St George's Day Today Everyone

[dave50]

In case anyone didn't realise. Of course because it's not St Patrick's day nobody mentions it

[mallyh]

i have put the flag out .

[Old_Geezer]

AB put the flag out a while ago.

[gness]

Have you responded on Douglas's thread?

[Baldric]

I unfurled mine last night!

[douglas9401]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1415027.html

:-P

[Hopkirk]

Did St George even know England existed?

[ichkeria]

Nobody mentions it?

Some mistake surely. As a non-English person I'm delighted that St George has largely been rescued from the neo-Nazis

[silliemillie]

Put my flag out this morning.

[Baldric]

Makes you proud!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiOnmhMw9XE

[RandyMarsh]

I vote we change from St George to Bobby Robson.

[Booldawg]

I think a lot of people mention it but there tends to be less events planned. I think its the same for St David and St Andrews Day.

More is made of St Patricks Day in England purely because Guinness invests lots into a heavy marketing campaign.

[mccfluff]

i think its being mentioned quite a lot

http://www.tamworthherald.co.uk/Dragons-jousting-mark-national-day/story-26336719-detail/story.html

whole day of festivities here

[gness]

Dave....St. Patrick's Day happens because we make it happen...

What do you do to make your day one of celebration?

[chanel5]

i think St. Patrick's Day gets mentioned a lot because so many English people are actually third or fourth generation Irish. Emigration from Ireland to England, especially the north east, happened on a massive scale during the famine in the late 19th century. Scratch many an Englishman and you will find an Irishman lurking there.

[gness]

Lurking, Chanel!...Lurking??? We don't lurk......we burst out singing, dancing the odd jig and waving a pint of Guinness!.....;-).....♣

[chanel5]

I stand corrected, gness. Your description of the Irish persona is an accurate one. But I am an Ulster Prod, I'm afraid, and we specialise in lurking. oh dear now I will get one in the ear from sandyroe, I expect.

[gness]

Then we must meet, Chanel.... and I will buy you a Guinness and teach you an Irish Reel......then you needn't lurk....but you do the singing bit....I would have us locked away......♣

[smurfchops]

In Eire numerous villages and towns have St Patricks Day Parades. its great, and everyone so friendly. Does anyone have a parade in their town on St George's Day over here?

[sandyRoe]

Chanel5, no you won't. Some of my best friends are Ulster Protestants.

[chanel5]

Thank you gness i will look forward to the pint of guinness. sandyroe, i thought i would get it in the ear for suggesting that we Ulster Prods lurk. I wasn't suggesting that you might have any antipathy toward Ulster Prods. The message was, of course, tongue-in-cheek. My favourite TV programme was Give Ma Head Peace, which gives you some idea of the low level of sophistication of my black humour. Black humour was what brought us all through the dark days. I cling to it for comfort.