Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) Happy St. Paddy's

I have to work...hopefully I won't get too many drunk people

well i'm about, er, 33, or so Percent Irish. so I can celebrate it... i think. hope...doh.

of course you can lews!

well, i had my guinness. and i wore my flogging molly pirate ship shirt all day.

aye lassie, all ashore thats comin ashore, a whale of a time was had by all!
Now it's time to walk the plank and take a long walk off a short pier.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Whosoever shall win, gets this here chicken to do with whatever they want! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
But for the non-winners <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> there's this green draft,...
(tinted green of course) ... by me little green friend here
so drink up and give the house a good name! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

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thats TOO much Jurak.. or is it?

it's not even a case of beer ..........yet! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />

So we drink?

Lucretia is wishpering to Berhard

*They are drinking. Lets go!* <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

for those who aren't irish but wants to be irish badly, u can always induce irish spirits such as chevas, johnny walker (i think it's irish), all sorts of whiskey & of course there's guiness. having all that in u will make u a stout irish. or is that full of irish stout? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

oh well, back to the drinks! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

carefull there, janngut... you'll have both the Irish AND the Scots after you! chivas and johnny walker are scotch, not irish whiskies... but i'm sure you meant to say "Jameson" and "Bushmills", didn't you? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

and yes, there's always guinness... preferably with a shamrock traced in the foam!

Ugh, too many Jameson shots last night..... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />
Well, at least my boss paid for my misery. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

that's the spirit(s), Womble, ole buddy......make 'im pay! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

after u have half a bottle of chevas in your tummy, all scots & irish sound the same. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

they're all good spirits! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Okay - for Luc mainly...
St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. Was kidnapped by the romans i beleive - came back to Ireland and spread Christainity to the pagans (grrrr.....but whatever...) He drove all the snakes out or Ireland. (Just like St. George slew the dragan hey Spick????)

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Faile - get better love. Guiness is very high in Iron...so it may help you...ummmm...maybe.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

hmm. the snakes and rats or something. to the pagans?

(what does Grhhh, but whatever mean? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" /> )

romans or britanics, or galls. or someones.

@ Carrie thanx so much <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

... But if he went after pagans why did you celebrate about him? I mean I can understand snakes but pagans? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> He destroyed all that Celtic culture (or the most of it) that I personally love very much. (I think that with Christianity the old ways were forgotten right?).

Hmmm <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" /> I think that Patrik was not a good man after all. That day (if irish drink so much in the celebration), should be renamed Pagans Day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Oh and we have Saint George too here. But who says that the dragon who slayed was a mean one? Gods! It could be jvb!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

high in iron? i should drink more, being a vegetarian and all.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> sweet.

I agree...i dislike that the Roman took over a lot of the olde religions.
I am a proud pagan...
Anyway...the Irish religion was not desecrated as bad as some, a lot of their beliefs were kind of melded together with the christian religion. Eg: Brigit used to be a godess in the celtic religion, and she was turned to a saint. It is good they could keep their beleifs for the most part. It really is very intresting, and when i was in Irelnad, i learnt a very lot obout it. That is why you have the Celtic cross, it is a mixture of both religions. It kept the people happy.
The Britons however (The Celts in Britian) were much worse off...their olde reliugion pretty much dies off, becasue the Romans were in Britian, where as they never went to Ireland. It is all pretty intresting...

I do love history! (Can you tell????)

@Lews - the Celts in Ireland were the Gaels.
In Britian - the Britons.

Though they all moved around so much - i beleive at one piont the Celts in Ireland came from Scotland. It gets so confusing i forget a lot of it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" />

@ Carrie

Being a proud pagan too, I am glad to read all those information. I read so many years for the Celts and their traditions. But as you said it becomes sometimes confusing. Especially when I read books in English and not my language. There are not so many Greek translations of the Celtic mythology <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

But I am glad that the Celts could maintain a part of their religion in the new christian religion. They were lucky. We Greeks were not. But fortunatelly we read a lot about our old ways in ancient Greek texts that are saved through time and translated (Ancient Greek is even more difficult than modern Greek and we need translations). So we keep up in mind some of our history and traditions.

Cheers to Irish people. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

What is a "pagan" ?

Anyway, I often see Ireland as "an isle of wisdom at the border of a descenting world of wisdom" or something like that. Many things survived there during the "Middle Ages" (Middle Ages ? Middle of what ?) that were lost anywhere else.

pa·gan n. 1. One who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew; a heathen. 2. One who has no religion. 3. A non-Christian. 4. A hedonist. adj. 1. Not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish. 2. Professing no religion; heathen. –pagan·dom n. –pagan·ish adj. –pagan·ism n.

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