I realise this is a week after the event, however here in Columbia, SC, the St. Patricks Day ceremony consists of roping off a section of town by the University called Five Points, Dye the Fountain in Five Points vivid green, and charge the suckers a premium price to drink excess dyed green piss that passes itself off as 'Light Beer, who then redoposit it on the sidewalks in either metabolised, or semi -metabolised form, and call it St. Pats.
-- A thing to be avoided like the fuckin' plague, thankyouveryfuckingmuch.
--It's
NOT like it is back home where there is a large community of Irish Immigrants that still consider Ireland home.