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It appears that a Queens outlet of the retail chain Strawberry has pulled from shelves a T-shirt with the slogan, "I may not be an Irish girl but I drink like one." Strawberry's spokesperson has yet to comment, but a customer service rep told Jacqueline Quinn, a 45-year-old fashion designer from Queens, that the shirts would be pulled from their Steinway Street location after she complained. "I was so livid," Quinn tells the Daily News:
It's a teenage family store. I shop there with my niece and my 9-year-old daughter. It takes a sterotype and it's basically saying that all Irish people drink. It's always related to alcohol. Why can't they quote Oscar Wilde? Why can't it be something positive?
So true, but the thing is, it's tough to fit some Wilde quotes on a T-shirt. Take this one, for instance: "I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication." Or maybe this one might work: "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
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This woman needs to have a drink and loosen up. Stereotypes are fun.
This time last year all the Politically Correctoids were on a witch hunt for the baker who had the temerity to sell "Drunken Negro Cookies".
All the local politicos and self-righteous were picketing him, trying to shut his long-established business down, trying to put him out of business.
But when a similar remark is directed at a white ethnic or Catholic group, that is OK?
How about:
I may not be a Jewish girl, but I connive like one?
I may not be black girl, but I steal like one?
I may not be a gay boy, but I have AIDS like one?
You know the Times and the politicos would be all over that!
Sorry, you can't have it both ways.
I'll take the second way!
+1
Being a heavy drinker is a far less negative stereotype than being a conniver, a thief or an AIDS victim.
So true. Remember kids, alcoholism is the only disease that you can be yelled at for having.
Who appointed you arbiter of prejudice and ignorance?
What the hell is that supposed to mean sir ? Are you trying to funny on the low ? What ? I suppose you thought no one here would pick up on your metaphoric delay ! How bout you stick with picking on the Irish drunkies this time around .
So what ! Lighten up bitch ! It's just a t-shirt nothing more .
"But when a similar remark is directed at a white ethnic or Catholic group, that is OK?"
Yep. Deal with it.
-white person
"But when a similar remark is directed at a white ethnic or Catholic group, that is OK?"
It's not OK, it's just that most white people aren't as whiny about it.
'Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. '
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
not religion?
Not only that: it's an Oscar Wilde quote!
Working makes me curse and want to drink a few glasses.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
WTF is this woman talking about?
"I have nothing to declare except my genius"
Oscar Wilde at US Customs
What gets me is that people get off work for Ramadan and Roshashana but my asking for SAINT Patrick's day off is laughed at. This woman is right. This is a religious holiday based on the acts of a saint and honoring a national hero. Not a day for a bunch of Americans to get drunk.
My mother's Irish and it's more like Easter than New Years Eve to her.
Get real. Who gets off work for Rosh Hashanah? Meanwhile, Christmas is the only national holiday that's also a religious one. Oh, you poor oppressed Catholic.
Schools and colleges are closed, but otherwise no one else gets off from work.
true, it is so very rare that the Church celebrates the life of a saint throughout the year
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/ByDate.aspx
Just because the feast of St. Patrick is the most popular saint's feast day of the Catholic calendar does not mean you deserve the day off...it's simply not at the same level of importance as Christmas, Easter or Ramadan.
He had gone miles away
For he drank like a fish
Nightly, naturally
Swimming towards the lure
Of warm lit-up places,
The blurred mesh and murmur
Drifting among glasses
In the gregarious smoke.
How culpable was he
That last night when he broke
Our tribe’s complicity?
‘Now, you’re supposed to be
An educated man,’
I hear him say. ‘Puzzle me
The right answer to that one.’
-Seamus Heaney
Alcohol consumption per capita worldwide. Ireland is prettttty dark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alcohol_consumption_per_capita_world_map.PNG
Is that Uganda that is super dark? How much could they possibly drink there?!
"Is that Uganda that is super dark? How much could they possibly drink there?!"
"Alcohol is an important part of Ugandan culture. It is served at events such as death, birth, marriage, and circumcision ceremonies. And alcohol is readily available: about 10 percent of state revenue comes from beer factories, and household alcohol production is a valued skill, handed down from generation to generation."
"As of 2003, Uganda was the world's highest per-capita consumer of alcohol. At 17.6 liters per person per year, the average Ugandan consumes twice as much alcohol as the average American, and more than twice the amount of a resident of any of Uganda's neighboring countries."
