I should get 19% drunk.

  37. Force my dog to wear a “kiss me I’m Irish” shirt and dance with me to IRA songs

  40. Going to my parents for corned beef and cabbage and soda bread. I know that corned beef isn’t Irish, but it is Irish-American, and those were my ancestors coming to the new world filled with the unknown and danger and opportunity.

  44. SF Bay Area

    We always celebrate the day in some way, this year will be quite small, just immediate family, eating corned beef, potatoes and carrots. My wife makes a great soda bread, and her Irish coffee is tops.

    In years past, we would host a sizable party, or head to Grandma’s, where she would pull out all the stops, as my wife now does.

    It’s all about family and the celebration of Irish roots. But the times we’ve had many guests, the whisky would flow, the corned beef was plentiful, the people kind, gracious and fun-loving (whether they were of Irish extraction or not).

    Actually, we started last Sunday with guests, continued with leftovers for a couple of days, and now have corned beef on the stove again for herself, myself and the kids for St. Patrick’s Day proper tomorrow. Today, we’ll drop off loaves of soda bread at friends.

    Slainte!

  46. Guinness, corned beef and cabbage, green clothes and celebrating 13 years with my husband.

  47. I’m in my early 40s. I go to work, end work and enjoy my time off work. Even when I was a youngin St. Patrick’s day was a pain because all the bars were ridiculously crowded.

    I might go my local fancy grocery store and see if they have any fun irish-y meals.

  48. Yup. Most Americans don’t realize that Paddy is short for Patrick and Patty is short for Patricia. At least in my experience.

  49. My wife’s father is from Galway and both her and my kids are Irish citizens so we have kind have started a tradition of being visited by a Leprechaun. It’s our own little take on the Easter Bunny where the Leprechaun comes and delivers Irish treats like Tayto and Flake bars and stuff. Fortunately there is a store near me with a whole Irish foods section (just outside Boston so lots of Irish immigrants are in the area still)

    So, the kids wake up and get their candy. But we also do some more stupid things like leave a trail of green sprinkles around the house to mark places he may have visited and I drop some green food coloring in the toilet to make it look he had to pee before he left.

    So it’s goofy and overly stereotypical but the kids have always enjoyed it so it’s our thing. Plus they get to go to school and tell other kids a leprechaun comes to our house.

    Then I try to make something more traditionally Irish for dinner, none of that corn beef garbage. I have done lamb stews, shepherds pie, coddle, lamb shanks and stuff like that.

    Oh, and for good measure we go across the street and toilet paper the house of the English family that lives there.

    Ok, that last part may or may not be true.

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