When it comes to mental illness, people who hear that schizophrenia is hard wired are actually more averse to people with the diagnosis than people who hear that schizophrenia is caused by experiences. Thinking of schizophrenia as being hard wired makes people less understanding, less likely to want to know someone…

As you say, we've had very different experiences. I grew up in a small town, so our parade took about 15 minutes and wasn't very interesting, but then again I didn't find the Dublin parade very interesting either. I find the day to be more of a spectacle abroad. I can imagine that if it were tied to childhood memories…

I'm Irish, spent the first 25 years of my life in the country, and the damp squib of a holiday in Ireland is nothing compared to how it's celebrated in the US, Canada, Germany, France, Singapore. In no way, shape or form is it a "massive party day". It's a day when you watch the Dublin parade on the TV and eat the…

They celebrate it much more outside of Ireland than inside Ireland. It's a bit bewildering.

That's an American thing, isn't it? Along with drinking green beer. From what I recall, Paddy's Day in Ireland is about going to watch the boring parade in the drizzling rain and then going home to eat everything you gave up for Lent as Paddy's Day is a day off. Because Jesus came out of the desert and stopped fasting…

Shhh, don't tell them to learn Irish! They'll show us up then. Encourage bitching about the weather, knowing the antecedants of everyone in the town unto the fifth generation, and saying "how are ya?" when they actually mean "hello". Irish people can actually compete on those metrics.

By his logic, that means he probably doesn't exist.

A quick Google reveals lines such as:

Mac have also done a number of Disney lines, including a Disney Villain line. So it's not that it took them "this long", they've been doing this for a while.

Her eyeballs are scary white in that photo.

Oh I agree with you, I was just making a light hearted joke and I don't need the intersectionality 101.

Would this be an example of #homophobiahurtsstraightchickstoo, in the vein of #PHMT?

The Famous Five were ejaculating all over the place. Thank you, Enid Blyton.

Fiddlesticks.

For DNLM, "Middle East"="Muslim countries". :(

visit Irish Fest and complain about there being too many bad arm tattoos

I really hope it's just a clotty period and the police are squicked out when they discover this.

I'm pretty sure we have more days off than that here in Bavaria. We get all the Catholic and Protestant holidays, it's awesome!

Yeah, it's almost always straight white men who say that. It sets off alarm bells for me, and makes me think they want to go back to when men were men and women knew their place.

...and nonplussed when you mean the opposite of nonplussed.