OT - Does anyone else feel traitorous wearing green for St. Paddy's Day?
My employer, as I'm sure is common amongst your employers as well, allows employees to break dress code and go casual for St. Patrick's Day SO LONG AS the employee wears green.
Anyways, I'm on a 4/10s (M-Th) schedule so, for me, "Office St. Paddy's Day" is occuring as we speak. This morning, with disgust, I put on the one green shirt I own. Fortunately, I was able to pair it with a pair of my favorite BLUE jeans.
Did I do the right thing? Am I a traitor? Do you ever wear green? Or (gasp) scarlet/gray?
Sincerely,
Conflicted Butterfield.
March 14th, 2013 at 11:36 AM ^
Yeah, that played a role in my final decision to wear the green shirt. I live in Phoenix, AZ so pretty much nobody down here even realizes MSU exists. But I still feel guilty and shame and have an overwhelming desire to set furniture on fire.
March 14th, 2013 at 12:17 PM ^
March 14th, 2013 at 12:42 PM ^
Actually, somewhere I read that there are more MSU grads in Chicago than there are in any city in Michigan.
March 14th, 2013 at 11:42 AM ^
I don't have anything green and my only red shirts are Red Wings. My objection to green is founded in both my hatred for MSU and Notre Dame.
Like some others here, I've never gotten into St. Patty's Day. Seems too close to celebrating Notre Dame for my taste. I went to a Catholic high school in Michigan and there were lots of people who were fans of ND that had no connection to the school whatsoever. To me, St. Patty's Day seems like a holiday that non-Irish use as an excuse to get black out on a random day in March.
March 14th, 2013 at 11:40 AM ^
Do you feel bad using that green stuff? Or do you buy everything with quarters and dimes? Sometimes you have to let the silly stuff go.
I wear green because, well $&*# Sparty
I'll wear red or scarlet or gray because, well $&*# the Bucks.
I'm not going to let them control what I wear and where I wear it. They can have the inferiority complex.
March 14th, 2013 at 11:42 AM ^
Best day of the year
March 14th, 2013 at 11:44 AM ^
uh...no. That seems a little immature not gonna lie.
March 14th, 2013 at 11:47 AM ^
So is Brady Hoke immature for not wearing red?
March 14th, 2013 at 11:48 AM ^
To a degree? Yes.
Of course, he probably does it to feed red meat to the people that are enamored with such immaturiy.
March 14th, 2013 at 11:55 AM ^
....Hoke doesn't wear red is because it accidentally turned all of his underwear pink in the wash. Clearly he got off to a rough start as a young man at Ball State.
#freshmanmistakes
March 14th, 2013 at 11:46 AM ^
What the hell is "St. Paddy's Day?"
If you're referring to St. Patrick's Day (aka St. Patty's Day), then I say it's the most overrated day throughout the entire year and I simply hate it.
March 14th, 2013 at 11:48 AM ^
When I get dressed in the morning, I take a picture of my outfit in the mirror and forward it to a Michigan Man Tribunal of Stan Edwards, Braylon Edwards, Rick Leach, and Jay Feeley for approval before venturing out my door.
March 14th, 2013 at 11:50 AM ^
I hate St. Patrick's Day. My typical thought: "Wait. You're a quarter Irish too?! That is amazing. And yes, it does give the right to be a drunken asshole all day long."
March 14th, 2013 at 12:05 PM ^
lay off, bucko--I'm half-Irish!
March 14th, 2013 at 11:51 AM ^
March 14th, 2013 at 11:51 AM ^
St. Paddy's day has noting to do with MSU.
March 14th, 2013 at 12:00 PM ^
Black. As in out.
But I do own one green shirt that I purchased last year for StPD, so I'll be wearing that this weekend.
March 14th, 2013 at 12:00 PM ^
But then again, I plan on doing a truck-load of homework on Saturday, and, ahem, not remembering if I felt guilty about the green clothes on Sunday.
/College
/St.Patty'sinA2
March 14th, 2013 at 12:01 PM ^
March 14th, 2013 at 12:03 PM ^
Lets change Derek Green's name to Derek Maize n' Blue.
March 14th, 2013 at 12:05 PM ^
This son of the ould sod (Shaw and Callahan) reminds you that the Irish saved civilization long before Sparty started destroying furniture.
Slainte!
March 14th, 2013 at 12:07 PM ^
March 14th, 2013 at 12:16 PM ^
Lighten up brother and realize that everything doesn't have to be serious. Life - It's supposed to be fun. If the post wasn't fun for you, so be it, but it was interesting for enough people that I've enjoyed reading through the responses.
March 14th, 2013 at 12:59 PM ^
March 14th, 2013 at 12:08 PM ^
March 14th, 2013 at 12:10 PM ^
Should one feel like a traitor? If they're from Belfast, I suppose they might.
No politics / religion? Man this thread is trodding some dangerous turf
March 14th, 2013 at 12:49 PM ^
March 14th, 2013 at 12:19 PM ^
I usually don't wear green, but I have an old UNC-Charlotte shirt and a Colorado St. shirt that I can wear for occasions such as this. Incidently, I also own a couple red shirts (since my sister is at Maryland), but I don't wear either color often. I don't feel guilty wearing either color, though, unless I tried to do it on a big game day.
March 14th, 2013 at 12:19 PM ^
I just farted.
March 14th, 2013 at 12:20 PM ^
March 14th, 2013 at 12:23 PM ^
What's with your boss? Is he some kind of IRA sympathizer? I assume you are Protestant and feel that you should be able to wear Orange. You should contact your HR department because I would think that this could be considered discrimination -- if you want to take it that far.
Also, why is everyone talking about MSU in this thread?
March 14th, 2013 at 12:47 PM ^
March 14th, 2013 at 12:43 PM ^
in the 1980s, seeing a bunch of drunken American cops come around the corner on a Dublin street and asking my Irish friends WTF. They shrugged and told me they showed up every year for some kind of parade.
Green is definitely not in my palette.
March 14th, 2013 at 12:48 PM ^
No. If you really want to give Sparty fans an ego boost, complain about how many people you see wearing green and how uncomfortable you are with it.
March 14th, 2013 at 12:50 PM ^
Just don't wear MSU green. Simple.
It's a fucking color. I also wear red tones on occasion.
Nope. Not at all.
Slainte
Ireland was around long before Michigan State was.
Exactly. Like I'm gonna act like Michigan State is a bigger deal than Ireland? Fuck no.
Because I'm not wearing it, I don't really pay attention to the minor holidays. I always miss St. Patrick's Day somehow, I guess I don't care.
Meijer had a bunch of Michigan-themed St. Paddy's shirts at a pretty good discount last week, but I could not bring myself to buy a big green sweatshirt.
I don't care if it did have a Block M (the most beautiful letter in the world) on it, I couldn't do it.
Shit, I'm dressing up like a fucking leprechauan, drinking all day and kissing every woman I see while dancing jigs & flashing me lucky charms.
But yeah, Go Blue & all that too!
Which outfit?
THIS WON TIME I SAW A SPARTAN DAWG WHERING A GREEN SHIRT AND I THROUGH MY POOP AT HIS BUTTFACE. IT WAS FUNNY GO BLUE!