Danny B

It's hard to fly a flag on a motorbike but I will be wearing red and white pants

Tell me, do those ghastly English pubs you find in the major cities have a St George's special menu etc or is it completely forgotten about in Canada?

The Maple Leaf in Covent Gdn was heaving last year on Canada day.

Steve_P

Just curious, when did St. George's day become an an event of any kind in the UK?

When I left in 1963 there was no recognition of this day.

Danny B

It even has it's own website now http://www.stgeorgesday.com/home

The trouble is, if you fly an England flag outside your own home you will either be considered a racist or a football lout
A far cry from all the houses I saw in BC which had a Maple Leaf flying on the front porch.

PaulCall

there is a difference here......Canadians actually have genuine pride of their country

Alberta_Rose

It was previously only really observed by the scouting association, with St George's Day parades followed by a church service when my brothers (and then my sons) were involved.

Tiffin Tease

I still maintain, as I did in a thread back about St. Patrick's Day, we need to make it a big event and people can dress up as dragons/George or wear dragon deely boppers, maybe a couple swords or flags on them instead??? LOL

I personally don't celebrate it, not because I am not patriotic but rather that, as someone else has pointed out, it's not really got positive associations at present - that would be nice to change... it really does make me smile when I see the flags out and proud in any country

claire bob and matt

My local pub's having a big St George's do?

C

moonraker

One good reason to be out of the country then.

Steve_P

As I said I don't remember anyone making any sort of special effort on that particular day.

Perhaps I didn't notice because it's also my birthday and I could have been a little self absorbed back then (not that I'm really any different today).

Thought I'd better add that last bit before Butch did.

bazzz

God no. I'm embarrassed enough as it is about being English without drawing more attention to it.

Tangram

Damn....beat me to it !

Steve_P

Oi, you're not supposed to agree.

Almost Canadian

By whom ?

polarbearmum

government. From what my sister said it certainly happened during world cup. people were told they were not allowed to fly the georges' cross as it could affend other nationalities living in britain. Yeah so my sister, who disllikes football went out and bought a flag....... Umm me thinks she was looking for a fight, but nothing happened.

Almost Canadian

So which members of the Government said this to your sister ?

Legally, they cannot prevent anyone flying a St George's Cross and I doubt that any public servant would be stupid to try and enforce such a rule. As per usual, I suspect that this is "law by media" once again