Corona-chan has successfully managed to shut down basically the entire developed world at this point. Russia has virtually banned foreigners from entering the country until May, Europe is in the throes of a massive crisis and seems totally unable to get it under control, the USA is doing all right but is still in the early stages of the problem, and East and Southeast Asia are only just emerging from a three-month ordeal.
This, of course, means that everyone’s favourite Irish tradition has practically been called off, because it’s impossible to go to bars and pubs when every major city is pretty much on lockdown.
This is a real shame, because St. Patrick’s Day is one of the more amusing pretend-holidays out there.
The real story of Saint Patrick is a powerful and legendary testament to the authority and grace of Our Lord. This was a man born into civilised Roman Christianised Britain, who grew up without much grounding in the Faith, and was eventually captured by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland. His time in captivity and crisis and pain gave him the push that he needed to return to the Lord and accept Jesus Christ fully into his heart. He escaped captivity, returned to his family in Britain, and continued his studies into the Faith, growing stronger in his love of truth and goodness every day that he walked with Christ.
Eventually, he saw a vision of a man going to Ireland – a place held in both scorn and fear by ordinary Britons, due to its reputation for Celtic pagan savagery – to bring the healing Word to a people bereft of its light. And he acted on that vision, landing in Ireland, converting thousands to the Faith, and meeting with the harsh consequences that all of the disciples of Jesus Christ always meet in the process.
For the message of Christ is at best difficult and unpleasant to hear – and at worst, outrageous to pagan and non-Christian sensibilities.
But he persevered, and today Saint Patrick is recognised as the man who brought Christianity to Ireland, and in the process liberated countless thousands of souls from purgatory and damnation, and thousands of bodies from the abomination of slavery.
That, by the way, is one of the things they don’t teach you in history class anymore – that it was Christianity, and virtually nothing else, that resulted in the abolition of slavery worldwide, insofar as that has been achieved, and greatly advanced the rights and protections of free women.
So it is with good reason that Christians celebrate the life and works of Saint Patrick. But what about everyone else?
Well, St. Paddy’s Day is of course an excuse to go for an extremely boozy pub crawl, wear green, talk in ridiculously affected Oirish accents, and snog redheads whose inhibitions have been lowered through highly ill-advised and excessive consumption of horse-piss-flavoured water beer.
I am aware that a few of my readers are afflicted with redheaditis – that is to say, an extreme weakness for redheaded girls with cute freckles and nice boobs. This is a dangerous disease, because it makes men susceptible to some of the craziest women out there – for, as Any Fule Kno quite well, gingers have no souls.
Here is an excellent example of the breed – a young woman named Sarah Gibson, who is an aspiring musician and actual Instathot. I do believe that our resident Badger will be exceptionally pleased with this find:
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She has a nice voice too, actually:
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On a somewhat more serious and sober note:
COVID-19 has caused the entire developed world to come basically unglued. And unfortunately, we don’t have someone like Saint Patrick around to chase away the virus, as he supposedly did with all of the snakes in Ireland back in his day. We have only each other and our faith in the Lord to get us through this.
And it’s going to be very, very hard on many of us for quite some time. This outbreak shows no signs of dying down anytime soon. There can be absolutely no question at this point that it originated in China and became as serious as it did because the Chinese government initially cracked down really hard on doctors and medical staff trying to sound the alarm about a new disease that had a relatively high mortality rate among infected victims over the age of about 60.
Europe is screwed. Their entire globalist dream of a single borderless state lies in smoking ruins, with almost every country in the border-free Schengen zone suddenly rediscovering the exceptional value of border controls and slamming their doors shut.
America appears to be coping well enough, for now. The WHO’s data on the subject indicate that the USA has done a far, FAR better job than any nation in Europe at containing the outbreak – largely because His Most Illustrious, Benevolent, Noble, August, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, slammed the country’s doors shut to China, Iran, and other early-stage infected nations back in January, when everyone else thought that COVID-19 wasn’t likely to spread very far.
