St George's day

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Rory Bluelow said:
I actually thought St Pats very quiet in the media this year also St Andrew"s Day and Burns night to be honest. I don't get the St Pats thing unless you're Irish, but as far as pubs go its any excuse to get the punters in these days - don't remember it being a thing at all when I was younger - outside of Irish clubs and pubs. Can't ever recall there being much fuss about St George's apart from seeing the odd person wearing a red rose.
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St Patrick's day really benefits from being on Cheltenham Festival week
 
Metal Biker said:
St. George was a Cappadocian Greek soldier in the Roman military who became martyred for fighting to uphold his Christian beliefs which were being supressed.

He's the patron saint of England, Portugal, Brazil, Ethiopia, Catalonia, Bulgaria and Romania as well as a number of cities which bear the red cross on a white background as part of their city crest.

There, now, nobody needs to say the ignorant "bUt He WaSn'T EvEn enGliSh, hE wAs tUrkIsh!" nonsense we see on these threads every year.
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He loved a kebab though.
 
Metal Biker said:
St. George was a Cappadocian Greek soldier in the Roman military who became martyred for fighting to uphold his Christian beliefs which were being supressed.

He's the patron saint of England, Portugal, Brazil, Ethiopia, Catalonia, Bulgaria and Romania as well as a number of cities which bear the red cross on a white background as part of their city crest.

There, now, nobody needs to say the ignorant "bUt He WaSn'T EvEn enGliSh, hE wAs tUrkIsh!" nonsense we see on these threads every year.
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Should still be Edmund… ;)
 
The eldest of the three has said she is going out but isn’t wearing anything patriotic so she doesn’t get accused of being in the EDL.

For a clever girl she doesn’t half come out with some shite. Words will be had.
 
Two Gun Bob said:
Me thinketh these scribes to scroll be deserv'd of more examination on this auspitious of days. God wills it!

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

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Stirring stuff indeed.

(And then there's the bit about telling the inhabitants of Harfleur that their "naked infants will be spitted upon pikes" if they don't surrender.)
 
Two Gun Bob said:
One Kennny Branagh ...theres only one Kenny Branagh !

Incorperating a not to be messed about with cameo from the wonderful Brian Blessed:
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I love the clips from that film, particularly the Upon St Crispin's Day one. Very rousing.

Brian Blessed, you say. He was just too shy, and hid his light under a bushes, as the old phrase goes. He needed to sell himself more










;-)
 
I've never known anyone in England to give a fuck about St George's Day. Same with the flag. They were always for football and that was it. It's just not really part of the English mindset and culture to be patriotic like that. We've always been a bit above it.
 
It's not marketable. I for one wouldn't mind having a day off to drink Carling and dress as a crusader outside a pub but a truly unifying national beer is needed. Then and only then, is there a leg to stand on.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I've never known anyone in England to give a fuck about St George's Day. Same with the flag. They were always for football and that was it. It's just not really part of the English mindset and culture to be patriotic like that. We've always been a bit above it.
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Morris dancers have always observed it. But they are regarded as a bit uncool I fear.
 
Metal Biker said:
St. George was a Cappadocian Greek soldier in the Roman military who became martyred for fighting to uphold his Christian beliefs which were being supressed.

He's the patron saint of England, Portugal, Brazil, Ethiopia, Catalonia, Bulgaria and Romania as well as a number of cities which bear the red cross on a white background as part of their city crest.

There, now, nobody needs to say the ignorant "bUt He WaSn'T EvEn enGliSh, hE wAs tUrkIsh!" nonsense we see on these threads every year.
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Agreed.

Most patron saints of countries aren’t actually from there. St Andrew won’t have even known Scotland existed, being a first century Judean. St Patrick was an Ancient Briton etc.
 
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