God Damn it!

[Jenny_Jackson]

Here we go again. St Patty's is coming again. So I was at Target, Walmart (I hate the fucking place) and a couple of other stores today. All their St Patty's crap is out on the shelves already and all the crap is fucking GREEN!.

I am not Green. I am Orange, damn it. Every year I go through this shit!

 

[sirhugs]

Here we go again. St Patty's is coming again. So I was at Target, Walmart (I hate the fucking place) and a couple of other stores today. All their St Patty's crap is out on the shelves already and all the crap is fucking GREEN!.

I am not Green. I am Orange, damn it. Every year I go through this shit!

time to organize a parade?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

JENNY

Halloween is the ORANGE holiday, dear.

 

[keeblercrumb]

JENNY

Halloween is the ORANGE holiday, dear.

You are batting about 1 for a thousand on your posts, my friend, but you hit this one out of the park.



-KC

 

[Guest]

You are batting about 1 for a thousand on your posts, my friend, but you hit this one out of the park.



-KC

Coffee spew.

 

[Liar]

Too many frickin holidays. I've barely recovered from Christmas, dammit.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I suppose I will have to explain so you people will understand. Historically Ireland is a Catholic Country. However, for about 500 years it has been ruled by the Prodistant British.

The Catholics adopted green as a protest and a mark to identifiy themselves. At one point in the 19th and early 20th century it was illegal to wear green.

During the 19th century, the Duke of Orange became governor of Ireland. He was far more even-handed than any of the Prodistant governors before. The Prodistants adopted the color Orange to identify themselves.

Today in both Belfast and Dublin on St Paddy's you will see Green and Orange displayed in parades. The Catholics have their St Patricks Day Parade and the Prodistants have their Orangeman's Parade.

So many 2nd and 3rd generation Irish in American have forgotten their own history.

Note to James J: St Paddy's is the Orange Holiday in Ireland, dude.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

JENNY DUDE

The last of my Irish ancestors arrived here in 1840-something and likely didnt know shit about orange or green.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

JENNY DUDE

The last of my Irish ancestors arrived here in 1840-something and likely didnt know shit about orange or green.

I've been here for almost 30 years. I still wear green on St Pat's. My great uncles were born here. Their grand parents came to the U.S. in the 1830's. They all still wear orange as do my parents brothers and sisters.

My own living sister does not. She openly rejects her heritage.

 

[R. Richard]

I suppose I will have to explain so you people will understand. Historically Ireland is a Catholic Country. However, for about 500 years it has been ruled by the Prodistant British.

The Catholics adopted green as a protest and a mark to identifiy themselves. At one point in the 19th and early 20th century it was illegal to wear green.

During the 19th century, the Duke of Orange became governor of Ireland. He was far more even-handed than any of the Prodistant governors before. The Prodistants adopted the color Orange to identify themselves.

Today in both Belfast and Dublin on St Paddy's you will see Green and Orange displayed in parades. The Catholics have their St Patricks Day Parade and the Prodistants have their Orangeman's Parade.

So many 2nd and 3rd generation Irish in American have forgotten their own history.

Note to James J: St Paddy's is the Orange Holiday in Ireland, dude.

Jenny, you covered a few of the colors. However, you left out Black and Tan and also Yellow [the rising of the moon.]

If I am not mistaken, the Orangeman's Parade is held in Dumcree in early July, not on St. Patricks day.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

USA --> Holidays --> St. Patrick's Day --> Colors --> Green & Gold.

I'm not getting the frustration.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Jenny, you covered a few of the colors. However, you left out Black and Tan and also Yellow [the rising of the moon.]

If I am not mistaken, the Orangeman's Parade is held in Dumcree in early July, not on St. Patricks day.