While other European nations are looking at the number of COVID-19 infections doubling every 2-3 days, and Europe itself is dealing with nearly 50,000 infections and only a small percentage of those have recovered, the USA is dealing with less than a tenth of that amount, despite vociferous and incredibly stupid opposition to common-sense measures to contain the spread of the virus, and despite having far more open borders between member states.
This St. Paddy’s Day is going to be a pretty miserable one for most people. Try to keep your chins up, wherever you are. Stay safe, wash your hands, use hand sanitiser, stay indoors where possible – especially if you live in a big city, where slippery little nasty buggers like COVID-19 fester easily and quickly – and be of good cheer.
This isn’t going to destroy us. COVID-19 isn’t even the worst possible plague that could visit us – and that next plague will certainly come out of China, yet again. This is going to test us – it is already testing us quite hard – and will teach us lessons that we will need to remember in our very bones as we prepare for The Next Big Thing.
Above all, remember the lesson that Saint Patrick’s life teaches us: faith in God and Christ allows us to achieve real miracles in our lives, to set ourselves and others free.
That is the real message from St. Patrick’s Day. It’s not about the redheads, or the horse-piss, or the green dye in the river, or the shamrocks, or the “Sure ‘n’ Begorrah’s!”, or the leprechauns, or the pickled onions.
It is about faith, community, and stoicism in the face of pain, suffering, isolation, and misery.
Whatever else happens, do not lose hope. This, too, shall pass.
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You are right, I appreciate the girl, but the one at the top of the page is far more attractive and wholesome-looking.
Gingers DO have souls, they just tend to be buried under a layer of kneejerk violence in reaction to all the billions of times people called them "Red", "Ginger", and "Carrot Top". Jewish Girls have far 'sneakier' tempers (They do incredibly evil sabotage when they feel they are being slighted) , German Girls are more likely to get into a fistfight with you over any imagined insult, and Italian Girls will pull a knife on you at the drop of a slut joke.
In my experience (admittedly not extensive) Quadroon girls that heavily favor their Euro heritage tend to be some of the most even-tempered. Far too aggressively stupid to seriously consider wifing up, but they seem to stay loyal if not particularly faithful.
I agree with you that eastern European girls are the top of the heap physically, but it's not worth the constant bitchyness, and their bodies fall apart far too quickly.
Redheads seem to have a sense of humor about almost everything but their hair. They get amazingly angry on rare occasions, but don't seem to do the constant simmer that a lot of girls do. I can deflect or spank momentary insanity, but what do you do about a girl who just seems pissed off all the time?
I think I will keep my redheads 🙂 I am at 25 years and counting with mine, and she's as hot as ever. A little less limber, and a little more 'ow, those are attached!' than when she was 23, but I figure if , with both of us pushing 50, she can still raise a maypole and is still fun to play with, it's been a great investment.
The fact that we are both pen and paper 'gamers' and the best Gamemasters we know probably helps, too. Would you willingly throw away your favorite PC's that you have been playing for over 20 years for a side piece? I think not.
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You do brag to much but your wife seems nice. Totally agree with you that the meme girl looks better than the thot. But she did have some redeeming pics towards the end.
Meh, I figure if you don't have the same urge to brag as you would about your car, your guns, or your house, Then you aren't in a rightly possessive frame of mind… She probably isn't the right one. Or she might need to be retrained.
Hey Didact, we are right in the middle of a 5.7 Earthquake and a bunch of aftershocks here in Utah, not 40 miles from where I am sitting!
Damn. I just saw the headlines about it. I hope you and your wife are all right.
Yep we are good. Our friends who live pretty much right on top of the epicenter are fine also… They moved into a new house last year, and we spent many a weekend repairing and upgrading the framing and roof.
Looks like our efforts were well timed. No damage to the house whatsoever, while the houses on either side both have moderate roof collapse damage.
"Everyone's freaking out about Coronavirus" Salt Lake City: "Here, hold my beer."