Happy St Georges Day everyone

[TillieTrotter]

Refer to title.

[KalamityKel]

:)-D

[Brendan]

And a happy st georges day to you too. :)-D

[Cassius]

And a happy birthday to Shakespeare too!

[lozzyloz]

What's the point of St.Georges Day?

[SeanMacGabhann]

or any other patron saint for that matter - let's not pick on poor St George

If people are up for a party on Patricks or any other day then by all means have one on St George's day

:)-D

[Brendan]

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.

[atila the gooner]

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?

[Cassius]

Or is it that St Patrick's day is associated with the vast consumption of alcohol whilst St George's day isn't?

Edited to add: Wetherspoons is doing a fish and chips offer today - not quite the same!

[Keef]

It's simply because the marketing people at Guinness are very clever, and St Patrick's Day is actually Guinness day.

[KalamityKel]

Is it not bangers and mash day?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Atila - noooo. Please don't jump on the PC bandwagon. I've already highlighted the Paddy's day thing. None of them matter - made up the lot of them. Have a party or don't - no-one is saying you can't

[LizzygotDizzy]

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!

[atila the gooner]

Lizzy, I'm not at all surprised, one rule for some...........

[LizzygotDizzy]

Oh and a happy St. George's day to one and all - :)-D

[Jah Lush]

Cheers!:)-D

[*Bob*]

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.

[Jah Lush]

There goes *Bob* doing the ironing again.>:D

[SeanMacGabhann]

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[atila the gooner]

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!!!

[david_carnell]

Sean, spot on as ever (well nearly) - or at least you were till your edit?!

Oh god....some days I just don't have the energy to respond to bollocks like this.

Take a chill pill Atila. Deep breath and just let. it. go.

[*Bob*]

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.

[Jah Lush]

Good grief Atila, don't recognise irony when you see it.

[atila the gooner]

Irony my arse. Why is it you guys get all self righteous about this?? Do you belive that it's only your opinions that count. Jeez.

[KalamityKel]

We get many grumbly neighbours going on about "might offending someone" when we "fly our england flag" from time to time... silly buggers obv don't get the footie season ;-)