St. George for England and England for the Lord!
Don't forget to buy your buttonhole on the way to work and fly the flag.
Don't forget to buy your buttonhole on the way to work and fly the flag.
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 Shanee |
Happy St. George's Day - 23 April |
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Posts: 143 23 April, 2008 02:47 |
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kodeine |
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Posts: 641 23 April, 2008 03:15
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Happy St. George's Day everyone.
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Rambo123UK |
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Posts: 36 23 April, 2008 10:06 |
Ah, yes, Saint George! Neither English nor even real (but like with many saints, a christian re-working of a pagan legend), but he's our National Hero!
It's also my brother's birthday, but the little bastard now lives in California.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.
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Alvida |
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Posts: 556 23 April, 2008 12:42 |
I didn't know it was. I don't celebrate my birthday so patron saint days don't mean much to me.
You fool! You have broken my pointing stick! I have nothing to point with now!
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Rambo123UK |
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Posts: 36 23 April, 2008 14:10 |
Well I know you aren't a J.W. so are you just not wanting to celebrate every year closer to death, or what?
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.
-- Voltaire BIBLE BABBLE |
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Alvida |
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Posts: 556 23 April, 2008 14:38 |
Just don't mean anything to me tbh, I don't like standing out, but then my family don't celebrate theirs either, we buy each other a game or dvd
and that's it, not done cakes since I was nine.
You fool! You have broken my pointing stick! I have nothing to point with now!
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Rambo123UK |
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Posts: 36 23 April, 2008 15:05 |
No, I haven't done cakes or anything since I was a sprog, but a card and a couple of prezzies is OK once a year, innit?
BTW, Shakespeare was also born on 23 April 1564 (and he died on the same day in 1616).
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.
-- Voltaire BIBLE BABBLE |
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Alvida |
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Posts: 556 23 April, 2008 16:11 |
Yeah, they're ok. He must've over-indulged, see, birthdays celebrations just aren't a good idea.
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Freeborn61 |
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Posts: 126 24 April, 2008 02:16 |
I wonder why Americans don't celebrate Saint George day?
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Alvida |
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Posts: 556 24 April, 2008 10:35 |
The Irish seem different, remaining more pure blooded or what Irish blood they have is important to them. People just don't feel that way about being
English, or they don't shopw it. Mind you, I've got 75% Irish blood and I don't care about St Patrick's day.
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Rambo123UK |
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Posts: 36 24 April, 2008 11:05 |
I think if the English had a tradition of getting pissed out of our skulls on St George's day it would be more popular!
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.
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Alvida |
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Posts: 556 24 April, 2008 11:56 |
lol Probably.
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kodeine |
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Posts: 641 25 April, 2008 00:08
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The best St. George's Day I ever had was in about 1979, I think. There was a chain of pubs called St. George's Taverns and for the day they were
selling pints for an old shilling (this is when shillings were still legal tender alongside the newer 5p pieces). Me and my mates were all trying to swap
whatever new 5 pence pieces we had for shillings and got one of the older boys to go in and get our pints during the evening. It must have been a Friday or
Saturday coz we got totally pissed out of our skulls on a pittance (at the time the real price of a pint would have been about 35p).
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Alvida |
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Posts: 556 25 April, 2008 01:57 |
Buy one get six free eh.
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samantha eccles |
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Posts: 144 26 April, 2008 21:51 |
In my area, it wasn't a case of not wanting to fly the flag, or celebrate Englishness;
it was more a case of do so and you'll get accused of being racist and the council would ask you to remove it. Things have quickly changed since bnp gaining seats and the introduction of Citizenship. There's nothing wrong with foreigners respecting the country where they now live especially when looking back in history many of us were of foreign decent, even St George was Turkish. |
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