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lozzyloz Wrote:

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> What's the point of St.Georges Day?


In the Christian world different groups of people would often adopt a specific saint to intercede on their behalf. Often the saint shared characteristics of an older pagan deity or figure from mythology. As the countries in modern Europe developed the patron saint of the ruling family became associated with that country. In England during Saxon times St Edmund was the patron. I think it was one of the Norman kings (I am not sure on this and don?t feel like looking it up) who introduced St George.


The Catholic Church organises its liturgical year according to the veneration of different saints and saints are given days of the year on which they are venerated. As Christian communities developed they started to specially mark the day on which their saint was venerated by the church. So it became a day of identifying with your clan, province, country.


Today it is celebrated by lackluster marketing campaigns for real ale and marked rise in good old English cynicism.

lozzyloz Wrote:

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> What's the point of St.Georges Day?



You could ask the same of St. Patricks day, and every other saints day for that matter. I find it weird that more people seem to celebrate paddys day and not St. Georges day. Or is is not PC to put such thoughts in the public domain these days?

atila the gooner Wrote:

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> lozzyloz Wrote:

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> > What's the point of St.Georges Day?

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> You could ask the same of St. Patricks day, and

> every other saints day for that matter. I find it

> weird that more people seem to celebrate paddys

> day and not St. Georges day. Or is is not PC to

> put such thoughts in the public domain these days?




What Atila said entirely. A guy at work put a St. George's day flag on his desk to be asked to remove it in case it offended anyone who was non-British!! Nuff said! and I will steer clear of this can of worms if at all possible!

Yes.. if it wasn't for all the immigrants taking our homes, jobs, children, wives, parking spots etc etc we'd all be draped in the red and white and singing 'Land of Hope and Glory' and toasting the Queen on a momentous day like today.


The real reason, of course, is that no-one can be arsed. And rightly so.

As usual Bob gets it totally wrong. Nobody mentioned immigrants taking our jobs and all the other bollocks you came out with, lest you forget I am the son of immigrants. I see no problem with people celebrating a saints day, I just find it strange that some much effort is put into protecting the rights of others other than those who wish to celebrate being English, whatever that means, and to ensure that we don't offend any who is anti St. George day. Same old thing, don't put a flag of St. George on your desk lest you offend somebody, F**K 'em!!!

Look, I can get 'on board' at Christmas as there as presents involved.

I can even 'do' Easter - if there's a high-quality chocolate egg in it for me.


But all St George's Day has to offer is some fat-arsed, pot-bellied, pissed-up, tone deaf Chelsea fan waking me up at 2am as he chunders his 12 pints into the gutter. No thanks.


At least the Irish can hold their drink.

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