Even though Saint Patrick’s Day is a massive event on the Emerald Isle, nowhere throws a party quite like the United States. 127 million Americans will celebrate on March 17, 2015 and 82 percent of them will wear green. The average person will spend just under $40 and overall spending will amount to a whopping $4.63 billion.
You will find more statistics at Statista
I “celebrated” Saturday night.
One more time in my life I was witness to the dichotomy of drinking and partying in a Catholic church.
Having grown up everything but, I’ll never forget the first time I found myself in that situation.
Years back, at my hometown’s local Catholic “Spring Into Summer” celebration. I was playing poker in the basement of the church. Drinking a beer, gambling (winning, too), and smoking a cigarette (tells you how long ago).
The Father came up, introduced himself, hugged me wayyyyy too much.
So, I told him I was thinking about converting. He perked up and beamed.
“I grew up in the repressive religions, where fun was a sin. I’m all about a church that not only allows, but encourages alcohol, tobacco and gambling.”
He was not amused.
On Saturday I learned it still amuses me. I prefer my debauchery in a less sacred place. But that’s just me.
It’s 97 million drunk Huns wishing they were as cool as the Irish then?
It started with irelander troops in the brit army that marched to the tavern from thier barracks so often they decided to make it a holiday 1 of them being a colnel necknamed the butcher for butchering American revolutionaries that surrendered also he showed no quarter to civilians
Bullshit re the filling 60% of the empire state building. Dumb fuckers think I cannot calculate stuff like this?
My calculations are this:
Empire State building is 1454*187*424 feet, plus underground. Just assuming the above ground, that is 3,267,009 square meters. Or 3.267 billion liters in volume. One pint = .472 liters.
So the Empire State building will hold 3.267/.472 billion pints. Or 6.92 billion pints to fill the Empire State building.
That means that 0.002 of the fucking Empire State building could be filled by 13 million pints.
Or 0.2 percent. Motherfucker – must have been a damn drunk Irishman that calculated 60% of the Empire State Building worth of Guinness being drunk on St Paddy’s Day.
Damn it to hell – accuracy is important in this stuff. Who posted this shit?
Oh, right, a damn accountant. For fuck sake. It figures.