Whole family is doing the celebration this year. Tailgating for breakfast, Daughter and I running 5k race. All of us staying for parade, party and fun and more tailgating. Already got the car packed up. Then later in the day we might explore the bars and such.
What plans you got?
bcd
03-16-12, 09:22 PM
I have a pretty awesome day planned, nothing to do with St. Patrick's day though....
Going to bar early to watch England v Ireland in a 6 nations rugby test. Watching Wages of Fear on the big screen with a new 35mm print from a restored HD master, The FP on the big screen as well, Visit a great local book store, and a great local music/video store. Food and beer somewhere and a late night screening of Battle Royale on the big screen.
Not a bad day..
SethDLH
03-16-12, 09:27 PM
Flea market in the morning. Then just hanging with the family and drinking some beers until a friend's party around 8. I'll undoubtedly be an asshole at the party. It will be a good day.
fumanstan
03-16-12, 09:28 PM
Friend's party at 6 PM tomorrow. I don't wear anything green, so I ran out to buy a Green Lantern shirt just to make sure I don't get shit for it :p
Jason
03-16-12, 09:30 PM
Maybe get some tires for the jeep. Otherwise nothing.
St. Paddys Day is amateur night. Just like New Years Eve.
Rockmjd23
03-16-12, 09:36 PM
Continue to be half Italian/half English, two mortal enemies of the Irish. :mad:
EdTheRipper
03-16-12, 10:06 PM
I'm working until 4pm and then napping on the couch while attempting to watch movies.
mcfly
03-16-12, 10:19 PM
Other than bar-hopping I didn't know people celebrated St. Patricks' Day.
Last year I went to a local casino and got some green beer, but that was more just coincidence that I was there that night than going out for the holiday.
This year I'm not going anywhere.
TomOpus
03-16-12, 10:20 PM
Friend's party at 6 PM tomorrow. I don't wear anything green, so I ran out to buy a Green Lantern shirt just to make sure I don't get shit for it :pIf it's from the movie you'll still get shit :p
As for plans, fiancée and I are going out to dinner and checking out the new casino across the river in Kansas.
NORML54601
03-16-12, 10:20 PM
Spend the day drinking at home and watching basketball. I refuse to go out on St. Patty's day because all the bars around here dye their tap beer green and I hate that for some odd and probably irrational reason.
I may go to my mom's and grill some bratwurst for dinner
SethDLH
03-16-12, 10:45 PM
Maybe get some tires for the jeep. Otherwise nothing.
St. Paddys Day is amateur night. Just like New Years Eve.
Truth in amateur night haha. So many people gave me shit last year when I showed up at a cool local pub that is usually pretty sparsely populated and I had nothing green on and had no idea it was St Patty's Day. Hell if I wasn't invited to this party tomorrow I probably wouldn't know.
Tracer Bullet
03-16-12, 11:12 PM
Staying the fuck home.
covenant
03-17-12, 12:37 AM
Go to a local place with some friends and have some stereotypical green beer (and a lot of draft Guinness) for the hell of it and then back home for some traditional corned beef and cabbage.
Will end up watching movies and getting plastered with some like-minded folks.
Charlie Goose
03-17-12, 04:55 AM
Corned beef and cabbage at home. Then going to work. Yee ha.
riotinmyskull
03-17-12, 05:07 AM
smoking a pork butt and drinking all day
Mrs. Danger
03-17-12, 09:41 AM
Probably going to stay home and avoid the idiots. I never wear green for the day, and there's always someone who wants to pinch me. So, to stay out a jail, I stay home.
starman9000
03-17-12, 09:47 AM
Taking the kids to a party, then coming home, making corned beef and cabbage and listening to my wife complain about the corned beef and cabbage.
Shannon Nutt
03-17-12, 09:52 AM
Staying home and watching NCAA Basketball...I wonder if I'm the only Irish person who doesn't care. :)
DVD Polizei
03-17-12, 12:18 PM
Having a green salad.
Quack
03-17-12, 12:32 PM
Working til midnight.
superdeluxe
03-17-12, 12:38 PM
Making a snowman and using food coloring to make him green.
PopcornTreeCt
03-17-12, 01:06 PM
St. Patrick's Day is just another excuse white college kids use to explain their excessive drinking. So, no, I won't be doing anything.
auto
03-17-12, 01:14 PM
Methinks your job isn't all you whine about. :lol:
AGuyNamedMike
03-17-12, 01:28 PM
Armor party this afternoon (501st represent!)
group dinner at the Mayflower (mmmmm... Chinese food beats Irish hands down)
a little down time to get ready for...
a late SPD party at home with belly dancers and Irish rebel songs
Living Dead
03-17-12, 03:37 PM
Continue to be half Italian/half English, two mortal enemies of the Irish. :mad:
As an Irishman, I feel obligated to pick a fight with you.
