So the Kickstarter is funded, we’re making some books! Do you want some books? ‘Cause we can make you some books if you want some books. Just head on over to the Kickstarter and check out the books we have. And then we’ll make them. And you can get some. Some books, I mean.
However if books aren’t your thing (no judgement) and you prefer your reading material in a complex series of 1’s and 0’s, don’t worry, we’ll have you covered there as well. We will be offering digital-only copies of these books down the road; just not as part of the Kickstarter campaign.
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Not really. The Irish Diaspora is primarily in the US, and make up a notable part of the US population, as well as a non-trivial part of US St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. If our homeland cousins have a problem with how we celebrate our own cultural holiday, they can go f themselves.
Ehm how come there is a 13.5K difference between the pledged amount on the website and the actual amount on the kickstarter page? Yes, I refreshed multiple times.
Because the Kickstarter page converts it automatically to your local currency, while on this page it’s US-Dollars.
Because the website shows it in $, while kickstarter shows a converted amount in € with a hover-over option to see actual $ amount?
The Kickstarter web page tries to convert the amount to your local currency which seems to be Euro. I.e. you are comparing USD and EUR values.
The amount displayed here is in USD. If you’re non-US, it automatically converts it to your local currency on KS.
It matches for me. 79k and change on the Kickstarter and his screen shot.
So… Winter-een-mas is 2 weeks long this year?
No, Video-Game-Holiday. Eesh, keep up.
And the Irish thank you.
Yup, until St Patrick’s Day came to America, it was a day of fasting in Ireland and the last thing people did was drink during it, I kid you not.
Sounds like a waste of a good holiday….
Christmas and Easter 😀
also halloween
Christmas day was originally a Pagan holiday that was appropriated by Christians. And as Christianity overtook the Roman Empire many of the temples that had been dedicated to various Roman gods simply put up “Under New Management” signs, replaced some statues and went on as usual. Revenue is revenue after all.
And everything you wrote perfectly comply with the definition of “taking another culture’s holiday and doing what you want with it”. 🙂
This is actually not true, it is more urban myth than anything else. Christmas was picked to compete with but not overturn any other major holiday. There is a group who say this was done to overturn the festival of the sun god or something, but there is no evidence for it. Christmas was always a Christian holiday, as was Easter (though Easter does fall near a Jewish holiday due to the actual timing of events in the narrative).
Don’t quote facts with people who just want to run all over anything not secular and bash on Christianity. They tend to get mad and try to prove it wrong with only conjecture, then a bunch of infuriated animals come out of the woodwork just to do the same thing while calling names.
christmas was always on yule/winter solstice. its 100% to take over norse/dane belief.
Just as many catholic holidays are a reskin for pagan traditions, especially in the take over through the Americas. “Your god was our Saint” and all that jazz.
When the Great Green Arkleseizure returns with the Great White Handkerchief, all your false gods and holidays will be wiped away as the detrious they are.
Not just Norse. There was also the Roman Saturnalia, which is which was celebrating with gift giving and excessive drinking/eating. And some kind of harvest festival with feasting was very normal in early winter after all the work was done and food was plenty.
So…care to explain the relevance of the Christmas tree, Yule log for starters to Christianity…a simple link to the appropriate Bible reference will do.
Also…about that date.
As for Easter….the relevance of bunnies and eggs.
Also Luther introduced Christmas because he disliked giving gifts on ah saint’s day (St’s'(Nico)laus): “It’s better to give gifts on the holiday celebrated for day of Jesus” – thus we give gifts on both days.
Zeke has clearly spent too much time around Ethan…
Congratulations on making me giggle at cultural appropriation.
Well how about a link then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO23WBji_Z0
Yeah, but on St. Patrick’s Day EVERYBODY is Irish, so it’s all cool. And the Irish are more than happy to share. I’m half Irish, so I’m good. Fun fact: There are WAY more people of Irish heritage living in the US than there are Irish people in Ireland. Propagation is a primary ability trait.
But is everyone Catholic on Saint Patrick’s day?
That’s crazy make believe stuff. Even Zardoz wasn’t really a god.
I fucking *love* Zeke’s keyboard pauldrons. Very samurai.
ok now hes having fun.
I know; I don’t think I’ve ever seen him happier, outside of attempted murder. *sniff*
Hey! Who allowed Gizmo access to Irving Berlin?!? Next thing you know, he’ll be saying he’s the inspiration behind My Fair Lady!
Why not? He’s got a great selection to watch or listen to.
I think someone is learning how satisfying it is to have friends.
Cinco de Mayo’s an even better one – I mean, at least St. Patrick’s Day is actually a relatively big deal in Ireland. Cinco de Mayo is like if other countries celebrated the date of the battle of Gettysburg as the quintessential American holiday.
And the biggest St. Patricks Day celebration in the world is in… Savannah, GA. https://www.exploregeorgia.org/events/article/st-patricks-day-in-savannah#:~:text=Patrick's%20Day%20by%20Savannah's%20Hibernian,the%20South%20over%20several%20days.
i would have simply said halloween. it was dead in water in europe (mainly due to church ban) before the americans after religious freedom brought it back better.
And all from the comfort of his (heh) bomb shelter.
Bad example. It was promoted to help the acceptance of the Irish, which at the time were SEVERELY looked down upon worse than any other group outside of Native Americans (yes, I’m including former slaves because the Irish were also sold as slaves in far larger numbers here in the States but they don’t even get the acknowledgment of it). It was never truly an Irish Holiday overseas, more of a day of religious observation. It gained it’s holiday status after Irish immigrants pushed for it in order to gain some foothold into mainstream society and help with assimilation. I’ll… Read more »
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