Future societies are going to think we're fucking retarded.
― Poliopolice, Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
one of the 7 wonders of the midwestern world
― how's life, Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
it's vegetable dye
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Should remove the snakes from the water instead. more fitting tribute.
― Blue Waffle Disease (Aimless), Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
what's wrong with chemicals? chemicals are fun! especially the harmless green ones!
― C: (crüt), Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
Just because it's "natural" doesn't make it a good idea. Dumping shit in a river is disrupting an ecosystem.
― Poliopolice, Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Pollutiopolice
― k3vin k., Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
spike their beer with polio
― buzza, Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not saying it's the best idea but "dumping chemicals in the river" is misframing it
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
man I hope that when you guys are all drunk and looking at green water you take a moment to contemplate how future generations will be all princesideeye.gif @ you
― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Saturday, 16 March 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I did have to lol when I found out that this is a thing americans actually do, it's pretty dumb. I'm not from the future tho
― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Saturday, 16 March 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
you're not from america tho so to us your wisdom is like that of a future person
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 16 March 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
Was just thinking earlier that I don't remember ever having a green pint of guiness nor how you'd die it that way since it starts off darker.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
The venerable green beer tradition in the USA always applies to mass-market lagers, containing little more than a thin whey of water, barley, hops and chemicals. A drop of green food coloring is enough to make a distinct color difference.
― Blue Waffle Disease (Aimless), Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
You think that's what disrupting the ecosystem? I have some Asian carp to sell you.
― pplains, Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure the green coloring is the least of the chicago river's problems
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.kmov.com/images/470*261/130316_greenriver.jpg
St. Patrick's Day in Chicago is a hellscape of drunken morons covered in green plastic flotsam and vomit, clawing at the windows of packed bars selling green Bud Light in commemorative cups that already litter my street. More appropriate for the river to run red w/ blood imo.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know this was a thing until now!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 17 March 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
me either tbh
― C: (crüt), Sunday, 17 March 2013 05:02 (eleven years ago) link
sadly i left chicago two days too early to see this happen
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Sunday, 17 March 2013 05:02 (eleven years ago) link
The green beer thing is way weirder than the green river thing imo. Like it's st paddy's, shall we have a pint of delicious porter? Nah let's just drink the same shitty American beer we always drink but dye it green. Like they do in Ireland.
Also you know that corned beef & cabbage or whatever you guys eat on st Patrick's is not actually a thing right? The future societies are so disappointed
― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Sunday, 17 March 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus christ, even knew to call it paddy's. Dye me impressed.
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
the amount of gimmicky bullshit i've seen in my twitter stream is my fault for following too many restaurants and bars but also fucking stupid.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Sunday, 17 March 2013 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
fb is a nightmare, good solid gaels getting caught up in this to an alarming extent. Tho maybe it's cause they're all abroad now *shakes fist sings dirge at ocean curses the english germans banks irish
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
like a true gael i drank so much yesterday that i can't face a drink today
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Sunday, 17 March 2013 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
Its early yet
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piMqJ8hmgXM
― veryupsetmom (harbl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
this fellow is not disabusing me of the stereotype of the angry irish man
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
guy's not irish for a start
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
getting tempted to have a beer now. you were right, earlier.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Sunday, 17 March 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Jeff and I got drunk at Stout Fest 2013. No green beer in sight, but we're not Irish so it follows.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 17 March 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Is it? I get how the word "chemicals" has certain baggage (esp given that everything is made of chemicals), but they *are* dumping barrels of dye that come from a chemical factory into the river. I don't really see how it's misleading, except that you're arguing that it's a harmless chemical. My argument is, even if it's claimed to be "harmless", do we really know this? And is this respectful way to treat an increasingly rare natural resource? Granted, there's a lot of bad shit happening to water supplies everywhere, and maybe this is low on the totem pole, but I don't think it's a good excuse to continue doing it.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
all good points
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
where do you stand on fluoride
even if it's claimed to be "harmless", do we really know this
1. Is there a place other than Chicago that notably does this?2. This "increasingly rare natural resource" is connected directly to the seventh largest freshwater lake in the world3. "How do we know it's not harmful?!?" brb with your evidence of absence
I mean, this is dumb, but trying to claim it could be harmful, don't know how, is pretty much applicable to any human action. Or any action by anything.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
also dmac otm
what about all the air pollution from fireworks, Poliopolice? where do you stand on that?