From: http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/
So, I'm working on a new t-shirt: "I may not be a Ugandan, but I drink like one."
Apparently I cut off part of the link to the Uganda info. It should be:
http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/302/
i see that there's one african country that drinks a lot. which one would that be? i'd like to visit.
All the alcohol in the world would not convince me to visit Uganda.
I'm really surprised that Australia isn't darker.
yeah, they seem unusually devoid of serial killers and psychopaths.
Most of the booze in Russia is homemade ie not counted on duh Wikipedia map-The map for Russia should be DARK MATTER
Had to be a Quinn, stupidity must run in that lineage.
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Well, it's not like every bar across America opens their doors at 9am on St. Patrick's Day. And we don't give out free green beer every few minutes during a gigantic parade. And it's not like people drink themselves into a stooper on this particular day because of the Irish connection.
....oh...wait. Maybe perpetuating this whole "drink til you're blitzed" mentality on St. Patty's Day isn't the best PR.
stuper
Uh...
...it's stupor.
St. Patrick's Day start a bit early this year?
Well, it's not like every bar across America opens their doors at 9am on St. Patrick's Day.
That's true. Most of them open at 8:30.
i can't wait for paddy's day,one of the greatest parties in nyc!lighten up all and enjoy the day!even if your not irish,enjoy!must everything be an issue?
The Quinn digs, especially when out of left field (ha), are getting tiresome. You're driving the ambivalent to support her, just out of spite.
LOL at parents who want to raise their kids to become ugly sober Irish whores.
It's not the whores who need to be drunk, it's their customers.
Ok, it's both.
If she had her way, all of Little Italy's souvenir shops with their funny signs and gift items would be stripped bare.
All it takes is one looneyball to whine and suddenly the store makes a change? This happens WAY too often.
I don't know that this woman qualifies as a looneyball. Alcoholism has completely ripped apart a lot of Irish families, and for a lot of people, it's the white elephant in the room nobody wants to discuss. So maybe some Irish are tired of people thinking it's amusing to celebrate that. There's nothing on that shirt about St. Patrick's Day, just about being Irish and drinking.
I think the shirt's a little offensive. It's one of those "harmless" stereotypes, like the Black guy who's of course a great dancer, or a JAP, or a smart Asian kid, that can turn real ugly pretty fast.
Maybe it didn't start out that way, but I can see the mom's anger. Strawberry's a major retail chain. It's not like it was on Howard Stern's website, or some stupid cutesy hipster boutique in Billyburg. (Hopefully some of you are having an "AHA!" moment right about now)
Irish pride in their capacity for imbibing is consistent with Italian's pride in mafia movies and what not, while expressing outrage if that viewpoint was from others. What if Puerto Ricans and and Irish switched parade dates?
The Irish and Irish-Americans (huge distinction) have quite differing views on what their heritage entails. Most; if not all, Irish-Americans only knowledge of Ireland is drink and proudly proclaim that their capacity for imbibing comes from this heritage. I certainly don’t take offense at jokes or comments about our love of the drink, and I think those that do need to get back in touch with the black humor of Ireland. Far more offensive is those that profess to be Irish-Americans and know absolutely diddly squat about Ireland other then shamrocks, Guinness, and Leprechauns.
Funny story, a co-worker of mine having overheard a gentleman exclaim “I don’t get hangover’s, I’m Irish” replied with the query of “Do you like Bushmills?”. His response was that he never heard of that, and wanted to know what it was. At this point I joined the conversation and informed him that forthwith he was banned from associating himself with the Oirish. Because let’s be honest, we do love our whisky, Uisge Beatha
I would also like to add the proper response to that question is " No, I don't drink that northern garbage"
We Irish call St. Patrick's Day "Amateur's Day". Because it's a day that other people dress in green shamrock headbands and act like they THINK the Irish act. Most of the people reeling in the streets tend to be from other ethnicities.
And Yamon is right - I never drink that northern swill.
any one else think that white people throwing up hand signs should be a capital offense?
If the capital is Topeka.
That t-shirt is guaranteed to get some girl their ass kicked by a drunk Irigh chick.
The Irish are not too bad. If you see Poilsh people buying a few bags of sugar in the Greenpoint supermarket you know that it is not going into tea or coffee. It is turned into 200 Proof rot gut.
If you think you can drink go to the Polish liquor stores in ask for SPIRITUS-190 Proof.