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Are you doing anything to celebrate st george's day ?
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Why is it every year on march 17th i go out and join in on st patricks day but on st georges day i am lucky if remember the date ? Is it because it as been that long that we have been able to make a fuss on this day we have forgot how to.Will you be celebrating ?
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"..since we have been able to.." ?? There has never been anything to stop the English celebrating St. George's Day - other than their own apathy.
Although St. Patrick's Day has always, to an extent, been celebrated by the Irish, it is only relatively recently, (largely thanks to the Guinness marketing machine), that it has the high profile it has today.
When attempts to cynically cash-in on an equivalent English 'national drinking day' were thwarted by the licensing authorities (denying late licenses etc.) - this led to indignant cries of "We're English and can't celebrate our patron saint's day in our own country!"
Well, if you want to do it by copying the Irish model and pretending that it's the 'traditional way of celebrating', then fair enough. Be proud and reclaim your flag and your saint's day, but not by just inventing a tradition. And accept that it was apathy and not some "PC-Brigade-Loony-Left" ban that prevented the English from celebrating.
With the new Licensing Act, perhaps St. George's Day will now be celebrated in the traditional method (ie moved to the nearest Saturday and heavily promoted by Tetley's Bitter.)
On St. David's Day, I 'celebrate' by wearing my leek or daffodil - not by expecting a big p*ss-up, 'just because the Irish do'.
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