Thanks Big Mick - that's exactly what I was trying to say.

There are 365 days to go drinking yourself silly, why should St Patrick's day be any different, other than green beer?

In my area of London, there is an Irish session twice a week (Irish music, played in a local pub owned/run by an Irishman)... If people want to celebrate being Irish, they can go there at any time of year and sing, play, drink, swear, boast, fight (within reason) and smoke outside in the garden. Occasionally, during the year, the session never gets off the ground because there aren't enough people to play. But on St Patrick's day, the place is heaving. Many people who turned up for the last St Patrick's Day session I went to there, were not Irish in the least degree or Catholic.

Therefore, I feel perfectly justified in pointing at them and saying (in a voice like that of Nelson from the Simpsons) HA HA!!

LTS