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
how can we be sure that stuff isnt yknow
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
what doctors dont tell you
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River#Reversing_the_flow
if you thought fancy colors were bad, the river doesn't even flow the way nature intended
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
if only we could return to the days when a city could dump massive quantities of untreated sewage into their rivers
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
ya but at least it wasnt chemicals, ooooh did someone say chemicals dives into oxygen tent
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
2. This "increasingly rare natural resource" is connected directly to the seventh largest freshwater lake in the world
And? That does not make it a resource that we should be cavalier about. Water is a rare valuable resource. Look into it. There is a very serious freshwater crisis on the horizon, and it is not getting better, despite the fact that there is a large lake in Illinois.
3. "How do we know it's not harmful?!?" brb with your evidence of absence
Hm. Your logic escapes me. You're kind of saying that as long we don't have immediately evidence that something is bad, we should feel good about doing it. I can see how that could be a valid argument when you're making a calculated risk for a greater good, but when we're talking about dumping dye in a river, I think the better argument is that we should avoid frivolously doing shit that is capable of causing systemic damage, even in absence of evidence.
This is a red herring. Fluoride is put into treated water, not dumped indiscriminately into an untreated water supply.
I'm against unnecessary pollution. I'm surprised that I have to defend this stance.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
you are such a fucking idiot
― In The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Van Cleave makes unforgettabl (Matt P), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
omg even the herrings are gone a funny fuckin colour stop the lights
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
poliopolice = modestmickey??????
― In The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Van Cleave makes unforgettabl (Matt P), Sunday, 17 March 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
Does treatment of sewage and wastewater remove fluoride? Are you saying that all fluoride put into treated, drinkable water is either metabolized by people or removed from wastewater?
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
What I meant by the fact it's a huge body of water is that there is the tiniest, tiniest fraction of green food coloring in the water. Which is, to our knowledge, completely nontoxic.
How about you read up about fertilizers spread inefficiently on frozen fields, pesticides, poor use of natural watersheds as filtering agents due to the draining of wetlands, and the wholesale sewage and toxic waste that gets into the watershed, and then tackle a stupid cosmetic trick that uses the tiniest amount of food coloring later?
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Dumping one human corpse into the lake, which the mob probably has done a zillion times, would put more pollutants in the lake than a few gallons of food coloring
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Wait if his colleagues found this how can we be sure it's really Noodle
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Imagine judging people on things they do
― Luis Brañuel - Bell de Jour (wins), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Poliopolice it's not good when even the anti-GMO crowd is more fun than you
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Granny Grainger and Aimless get married, you fucking arsewipes.
― xelab, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
you're so cute when you're angry
― Aimless, Thursday, 5 March 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
he's like the lisa frank trapper keeper of ilx.
― how's life, Thursday, 5 March 2015 01:22 (nine years ago) link
Today's the day.
Our upstairs and downstairs neighbors are both having parties and it's not noon yet. I hate St. Patrick's Day.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 14 March 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
lol great thread
― example (crüt), Saturday, 14 March 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
lol
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Saturday, 14 March 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
There are 10 + ppl drinking on our front steps.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 14 March 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
St Patrick's Day is on the 17th march
God Americans suck at being Irish but they won't stop trying
― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Saturday, 14 March 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
God save us the upstairs neighbors are group singing and stomping on the floor.
I cannot wait until 5 am tomorrow when we start letting Ivy cry it out...
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 14 March 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
:D
― how's life, Saturday, 14 March 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
More than a feeling!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 14 March 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
when you said "stomping" I was imagining something more like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erAQ9LkftwA
― how's life, Saturday, 14 March 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
drinking and stomping on the neighbours at the weekend is good irish behaviour the date dont come into it
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 March 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Red hair and no known Irish heritage - I hate St. Patrick's Day with a burning passion.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 14 March 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
Well at least you have something in common with St Patrick :p
― xelab, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Seeing as he was Welsh as St Ninian shoving a Leek up St David's arsehole on St George's day.
― xelab, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:32 (nine years ago) link
They're still at it.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
― xelab, Saturday, 14 March 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
in an 'Irish pub' right now and it's basically empty
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 March 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link
But dude playing pool just played limp bizkit
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 March 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
A celebration
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 March 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
at home drinking hot chocolate (dark, lots of cinnamon) watching true lies. we're a nation with serious range.
