That St Patrick's day is just being pushed an excuse for drunken excess?

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St Patrick's day in the UK now just seems to have become a hyper-commercialised piss up - including the days before.

Coming home on the tube last night I a group of women wearing little green hats, one throwing up on the platform while the others laughed and the area I got off was full of pissed blokes in Ireland sports top generally being obnoxious and pissing outside the station.

It wasn't even St Patrick's day!

All the pubs/supermarkets seem to be promoting this time just as another excuse to get pissed.

"Seems to have become"?? I can remember it being like that for at least the last 25 years!

Some people will be in a state like the ones being sick, peeing outside the station, others won't.
I met a group of couples going for a meal at a pub where they had entertainment on.
One woman told me she'd had her fancy dress costume for a month, to beat the rush.
They didn't strike me to be the type to be making trouble later.

Irish living in Ireland too, and imo it's only young singles who get pissed on st Patrick's day. For everyone I know it's a day off and a chance for some family time.

It was nice of him to die in Lent though. Not that I need an excuse these days.

It has always been a piss up, at least for the 40-odd years I've been celebrating it.

Slainte mhath! To you all.

What on earth would op be jealous of, just what?

I’m thinking the same but only because I am actually jealous lol. At home pregnant and my partner (his dads side family Irish) is out having a piss up! Green eyed Monster :(

😂😂😂 at this thread! Like the English need an excuse to get boke drunk!

I'm Irish living in Irish

go drunk luke, you’re Home!

As I said I'm not jealous and maybe uniquely I don't have any Irish heritage/links - maybe I am one of the few in London who don't!

Some people in the UK use weddings as an excuse to get shitfaced. So lets slate everyone who celebrates weddings....

Are you sure it was a football top? Not, say, rugby supporters in town for the greatest day in Irish rugby history?

Irish living in Ireland (well Northern Ireland) and I'm currently sat on my sofa watching you've been framed 😴😴 I am pregnant though lol.

It really embarrasses me that everyone claims to be Irish on st Patrick's day 👀 especially Americans. Like why are they so obsessed with their heritage over there? Oh I'm one quarter Irish, 1 quarter Mexican, 1 quarter Italian and 1 quarter Slovakian 👀. Stop it you're American 🙄🙄🙄

Like why are they so obsessed with their heritage over there? Oh I'm one quarter Irish, 1 quarter Mexican, 1 quarter Italian and 1 quarter Slovakian 👀. Stop it you're American

I think that answers it’s own question they would rather be anything other than American.

I'm Irish living in Ireland and actually love how proud Irish-Americans are over there.

I would love to spend a St Paddys in Boston or New York one day.

I love the "jealous" comment, how bonkers.

I think it's a bit sad. And highlights the UK's drinking problem. Drink till we puke.

I live in the middle of a city and was woken up a few times by men in green shirts vomming on the footpath or fighting. It's so normalised here. I have just moved back from a country without a huge drinking culture and it was so lovely. Why do we do this?

Live and let live!

Those that drink a lot will drink a lot. But it's not all the day is about. There's plenty else on in Ireland today.

I feel that Britain's drink culture is very similar to Ireland's. So it's not really surprising that St Patrick's day has been used as an excuse in Britain too.

It’s the plastic paddy social media posting that I can’t stand.
The night out, drinking, madness part - a Friday night in London is The Best Thing - I wouldn’t need a Saint as an excuse!

I love the "jealous" comment, how bonkers.

^^ This

I'm Irish in (N) Ireland and the most anyone I know is doing, is walking up Slemish. The eejits.

I'm Irish and it's just not that big a deal here. As kids we went to mass and then a parade (oh the glamour of the baton twirlers!). As a teen there were big firework displays - is Skyfest still a thing in Dublin? Haven't lived there in ages.

People who go out for every other occasion will indeed be out tonight. I'll be snoozing in front of the tv.

I did spend it in Boston one year - that was a bit mental. And not associated with the naicest crowd. I'd say NY is a bit better. We did end up at the house party of a friend of a friend and were hugely welcomed as prized "actually Irish" guests. We were the only ones there not wearing green.

Agree on the plastic paddy stuff too.

Who are you suggesting is at fault for this, OP? Capitalism Yep, basically (though I'm not the OP). Companies have decided it's a way to flog more booze and people are buying into it. Saw a 'St Patrick's Weekend' sign on a pub earlier. Just blatant marketing. Oddly people on here hate that when it's Valentine's Day but apparently it's fine when it's drink focused.

Yes, it is. And I love it.....
Hic!