Happy St George's day!

i think the lack of celebration has more to with the lack of need to assert our nationality, and is linked to the history of rapacious imperialism and propagation of english values all over the planet, at the expense of other nations and cultures.

if englishness ever were genuinely under threat i'm sure you'd see an immediate resurgence of nationalistic myths and traditions in response. this does not include the BNP.

Now , copy that down, hand in your homework from last week and THEN you may leave..

QUIETLY

welshman
worst. saint. ever.

Perhaps not the worst. Back in the day you got the nod from the vatican just for displaying the symptoms of severe mental illness.
Dewi Sant: that's the man for the job.

if englishness ever were genuinely under threat i'm sure you'd see an immediate resurgence of nationalistic myths and traditions in response. this does not include the BNP.

Got one of those pre-mayoral election pamphlets the other day, with an overview of what each candidate was standing for.

The BNP bloke, a 'true Londoner' (currently residing in Dagenham), sees it as his duty to protect children (we know what he's trying to say), and yet wants to scrap the congestion charge and therefore encourage more traffic (the number one killer of children by about 3 billion miles) back into the densely populated residential areas in Central London.

Boris Johnson's bit was funny - it essentially said 'I want to turn London into a police state'.

I feel safer already...

Now , copy that down, hand in your homework from last week and THEN you may leave..

QUIETLY

but not you, you must stay behind while i call your mother to explain to her why her son feels that the word 'cock' is an appropriate phrase to use in an english lesson.

well, it depends who's giving the lesson..

Out for a longer ride tonight and there were sirens whizzing past every 5mins.
Looks like the St. George celebrations don't stop until someone's bleeding :)

I rode to work in the pissing rain with a St George's flag fixed to the chariot just to see if I could spot anyone else with flags etc.
Sadly nobody decided to join me in flag flying. Very sad.

at hillbilly

have a good one !

think I recall in the recesses of my mind that St Patrick was originally English, as was Guiness too !

wasn't St George Kampuchean? which might expalin the dragon.... I remember my dad pointing out an image of him in some church /cathedral stain glass window, where he quite clearly had (dare I say it?) DARK SKIN!

http://www.100greatblackbritons.com/bios/george_of_lydda.html

http://www.100greatblackbritons.com/bios/george_of_lydda.html

fucking hell, he won't be winning any beauty contests this lifetime, will he..

as there doesnt seem to be any posts in relation to st georges day up at the moment, i want to take time to say

Happy St George's day to the forum!!! Why not try to get the ball rolling in celebrating this shunned tradition and bring it to the forefront of englishness!!!!

There's some jousting and shit on at Spitalfields.. that is all.

wot is it selebratin'

St George can be indentified with the Hindu deity Indra, who, in the vedic creation-myth, slays a sort of cosmic dragon, and from it's stomach pour the waters of life, thus creating the world.

Strange how Georgia in the former USSR has a similar flag to us.

Well if you slack fsckers associated some booze product with Sam Gorge or whoever he is.. maybe you'd have a worldwide pissup on your hands too?

What's a good English drink then?

Tea.

It reminds us of our proud imperious history, our inability to cope with our own weather and calms us down when our bastard children (US and the Commonwealth) get it all horribly wrong.

E
englishness!!!!
^

Fixed, with Englishness.

I'm having a whale of a time here today - for the past few years, the BNP here have held their own St George's Day celebrations, which invariably involved Richard Barnbrook donning a suit of armour, riding a white horse through Barking, to "slay" a papier mache "dragon" in Barking Park.

This year, the Council, in all its wisdom, has decided to run a St George's Day event in every ward in the borough to try and hijack it from the BNP, apparently oblivious to the fact that the BNP are instead claiming to have sewn the seeds of patriotism in Barking and Dagenham and that if they're elected as majorioty party at the next election, they'll make these celebrations bigger and better (and probably even more racist).

Every car seems to have one of those stupid England flags flying, while there are even more flags draped out of windows and babies covered in St George's Cross blankets than I've seen before.

I don't have anything against St George's Day per se, but when it's being done in such a ham-fisted way in a borough where the racial tensions are especially high, I don't think it's such a good idea for the Council to be lending validity to what's essentially (in this Borough) a BNP construct.

St George can be indentified with the Hindu deity Indra, who, in the vedic creation-myth, slays a sort of cosmic dragon, and from it's stomach pour the waters of life, thus creating the world.

Strange how Georgia in the former USSR has a similar flag to us.

and a similar name to said saint, eh?

:)

google is not displaying it on it's home page this year, usually does.

Happy St. Georges day everyone.

google is not displaying it on it's home page this year, usually does.

Is on mine.

You've not got drunk and accidentally travelled overseas have you?

I'm having a whale of a time here today - for the past few years, the BNP here have held their own St George's Day celebrations, which invariably involved Richard Barnbrook donning a suit of armour, riding a white horse through Barking, to "slay" a papier mache "dragon" in Barking Park.

This year, the Council, in all its wisdom, has decided to run a St George's Day event in every ward in the borough to try and hijack it from the BNP, apparently oblivious to the fact that the BNP are instead claiming to have sewn the seeds of patriotism in Barking and Dagenham and that if they're elected as majorioty party at the next election, they'll make these celebrations bigger and better (and probably even more racist).

Every car seems to have one of those stupid England flags flying, while there are even more flags draped out of windows and babies covered in St George's Cross blankets than I've seen before.

I don't have anything against St George's Day per se, but when it's being done in such a ham-fisted way in a borough where the racial tensions are especially high, I don't think it's such a good idea for the Council to be lending validity to what's essentially (in this Borough) a BNP construct.

Ha! It ain't called Barking for nothin..