Tabou Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 St Patricks day, everyone gets pissed. St Valentines day, everybody buys presents and gets laid. St Georges day, however, we all work whilst looking out of the window at the shit weather. This should be a Natioal Holiday!!!
Dr The Singh Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 St Patricks day, everyone gets pissed. St Valentines day, everybody buys presents and gets laid. St Georges day, however, we all work whilst looking out of the window at the shit weather. This should be a Natioal Holiday!!! Agreed!!!
Tabou Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 Agreed!!! Come on then, fook work, lets go sit on the town hall sqaure and get bevvied! (and wet)
Kilworthfox Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 Agreed!!! Agreed but the politicians like this shameful image of England and do not wish to help Nationalism in those who consider themselves English rather than British. It won't happen anytime soon for that reason England!
Tabou Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 Agreed but the politicians like this shameful image of England and do not wish to help Nationalism in those who consider themselves English rather than British. It won't happen anytime soon for that reason England! Not going to stop us getting p*ssed in the Town Hall Square though, Is it?
James. Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 It should definitely be a national holiday. If this petition has somehow passed you by, sign up here. For what it's worth (probably very little). St Georges Day
Tabou Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 Lucky Bastards Thats pretty cool. My boss bought me 10 Malborough Lights yesterday after he spent most of the year smoking mine. I quit smoking on Monday. Thought that counts...
Finnegan Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 Saint who? Wasn't he a Turkish Legionnaire in the Roman army? St. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Canada, Catalonia, China, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, and Serbia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, and Moscow, as well as a wide range of professions, organisations and disease sufferers. Haha, Jesus. Couldn't even pick an original one, couldya?
Kilworthfox Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 Saint who? Wasn't he a Turkish Legionnaire in the Roman army? But he did exist though didn't he Up the Romans
Finnegan Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 But he did exist though didn't he Up the Romans What's that supposed to imply. I know he existed. In 1963, in the Roman Catholic Church, St George was demoted to a third class minor saint and removed him from the Universal Calendar, with the proviso that he could be honoured in local calendars Ahahaha. Genius.
Kilworthfox Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 Saint who? Wasn't he a Turkish Legionnaire in the Roman army? Haha, Jesus. Couldn't even pick an original one, couldya? Why have you come on to this thread with your bullshit nationalism? Your supposed to be a Mod try and act with some responsibility and let those who wish to talk on a subject do so without hassle from Idiots. Also at least England Is a country unlike a principality
Kilworthfox Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 **** St George's Day too... Too far even with a
Daggers Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 Too far even with a National days are a pile of cock. They aren't needed, they just promote Xenophobia and secularism...not forgetting a bit of religious bigotry. It'd be much better if we just had Xbox360 Day or Alan Shush! Day
Kilworthfox Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 National days are a pile of cock. They aren't needed, they just promote Xenophobia and secularism...not forgetting a bit of religious bigotry.It'd be much better if we just had Xbox360 Day or Alan Shush! Day I think the words you were looking for were International Day of Barry Hayles England
Chimp Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 National days are a pile of cock. They aren't needed, they just promote Xenophobia and secularism...not forgetting a bit of religious bigotry.
Finnegan Posted 23 April 2008 Posted 23 April 2008 Excuse me? MY bullshit nationalism? My bullshit nationalism is the only reason you give a flying fook about St. George. He was just some knight credited with a fair degree of chivalry whose name the Normans dragged over with them. A Turk, a Roman soldier, revered halfway around the world. What reason have the English really to get that worked about him? They haven't, and the celebrating of his "day" was a tradition that faded and faded for decades. The only reason you get particularly up in arms about it now was as a reactionary measure to the surge of Scots and Welsh separatist-nationalism over the last (half) century. I mean go ahead and have your day, I'm glad you're proud of being English. As long as you're not taking your national pride to some crude, jingoist level I think it's good to celebrate your roots and that's really, I guess, what Saints days are all about - far more than the Saint and the Faith in question. But if you can't take a bit of light ribbing about the bizarre and frankly alien nature of your "Patron Saint" without throwing some nationality-themed hissy fit then it's probably you and not I that needs the chill-pill.
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