Yes, Italian beef for St. Patricks day. Hahaha.

In all honesty I wouldn’t blame you. Or Chicago, they are super delish.

Italian beef - wet

Ahh yes! The only correct way to eat ur Italian beef.

Fuck yeah. What’s your preferred place to get from? Johnnies is the one I’m most familiar with and enjoy.

Cheesy, no peppers for me. But if they wrapped them in paper and shot them with a T-shirt gun, I guarantee it would be popular.

This is really making me miss home. Maybe I’ll move back in a few years.

Isn’t that from the fugitive?

I’ve seen apartment complexes that have little fake ponds and rivers flowing throughout the grounds that are dyed blue. It doesn’t look good. It looks like the water with that cheap toilet bowl cleaner in it.

Well I live near an actual toxic river that has been cleaning up lately. I just think dying it green makes it look gross, maybe it's time to projection map it green or give everyone green tinted glasses so then everything is green and you don't have to make the river an oooz color.

I want XKCD to do the math on this one

I just think that color green is ugly and looks like industrial waste

The deadly chemical known as Dihydrogen Monoxide absolutely fills that river, you know? Might want to keep your distance.

What about all the piss and poop in the river? Fish can’t be trained to use a bathroom, so they just defecate in the water, 24x7. Gross!

It’s wasteful and a bad look, but many things are only hazardous in high concentrations. Even a tanker full of milk getting dumped into a small lake could cause mass die offs. The PPE is probably more about preventing it from being breathed in or getting in their mouths. You can check out the SDS here.

That was hard to read, and amounts to “It’s safe and used responsibly but people are scared of color green so it must be bad.”

oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/…/great-lakes.html

TL;DR: Algae would almost certainly be worse than whatever they are using.

It’d be bad. Real bad. An algae bloom of massive proportions. It has one huge issue.

Enough algae to make the rivers run green will use up enough oxygen at night to kill off fish and other vertebrates.

Now you have a river full of dead organisms, so they start decomposing thanks to microbes. You know what many types of bacteria love? Oxygen. So they start using up oxygen, multiplying all the while. Night hits and the algae need to use oxygen, but a bunch die because there’s not enough. Now the river is full of literally hundreds, maybe thousands of tons of decomposing matter. The river largely goes anoxic (meaning there’s no oxygen) so things start dying left and right. A bunch of those bacteria can live with and without oxygen, so they use up what they can and keep on chugging without.

Now we’ve moved from aerobic respiration to anaerobic. You know what the primary byproducts of anaerobic respiration are? Organic acids and alcohols, which smell. The river begins to smell like an infected wound. It’s no longer green but deep, murky brown from the suspension of decomposing organisms. This continues until the river flushes everything out, but it kills what’s downstream as it continues until it hits the ocean, where it likely continues to kill everything in the vicinity until it becomes dilute enough.

Using green algae with what’s happening in Lough Neagh would be a bad look.

But perfectly on brand for the plastic Paddy’s.

More people should celebrate dyngus day

Because tracing dye is originally green. It’s just a happy coincidence that it ended up working for Saint Patricks day.

I'm asking you why they do this when it looks like crap? People actually like seeing a neon green river? What is wrong with those people? See, 3 valid questions.