Blue's annual St. Patrick's Day Rant
I don't have a bit of Irish in me (If we were talkin' Denis Leary or Dylan Moran then I'd LIKE some Irish in me. Heh.) but I have a passion for History and a raging hard-on over Grammar and that has blended into an absolutely blinding fuck fury over the now common idiotic fuck debacle that is "St. PaTTy's Day".
Fuck, no!
Lemme say it again; FU-HUCK NO!
Right, pay attention. I'll type slowly. The saint's name was PADRAIG. That's "Patrick" in Irish. He's a fucking Irish saint. The proper diminutive of PADRAIG is PADDY.
Pee. Ae. DEE. DEE. Wye. PaDDy. Say it with me: "PADDY".
Here's the St. Patrick's Day Wikipedia site if you don't believe me.
So DON'T tell me that it's 'Patty' because his name is 'Patrick'. Use your fucking head. I don't know of ANY adult male Irish American who would cotton to being called "Patty" (yes, they are pronounced differently, doltard). As a matter of fact he'd probably come across yer arse w' his shillelagh (or would YOU write "she-lay-lay"?)
DON'T tell me it's "the American version". No, dumbarse. That's saying that we Americans are too STUPID to know it's St Paddy. NOT true. Do we call 'Cinco de Mayo' the "Fifth of May-o"? No we don't. It's a fucking Spanish-language holiday, we write and (hopefully) pronounce it correctly in Spanish.
Oh, and DON'T fucking tell me (as some arsewad did) that writing Paddy would be celebrating Irish racial insult day. Do what? Didn't that go out about 1940? Should we also not call any Irish American "Mick" if his name is Michael cuz that's an insult too? Fuck off. Lame argument.
Conclusion: Folks who write St. PaTTy's Day are ignorant. Sorry, it's true. Folks who know the correct form and still use the wrong one probably spell "voila" as "wa-lah!" and should have their carbon recycled so the rest of us can use it.
For next year, here's a shirt for you lovely folks who know it's St. Paddy's Day:
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Whilst I'm sat here on my fat arse bitching, let me ask: what the shiny Blue Fuck is THIS shit? Sci Fi channel changing it's name to SyFy? What dumb cunt of a PR guru thought of this shit? This is just fucking TWIGI!
I mean, it looks dopey as hell and screams "ignorant" as loudly as seeing that kid in the forum whose nick is PrincezzRavynFaerie or HaxxorzzGod. Also, why fuck change it if there's nothing wrong with it?
Is this the new trend like the fucking baby name ass-hattery currently going on? "Oh, it's pronounced just like 'Kennedy' but we spell it 'Kinnydeigh' so she would be unique." Well guess what, Jane, you ignorant slut? Ignoring the fact that your child is already unique, your wee princess is gonna hate your dumb arse in years to come as she will have to spell and re-spell her name all her fucking LIFE. Not to mention that in every class for her entire education her name will be called identically to 7 other poor little girls-with-boys-names shits whose moms thought a name in the top 25 most popular baby names would be "cute".
Right. I got toally off topic there, didn't I? Must calm down. Perhaps I'll drink a wee bit o' JD in celebration of what a friend of mine on Twitter calls "National Get Drunk and Party Day".
And to end on a fucking good note; for those of us who like a bit of thrust *ahem* is this not fucking awesome or WHAT? Srsly, my breath catches in my throat just looking at it.
(Via Twitter credits given as: NASA/Rusty Backer, George Roberts)
In case you're bored here's more snarky, funny St. Patrick's Day t-shirts, and science geek / science teacher tees.
EDITED to add: Blimey, but I'd love someone famous like Denis Leary, Dylan Moran, or, oh, Conan O'Brian to grab this topic (and maybe even this blog post EeeEE!) and tell America on AIR how ignorant saying/spelling St. Patty's Day is. Get yer (intelligent) Irish on!
Fuck, no!
Lemme say it again; FU-HUCK NO!
