a day for England

Walsallmom · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:32 am

http://www.stgeorgesday.com/voting_GO.asp

Moriarty · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:19 am

March 22nd should be a bank holiday :sweeeet:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:21 am

Walsallmom wrote:

http://www.stgeorgesday.com/voting_GO.asp

I've voted 'Yes'!!!! :sweeeet:

We get St.Patricks Day rammed down our throats but 23rd April hardly gets a mention!!!! :evil:

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22579

I really fail to understand the whole fuss St Patricks day thing in England. I'm English as are most of the people wandering round with those daft hats on. It's completely irrelevant unless you're a penny whistle playing, soda bread eating, semtex buying mick.

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:33 am

St Patricks day has only gotten big over the last few years here & its all because of a big Guinness promotions drive.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22579

Catholic school though isn't it so they'll always be paddycentric. Its the same reason why most of the school uniforms at Catholic primary schools involve a green jumper.

As for Cathod, I can't take them seriously as long as the Vatican remains so fabulously wealthy but tells all of the Caholics to donate to this and that without lifting even an arse cheek themselves.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:00 am

St.Josephs play in Celtic strips!!!! :roll:

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:22 pm

Mr I wrote:

It's completely irrelevant unless you're a penny whistle playing, soda bread eating, semtex buying mick.

nice

SaigonSaddler · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:26 pm

Salty wrote:

Mr I wrote:

It's completely irrelevant unless you're a penny whistle playing, soda bread eating, semtex buying mick.

nice

Quality

Walsallmom · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:41 pm

Mr I wrote:

I really fail to understand the whole fuss St Patricks day thing in England. I'm English as are most of the people wandering round with those daft hats on. It's completely irrelevant unless you're a penny whistle playing, soda bread eating, semtex buying mick.

Which is why our own Saints day should be celebrated :grin:

I do anyway but why don't others?

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:48 pm

St George's Day is a non event 'cos St George was a nonentity. He wasn't even English and he didn't do anything worthy of note, even in legend.

Slew a dragon?? Mickey Nelson'd do three a game and still keep a clean sheet. :roll:

Walsallmom · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:22 pm

it aint nuts, here's what I do

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/conte ... ture.shtml

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:08 pm

Heres what Id do

If Kev hadnt done her 1st

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:22 pm

GroovyCrimes wrote:

Heres what Id do

If Kev hadnt done her 1st

Jeesusssss!!! Look at the tumblers on that!!

Parmo!! Mutley!!! :shock:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:29 pm

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36439

Pooliekev wrote:

St George's Day is a non event 'cos St George was a nonentity. He wasn't even English and he didn't do anything worthy of note, even in legend.

:roll:

...and St Patrick wasn't even Irish :laugh:

FACT.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:08 pm

The only reason I want US ENGLISH to celebrate 23rd April is because we must be one of the only countries in the world that doesn't celebrate our own saint/independence etc....but we celebrate others!!!! :roll:

Name me another country that goes as mental as 'we' do for another Countries 'Holiday' as 'we' do for the Irish!!!! confised

And it makes it worse in my book when people try and make excuses like....why should we, he isn't even English!!!! :roll:

This country is fecking mental!!!! banghead

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

MutleyRules wrote:

The only reason I want US ENGLISH to celebrate 23rd April is because we must be one of the only countries in the world that doesn't celebrate our own saint/independence etc....but we celebrate others!!!! :roll:

Name me another country that goes as mental as 'we' do for another Countries 'Holiday' as 'we' do for the Irish!!!! confised

And it makes it worse in my book when people try and make excuses like....why should we, he isn't even English!!!! :roll:

This country is fecking mental!!!! banghead

I totally and wholeheartedly and utterly agree Mutley clappp

St Patricks day should be banned in this country, if Irelands so great, go and live there confised

St Georges day should be a national holiday for every Englishman and woman :grin:

Spender · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:37 am

MutleyRules wrote:

