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Happy Paddy's Day - winter is over !!!
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 PalazioVecchio  south pole 17 Mar 19 10.45am |
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...but the rumours of Spring may be overly optimistic.
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| PalazioVecchio south pole 16 Mar 21 11.56pm |
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...but what is not wildly optimistic is Palace staying up in the top flight. Its a reality. When was the last time we had secured safety by the 17th of March ?
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Jimenez  SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 17 Mar 21 12.24am |
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Actually PV Spring technically starts on Saturday March 20th...
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BelfastEagle  17 Mar 21 9.35am |
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Winter is coming !
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| PalazioVecchio south pole 17 Mar 21 1.00pm |
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Originally posted by BelfastEagle
Winter is coming ! i have always noticed a fairly dramatic improvement to the light & temperature approximately at the time the clocks change. in Early January, the improvements to daylight day-on-day are maybe only ten seconds per day. By the Spring Equinox, you are gaining more than 2 minutes per day. And the cumulative effect is dramatic. Late February is always miserable, the last day of March is always a dramatic improvement. Follow the link below, the coldest day of the year is the 7th of February, and Spring really starts just after today. So Paddy's day is the herald to the end of the winter misery. Edited by PalazioVecchio (17 Mar 2021 1.11pm)
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Runningman  Keston 17 Mar 21 1.31pm |
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Sorry. Just don’t get it when the non Irish segments of the UK go mad for Paddy’s Day. Similarly with Burns’ Night. I can just see the Scots go for an all out pee up to celebrate St George’s Day.
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| orpingtoneagle Orpington 17 Mar 21 2.14pm |
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On days like this I am glad I no longer work in Central London. A place where every plastic paddy feels that to be Irish you have to where a green Guinness Sponsored piece of head wear and drink large quantities of a beer they would not touch for 364 days of the year and when it all pops up again and your puke is a funny colour believe you might be dying. I am not anti Irish or anti Guinness (but would never drink it myself) just anti the sheer lunacy that comes with this day.
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cryrst  The garden of England 17 Mar 21 2.49pm |
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Originally posted by orpingtoneagle
On days like this I am glad I no longer work in Central London. A place where every plastic paddy feels that to be Irish you have to where a green Guinness Sponsored piece of head wear and drink large quantities of a beer they would not touch for 364 days of the year and when it all pops up again and your puke is a funny colour believe you might be dying. I am not anti Irish or anti Guinness (but would never drink it myself) just anti the sheer lunacy that comes with this day. But he chased the snakes out of Ireland. That must count for something
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| Spiderman Horsham 17 Mar 21 2.53pm |
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Originally posted by Runningman
Sorry. Just don’t get it when the non Irish segments of the UK go mad for Paddy’s Day. Similarly with Burns’ Night. I can just see the Scots go for an all out pee up to celebrate St George’s Day. I agree. That twit Ian Blackford SNP, started his questions at PMQ with “Can I wish everyone a happy St Patrick’s Day” No you can’t f*** off
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| Spiderman Horsham 17 Mar 21 2.55pm |
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Originally posted by orpingtoneagle
On days like this I am glad I no longer work in Central London. A place where every plastic paddy feels that to be Irish you have to where a green Guinness Sponsored piece of head wear and drink large quantities of a beer they would not touch for 364 days of the year and when it all pops up again and your puke is a funny colour believe you might be dying. I am not anti Irish or anti Guinness (but would never drink it myself) just anti the sheer lunacy that comes with this day. Agreed, airports usually awash with Americans who think they are Irish, arriving with said hats
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| PalazioVecchio south pole 17 Mar 21 3.02pm |
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Originally posted by Runningman
Sorry. Just don’t get it when the non Irish segments of the UK go mad for Paddy’s Day. Similarly with Burns’ Night. I can just see the Scots go for an all out pee up to celebrate St George’s Day. its all just an excuse to get a bit drunk. The old Christian calendar had a different Saint for nearly every day of the year. These days you need not be irish or religious. And with no visits to Selhurst, what else do you have to distract yourself ? St Andrew, St David & St George's day... any ideas why they do not seem to cast a very long shadow ?
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| orpingtoneagle Orpington 17 Mar 21 4.11pm |
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
its all just an excuse to get a bit drunk. The old Christian calendar had a different Saint for nearly every day of the year. These days you need not be irish or religious. And with no visits to Selhurst, what else do you have to distract yourself ? St Andrew, St David & St George's day... any ideas why they do not seem to cast a very long shadow ? I think this is answered in the thread - Guinness. It has in mainstream pubs got the stout market sown up, has a huge marketing budget and on this day sells huge amounts of the black stuff. They also have a ready made market in people looking to claim Irish roots. Its similar to any say in say an Edinburgh summer with Americans 'coming home,' to a place they have never been to in their lives. Not sure there is a big enough drinks manufacturer to have the clout to create something around say St Georges day, but some try.
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