Right, pay attention. I'll type slowly. The saint's name was PADRAIG. That's "Patrick" in Irish. He's a fucking Irish saint. The proper diminutive of PADRAIG is PADDY.
Pee. Ae. DEE. DEE. Wye. PaDDy. Say it with me: "PADDY".
Here's the St. Patrick's Day Wikipedia site if you don't believe me.
So DON'T tell me that it's 'Patty' because his name is 'Patrick'. Use your fucking head. I don't know of ANY adult male Irish American who would cotton to being called "Patty" (yes, they are pronounced differently, doltard). As a matter of fact he'd probably come across yer arse w' his shillelagh (or would YOU write "she-lay-lay"?)
DON'T tell me it's "the American version". No, dumbarse. That's saying that we Americans are too STUPID to know it's St Paddy. NOT true. Do we call 'Cinco de Mayo' the "Fifth of May-o"? No we don't. It's a fucking Spanish-language holiday, we write and (hopefully) pronounce it correctly in Spanish.
Oh, and DON'T fucking tell me (as some arsewad did) that writing Paddy would be celebrating Irish racial insult day. Do what? Didn't that go out about 1940? Should we also not call any Irish American "Mick" if his name is Michael cuz that's an insult too? Fuck off. Lame argument.
Conclusion: Folks who write St. PaTTy's Day are ignorant. Sorry, it's true. Folks who know the correct form and still use the wrong one probably spell "voila" as "wa-lah!" and should have their carbon recycled so the rest of us can use it.
For next year, here's a shirt for you lovely folks who know it's St. Paddy's Day:
-----
Whilst I'm sat here on my fat arse bitching, let me ask: what the shiny Blue Fuck is THIS shit? Sci Fi channel changing it's name to SyFy? What dumb cunt of a PR guru thought of this shit? This is just fucking TWIGI!
I mean, it looks dopey as hell and screams "ignorant" as loudly as seeing that kid in the forum whose nick is PrincezzRavynFaerie or HaxxorzzGod. Also, why fuck change it if there's nothing wrong with it?
Is this the new trend like the fucking baby name ass-hattery currently going on? "Oh, it's pronounced just like 'Kennedy' but we spell it 'Kinnydeigh' so she would be unique." Well guess what, Jane, you ignorant slut? Ignoring the fact that your child is already unique, your wee princess is gonna hate your dumb arse in years to come as she will have to spell and re-spell her name all her fucking LIFE. Not to mention that in every class for her entire education her name will be called identically to 7 other poor little girls-with-boys-names shits whose moms thought a name in the top 25 most popular baby names would be "cute".
Right. I got toally off topic there, didn't I? Must calm down. Perhaps I'll drink a wee bit o' JD in celebration of what a friend of mine on Twitter calls "National Get Drunk and Party Day".
And to end on a fucking good note; for those of us who like a bit of thrust *ahem* is this not fucking awesome or WHAT? Srsly, my breath catches in my throat just looking at it.
(Via Twitter credits given as: NASA/Rusty Backer, George Roberts)
In case you're bored here's more snarky, funny St. Patrick's Day t-shirts, and science geek / science teacher tees.
EDITED to add: Blimey, but I'd love someone famous like Denis Leary, Dylan Moran, or, oh, Conan O'Brian to grab this topic (and maybe even this blog post EeeEE!) and tell America on AIR how ignorant saying/spelling St. Patty's Day is. Get yer (intelligent) Irish on!
posted by MrsEvilGenius at 9:37 AM
2 Comments:
I love it when you rant!
in that "syfy" article comments, commenter Steve Davidson took the words right out of my mouth:
"No doubt they bought off the SyFy portal folks.
Glad they're doing it - the further they 'distance themselves' from science fiction, the sooner there will be room for someone else to come in with a REAL science fiction/fantasy/horror cable channel." :P
Since when does a sci-fi channel have WRESTLING and reality shows, anyway? It's a bunch of crap. No doubt the monkey who came up with "SyFy" has a few "St. Patty's" shirts.
Bravo on yours, BTW. I thought about doing that myself, but never bothered to. LOL
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