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Mar. 20th, 2014 08:58 amNo X-COM tonight. I haven't gotten any furniture work done because I've come home and said 'just a little X-COM' and then looked up and realized that it was 11 PM. I can bring the laptop with me into the work room safely, since my copy of X-COM is on the Xbox, but that's it.
Unrelated: the New York Times says today that Rupert Murdoch thinks gay groups demanding to be allowed to march in St. Patrick's Day parades is anti-religious bullying, and that he hopes Irish people boycott Guinness for giving in to their demands. I'm just looking at that and all I can think is:
- On the 'pushing Irish people around' front, the St. Patrick's Day parades in Dublin have been having gay groups march openly for decades
- On the 'it's a Catholic holiday and people shouldn't have to allow things that are anti-Catholic doctrine in parades in honor of a Catholic saint' front, the average American St. Patrick's Day celebration is about as Catholic as the Dalai Lama.
It's not a memorial of the saint in this country. It's an excuse to get drunk and act stupid. I have never once in my life seen a St. Patrick's Day celebration outside of an actual church that was anything other than 'WOOOO BEER AND GREEN CLOTHES WOOO' except for possibly 'WOOOO WHISKEY AND VUVUZELAS WOOOO'. Unless the groups that want to keep gay organizations out of the parades put out some extra effort to make the whole celebration conform to actual saint's day celebrations, it's kinda hypocritical to say 'oh, but this is a Catholic thing'. And by 'kinda' I mean 'a lot'. And like I said, if they say 'oh, but this is an Irish culture thing', Irish culture in Ireland....![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alas_a_llama? Would you say 'respectfully disagrees' or 'already pulled its head out of its ass on this specific holiday issue unlike some people we could mention' or 'thinks Mr. Murdoch should shut his big yap and go back to the Kingdom of the Spiders where he belongs'?
Unrelated: the New York Times says today that Rupert Murdoch thinks gay groups demanding to be allowed to march in St. Patrick's Day parades is anti-religious bullying, and that he hopes Irish people boycott Guinness for giving in to their demands. I'm just looking at that and all I can think is:
- On the 'pushing Irish people around' front, the St. Patrick's Day parades in Dublin have been having gay groups march openly for decades
- On the 'it's a Catholic holiday and people shouldn't have to allow things that are anti-Catholic doctrine in parades in honor of a Catholic saint' front, the average American St. Patrick's Day celebration is about as Catholic as the Dalai Lama.
It's not a memorial of the saint in this country. It's an excuse to get drunk and act stupid. I have never once in my life seen a St. Patrick's Day celebration outside of an actual church that was anything other than 'WOOOO BEER AND GREEN CLOTHES WOOO' except for possibly 'WOOOO WHISKEY AND VUVUZELAS WOOOO'. Unless the groups that want to keep gay organizations out of the parades put out some extra effort to make the whole celebration conform to actual saint's day celebrations, it's kinda hypocritical to say 'oh, but this is a Catholic thing'. And by 'kinda' I mean 'a lot'. And like I said, if they say 'oh, but this is an Irish culture thing', Irish culture in Ireland....
alas_a_llama? Would you say 'respectfully disagrees' or 'already pulled its head out of its ass on this specific holiday issue unlike some people we could mention' or 'thinks Mr. Murdoch should shut his big yap and go back to the Kingdom of the Spiders where he belongs'?
