How many leprechauns have been brutally slaughtered and run from their homes to make this happen! It’s 2022! Leprechauns have feelings and we should expand our moral circle to consider their feelings.
#shameonyourchicago
That’s the Liffey as standard
Failte Ireland actually pays for all of this, and by Failte Ireland I mean us the tax payers.
Very late to the game man they doing that shit for years
After all it’s patty’s day ha ha
It’s toxic snot
Sod that grotesque shit.
As a Chicago native, it’s been a tradition for nearly 50 years and we use non-toxic eco friendly dye so it’s not exactly as bizarre as people think 🙂
America celebrates Paddy’s day more than we do.
Now it’s just like the rivers here
This is why I think Chicago is a good candidate for a Fallout game
wtf is rong with the yanks , jesus
Can you imagine being a Chicago fish every March… Wtf is all this green shite…
I love how much Americans celebrate Paddy’s Day, in fact how much the entire world celebrates Paddy’s Day. I dunno about you guys but growing up in Donegal we learnt the story of St Patrick every single year in both Irish and English and performed dramatisations in class. We created paddy’s day badge and wore them with SUCH pride at the parades. St Patrick’s Day has always held such joy in my heart and as I grew older it always touched me so much how much the world celebrates it with us. I live in England now and my own son who is 7 absolutely GOES TO TOWN for paddy’s day haha. He’s already asked for his Paddy’s Day shamrock glasses and badge and sash and the whole schabang so I GET why the descendants of Irish across the world really go OTT on Paddy’s Day. It matters !! I love this xx
Years ago on the ha’penny bridge waiting for the lights to change. Two yanks ahead of me, one gestures to the Liffey “oh wow, look, they dye their river green for paddy’s day too!”
I didn’t have the heart to tell him so I leaned over and said “no no pal, we do one better and keep it that colour all year round”.
Muricans
America bad waaaaaaa
If it hadn’t been for that parade Dr Richard Kimble would never have escaped.
Feel sorry for a Chicago resident who gets high and thinks he’s hallucinating when the river is bright green.
You mean shitcago, your gonna get shot
Nothing.
We haven’t done a friggin thing.
Why are they dying green water green tho
All I want is a pint (and not a fecking green one) and some drunk people stumbling along with instruments while I freeze my sensitive parts off. Nobody asked to make fluorescent rivers.
I live in the states and find the whole Paddy’s day shite they go on with nauseating. My kids have to make leprechaun traps for school. They have taken paddy’s day and made their own version of paddywhackery.
How do they make it go back to normal ? Do you just have to wait ?
I had an Irish friend who was very offended when I said happy st paddy’s day…she said it’s st PATricks day.. is that a thing? is st paddy’s day offensive ?
I’m glad that Americans are proud of their Irish heritage but like, can they not?
I live in Columbus, Ohio & our town council last week proclaimed the 17th to be Irish Heritage Day. People are upset because one of our nearby cities, Dublin, cancelled the parade this coming week because conditions will be too windy for balloons. Also, sooooo much of the town decor is green in Dublin. Even the police cars have green. It’s not even a nice green either. I’m sorry.
Old Man Daley was a fucking boss. He saved Chicago, too bad his son was such a dumbass he shit all over the family legacy.
Paddy’s day here is just people giving themselves an excuse to be wasted. Me, personally, after 22 I didn’t really care about drinking so much, it was legal and not a big deal. Plus all the awful things I did drunk, the guilt and shame. I would imagine the bars are mostly college kids because I don’t really know many people who make a big deal about it.
Monster energy water
There were calls for people to use blue and yellow this year instead of green in solidarity with the Ukrainians….
Just thinking if you put yellow dye and blue dye in a river it would turn green pretty quickly anyway 😂
I think it looks a lot cooler and brighter then the horrible green it was from last years dye
This is objectively class, and you’re wrong if you think otherwise.
Free large green screen?
Eh we’ve done nothing, don’t blame us, take your problem up with r/Chicago
In before the “Ireland’s colour is blue not green” comments.
Just to clarify, St Patrick’s blue was Ireland’s colour under British rule. It was often (and still *kind of* is) used as a unionist symbol. But as the movements of independence/republicanism grew, we associated more with green.
On a slightly related note: St Patrick’s saltire, the red x on the union jack transposed (vexillologists will know the right word) over St Andrew’s saltire and the English flag, is also a unionist symbol and is frequently used in St Patrick’s Day parades in the six counties. Which is also why it’s a contentious symbol in some circles.
I’ve always said to my missus that if cultural appropriation is to be considered a thing, the Paddy’s day is cultural appropriation gang-rape.
Ha the barrow is always green!!
More Irish in America than here
I like to think it began because the river was so polluted that the city council had to pretend it was for St. Patrick’s Day. Now, a century later, they are forced to maintain the pretense.
Definition of Fucking Americans 🤦♂️
Absolute fallout moment
Cheers Chicago !
The Liffey is dyed green the day after Paddy’s from all the plastic tat that was thrown into it the day before
Bruh it looks like Nickelodeon slime.
Don’t listen to the haters, I’m Irish and proud so many around the world want to celebrate it with us, sights like this every year are so cool!
I’ve seen The Liffey and the cunts green all year round
The way Chicago does Paddy’s Day has paid for so much of my life. Irish parents own an Irish bar in the city. Keep it going, my folks are retiring soon. After that, we can stop, I promise.
