Anybody get pinched today? On this holy day of St 's day.
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Never wear green on SPD. It is a drinking holiday right on the heels of Mardi Gras and not too far from Cinco de Mayo.
Sierra4
Level 8
Mar 18, 2022
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I have a policy to try to stay home during the drinking holidays, New year's Eve, Mardi Gras, SPD, 5/5, 7/4, labor Day, and 11/11. I like to stay off the roads when there are extra drunks out there.
I live in Georgia, they don't even know about that, nor many other ethnic traditions.
Reignmond
Level 7
Mar 18, 2022
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Not true
Savannah has one of the biggest and longest running spd celebrations in the South.
Due to the pandemic, they had to cancel the last couple of years. Yesterday, they went nuts.
@KKGator I'm over the river and through the woods in Bluffton now.
No desire at all to visit the Savannah mayhem on St Patrick's
@BufftonBeotch Me neither. Like ever.
I was just refuting the notion that Georgia doesn't know about "ethnic traditions".
@KKGator True, and Dublin, Ga has a has a good celebration I hear, but those are exceptions. But if you ask the typical Native Georgian about their heritage you get a reply of "Southern" or "American". No mention of their deeper heritage and none of the traditions. When I start talking ancestry, Georgian eyes glaze over. They not interested. Being a Damn Yankee, I grew up with multiple ethnic traditions
Most coastal areas especially around Savannah are very culturally diverse.
The Ebenezer German, is still around.
It is also one of first ports in the US so people just didn't get back on the ship before anyone cared about "papers."
And then Ft Stewart and soldiers bringing all those spouses home and making babies.
You can get about any ethnic food you could imagine in Savannah and near it.
I don't even own any green clothing.
And if anyone assaulted me with a pinch I would hit them very hard.
BufftonBeotch
Level 8
Mar 18, 2022
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Yes, a woman pinched me today! I had green on most of the day, but changed to take a walk tonight, wearing no green, just didn't find anything clean that was suitable for waiting for the full moon to rise...
A neighbor spied me while I was walking and waved me over to a picnic table to chat. A friend of his then came over, wearing the cutest green sparkly shamrock earrings, so I complimented her on them. She took one look at me, up and down, and pinched me hard on the arm! Then she invited everyone else at the table to pinch me too!
The guy who had invited me over to the table (who I think has designs on me) wisely thought better of that idea, haha!
In my defense, I did shower with (green) Irish Spring soap after my swim, so... I was covered, though invisibly. 
Julie808
Level 8
Mar 18, 2022
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On St. Patrick's Day 2017, Karen and I hiked up Hay Canyon using micro-spikes.
I'm half-Irish. Karen stuck vivid green moss on my hat brim to celebrate.
LiterateHiker
Level 9
Mar 18, 2022
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Anyone who pinches me, or even lays a finger on me, for any reason at all, that individual is eligible for a throat punch. St Patrick, of course, was a genocidal thug bent on eliminating druidry using organized violence - he did a brutally good job of it too. The snakes thing was bullshit. The shamrock story is lame. It's telling that the day is now one of drunken excess to celebrate this "holy" guy, you know?
zeuser
Level 9
Mar 18, 2022
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