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u/Filthycabage Mar 17 '16
St. Paddy's Day*
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u/FloZone Mar 17 '16
Its /pæɾiː/ with a d ! (there is no /d/ in St. Paddy in the american pronounciation)
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u/Matthew94 Mar 18 '16
You don't spell words as they're pronounced.
Don't revel in your plebdom.
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u/FloZone Mar 18 '16 edited Mar 18 '16
You don't spell words as they're pronounced.
Thats the joke... thats why I wrote it in IPA.
Don't revel in your plebdom.
My what? I don't understand your point. You see I just wanted to make a joke about the irony of Patty vs Paddy, while there isn't even a real d sound in the american pronounciation.
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u/Smitheren Mar 17 '16
Hey, this one was slightly intelligible! Whatever cold medicine or drugs you're taking right now is clearly not enough.
(Just kidding I love these X's day comics)
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u/Dlimzw Mar 17 '16
The alcohol must have counter-reacted the drugs.
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Mar 18 '16
PSA: Alcohol and cough syrup usually make eachother stronger. Can be dangerous. Stay safe friends :)
Source:right now
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u/I_TRY_TO_BE_POSITIVE Mar 18 '16
Normally I'd pitchfork on a flairless, but this is front page and you're awesome. Ride on, you crazy space cowboy.
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Mar 18 '16
If I've learned one thing from reading samplings of this comic it's that the artist takes a truly dim view of the USA.
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u/Dragonsandman Mar 17 '16
I don't think this is a metaphor for anything, I just think America should see a doctor about that green vomit.
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Mar 17 '16
Nah, he is just celebrating with shamrock shakes. Nectar of the goods it is.
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u/Lugiawolf Mar 17 '16
Not-so-fun story: last year, I was going through a pretty tough breakup, and I had just transferred schools. For whatever reason, I hadn't eaten in 2 days, and I was just finishing a shamrock shake when I started to have a panic attack. I rolled into the parking lot of my old school at like 2 am, opened up my car door, and stress-vomited neon green all over that part of the parking lot. Apparently, the next day it had frozen solid, and almost killed a girl who slipped on it. No one figured out what it was ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/shipitholla Mar 18 '16
We don't drink Guinness on St. Paddy's Day! We drink Bud Light with green dye, like the Irish intended.
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u/Comrade_Derpsky Mar 18 '16
It is a time honored tradition which celebrates St. Patrick converting the Irish after getting them good and drunk on shitty beer.
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Mar 18 '16
What d you get when you put 64 Americans in one room.
One full-blooded Irish.
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u/Challis2070 Mar 18 '16
Or one Cherokee, whichever. Maybe both. :D
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Mar 17 '16
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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u/MAGwastheSHIT Mar 17 '16
FUCK YEAH I'M IRISH, RUB ME MAGIC DICK FOR LUCK! SURE, I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN TO IRELAND AND I AM ADMITTEDLY VERY, VERY IGNORANT OF IRISH HISTORY, BUT I KNOW ONE OF MY GRANDMAS WAS BORN IN COUNTY MEATH AND THE OTHER SIDE OF MY FAMILY SUPPOSEDLY CAME FROM DAT GOOD OL EMERALD ISLE SOMETIME LIKE 150 YEARS AGO! SO I'M PRACTICALLY THE KING OF IRELAND! Y'ALL HAVE KINGS, RIGHT? WOOOOO!!!
Sorry guys, I've been pounding Guinness and Jameson's since like 11am and the only thing I've eaten is a corned beef (!) sandwich like 6 hours ago.
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u/CrocPB Mar 17 '16
SO I'M PRACTICALLY THE KING OF IRELAND
Well, the North has a Queen....
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u/josmu Mar 17 '16
Let's not go there.
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u/MAGwastheSHIT Mar 18 '16
NO IDEA WHAT YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT. BOUT TO FIRE UP ME "MICHAEL COLLINS" DVD AND EAT SOME POTATOES. MAYBE DRINK A BLACK & TAN OR 2...
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u/GavinZac Mar 18 '16
"Damn the Brits that shot Michael Collins!"
"T'was De Valera's men shot Collins."
"Fucking Italian Brits!"
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u/JulitoCG Mar 18 '16
My family still claims its Basque ancestry, though it's been over 600 years since any of us live there. If we're Basque, you're definitely Irish. Éire go Brách!
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u/ElagabalusRex Mar 17 '16
For those who don't get the metaphor, it's that Ireland is like a Muslim country, except more even more violent.
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u/BoxOfDust Mar 17 '16
It's only untrue once officially contradicted!