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How many leprechauns have been brutally slaughtered and run from their homes to make this happen! It’s 2022! Leprechauns have feelings and we should expand our moral circle to consider their feelings.
#shameonyourchicago
That’s the Liffey as standard
Failte Ireland actually pays for all of this, and by Failte Ireland I mean us the tax payers.
Very late to the game man they doing that shit for years
After all it’s patty’s day ha ha
It’s toxic snot
Sod that grotesque shit.
As a Chicago native, it’s been a tradition for nearly 50 years and we use non-toxic eco friendly dye so it’s not exactly as bizarre as people think 🙂
America celebrates Paddy’s day more than we do.
Now it’s just like the rivers here
This is why I think Chicago is a good candidate for a Fallout game
wtf is rong with the yanks , jesus
Can you imagine being a Chicago fish every March… Wtf is all this green shite…
I love how much Americans celebrate Paddy’s Day, in fact how much the entire world celebrates Paddy’s Day. I dunno about you guys but growing up in Donegal we learnt the story of St Patrick every single year in both Irish and English and performed dramatisations in class. We created paddy’s day badge and wore them with SUCH pride at the parades. St Patrick’s Day has always held such joy in my heart and as I grew older it always touched me so much how much the world celebrates it with us. I live in England now and my own son who is 7 absolutely GOES TO TOWN for paddy’s day haha. He’s already asked for his Paddy’s Day shamrock glasses and badge and sash and the whole schabang so I GET why the descendants of Irish across the world really go OTT on Paddy’s Day. It matters !! I love this xx
Years ago on the ha’penny bridge waiting for the lights to change. Two yanks ahead of me, one gestures to the Liffey “oh wow, look, they dye their river green for paddy’s day too!”
I didn’t have the heart to tell him so I leaned over and said “no no pal, we do one better and keep it that colour all year round”.
Muricans
America bad waaaaaaa
If it hadn’t been for that parade Dr Richard Kimble would never have escaped.
Feel sorry for a Chicago resident who gets high and thinks he’s hallucinating when the river is bright green.
You mean shitcago, your gonna get shot
Nothing.
We haven’t done a friggin thing.
Why are they dying green water green tho
All I want is a pint (and not a fecking green one) and some drunk people stumbling along with instruments while I freeze my sensitive parts off. Nobody asked to make fluorescent rivers.
I live in the states and find the whole Paddy’s day shite they go on with nauseating. My kids have to make leprechaun traps for school. They have taken paddy’s day and made their own version of paddywhackery.
How do they make it go back to normal ? Do you just have to wait ?
I had an Irish friend who was very offended when I said happy st paddy’s day…she said it’s st PATricks day.. is that a thing? is st paddy’s day offensive ?
I’m glad that Americans are proud of their Irish heritage but like, can they not?
I live in Columbus, Ohio & our town council last week proclaimed the 17th to be Irish Heritage Day. People are upset because one of our nearby cities, Dublin, cancelled the parade this coming week because conditions will be too windy for balloons. Also, sooooo much of the town decor is green in Dublin. Even the police cars have green. It’s not even a nice green either. I’m sorry.
Old Man Daley was a fucking boss. He saved Chicago, too bad his son was such a dumbass he shit all over the family legacy.
Paddy’s day here is just people giving themselves an excuse to be wasted. Me, personally, after 22 I didn’t really care about drinking so much, it was legal and not a big deal. Plus all the awful things I did drunk, the guilt and shame. I would imagine the bars are mostly college kids because I don’t really know many people who make a big deal about it.
Monster energy water
There were calls for people to use blue and yellow this year instead of green in solidarity with the Ukrainians….
Just thinking if you put yellow dye and blue dye in a river it would turn green pretty quickly anyway 😂
I think it looks a lot cooler and brighter then the horrible green it was from last years dye
This is objectively class, and you’re wrong if you think otherwise.
Free large green screen?
Eh we’ve done nothing, don’t blame us, take your problem up with r/Chicago
In before the “Ireland’s colour is blue not green” comments.
Just to clarify, St Patrick’s blue was Ireland’s colour under British rule. It was often (and still *kind of* is) used as a unionist symbol. But as the movements of independence/republicanism grew, we associated more with green.
On a slightly related note: St Patrick’s saltire, the red x on the union jack transposed (vexillologists will know the right word) over St Andrew’s saltire and the English flag, is also a unionist symbol and is frequently used in St Patrick’s Day parades in the six counties. Which is also why it’s a contentious symbol in some circles.
I’ve always said to my missus that if cultural appropriation is to be considered a thing, the Paddy’s day is cultural appropriation gang-rape.
Ha the barrow is always green!!
More Irish in America than here
I like to think it began because the river was so polluted that the city council had to pretend it was for St. Patrick’s Day. Now, a century later, they are forced to maintain the pretense.
Definition of Fucking Americans 🤦♂️
Absolute fallout moment
Cheers Chicago !
The Liffey is dyed green the day after Paddy’s from all the plastic tat that was thrown into it the day before
Bruh it looks like Nickelodeon slime.
Don’t listen to the haters, I’m Irish and proud so many around the world want to celebrate it with us, sights like this every year are so cool!
I’ve seen The Liffey and the cunts green all year round
The way Chicago does Paddy’s Day has paid for so much of my life. Irish parents own an Irish bar in the city. Keep it going, my folks are retiring soon. After that, we can stop, I promise.