Is it just me or is St. Patrick's Day crazier this year than ever?

**John Goodman** · 03-17-2012, 05:31 PM

I just did a walk to check things out and wow. 11th and Walnut and 18th-20th and Sansom are both crazy. It reminds me of Penn State out there.

**loveisnoise** · 03-17-2012, 05:57 PM

I got off at 15th street and center city is a bizarro land flash mob. As a little old black lady said, "I didn't even know it was St Patrick's Day today. Looks like stupid white person day to me" I went to the apple store and probably could have gotten into 6 or 7 fights if I felt like acknowledging the idiocy going on around me.

**Jayfar** · 03-17-2012, 06:15 PM

I'm at least a quarter Irish, but I absolutely hate St. Patrick's day. When did it become a month-long thing anyway? Every Saturday in March through the holiday my evening train ride to work on the Manayunk line is absolute hell, packed to the gills with loudmouthed drunks.

**loveisnoise** · 03-17-2012, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by Jayfar

I'm at least a quarter Irish, but I absolutely hate St. Patrick's day. When did it become a month-long thing anyway? Every Saturday in March through the holiday my evening train ride to work on the Manayunk line is absolute hell, packed to the gills with loudmouthed drunks.

Exactly-I'm half irish and 100% embarrassed after this year's **** show. I guess since it is on a Saturday people are going nuts. It was so insanely bad downtown that I figured that I'd just wait until monday to buy an ipad so that it didn't end up getting shoved up someone's ass on my way to the shop.

**Jayfar** · 03-17-2012, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by Jayfar

I'm at least a quarter Irish, but I absolutely hate St. Patrick's day. When did it become a month-long thing anyway? Every Saturday in March through the holiday my evening train ride to work on the Manayunk line is absolute hell, packed to the gills with loudmouthed drunks.

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**Hospitalitygirl** · 03-17-2012, 07:12 PM

It's on a Saturday, and it's warm out. A snow or rain storm would have killed this.

**supersupper** · 03-17-2012, 07:15 PM

It was a great day out, and so I took a long bike ride around the city/fairmount park.

For the first time ever, pedestrians were a far far more dangerous threat to look out for and avoid than motorists. The green color was a great safety feature.

**loveisnoise** · 03-17-2012, 07:28 PM

Now I'm just waiting for NE19149 to come here and spout off how drinking is stupid, people are stupid, holidays are stupid and then he'll speak from experience because in the 70's he used to get oral sex in a parked car on the boulevard.

**hkp** · 03-17-2012, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by loveisnoise

Now I'm just waiting for NE19149 to come here and spout off how drinking is stupid, people are stupid, holidays are stupid and then he'll speak from experience because in the 70's he used to get oral sex in a parked car on the boulevard.

Hey, hey. It takes a lot of courage to run your mouth with an anonymous account on a message board. He gets a lot of PMs telling him so.

**mixiboi** · 03-17-2012, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Hospitalitygirl

It's on a Saturday, and it's warm out. A snow or rain storm would have killed this.

What's she said. Its the perfect storm all across America, specially in Chicago(its 80 there)

**bluecuracao** · 03-17-2012, 08:05 PM

I figured Old City would start to wind down about this time, since the revelers get started pretty early. St. Paddy's evenings are usually not too bad around here. But that doesn't seem to be happening this year. Drunks on Market Street weren't too aggressive (yet), but as I got closer to 2nd and Chestnut, it sounded like the zombie apocalypse on a feeding frenzy at the zoo.

Haven't seen any police, so if people don't start clearing out, it will only get uglier.

**Malloy** · 03-17-2012, 08:42 PM

This photo was taken at 730pm tonight in Sea Isle City.

**bluecuracao** · 03-17-2012, 09:07 PM

Looks like you picked the right spot to be today, Malloy.

For the past half hour or so, there have been lots and lots of sirens in Old City. Maybe it really is the zombie apocalypse out there. At least there are police here now, I guess.

**macdaire** · 03-17-2012, 09:14 PM

Native born.
This about synopsizes my sentiments. I keep my kids well clear of the debacle that is "celebrated" here.

A St. Patrick's Poem On Shamrocks And Stereotypes : NPR

**Debbie1125** · 03-17-2012, 09:32 PM

Someone beat me to the punch with this. I was going to post something about how Manayunk seems a bit more noisy and rowdy this St. Patrick's Day than in past years. People are honking horns and falling down drunk and this was at 2:30 in the afternoon.

**Bob_Head** · 03-17-2012, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by macdaire

Native born.
This about synopsizes my sentiments. I keep my kids well clear of the debacle that is "celebrated" here.

A St. Patrick's Poem On Shamrocks And Stereotypes : NPR

As a drunkard and and Irishman, the way the holiday is celebrated here shames both my peoples.

**Neb** · 03-17-2012, 09:47 PM

I never thought I'd miss living on 3rd street and waking up at seven in the morning to the bagpipes in front of O'Neals.

And I was right. I don't miss it at all.

**Oladybug** · 03-17-2012, 10:35 PM

Center City was a sea of green tonight. So glad to be home and away from all the commotion.

**Hospitalitygirl** · 03-17-2012, 10:41 PM

Are you all just getting old?

**Bob_Head** · 03-17-2012, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Hospitalitygirl

Are you all just getting old?

Not really. It never really was a big event in Ireland, and even growing up, when the old man would take us out to the AOH it never was anything like it is today. Not that it was ever not about drinking (we are, after all, Irish), but that was never what it was all about. Now, it's just a bunch of people who aren't Irish getting stupid drunk.