Happy St George's Day

[Parafox]

8 hours ago, Corky said:

Yep. Plenty to be proud of- lots of excellent beaches, beautiful countryside, variety of music, passion for multiple sports. Climate is generally tolerable.

Crap for 360 days of the year.

[Parafox]

8 hours ago, AKCJ said:

These days if you say you're English you'll be arrested and thrown in jail.

 

7 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Utter bollocks.

 Unless you arrived in a small boat.

[Parafox]

3 hours ago, Raj said:

Have a good un you English bastards!!😁👍🏾👍🏾🍺🍺🤭😁

We enjoy your festivals, too.

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, Clogger_ said:

Touch wood, there's no egregious drunkenness, fighting or spray painting around here, so I'd say the 'celebrations' are passing off quite well

Because we don't seem to actually care very much. It's a day for scouts and similar to march about with flags. That's about it.

 

Now St Patrick's day.. different gravy.

 

[Spudulike]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

Crap for 360 days of the year.

We had 3 heatwaves last summer. Hotter than most of the med. Although that probably is crap for some. I think the English climate is alright.

 

[bovril]

1 hour ago, Spudulike said:

We had 3 heatwaves last summer. Hotter than most of the med. Although that probably is crap for some. I think the English climate is alright.

 

Depends where you are. Big difference between the south east and north west

[CornwallFox]

12 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Utter bollocks.

 

 

[worthosoriginals]

On 23/04/2026 at 13:11, AKCJ said:

These days if you say you're English you'll be arrested and thrown in jail.

Yeh and theyre doing this new decimal currency and that awful new fangled pop music. These days.

[Voll Blau]

On 23/04/2026 at 21:16, Leicesterpool said:

Happy st george's day, a few events going on up and down the country, just a shame a few pubs aren't following the same suit as they do for st patricks day. I went in spoons weeks ago and asked about it the response I got was "sadly we're not allowed to" when responded about spoons celebrated st patricks day, the manager responded "as much i agree with you, I've sadly not got an answer" 

Yeah, course you did. Tim Martin famously loves anything foreign and hates anything from his own country.

[Leicesterpool]

Should St Georges be bank holiday for England. Happily scrap the pointless mayday bank holiday in replace of this. Ironic a royal wants to have a wedding we get a bank holiday. Yet a day which celebrates the nation gets nowt. 

[HighPeakFox]

22 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

Should St Georges be bank holiday for England. Happily scrap the pointless mayday bank holiday in replace of this. Ironic a royal wants to have a wedding we get a bank holiday. Yet a day which celebrates the nation gets nowt. 

Tell us everything you know about St. George.

[Leicesterpool]

25 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Tell us everything you know about St. George.

You first cleverdick 

[Zear0]

Some really good stuff on in the centre yesterday, good effort from those involved in arranging the Old Town festival event.

[Spudulike]

1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said:

Tell us everything you know about St. George.

Do you need to know anything about Patron Saints to be able to celebrate your country and culture in a patriotic way?

[bovril]

1 hour ago, Leicesterpool said:

You first cleverdick 

Great to see English tradition being embraced like this, brings a tear to the eye 

[bovril]

3 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

Do you need to know anything about Patron Saints to be able to celebrate your country and culture in a patriotic way?

No you don't but having almost zero knowledge of where your traditions and culture come from results in the kind of cheap, hollow 'our precious NHS' patriotism you have in England now. 

[Dr Marco]

Reebok classics,

canons at dawn,

next to Paddy Power,

an English sun

 

 

[Alf Bentley]

On 23/04/2026 at 21:16, Parafox said:

Flags on lamposts... 

 

Or Tommy Robinson?

 

Hanging Tommy Robinson from a lamp post is an excellent suggestion for a patriotic way in which we could celebrate St. George's Day. Maybe he could be hanged outside a Wetherspoon's? 

 

On 23/04/2026 at 21:16, Leicesterpool said:

Happy st george's day, a few events going on up and down the country, just a shame a few pubs aren't following the same suit as they do for st patricks day. I went in spoons weeks ago and asked about it the response I got was "sadly we're not allowed to" when responded about spoons celebrated st patricks day, the manager responded "as much i agree with you, I've sadly not got an answer" 

 

Astonishing that a patriotic Brexiteer like Spoons boss Tim Martin hasn't sorted this out. Mind you, he called for a post-Brexit scheme to allow EU migrant workers to come to the UK to work in bars. Why did  he do that, I wonder, rather than trying to patriotically recruit more British bar staff? Maybe he thought they'd accept lower terms and conditions than British workers?

 

A Google AI search claims the reasons for Spoons not celebrating St. George's Day are: Low Public Demand; Cultural Sensitivity; Marketing Focus; Lack of a Public Holiday.

That last one is bollocks, as regards England, as there's no public holiday for St. Patrick's Day either. So, it's basically because: (1) The English public aren't interested; (2) Guinness/Diageo make megabucks by promoting St. Patrick's Day - as an aside, I just discovered that Tim Martin's Dad was a senior executive for Guinness; (3) The St. George's flag has an unfortunate association with people who think and behave like Tommy Robinson, so promoting St. George's Day could be bad for sales, er, I mean social harmony.

 

On 25/04/2026 at 13:41, Leicesterpool said:

Should St Georges be bank holiday for England. Happily scrap the pointless mayday bank holiday in replace of this. Ironic a royal wants to have a wedding we get a bank holiday. Yet a day which celebrates the nation gets nowt. 

 

Is it inherently pointless to celebrate the contribution made by working people, but inherently meaningful to celebrate national identity? If so, what is that national identity?

 

As for practicalities, if a St. George's bank holiday was on 23rd April, most of the time it would be mid-week or on a Saturday/Sunday - though I suppose it could be the nearest Monday.

It could also disrupt people's half-term holiday plans and would risk worse weather, by taking place a bit earlier. Either way, though, it would offer rent-a-patriots an opportunity to pursue their favourite activity: whining impotently...

[Parafox]

6 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Tell us everything you know about St. George.

Probably only what he's been told in school. That being the "legend" of the dragon slaying.

 

Not the fact that he was born within the Roman Empire and died in Palestine and never visited England.

 

It was the English crusaders that learned of George as a fighter and leader of soldiers and admired him to the point where they pushed for Martyrdom.

 

That's what I was taught, anyway.

 

[Samilktray]

4 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Probably only what he's been told in school. That being the "legend" of the dragon slaying.

 

Not the fact that he was born within the Roman Empire and died in Palestine and never visited England.

 

It was the English crusaders that learned of George as a fighter and leader of soldiers and admired him to the point where they pushed for Martyrdom.

 

That's what I was taught, anyway.

 

Are you trying to say he didn’t kill a dragon?

[Parafox]

1 minute ago, Samilktray said:

Are you trying to say he didn’t kill a dragon?

The dragon isn't around to confirm or deny this.

[HighPeakFox]

8 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

You first cleverdick 

Thing is, big gob, is that I know exactly who St. George was. Asking you a direct question about YOUR knowledge isn't me being clever, it's just entirely pertinent.

 

 

Thanks for trying to insult me by calling me clever though. 

[bovril]

Lads it's just a saints day. Just eat some lamb and buy people with that name some chocolate like they do in sane countries.