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'Happy St Georges Day'

  • 23-04-2011 10:34AM
    #1
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭


    "Happy St George's Day" to everybody, especially to our English friends . . . .

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_George_by_Raphael.jpg

    Not that anybody knows that its St Georges day today, and even in England you would be hard pressed to know that it was the equivalent of St Patricks day over here, most (but not all) English people couldn't care less :)


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  • #2
    mgmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭mgmt


    Pity they can't make it a national holiday like St Patricks Day here. Apparently it might offend people.


  • #3
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Nobody does National holidays like us :D


  • #4
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    mgmt wrote: »
    Pity they can't make it a national holiday like St Patricks Day here. Apparently it might offend people.

    Vomiting in the street after a day of drinking tends to offend or upset certain sections of society.


  • #5
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    /Dusts off Morris Dancing get up.


  • #6
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    St George is a common sort of a saint - loads of countries claim him

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George


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  • #7
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Also this fellas birthday/deathday (Shakespeare)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDZVxbrW7Ow


  • #8
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Happy St Georges day to our English brothers and sisters. :)


  • #9
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Not that anybody knows that its St Georges day today, and even in England you would be hard pressed to know that it was the equivalent of St Patricks day over here, most (but not all) English people couldn't care less :)
    Always thought this kinda weird alright.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #10
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Maybe time for a Cromwells Day.


  • #11
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Always thought this kinda weird alright.
    Thought it was obvious?

    Show your english culture = Racist
    Put up a St George flag = Racist
    Celebrate St George day = Racist


    Many factors as to why its low profile. Which is a shame.


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  • #12
    ciano1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭ciano1


    More importantly... Its my Birthday!! :D


  • #13
    Predator_
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    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Happy St Georges day to our English brothers and sisters. :)

    Our? This is an Irish forum Keith. Although you wouldn't know sometimes.


  • #14
    mossyc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭mossyc123


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Thought it was obvious?

    Show your english culture = Racist
    Put up a St George flag = Racist
    Celebrate St George day = Racist


    Many factors as to why its low profile. Which is a shame.

    Sad but true.

    Every nation has xenophobes who'll wrap themselves in the national flag while spewing bile.

    It's a pity that in England it's almost entirely associated with these types.


  • #15
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Happy St. Georges Day!!!

    The George cross proudly flying in my house (indoors, with the curtains drawn).

    Stupid Royal spendathon (hopefully the Anarchists will get enough time from destroying Bristol Tescos to get up to London on that day) gets a holiday but not the national saints day.


  • #16
    AfterDusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭AfterDusk


    ciano1 wrote: »
    More importantly... Its my Birthday!! :D

    Me too!!! :D


  • #17
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Predator_ wrote: »
    Our? This is an Irish forum Keith. Although you wouldn't know sometimes.
    I'd say most people have an English relative, past or present.


  • #18
    Thomas828
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    If I was still living in England I'd have my Cross of St George fluttering proudly outside my window, even though I'm Irish. But I think it would look a bit out of place in Downpatrick.

    Though if I was in a staunchly Loyalist place I might get away with it.


  • #19
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Let's all go to The George to celebrate!!


  • #20
    BrookieD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭BrookieD


    yeah the english national day the UK gov would like to go unnoticed to avaoid upsetting any not english living in England,........ morons.

    still thanks for the thread.... now off to drink a pint of bitter and eat my yorkshire pudding... ;-)


  • #21
    LondonIrish90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭LondonIrish90


    There is no such thing as an English identity in the UK.

    The scots are scottish, the welsh and welsh, the English have to be British (everyday life would have you thinking this anyway).

    Shows no signs of changing either. There is quite a lot of shame and jealousy of St Patricks day among a lot of English people, who have no real way of celebrating their identity, apart from at sporting events. Always makes me laugh that people from elsewhere complain that the English are too nationalistic. Couldnt be more wrong.

    We even have a big festival in Trafalgar Square (admittedly most of the attendees are Spanish and Japanese) for St patrick, which is a fun day out, but also quite disappointing. We can do it for others (even wales), but not ourselves.


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  • #22
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    It's really annoying me that half of the people sending blackberry broadcasts saying 'Happy St George's Day, send this to your contacts if you're English and proud' also sent the same thing about Paddy's Day. Make up your minds!


    It is a shame I suppose that the George's flag is so closely associated to ignorant, racist, skin-head oafs; but that's just the way it is. Ah well.


  • #23
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Most national flags are identified with their own section of idiots - including the Irish and English.


  • #24
    Xivilai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    Pffft, all he did was kill a dragon where as Saint Patrick took on an a wave of angry snakes :pac:

    Either way happy George's Day


  • #25
    LondonIrish90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭LondonIrish90


    brummytom wrote: »


    It is a shame I suppose that the George's flag is so closely associated to ignorant, racist, skin-head oafs; but that's just the way it is. Ah well.

    Only if you want it to be. There is a st george's flag flying outside the royal british legion club, less than 5 minutes drive from me. 90% of the people that you see going in and out are pensioners. No ignorant skin heads that I have seen. In fact, your post is quite ignorant. It represents one of the biggest and most diverse countries in Europe. Sure you wouldn't automatically think Ra head if someone was flying a tricolour would you?


  • #26
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    English people don't have a strong sense of identity anyway. I mean if you were to define English culture...what would it be exactly??


  • #27
    dlofnep
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    Happy St. Georges day to all our English posters :) Drink one for dlofnep!


  • #28
    Sunnyisland
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    mike65 wrote: »
    St George is a common sort of a saint - loads of countries claim him

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George


    :o Didn't know that :o



    Happy st Georges day anyway.


  • #29
    LondonIrish90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭LondonIrish90


    Gnobe wrote: »
    English people don't have a strong sense of identity anyway. I mean if you were to define English culture...what would it be exactly??

    England has probably made more of a cultural contribution to the world than anywhere else in Europe.


  • #30
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Wonder if the george Bar in Dublin be packed tonight with queens.


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  • #31
    Sunnyisland
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    stovelid wrote: »
    Maybe time for a Cromwells Day.


    :D Of with your head stovelid:D


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