Happy St George's Day

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Not that I'm religious.

Odds of a knight on horseback, armed with a lance, taking down a fire-breathing dwagon!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QgA51HyW4Q
Can someone fix this link!

[Steve J]

And our son's 13th birthday . Loads of chocolate cake tonight!

[Fenton]

I have always wondered why England has St Georges Day...I  am sure they could have found someone closer to home to name a day after

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Before the 2nd Crusade we didn't, King Alfred left some land to a church of St George in his will, but he was only a minor saint. It was Richard I adopting the cross of St George as his heraldic symbol whilst on Crusade.
Really we should have St Alban or St Augustine!

St Perrin, the Cornish saint wins for coolness, patron saint of brewers and surfers (he cam ashore surfing a mill stone dude)!

[Fenton]

I am kinda surprised it hasnt been changed to  Alfred's day or something like that

I think in the UK its only Wales that have a patron saint that actually comes from the country associated with him

[Steve J]

I think it used to be Edward the Confessor who was the patron Saint of England.

[FierceKitty]

For a man who never existed, he's got quite a CV: England, Milan, Russia, Malta, and there's evidence he's on the board of Alpha-Romeo too.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Many Patronages of Saint George exist around the world, including: Georgia, England, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Israel, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Botoşani, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Timişoara, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg im Breisgau, Kragujevac, Kumanovo, Lebanon, Ljubljana, Pérouges, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Lviv, Barcelona, Moscow and Victoria, as well as of the Scout Movement[3] and a wide range of professions, organizations and disease sufferers.

[mart678]

Where's ENGLAND is it far away

[Luddite]

Happy St George's Day!!

Only the English could do this...

St Paddy's Day and everyone gets dressed u[p in green for a monumental piss up down the pub.

St George's Day and nothing happens.  then people moan about how St George never existing, and if he did he isn't really English.  and he's rubbish anyway.




What happened to our good old English pride?  One day out of the year, could we not just stop to appreciate all the brilliant things about England?

[ryman1]

Happy St George's Day!!

Only the English could do this...

St Paddy's Day and everyone gets dressed u[p in green for a monumental piss up down the pub.

St George's Day and nothing happens.  then people moan about how St George never existing, and if he did he isn't really English.  and he's rubbish anyway.




What happened to our good old English pride?  One day out of the year, could we not just stop to appreciate all the brilliant things about England?

Couldn't agree more but the problem is, everyone says 'why don't we do anything on st.georges?' but as a nation we make no effort ourselves to get it off the ground.
Granted, some pub landlords and the odd website promote it, but as a nation, if we spent as much time creating a national day as we do complaining about the lack off,
We'd have the biggest national celebration in the world.

I've a feeling, over the last 10 years we've been demanding it, I expect it isn't too far off as a national day, we just have to keep on pressing and within 10 years we could see it.

............If we keep pushing.

[FierceKitty]

English wargamers should be getting tanked up on xenophobic pride and nostalgia on St Crispin's day. Those who don't know why might like to avail themselves of an organisation called EXIT, which helps people like them.

[Hertsblue]

Personally, I'd rather have Whitsun bank-holiday back.