Happy StGeorges Day

[????]

...I just knew you'd all be far tooooooooo cool and pc.

*Dons england shirt, hangs St Georges flag out of window, belts out Jerusalem, throws plastic chair*

[Jah Lush]

As I put on my FB page I'm very proud to be English but I won't stand for any of that jingoistic nonsense. Happy St George's Day to you too. Pints of London Pride all round.

[????]

I raise my pint and won't be singing "No Surrender" Jah

[Jah Lush]

Just the two of us then. Pork pie?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Do many people bother with Paddy's day? Not sure where PC comes into it

Happy St George's Day if you like

[Moos]

Do people in Ireland, Sean?

*waves* hello btw, haven't seen you in ages!

[SeanMacGabhann]

I think everyone goes out drinking but I think they do that anyway

I don't know anyone in Ireland who says Happy St Paddy's Day tho. Not that I mind anyone wishing anyone Happy St George's day..

[Moos]

No, course not (re: St. G). Just wondered whether Paddy's day meant anything different / more on home turf than the general pissup and greenwigwearing buffoonery it means elsewhere.

[SeanMacGabhann]

quite the opposite - seems to induce a dose of the cringes. But that wasn't the case 20 years ago when emigration and a lack of internet made it seem like a flagpole event

[Brendan]

Good?o! Happy. St Georges day. How should one celebrate this year then? The Spanish get excitable with red roses today which is nice but probably a little out of character for the English.

The trend in latter years to do a sort of red and white coloured version of that Irish day.

Now Irish crack does have much to recommend it but when translated into English it has the disadvantage that at some point some bugger always tries to start a morris dance. At least that?s what I think he was trying when he came at me with a stick. I had to take out my revolver and shoot him dead for good measure. We can?t have any of that sort of thing now can we.

Anyway I?m rambling?

across the downs as it happens on a warm August morning wearing nowt but striped woollen socks (knitted by a professional hurdy-gurdyerist called Deidre) and a pair of sensible shoes as it was Tuesday.

Henry!

Henry!

Bring my drinking spats. We?ve a day here to celebrate.

[????]

Pork pie and English mustard...mmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Brendan]

Oh go on, just call it mustard. It is Shakespear's birthday afterall.

[Michael Palaeologus]

English mustard. Dont want it to be confused with the French or, God forbid, the American versions.

I am not aware of Ireland having produced a great mustard. A failing on their part I feel.

However, I once knew a Deidre. She had large shins and a way with adventurous ferrets.

[Keef]

My Irish friends at Uni were well in to Paddy's day, but then again, they were well in to singing rebel songs, and generally acting like bomb throwers.

Aaaanyway, Scot's don't really bother with St Andrew's day, it's all about Burns night for them (or so my Scottish colleague tells me).

Paddy's day is nothing but a huge marketing triumph for Guinness, with slogans like "Only one Paddy's day, 364 practice days" and stuff like that. If it wasn't for Guiness, I doubt anyone would know when Paddy's day was.

I know there is all the stuff about the flag, and skin heads, and all that stuf these days, allowing the likes of Quids to scream "bleeding heart liberals", but seriously, was St George's day well celebrated in bygone days? I don't ever remember it as a kid, in fact, I don't think I knew there was a St George's day until I was an adult.

Anyway, as I say, it's all about marketing, but who do you aim your marketing at in a society like this?

[Brendan]

I once got American mustard on a pork pie. It was during a spot of unpleasantness on the Blackpool Promenade. I wouldn?t recommend it. It made the Kiss Me Quick completely illegible.

[Brendan]

I had to take out my revolver and shoot the bugger dead for good measure.

[bob]

Been driving up and down the Lane St Georges Flag flying lot's of waves from peeps.

Bob S

[HonaloochieB]

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> ...I just knew you'd all be far tooooooooo cool

> and pc.

>

> *Dons england shirt, hangs St Georges flag out of

> window, belts out Jerusalem, throws plastic chair*

St George, Quids? You are avin' a Turkish.

But thanks for the chair.

[Jah Lush]

There was a time when people celebrated Empire Day at least that's what my dad told me and he used to moan that we didn't celebrate that anymore until I explained to him that we not longer had an empire because we'd given it away.

[steveo]

When the Scots get home rule then we should seize the Union Jack and make it the English flag. It's pretty and it will confuse the skinheads and we drew it anyway.

[Jah Lush]

Cool Britannia, Britannia you are cool (Take a trip). Britons ever ever ever shall be hip.

It's good to be in England, now that summer's here,

I'll stand upright in my wheelbarrow,

And pretend I'm Boadicea!!

[Mick Mac]

I guess the England flags I have seen today can stay in place until after the quater finals of the World Cup.

Part of the reason the Irish celebrate st patricks day is because its a national holiday and people have to take the day off school and work - and as its in mid March when the weather is rubbish the pub is a good place to go (after cumpulsory morning mass).

If everyone in England was off work today I'm sure people would find the pub a good place to celebrate.

I was off work today so I had a nice glass of wine with my lunchtime meal to celebrate George's day on your behalf. Just in case you were all busy at work.

[Jah Lush]

Cheers Mick. Good you were off celebrating for us while we're slaving away. I'm still at work now FFS. No peace for the wicked.

St George's Day should be a national holiday.

[Mick Mac]

My pleasure Jah, don't mention it.

[kpc]

Maybe we should celebrate today as Shakespeare's birthday and stand about on street corners quoting sonnets.