RoadToPerdition
03-17-12, 03:46 PM
It's funny, I feel like most of the year, people think being Italian is the greatest thing possible; however, for one day, being Irish is the pinnacle.
I don't know if I just haven't noticed it before, but there are a lot of people out and about today with green clothing and/or actual St. Patrick's Day decor on (hats, necklaces, etc.). I mean, this is just an excuse for people to get shitfaced, right? People don't actually "celebrate" whatever it is that St. Patrick's Day really stands for, do they? I guess the same could be said for Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., but...
RoadToPerdition
03-17-12, 03:47 PM
Oh, and to answer the OP's question, I'm going out to dinner at an Italian restaurant.
Sdallnct
03-17-12, 03:51 PM
Other than bar-hopping I didn't know people celebrated St. Patricks' Day.
Last year I went to a local casino and got some green beer, but that was more just coincidence that I was there that night than going out for the holiday.
This year I'm not going anywhere.
LOL...I didn't know people DIDN'T celebrate St. Patrick's Day...
Was a great day (so far...and still going)....
We got there about 6:45am and was to late for pre-race tailgating. But had some snacks, coffee. It was already crowded for the parade at 11!!
5k race was great! 8,000 people!! So crowded I couldn't run a great race. But it was fun. Lots of people in costume. Lot of dogs. Lots of kids. Lots of strollers.People lining the route with beer and water...it was fun.
The post-race area was super crowded. So daughter and I grabbed some free stuff and darted back to the car and met up with wife, son and daughters bf. We set up for a little tailgating.
I did a frittata (sausage, cheese and roasted green chili), grilled asparagus and some wheat toast, while cracking open the beer (Smithwicks). Timed it perfectly as we were done eating about 10:30pm and clean up a bit and found a bathroom before the parade. Big parade. Daughter, her BF and wife left as daughter had to work, so son and I watched the entire parade. It was over 90 minutes.
Son went to spend time with GF, so I hung around and talked to a few people, hit a bar, had a sandwich, listened to some live music.
Will have to e-mail Mark Cuban. Dallas "didn't have the money" for the parade this year. They tried to raise a collection from the local bars and restaurants due the added income they get from the invent but that was a total fail. So Mark Cuban stepped in and paid for the whole damn thing!! Yea Mark, was so fun.
Clean up, show, get a little done and maybe a few more beers. Then find dinner. Maybe Shepards pie!
rexinnih
03-17-12, 04:02 PM
Cook corned beef and cabbage while drinking lots of Guiness. I enjoy when St. Patty's day falls on the weekend.
Tracer Bullet
03-17-12, 04:12 PM
It's funny, I feel like most of the year, people think being Italian is the greatest thing possible
Uh, I don't think that's true.
Sdallnct
03-17-12, 04:19 PM
St. Patrick's Day is just another excuse white college kids use to explain their excessive drinking. So, no, I won't be doing anything.
College excessive drinking on St. Patty's day is kiddy play....
I can't imagine a big city not having some fun (and more than crappy green beer and college wan-a-be band).
Trevor
03-17-12, 04:46 PM
All I'm doing today is playing this fresh and shiny new iPad. Maybe there's a Guiness app....
Giantrobo
03-17-12, 04:50 PM
Happy Drinkey Pukey Party Day!!!
Deftones
03-17-12, 05:07 PM
Not specifically rated to St. Patrick's day, but taking my buddy to see Gilbert Gottfried at the improv for his bday.
Sdallnct
03-17-12, 05:31 PM
All I'm doing today is playing this fresh and shiny new iPad. Maybe there's a Guiness app....
There is. Get a pub can the app will show you how to pour it!
Mike86
03-17-12, 07:39 PM
I'm not Irish and don't really drink that often anyways. Just another day for dumbasses to get drunk out of their mind and act stupid.
RoadToPerdition
03-17-12, 07:43 PM
Uh, I don't think that's true.
Probably depends on where you live. I live near Philadelphia. Everyone around here either thinks they're Italian or wants to be Italian.
Obi-Wan Jabroni
03-17-12, 07:51 PM
Today was a beautiful, unseasonably warm day in Detroit, so I took my kids to the zoo, and we painted a polar bear green. I may have made that last part up.