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u/Challis2070 Mar 17 '16
Oh god, you know this means that like, Gerry Adams is going to go on tv again to make it clear that he's not Muslim, and then ramble about how oppressed he is. Thanks a lot! O_O
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u/Dlimzw Mar 17 '16
I surprised the US hasn't invaded them yet.
Oh wait, it's the other way around.
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Mar 18 '16
Murica invades people for their oil, Ireland invades people for their potatoes.
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u/RighteousJoe Mar 18 '16
We don't try to steal their oil, we try to steal their culture. We invade them on the 17th of March every year, leaving nought but vomit in our wake.
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Mar 17 '16
THIS IS OFFENSIVE!!! I am 1/61232058692235684923904th Irish-American. Saint Patty's Day is a long running tradition in my family. As Saint Patrick himself ordered the Irish-Americans all those years ago, I will go drink myself into a stupor.
KISS ME I'M IRISH
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u/Frigidevil Mar 18 '16
See, I thought it would have been appropriate for America to say St. Patty's day because its so obviously wrong and yet so very many of us still don't understand the difference.
I dunno who St Patricia is but I bet her day is boring.
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u/bartonar Mar 18 '16
I saw someone say "Patties day". Fucking hell, man, most people at least know there's only one of him.
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u/Cranyx Mar 17 '16
I am 1/61232058692235684923904th Irish-American.
Ignoring that this impossible, that means your parents came over at least 76 generations ago, ie, longer than Ireland has existed. That's impressive.
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u/Cabes86 Mar 18 '16
In Boston (Ireland's 2nd Largest City) there's a holiday called Evacuation Day which just so happens to be St. Patrick's Day See back when the city was just Micks, WASPs (The Boston Brahmins), Black people and Jews--St. Patrick's Day would come and no one would go to school or work.
So they needed to make St. Paddy's a holiday but the Brahmins (descendants of the Puritans and some Pilgrims) weren't willing to make a Catholic holiday a holiday in THEIR city.
But one day someone realized tact the day all the Loyalists were exiled from Massachusetts and Boston in particular, was St. Patrick's Day. And Evacuation Day was born.
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u/Sitoutumaton Mar 17 '16
Shit, we missed St. Urho's day!
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u/bighootay Mar 18 '16
My sister dresses up my nephew for St. Urho's. (Yes, sorry, Finland, we few Finnish-Americans claim your day as well!!!!!!!!!)
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u/potverdorie Mar 17 '16
I'm pretty sure you're my favourite artist right now, you've really nailed that surrealistic deadpan style that I so love about the oldies.
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Mar 18 '16
Ahh u/DirtPiper
The person who pipes dirt. But not sand. Sand is eat. Sand always for eat.
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u/ryannefromTX Mar 18 '16
If there's one thing America is good at doing, it's taking another culture and turning it into an excuse to get drunk. (See also: Cinco de Mayo)
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u/JayConz Mar 18 '16
Are there any other comics where America has the diagonal small eyes like that? I think this is the first time I've seen him with them instead of some schmucky third world country or Greece that has to pay debts.
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u/Dictatorschmitty Mar 18 '16
You mean when he's vomiting? That's only uncommon for America because he usually hasn't lost his glasses during a one-panel drunken rampage, but it's a pretty standard expression otherwise.
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u/username441 Mar 18 '16
The day Americans talk about how they're like 1/27 Irish, which makes them like a native to Ireland or something.
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u/Betterthanuatlife Mar 18 '16 edited Mar 18 '16
A metaphor for America's collective alcoholism, celebrate other people's holidays as an excuse to get shitfaced... Oh wait I'm Swedish, Allahu akbar everyone. Celebrate Ramadan
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u/Our_Fuehrer_quill18 Mar 17 '16
You forgot of huge very big bavarian party with kool katolik stuff. And some scots.
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u/KaliningradGeneral Mar 17 '16
I really love these pointless kektustic randomness of your nation's-day-comics!
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u/GENERAL_A_L33 Mar 17 '16
I cant help but read Irelands words in a southern accent
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u/Archive_of_Madness Mar 18 '16
Well.... More than a few southern dialects are derived from Irish accents.
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u/Cepinari Mar 18 '16
I can't see anything related to St. Patrick's Day and not immediately think of this.
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u/DirtPiper Mar 17 '16
Diddly Dee Potatoes
Sweden's Day
Serbia's Day
France's Day
Mozambique's Day
Latvia's Day
Austria's Day
Lithuania's day
Finland's Day
Germany's Day
Britain's Day
Poland's Day
Cayman Isle's Day