Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1812627)

Also, **** ***. You are the most pretensious ******* **** I've ever met online. Congratulations.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1812623)

Wait, how does that contradict parades and nationalism sucking?

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1812629)

Sorry you missed it. What part of Mass? Although small, an extremely diverse state.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1812603)

The whole faux Irish thing is total bull****. Irish people think they're idiots.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1812622)

I'm going to be 100% serious for a bit.

I grew up in the Merrimack Valley in northeast Mass. I have very vivid memories from the late 60s and early 70s of St. Patrick's day. That entire area was made up of immigrants, or decendants of immigrants from mostly Italian, Irish, and French Canadian heritage. By then, the three cultures had spent enough time working and living together that there were really no lines anymore.

Every St. Patrick's day a bunch of the grown-ups would organize a huge dinner at a local American Legion hall. Between adults and kids we're talking upwards of a hundred people all celebrating together. The wives all manned the kitchen and corned beef and cabbage with carrots and potatoes overflowed.

Gallons of beer, great music, dancing, way too much second hand cigarette smoke, and eventually, the alpha males trying to one up each other with boilermakers (drop a shot of whiskey into a beer and then chug it) would end the night and somehow we'd end up home and safe instead of wrapped around a telephone pole.

It was as big as Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter.

Snark all you want, but it was a really big thing. There's still some of that left to this day.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1812627)

Did you really not get what I tried to put across with a genuine experience from actually being there a few decades ago when the traditions were being established?

Are you of the opinion that pride in Nationalism 100% sucks? If no, we can keep the discussion going. If yes, I'm out.

You come across sometimes as smart. Other times you come across as naive and prone to snark talking points instead of sound logic. You always just want to argue for the sake of aguing, without actually considering the dissenting opinion.

Again, Being an ******* just for being an ******** sake.

(you planning on growing up and shedding your pretensious, cynical, pompous, arrogant, and dissmissive persona anytime soon so that you can actually engage in grownup debates?)



Also, **** ***. You are the most pretensious ******* **** I've ever met online. Congratulations.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1812602)

Irish neighborhood pride is cool. So is French Canadian pride.

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1812655)

Which one is that?

Originally Posted by Qwertyy (Post 1812679)

not really. for the most part it's obnoxious and unnecessary. try going anywhere in quebec (except for montreal) and speaking french and then watch how they treat if you attempt to speak english.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1812697)

Quebec is well known for being dickish towards anyone who's not a native.

Originally Posted by Qwertyy (Post 1812699)

tru and it's because of their overbearing nationalism. it might not always suck but it seems to me that a good 90+ % of the time nationalism is stupid.