St Georges Day

[gramps85]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2045572/uk-most-patriotic-estate

What is this country coming too when we cannot celebrate our own Patron Saint, St. George, for fear of being labelled racists.

Perhaps we should ban all of our traditional days in case somebody is upset.

Deplorable!!!

[Cloverjo]

It's a bit strange. We all know when it's St Paddy's day - there are celebrations all over the world - but not George's. My first thought on noticing today's date was it's Shakespeare's birthday (and death day, so they say). 

[douglas9401]

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[ynnafymmi]

St.Andrews Day and St.Davids Day seems to be going the same way.St.Paddys Day is just an excuse for a piss-up.Most celebrants of St.Paddys Day wouldnt know St.Patrick if he bit them on the a-r-s-e.

[Untitled]

how exactly does one go about celebrating st george's day? i have never seen the point.

st patrick's everybody knows... you get drunk.

st andrew's... i dunno, complain maybe

[ToraToraTora]

I just ignore the trobiscites.

[maggiebee]

ynnafymmi, aren't you just a little ray of sunshine.  

[Khandro]

Cry God for Harry, St George for England !!

[barry1010]

Don't know why that should be, St George is a foreigner after all.

Morris dancing, real ale and folk music. Maybe a hog roast.

 

[Khandro]

Really it's 'England and St George'. Always sends a shiver down my spine. 

[barry1010]

There will be events on at the weekend local to me. Good family fun 

[ynnafymmi]

@16.15.Thank you maggie.I always strive to be"a ray of sunshine".I love Scotland,i hate nationalism.

[Khandro]

barry; //Morris dancing, real ale and folk music.//

 

Wasn't it Somerset Maugham who said; 'One should try to experience everything in life except perhaps incest & folk-dancing'

[barry1010]

Probably, Khandro.  

I don't know how patron saints are chosen.  Patrick was an Englishman determined to change the Irish to his way of thinking; Andrew was a Jew born in Galilee; George was probably Greek who supposedly slayed a dragon in Libya. Hurrah for St David, a native of Wales.

Strange kettle of fish really.  There are plenty of English, Scottish and Irish saints that could represent their native countries.

[gramps85]

The point I was trying to make is why should anybody  be put off celebrating in fear of being called a racist?

[barry1010]

They shouldn't be. There's a few houses round here that fly the flag of St George on their flagpoles all year round without bother

 

 

[fraser]

 i celebrate st george's day just been down the pub in wales with my st george's flag and a couple of mates, one english and one welsh, a good time, we are all british but it's good to celebrate our own national day, we are stronger together as great britain but nothing wrong in celebrating our indiviual days as well, on the 12th july iwill the red hand of ulster flying and the 30th november the st andrews cross, long live the union.

[Ken4155]

Total BS. If anyone who claims to be a patriot wishes to celebrate today, he or she will do so irrespective of what others may say.

 

[ToraToraTora]

may be of interest:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1894262.html

 

[jourdain2]

Just to be awkward......... I, too, was about to celebrate St. George's day (23/4) whan I received an official message from the C of E (they did, after all, instigate it).

It seems that (despite diaries,calendars and traditions) there are rare years when St. George's day is NOT celebrated on the 23rd April - this is one of them.

The ruling is that if St. George's Day falls between Palm Sunday and the end of Holy Week, (takes precedence) it is relocated to the Monday of the following week and so this year the official celebration on Monday 28th April.

Shame no-one saw fit to let anybody know!

[jourdain2]

Fraser - back down the pub on Monday. Khandro - the pleasure of another viewing of Henry V!  :)