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Apparently yesterday was St. George's Day
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You would have been forgiven for not realising this.
England must be one of the very few countries that don't celebrate their national day. Bizarre
England must be one of the very few countries that don't celebrate their national day. Bizarre
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He does it for st patricks and st andrews too. I wouldnt know about them if it wasnt for that
A day off work and the opportunity to get pissed up. :thumb:
Yes, because they dont follow the 'graven images' bit of the 10 comandmants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George
Out of all the patron saints, he seems quite bad assed. We also share him with a few other countries.
National prides sounds worrying like Jingoism's second cousin.
Exactly! I never used to bother about St. Georges Day, it meant nothing to me, but recently it really annoys me how we don't celebrate it.
St. Patricks day is massive worldwide, St. Andrews day is big in Scotland, and 'Australia Day' is huge amongst Australians. Epescially as I'm seeing an Australian girl at the moment, it almost embarrases me when I hear about their Australia Day and then she asks, "So what are you doing for St. Georges Day?"
Why the fuck shouldn't we celebrate and be damn proud of our country and all that it's given us? Is it because we have never been occupied and don't feel the need to be proud? Why is it that as soon as someone waves the English flag and talks about being proud of being English, they are instantly tagged a Neo-Nazi, racist BNP sympathyser? Really fucks me off, I have family from other parts of the world, but it doesn't mean that I'm not fucking proud of my country and being English.
What was the serious fault in lacking a sense of "Englishness"? It just seems like a manifestation of our innate, tribal instincts.
N.B.: Orwell wrote an interesting essay about Nationalism - less interestingly called 'Notes on Nationalism' IIRC.
With being told you are actually a member of the UK not English (which is surely only something that ever happened in England on a large scale) then it becomes a stranger thing to define.
It's probably one of those reasons it makes perfect sense to me that I'd define myself as a Lancastrian, even a Boltonian and be more comfortable with that than seeing myself as English? Hmm... don't know really
Certainly see more reason for it to be a bank holiday than Easter.
I think you live in a different country than me ...or you read the Daily Mail.
Skives idea is a good one ...why should Easter ...an ancient fertility festival ... ...be a bank holiday here?
Where is here?
Oop north have plenty of crack heads and homless ...quite poor oop north ...i take it your darn sarf.
I don't see what's wrong in celebrating the good things about living in this country.
Bloody typical of the English that is. It wasn't the English Empire, but the British Empire - if you didn't have us Micks and the Jocks you'd all be a minor island being fought over by the French and Spanish
grumble, grumble
Where do you think Shannon Matthews was from? That's right, "oop North." Where are you from that's so deprived with smack addicts on every corner?
Northern Ireland