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Why do they still dye the rivers green for St. Patricks Day? It's not a good look for downtown Chicago. (kbin.run)

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I just think the novelty of these type of displays was up in the 90s, It's time for an upgrayedd. I propose leprechauns flying up and down the river wearing water jet packs, shooting people with their Chicago-style hot dog cannons would be more with the times. What's your idea?

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago

Here in the states St. Patrick's day is more about Mad Sweeney from American Gods or The Lucky Charms mascot than it is about the guy who invented the Shamrock as a Catholic mnemonic. Go to your local department store like Target or Walmart and look for St. Patrick's Day seasonals and you'll find four-leaf clovers where shamrocks should be.

We can't tell the difference and don't really care. We'll just take our kids to McDonalds to get a minty milkshake.

[-] t3h_fool@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The whole French thing is so goddamn funny, from an outside perspective - I mean, France is basically one of the few major countries the USA never fought a land or proxy war against - their only war was the Quasi war which was solely smaller naval battles and was clearly the US fault. And France was almost always willing to back the US…while the US let them down countless times.

A vile, "minty" milkshake.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

A vile, “minty” milkshake.

Not as vile as its mascot, Uncle O’Grimacey

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