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St Patrick's Day is a big thing here in the US. I'm not sure why, they don't have any more Irish than Australia. I guess it's just the effect of Americans' habit of identifying with their ethnic heritage, no matter how many generations they've been here.Not only do they decorate buildings with shamrocks but they do everything in green; including the beer. I had heard about green beer on St Patrick's day before I came here but didn't try it last year. So this year, even though I'm not normally a beer drinker, I decided to try a green Harp. It didn't taste any different.
After that pub we moved on to the Irish Lion, which was not nearly as crowded as I had assumed it would be. There I tried a drink called the Stinger, Woodpecker Cider topped with Guinness. It's not as bad as it sounds but, still, I won't be ordering it again. Next time I'll just get a half-yard of plain old cider!
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Wow - you look like an Irish fecker to boot with the facial hair.
I wager you will look like this until about 70.
USA has suffered from a far stronger Irish cultural impact than Australia. In fact, the very reason why Australia doesn't 'do' Hallowe'en but America does is because of heavy Irish influence. We Aussies were more influenced by the Brits.
Which is why here in Australia we're an anarco-sydicalist commune and we all take it in turns to be an executive officer for the week but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs but by a two thirds majority in the case of...
It's ironic that you should use that quote seeing as it was the Americans who in 1776 told George III, "I didn't vote for you!" whereas in 1999 a majority of Australians actually did vote for Betty Windsor.
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