St George Day

I have just been out looking for St George Day flags etc for next week and there is nothing in the shops.

 

Because we're not allowed to be English anymore. You may be Welsh, Scottish or British, but not English because to fly the flag of the Cross of St George may offend somebody.

 

I don't believe anyone is offended by the Cross of St George,it's just a lot of control freaks thowing their weight around.Time everyone started to ignore them.

 

April 23rd....now, I think I have to remember it's not just St George :pala:that makes that day special around here..:hehe:

 

And the Media love reporting stories about these aforementioned control freaks...it sells newspapers!

I think the real problem is St George's Day is just unknown by the English, in the main.

 

I find the whole St George think really amusing. Apart from ordinary, decent folk, there are two camps of people that have very strong feeling about the flag of St George's Cross. On one hand you have the BNP who are extremely racist and hide behind it while trying to persude Muslim people to leave. On the other hand there are a minority of Muslim folks who see it as offensive (probably because of the BNP's fondness of said flag), yet neither of these two angry mobs seem to realise that St George was Turkish. If St George was here today you'd have the BNP waving HIS flag at him while telling him to get out, while a small bunch of angry Muslims would be protesting about the anti-Muslim sentiment of those that display a flag in honour of a man that comes from a predominantly Muslim country.

 

Yep, he was from Asia Minor, modern day Turkey. According to legend, he was actually a Roman soldier, so his nationality is up for debate - the Romans weren't fussy about who joined the army or about giving out Roman citizenship! He wouldn't have been Muslim though, or Turkish, as neither the religion nor the nationality existed.

Interestingly, many other countries, cities and organisations look on St George as their patron saint, not just England. He sounds a real all rounder!

 

Originally Posted by Sussexgardener
I think the real problem is St George's Day is just unknown by the English, in the main.


I think the English are really fed up with the pc brigade - that's half the problem.

But 23rd - rings a bell :D - sometime next week isn't it?

 

:D It was the only day a true English man could pick jjordie:gnthb:

 

I've been to the part of Turkey (Cappadocia) that he came from and the locals of that area know more about him than anyone else. They're very proud of the fact that our patron saint ( and Santa Clause) came from Turkey. We don't have to celebrate our "Englishness" we know who we are whatever the PC brigade say.

 

That gets me thinking. If we did want to celebrate our 'Englishness' as a massive group, how would we do so? Would we have Morris dancing, like the Germans and many others have? Maybe we could drink loads of beer, like the Germans do? Perhaps we could celebrate with sport, but everyone else is better than us. What about a good old sing song? What is a good way for us to celebrate our Englishness in a way that is truly representative of and unique to the English? I'm going to ponder that one for a while

 

:pala:And it may well have all began on my doorstep!
http://www.tewkesburyadmag.co.uk/ne...orge___s_Cross__was_first_used_at_Evesham___/

 

Clueless. We could make a massive queue with nothing at the front of it. Then we could all keep saying "Sorry" when someone bumped into us:hehe: