St. George's Day
 

23rd April - St. George's Day

Should this be a public holiday ??

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I loose track of stuff like this being in the US. Thanks for the reminder. :)

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Nobody seems to bother with this anymore?

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very strange. I used to be in Holland a lot and their National day was held on their Queens birthday. The country was a riot of orange, a public holiday and lots of events. same as in Ireland, have seen people on the forum wishing happy St. Patricks day and they aren't even Irish...yet to celebrate St. georges day in the UK(and forums) is about as popular as being a Muslim terrorist:blink: BTW some parts of Spain celebrate the day!

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thats probably because the fluffy bunnies seem to want us to make more of diwahli and thngs as part of making incomers more welcome
celebrating christian and or pagan festivals as we used to are frowned on nowadays as they are not "all inclusive".
which is why we are supposed to celebrate yule-tide rather than christmas

not that I have ever been invited to a diwahli hoedown.
:(

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Yes,
We must be the only country in the world that does not have a national day.
If we don't wave our flag once in a while who will?

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I've never come across anyone objecting to celebrating St George's Day. What people object to is the expropriation of the flag of St George by the BNP and other right-wing racist groups, the way the National Front did with the Union Jack. It needs to be reclaimed by the moderate majority!

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Judging by last years Olympics, parties in the park, the flag has been reclaimed. Some seems to have been celebrating.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-hit-20C.html

I think the day should be a public holiday, moved from the may day one.

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Half Greek, half Palestinian, stolen form everyone else and made our own Saint.... couldn't be more English if he tried!

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If we need another bank holiday, better that it's in the Autumn - perhaps Trafalgar Day? We have enough bank holidays as it is at this time of year.
I'm quite proud that England is secure enough in its own identity, that it doesn't need to crow about its patron saint. I prefer Last Night of the Proms, or watching FA Cup Final day - televised around the world!

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Mafeking Day?

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What, and upset the Spanish ?
Can't believe you said that Stevie. :blink:


On the other hand we could do as the Spanish do with the Moors and Christians and re-stage the battle each year as a major tourist attraction,.......


.....that's supposing of course we can still scrape enough ships together. :unsure:

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News travels slow in my neck of the woods, pigeon post and pony express at best, that's if they're not all tied up with the never ending fiestas, so can I presume from your post that Mafeking has finally been relieved ? :unsure:

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Hear, Hear:thumbup:

Such celebrations are an obvious sign of national insecurity.

England doesn't need it.:thumbsup:

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Are there any Englishmen on the pitch at the FA Cup Final?

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The Ref. ?

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Nah, they should have both and make it a puente! :D

And while we're at it, May Day should be on 1 May, not the nearest Monday.

Also stop moving Easter around and make it a fixed date (possibly the weekend between St George and May Day). It's daft linking it to the moon. There's no good reason why the Church of England has to stick to the same dates as the Catholic world, after all, the Greek Orthodox lot have it on a totally different date.

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It is but who the hell wants a Wednesday off?

However when it falls on a Saturday or Sunday that should be it :thumbsup:

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I am old enough to remember the days before the term "political correctness" was invented, and even when I was a child I can NEVER remember much being made of St George's Day at all. I think we used to have a few decorations up at my primary school, but as it was St George's CE Primary School that was hardly surprising!

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well I went into the big city to get a haircut but he was busy, so as I had other things to do I made a booking for next week.
Nope can't have next Wednesday - its a day off, International Work Day he told me in English, to which I responded "yes, its the only day of the year you Must work", it lost something in his mental translation to the Spanish but he did respond by saying his wife would cut his throat if he came to work.

so i am going in on Tuesday.
;)

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I just cannot understand you English.
Opportunity for a knees-up and you don't want it but you rather enjoy St Patrick's day.

Where is your self worth?

:confused:

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Interesting one.

I suppose we're all so quietly confident that we've already had it for so long, that we don't feel the same need as others to go around waving our flags, getting legless and saying here we all are, look at us, we've finally arrived.

Fact is that most folks are well aware that for better or worse we've already long ago made our presence felt in all corners of the globe, so a national flag waving day is no big deal, nothing to prove,........
........apart from maybe a few underage binge drinkers in union jack shorts that is, but no doubt they'll soon mature and grow out of it as well.

I've always made a point of staying sober on Paddys day.
It's a superb spectator sport watching them rolling around town in a stupor from early morning and making total R-soles of themselves before finally crashing out in the gutter.

At least some of us kind hearted guys are always around and sober enough to pick them up and help them home, providing they still have a clue where home may be that is.;)

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Absolutely, instead of May Day.

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That's hardly surprising, I think most of us have given up trying to understand the Irish.:D It seems St Paddy's Day is celebrated all around the world by the millions of Irish who love to tell us how great the country is they all abandoned.:D

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That's very true. :rofl:

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Exactly.

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Thanks for the reminder.

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Too late you just missed it. :(

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That's true, it is far bigger in the "diaspora" communities like New York and Boston. The celebrations in Ireland and mainly sponsored by Guinness, and the fact that it falls in the middle of Lent rules out having a big piss-up for a lot of older people anyway. They are more excited by the Cheltenham races or the Six Nations which happen around the same time.

My father left Ireland in the late 60s to work in England. He still loves his home country but never made a big thing of St Patricks. He's a bit embarrassed by all this green lager and silly hats you get today.

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I have NEVER, Ever, had a knees up on St Patricks Day
Nor on St Andrews

St David, well yes, a time to remember all my Welsh family no longer with us

Unless you haven't noticed - the English here are being quite reserved about it, as they are about most things. We don't need a "day" to celebrate, to get pissed out of our minds, we do that Every day, don't need a Saint.
:drinkwine::beer:

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see, someone who is so secure in themselves they can even forget their Saint's Day - obviously not Spanish, who print all 365 on their calendars each year
:rofl:

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Well the patron saint of Scotland isn't St. Andrew it's actually someone called Rabbi Burns who wrote incomprehensible nonsense on Jan 25th.

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Like this you mean ?
Where's the romance in you jim ?

O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That’s sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee well, my only Luve
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile

...and how many amongst you have not joined in Auld Lang Syne at the New Year, though it's not all down to Rabbie ?

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Don't blame him, he was Welsh!;)

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I thought Scotland didn't have a proper saint - after all St Andrews is a golf course isn't it ??
although some people somewhere seem to think golf is a religion
:rofl:

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Anzac Day today.
Time to remember those brave guys from down under who did their bit and quite a bit more besides when the chips were really down.

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Agree
they started at Gallipoli and have given unstintingly ever since.

`

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No thanks to Churchill

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St Edmund was the patron saint of England until Edward III (1312-1377) took it upon himself to proclaim someone with more bravado to take his place....

Should have left well alone...

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......whose mugshot will appear on the next £5 notes to be introduced in 2016.