mick2me 3,033 Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 There is a chance the public can make St Georges Day a public holiday (After this year). Click on the link below to vote, the site needs at least 1,000,000 votes for the government to take it seriously and give us another holiday. VOTE NOW Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pemberton 15 Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 I have voted yes to St George's Day, however, ask the average kid in the street when St Georges Day is and they'll look at you agog! - By the way when IS St George's Day????? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 That's the trouble with this country today. No patriotism! In the US the national flag flies everywhere, here its seldom seen? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 That's the trouble with this country today.No patriotism! In the US the national flag flies everywhere, here its seldom seen? 'Reversed Xenophobia' Fear of upsetting the immigrant pond life.... Cheers Robt P. "London provides but 23% of the national population, but never less than 84% of the national bullshit" - Anon. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Yeah!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Yeah !!! !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Bout time it was a holiday !!!!!! Have a good un !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 My wife always hangs the most enormous Flag from the bedroom window on St.George`s Day! Luckily the man opposite is from Yorkshire(does that count?)(as English that is) !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,602 Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 I'll be round at our church yard tonight to watch St George parade past then the Morris dancers will perform in the pub gardens and that will be followed by the lighting of the beacon on the village green at about 20.30hr. Have a great St Georges day every one !! Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 Isn't the flag French and St George an Arab? Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 St George was Turkish Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 The French flag is all white. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 The French flag is all white. I thought it was yellow. I'm ashamed to admit that I couldn't find my English flag this morning, I don't know where it is, I had an alternative choice of two types of Hungarian flag, The RAF flag, Merchant Navy flag, various types of maritime signal flags or a genuine WW2 swastika, actually the flag off the SS headquarters in Brussels. I did think about flying the latter, but decided it might not be very popular. Interestingly enough, despite driving around a couple of large local towns today, I only saw a couple of flags, one on a flagpole outside a large country house and another in the window of a hardware shop, perhaps they've all been stolen, along with mine, by members of a certain fundamentalist religious group, mind you, I didn't see any green ones either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 St George was Turkish As you are probably aware ,Ashley,many theories of St. George abound. I like the one where he aws a brave christian Roman soldier. But alas everyone knows only a Kiwi or an Aussie could fit the bill. !inthebin! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Didn't quite manage it at Galipoli though did they? maybe Kemel Ataturk was reincarnation of St George, As for the brave christian roman soldier,seem to recall something re some cruxifiction Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Didn't quite manage it at Galipoli though did they? maybe Kemel Ataturk was reincarnation of St George, As for the brave christian roman soldier,seem to recall something re some cruxifiction Yes this was one of Churchill`s biggest ever c#ck-ups ,Ashley,together with the British navy dropping the soldiers in the wrong place! I know one of the St. Georges was martyred (the Roman soldier,but did not know how he died) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 why didn't the aussies use their own navy? or were they fishing that day Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 why didn't the aussies use their own navy? or were they fishing that day Be carefull Ashley, that could be construed as a reference to the exploits of HMAS Sydney, you know, the contemporary Aussie 7000 ton, 8 x 6inch armed naval cruiser, sunk with all hands by a worn out, lightly armed German merchant ship in Aussie waters. A terrible state of affairs, but perhaps it had something to do with starting off the Aussie obsession of deciding to attempt to swim better than anyone else. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Firstly ,Firbeck, Ashley was talking about the 1st world war and not the second. HMAS Sydney ( I presume this is the one of the 5 that carried the name) was sunk in the 2nd. world war by an act of gross deceit on the part of the Germans. (Engaged the disguised German merchant raider Kormoran off Western Australia in 1941 - the ships sank each other. Discovery of the wreck was announced on 17 March 2008 following the discovery of Kormoran's wreckage one day earlier.) The RAN was under the command of the Admiralty in the FIRST world war that Ashley refers to ,NOT the 2nd which you have brought into the equation. The RAN with the loss of only 10 men eliminated the Germans from the South Pacific and South Atlantic, in the 1st world war. The German Pacific Squadron had been destroyed off the Falkland Islands in December 1914 and the Royal Navy—with RAN assistance—had gradually hunted down those other German warships still abroad. ‘The young Australian Navy’ one naval officer recalled, ‘was scattered over the seven seas, and at one and the same time Australian Ships were at Fiji, New Guinea, on the coasts of Australia, at German East Africa, in the North Sea, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and on the coast of Brazil; surely a wonderful distribution for such a small Fleet.’ On 19 November 1941, HMAS Sydney, a light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy with an impressive record of war service, was lost following a battle with the German raider HSK Kormoran in the Indian Ocean off the Western Australian coast. The loss of the Sydney with its full war complement of 645 remains Australia’s worst naval disaster. The Kormoran was also sunk, but 317 of its crew of 397 were rescued. Here we arrive at the utter humbug Firbeck`s comment. "2 million dead in Pakistan, funny isn't it" He makes agreat play on the morality of this fragment of a joke about repatriation(imagined), but fails to realise the grief caused by the loss of 645 young Australians. Respectful and Honourable ANZAC DAY to you all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,511 Posted April 18, 2019 Report Share Posted April 18, 2019 I agree with that, we should celebrate St George’s Day, why not when we have St Patrick’s Day celebrations?  But at the same time, get rid of Commi Day.  1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,730 Posted April 19, 2019 Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 1 hour ago, LizzieM said: I agree with that, we should celebrate St George’s Day, why not when we have St Patrick’s Day celebrations?  But at the same time, get rid of Commi Day.   Of course we should celebrate St George's Day. He was Greek after all..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George  Just like our dearly beloved Duke of Athe.... err.. Edinburgh.  But.. all joking aside, we shouldn't be ashamed to celebrate our English (adopted) saint, or fly our English Flag. We shouldn't let racists, Xenophobes or other idiots appropriate it. It belongs to us all.  But Lizzie.. what is 'Commi Day'?   Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,422 Posted April 19, 2019 Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 Wasn't May day chosen by the workers and communists parties when they tried to start an 'International Workers Day'? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted April 19, 2019 Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 Excuse my ignorance, but what the heck is Plastic Freedom ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,511 Posted April 19, 2019 Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 11 hours ago, Brew said: Wasn't May day chosen by the workers and communists parties when they tried to start an 'International Workers Day'? The school my sons went to didn’t acknowledge May Day, it was school as normal.  1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted April 19, 2019 Report Share Posted April 19, 2019 We should abandon May Day, and add a day to Whitsuntide, if anyone remembers that ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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