RoadToPerdition
03-17-12, 07:58 PM
Today was a beautiful, unseasonably warm day in Detroit, so I took my kids to the zoo, and we painted a polar bear green. I may have made that last part up.
Methinks your job isn't all you whine about. :lol:
:lol:
Nick Danger
03-17-12, 07:58 PM
I haven't been to McDonalds in many years. But I got curious about the shamrock shake, which I hadn't had since I was a kid.
So I picked up a small shamrock shake after work. The restaurant was so quiet that the girl at the second window was leaning out across the driveway with my drink while I was still paying at the first window.
auto
03-17-12, 10:02 PM
and....
The Bus
03-17-12, 10:50 PM
I'm posting on the 18th, so here's what I did yesterday:
- Went to the gym
- Got a fancy haircut from a fancy haircut place
- Ate a currywurst on chips from <a href="http://snagstand.com.au/">Snag Stand</a>
- Went to a party in someone's apartment terrace with a view of the harbor
- Ate fried chicken on way home
The only thing St. Patrick's–y was that I was wearing my Pogues shirt. :rock2:
mndtrp
03-18-12, 07:06 PM
I went out and braved downtown with my neighbors. I wasn't planning on going out, but I had fun even though I bailed before 9 PM. We just hit up some bars, no beer was dyed green, and listened to some bands.
I prefer Oktoberfest to St. Patrick's Day. Oktoberfest shuts down some streets so you can drink outside, and it doesn't cost anything to get in. St. Patty's is primarily only in the bars, except for some parking lot tents that wanted $20 to get inside.
Xander
03-19-12, 10:10 AM
It's been a loooong time since I've gone out and drank on St. Patrick's Day (green beer is an abomination, thank you very much).
We took our son to the parade for a while, then came home and made corned beef and cabbage. Not actually a traditional irish meal, but we still like making it. :) My concession to Irish beer was to pick up a sixer of Harp, since I'm not a Guiness fan. Mostly spent the day outside enjoying the fantastic weather. :)
Kittydreamer
03-19-12, 05:58 PM
I had beer and skiing....but not together. Also, beer is good but still my body doesn't like it. :(
Sdallnct
03-19-12, 06:26 PM
I had beer and skiing....but not together. Also, beer is good but still my body doesn't like it. :(
Skiing? Awesomeness....I want to ski ;(
Sdallnct
03-19-12, 06:28 PM
This was our morning tailgating in the morning while waiting for the parade to start (but after the 5k race).
Sausage, roasted green chili and cheese fritatta, grilled asparagus and some wheat bread.
Skiing? Awesomeness....I want to ski ;(
You should post an ad on craigslist saying you are looking for a ski instructor. You should get quite a few responses.
Sdallnct
03-19-12, 07:02 PM
You should post an ad on craigslist saying you are looking for a ski instructor. You should get quite a few responses.
Especially here in Dallas where it has been 70 degrees. Not to mention no mountains in sight!
NORML54601
03-19-12, 08:12 PM
This was our morning tailgating in the morning while waiting for the parade to start (but after the 5k race).
Sausage, roasted green chili and cheese fritatta, grilled asparagus and some wheat bread.
And I love my little Weber portable gas grill. Works very well...
And the important part...the beer. Smithwick's, Guinness and a few others.
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7519/beerhi.jpg
NORML54601
03-20-12, 12:42 AM
I'll give you the beer. I've never tried cooking sausage on a grill, how did it turn out? Seems like a good breakfast food after camping.
Sdallnct
03-20-12, 12:52 AM
It does fine.....
I've done this a couple time on various grills. Hotel gas grill for breakfast for a friend, a $12 walmart grill used for tailgating at a noon football game, and now my little weber. If you got decent heat, you will get a sizzle and that's all you need. As you can see for the fritatta, I broke the sausage up pretty small so it would cook quicker. And yes, did get nice color and was good.
I was a little concerned on this (my little weber) as it is only one burner. So I couldn't do an indirect heat like I normally do. I was worried I would burn the bottom of the eggs before the entire thing was cooked thru, so I took my actual fritatta pans that wife got me one year (that I actually rarely use). The concern was that the pans are decent heavy so I was afraid the wouldn't get hot enough, but they did.
Normally with a fritatta I start on the stove top and move to the oven to finish. Or if on a grill start over direct heat and move over to indirect. But using the specific fritatta pan set up actually worked well.
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