Its also my moms birthday... just saying...Eleuthera said:Wait, St.George's day is April 23rd?
It's my name day?
*party*
That would require there to be some actual sunshine, and for heading to the pub for a pint to not already be normal behaviour for a Tuesday.carlsberg export said:didn't realise it was today, maybe these things would have more significance if it was a national holiday and we could all go out, enjoy the sunshine and sink a pint.
Hey! They speak the truth. We Poles really are trying to overthrow your government AND take away your jobs. Obviously.EeveeElectro said:OYAY. TODAY I CAN SNEAK A BIT OF RACISM I USUALLY WOULDN'T GET AWAY WITH WHILST I'M CELEBRATING.
"I'm gonna celebrate St. Georges Day and if you bloody Indians don't like it then GO BACK TO POLAND!"
It's just another day to me because the ones who seem to celebrate it are the idiotic loudmouth The Sun readers who like to get wound up about non-existent problems. Everyone else seems to be "meh" about it. (No one doesn't give a fuck quite like the English)
St Paddy's day on t'other hand... "I am 1/9895768646th Irish and this makes me PROUD! WOO!" *drinks all day*
shame, it'd be a sight to beholdDaystar Clarion said:You won't see a sea of Saint George's flags waving in London, and you won't hear any cries of 'England, FUCK YEAH!'
Yep, got it in one. Even if I lived properly in Leeds (just on the outskirts at the minute) I'd be much happier because there's just so many different people. Not just ethnic groups but people in general. I'd quite happily sit on a bench in Leeds centre and people watch for hours like the massive weirdo I am.Stasisesque said:-snip-
White people are only allowed to be proud of their ancestry if their ancestors did not engage in significant colonization of other continents. This means that the British (all of them), Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Germans, Italians, and Belgians are not allowed to be proud of their ancestry. The Irish, Greeks (who are also allowed to be smug), Balkan peoples, Hungarians, Nordics, Baltics, Former Soviets, Czechs, Swiss, Slovaks, Croatians, and such are allowed to be proud (as are tiny country folk).Daystar Clarion said:Today in England and various other countries around the world, it is Saint George's Day.
Who is Saint George? I hear you ask?
Well, if the stories are to be believed, he killed a dragon, and as we all know, there's only one way to kill a dragon.
By devouring it's soul.
Yes, George was a Dovahkiin, if that isn't worthy of a sainthood, I don't know what is. He was probably the leader of all the local guilds too.
It is the English equivalent of St. Patrick's Day.
'Why haven't I heard about this?', you may ask. The Irish have their day, as do the Scottish and the Welsh. The Australians have Australia Day, the Americans have the 4th of July, so it only makes sense that the English would have a day to celebrate being English, yes?
Well, not quite.
Depending on where you live, many people will tell you (see: right wing) that we don't celebrate the holiday because it makes the immigrants nervous, political correctness gone mad!
Well, it makes someone nervous, but it isn't the immigrant population.
It makes us nervous.
There's something you have to understand about the English, something that dates back hundreds of years. We've never felt like a minority, we've never felt the need to shout 'Oi, we're English, now shut up you slaaaaaaaag!'
No. We just shot people and nicked their countries instead.
And that's why we're nervous, we dislike nationalism, just look at the EDL and the BNP. Everyone hates them.
We're understated, we don't like to make a fuss, and we certainly don't like feeling like we're 'rubbing it in people's faces'. we don't like flag waving for flag waving's sake.
A lot of communities will celebrate it in their own way, whether it be Morris Dancing, or baking a cake, or a myriad of other small, personal things. You won't see a sea of Saint George's flags waving in London, and you won't hear any cries of 'England, FUCK YEAH!'
No, you'll hear people whining about the immigrants making us feel like 2nd class citizens in our own country.
But ignore those guys, they're plebs
pub on a Tuesday!!! someone's doing alright!someonehairy-ish said:That would require there to be some actual sunshine, and for heading to the pub for a pint to not already be normal behaviour for a Tuesday.carlsberg export said:didn't realise it was today, maybe these things would have more significance if it was a national holiday and we could all go out, enjoy the sunshine and sink a pint.
I'd thank you kindly not to presume.Res Plus said:I
Just look at the OP's insinuation that people who celebrate St George's day are a members of the EDL/BNP.
Problem, we like the British more so than each other....soo......PunkRex said:I'll find it hard to say im English until someone does in Piers Morgan... COME ON AMERICA! You're mean't to be gun mad, why hasn't someone shot him yet!?
I laughed, thank you.Bertylicious said:There are some English people who are very nationalistic indeed. You can usually tell who they are when they open a conversation with "I read in the Daily Mail..."
And that is a lovely post even though I had just admited to laughing at the daily mail joke.Res Plus said:snip