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link
I St Patrick, a sinner, very badly educated, declare myself to be a bishop in Eire--- I live among barbarian tribes as an exile and refugee. For the love of god get me out of this fucking barren shithole
^^redacted part of his diary^^
― xelab, Sunday, 15 March 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
The party's over. We went to a bar to escape (IRONIC) and when I was walking home there were people playing god dang BAGPIPES out in the street.
Also as Jeff was carrying the kid into our apartment one of the drunks on the steps told him "That's no place to take a baby!" Which in hindsight is kind of hilarious, not that I want to give these cretins any credit.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
In short: fuck St. Patrick's Day (observed, Chicago).
One good thing about St. Patrick's Day: excellent opportunities for street photography
― drash, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
We don't even have Shamrock Shakes down here.
It is kinda nice, tbh.
― pplains, Sunday, 15 March 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link
Shamrock Shakes..? Is that some kind of euphemism for delirium tremens or what?
― Aimless, Sunday, 15 March 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Hey, darraghmac, anyone wearing orange in of your parades today?
http://i.imgur.com/QYMN5Jx.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 15 March 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
our parade is on paddy's day but I'd say so alright. its one of the colours.
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link
Made me think of these guys:
http://i.imgur.com/4OF3QmJl.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
the green, orange, and white of the flag is meant to symbolise peace between the Catholic and Protestant sides
― Number None, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
There are people in the U.S. who will get angry if someone wears orange to a St. Patrick's Day celebration (or on St. Patrick's Day). Is that an example of Americans shooting for authenticity and missing?
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Sunday, 15 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
I think so. I'm not gonna say definitively.
if they'd a sash, a bowler hat or a lambeg drum OTOH they've got it coming to em.
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I just misunderstood. I did a book report on troubles 25 years ago, and all I remember is that any good Irish Catholic should hate marmalade.
― pplains, Sunday, 15 March 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Saturday, March 14, 2015 12:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I have heard tell of other countries copying the Americanized celebration of St. Patrick's Day, complete with liquor and beer-branded merchandise and wearing novelty sparkly green top hats. Eventually it will be the canonical version. I mean, the population of Chicago is half the population of Ireland, and it's hardly the only city with stupid merchandising.
This whole line of thought is giving me a flashback to a UK-themed bar I went to last year. It was actually more like someone had gone to a UK-themed pub in the US, and then made an "American UK-themed pub"-themed bar.
― mh, Sunday, 15 March 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
I think so. I'm not gonna say definitively.if they'd a sash, a bowler hat or a lambeg drum OTOH they've got it coming to em.
iirc I grew up a lot further south of the border than you, and people wearing orange on Paddy's day would definitely be seen to be trying to be ~smart.
online I've only read Americans saying "OH I'M GOING TO WEAR ORANGE LOL", knowing what the symbolism is, so I'm inclined to think "twats", generally.
― gyac, Sunday, 15 March 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
ppl in the pic above don't seem to be of that ilk, like they've just thrown it in as part of the complete tricolour :D
― gyac, Sunday, 15 March 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
xp @ mh
God save the queeen
http://i.imgur.com/LXTDJVB.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 15 March 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
I went to a "British pub" in San Diego that I count among the worst drinking experiences I've ever had
― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Sunday, 15 March 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
I almost don't blame the places - there's a local chain of 'pubs' (sports bars where you can watch soccer) called The Londoner that everyone talks about as being Irish... despite being named The Londoner.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 15 March 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
ya gyac you'd rly need to judge it case by case I'd say
donegal town had a large COI community, well integrated AFAIK, but even so I dont remember from my time there whether it was a big colour in the parade
but its on a few of the bands on the island definitely. possibly too far removed to have a sting associated there, idk. worth a read up perhaps
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.achilltourism.com/images/bands-dooagh.jpg
present and correct admittedly its the skirt but what dyou want like
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Crucial snapshot of yesterday: http://www.cwbchicago.com/2015/03/yuck-of-irish-wrigleyville-binge-spawns.html
(Start with the timeline.)
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Sunday, 15 March 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Wrigleyville has been a complete shitshow when I was there early in the night on a random weekend, I can only imagine the hell on earth that descends on St. Patrick's Day
― mh, Monday, 16 March 2015 01:25 (nine years ago) link
c
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 17 March 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
didn't go north of 14th Street in NYC, but i don't get the green Mardi Gras beads shit; poor repurposing.
Did see a guy in a green t shirt pissing next to a real-estate office basement in the West Village, so the holiday was official.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 March 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link