Grrrr... Black and Tan is a reference to the Irish Constabulatory, which were a band of thugs in the employ of the British Government in the 1920s. They are not a popular group (Come out ye Black & Tans) and there is an Orangeman's Parade in Dumcree in July. There is also one in Belfast that coincides with St. Pats. That was part of the what was behind the the uprising in the 70's. Fortunately, all the open killing and bombing stopped (there is still an occasional murder of retribution in the back streets) after the Queen called Paisley to London for a tongue lashing followed by Tony Blair's announcement that the war was over last year.

As far as the yellow rising of the moon, that is an IRA (which one?) song.

 

[glynndah]

If it helps your cause any, Jenny, my grandfather always claimed to be "orange Irish" and wore a bit of that color along with his green on St. Patrick's Day.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

If it helps your cause any, Jenny, my grandfather always claimed to be "orange Irish" and wore a bit of that color along with his green on St. Patrick's Day.

I have an orange dress I wear. Some people think I'm crazy, but what the hell do they know.

 

[Daniellekitten]

Just because you're my hero Jenny, I'll wear orange on St. Paddy's day. Besides, I like being pinched...shhhh!

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I don't own any green or orange...

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Just because you're my hero Jenny, I'll wear orange on St. Paddy's day. Besides, I like being pinched...shhhh!

Love you too, Dani

 

[Stella_Omega]

Just keep drinking until everything green looks orange, then you're fine.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I suppose I will have to explain so you people will understand. Historically Ireland is a Catholic Country. However, for about 500 years it has been ruled by the Prodistant British.

The Catholics adopted green as a protest and a mark to identifiy themselves. At one point in the 19th and early 20th century it was illegal to wear green.

During the 19th century, the Duke of Orange became governor of Ireland. He was far more even-handed than any of the Prodistant governors before. The Prodistants adopted the color Orange to identify themselves.

Today in both Belfast and Dublin on St Paddy's you will see Green and Orange displayed in parades. The Catholics have their St Patricks Day Parade and the Prodistants have their Orangeman's Parade.

So many 2nd and 3rd generation Irish in American have forgotten their own history.

Note to James J: St Paddy's is the Orange Holiday in Ireland, dude.

Yes. Guess which group was impoverished by the confiscation of their land and a few centuries of the penal laws, and thus formed the vast majority of the millions emigrating to the United States and instituting the holiday?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Yes. Guess which group was impoverished by the confiscation of their land and a few centuries of the penal laws, and thus formed the vast majority of the millions emigrating to the United States and instituting the holiday?

Not the Prodistants!

 

[BlackShanglan]

St. Patrick's Day isn't a big holiday in the Irish Catholic community anyway. It's really only that big of a thing in the United States, I suppose originally because people wanted to find a way to hang onto their ethnic identities. Now everyone just uses it as an excuse to get hammered.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I saw an orange bikini at Target, just sayin'.

 

[only_more_so]

Here we go again. St Patty's is coming again. So I was at Target, Walmart (I hate the fucking place) and a couple of other stores today. All their St Patty's crap is out on the shelves already and all the crap is fucking GREEN!.

I am not Green. I am Orange, damn it. Every year I go through this shit!

I have to say after seeing this thread I have a new respect for you Jenny. I thought I was the only one in the US who knew that Catholics are green and Protestants are orange.

I would wear orange on St. Patty's day, but I don't have any orange anything. Actually, I don't have any green either. Either way, no one's going to pinch me.

Actually the whole Irish thing reminds me of something I read once. There are more people who say they are Irish in the US, than there are in Ireland.

 

[Daniellekitten]

Isn't Orange the new pink...or was that red?

 

[Carnevil9]

It ain't easy being Orange.....

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/16/obit.orange/index.html?section=cnn_latest

James Orange, civil rights activist, dies at 65

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The Rev. James Orange, a civil rights activist whose 1965 jailing sparked a fatal protest that ultimately led to the famed Selma-to-Montgomery march and the Voting Rights Act, died Saturday at Atlanta's Crawford Long Hospital, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said in a statement. He was 65......(more at link)