The only reason I want US ENGLISH to celebrate 23rd April is because we must be one of the only countries in the world that doesn't celebrate our own saint/independence etc....but we celebrate others!!!! :roll:

Name me another country that goes as mental as 'we' do for another Countries 'Holiday' as 'we' do for the Irish!!!! confised

And it makes it worse in my book when people try and make excuses like....why should we, he isn't even English!!!! :roll:

This country is fecking mental!!!! banghead

It's not an excuse though. I'm all for a national day, just don't pin it on a fodgy!! If Paddy wasn't Irish and they still celebrate then all well and good. Sounds fairly typical to me but there's no need for us to follow suit. I mean 'For England and St Portugese George??' Rubbish!!

If we're going to have a day it should be VE Day when the British, having stood up for themselves for five years, prevailed. THAT'S worth celebrating, not some rusty old foreign gadgy. :roll:

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36439

Pooliekev wrote:

MutleyRules wrote:

The only reason I want US ENGLISH to celebrate 23rd April is because we must be one of the only countries in the world that doesn't celebrate our own saint/independence etc....but we celebrate others!!!! :roll:

Name me another country that goes as mental as 'we' do for another Countries 'Holiday' as 'we' do for the Irish!!!! confised

And it makes it worse in my book when people try and make excuses like....why should we, he isn't even English!!!! :roll:

This country is fecking mental!!!! banghead

It's not an excuse though. I'm all for a national day, just don't pin it on a fodgy!! If Paddy wasn't Irish and they still celebrate then all well and good. Sounds fairly typical to me but there's no need for us to follow suit. I mean 'For England and St Portugese George??' Rubbish!!

If we're going to have a day it should be VE Day when the British, having stood up for themselves for five years, prevailed. THAT'S worth celebrating, not some rusty old foreign gadgy. :roll:

I agree kev...but think of all the self flagellating. gits who would get the vapours at the very idea of us celebrating something to do with the war.....the Guardian would self combust in shock rolfl

katcha · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:08 am

trafalgar day for me - a day when something did happen

or alternativley just to pish the argies off and keep europe sweet.

falklands day - a more recent event - i love the shape of the place too

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:33 pm

ADG wrote:

Why not have a Bobby Moore day. And we celebrate in July.

St Georges Day...................fook that.

Scotland dont celebrate st Andrews day do they? But they love Burns Night.

So.................A Bobby Moore day it is then.

Bobby Moore day???? :roll:

Why not a Roy Castle day???? :roll:

Karl Marx · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:51 pm

Elvis Costellos Glasses wrote:

Cop this. Last Friday, my little 'uns school, St Teresas, shunned Red Nose Day and had to wear Green for St Patricks Day, with funds raised going to CAFOD instead of Comic Relief!

Now I love the school, love the ethos and principles of the place but the kids that I spoke to were GUTTED about not being able to wear their Red Noses and t-shirts on non-uniform day like the rest of the town.

Begorrah!

As you'll probably know, the missus works in a Catholic School; the reason they don't do Comic Relief is that the Dioecesis don't allow it. Comic Relief, you see, as part of it's Aids in Africa campaign, promotes the use of contraception.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:10 pm

We used to have a day to celebrate Britain, the 24th May.
Admittedly it was a very colonialist thing and was not specifically English.

The French celebrate the storming of the Bastille. We didn't need to storm a prison fortress.
The Irish celebrate getting rid of all their snakes. We liked our snakes so we kept them.
The Dutch don't seem to be able to agree what exact date in April is their national day: 13th, 19th, 30th?
The Yanks celebrate their independence from us but seem to make more of a meal about some natives offering a bunch of lost White people some berries.
The Italians celebrate the establishment of a republican democracy in 1948. Boring.
The Germans do their national holiday on the day the wall came down. That's an idea, we could have ours on the day Hadrian's wall went up. That's the best I can think of so far anyway.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:09 pm

what about a Hartlepool day? And get a day off work?? :laugh:

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