HAPPY SAINT GEORGE's DAY (2 Viewers)

A double celebration for me as its my birthday, so fingers crossed they make it a public holiday!! :rolleyes:;)

Tony and Rob right there with ya on flying that flag with pride! :D
 
Cornwallis said:
A double celebration for me as its my birthday, so fingers crossed they make it a public holiday!! :rolleyes:;)

Tony and Rob right there with ya on flying that flag with pride! :D
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Cheers,and a very happy birthday to you.Have you seen the thread for your birthday wishes?.Hope you have a good day.

Rob
 
Tony Neville said:
Brad

I just read my thread again and i guess it sounds like i was saying St David was not Welsh where as i was trying to say he was the only saint from the country he became the saint of!:)

Tony
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Understood, I couldn't resist the quip!

I wear a leek in my cap on St. David's Day, thanks to my itinerant grandfather.

St. David is also the patron saint of brewers, which is why you can see his star depicted in some old brewery crests.

Also, prost der Schorsch, inser heilig Schutzpadron!
 
Rob said:
Well its flying on my car today mate!.a very happy St Georges day to all English members of the forum today!

Don't care what the pc brigade think Tony,we got to take back our flag and have pride in it.So stuff the lot of them and COME ON ENGLAND!!!;)

Rob
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Yo Trooper Rob, nice one mate keep the flag flying with pride. For obvious reasons I couldn't fly it over here:eek: the house would have been raised to the ground by now lol. Thats the trouble being half English and half Irish, I have to stay in the middle of the road and go with the flow, or to put it another way, run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds lol.
Bernard.
 
To celebrate Ive just finished off a wonderfully traditional English dinner of chicken tikka masala, pilau rice and an onion bhaji washed down with a couple or three of Cobras..............Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
 
Cardigan600 said:
Yo Trooper Rob, nice one mate keep the flag flying with pride. For obvious reasons I couldn't fly it over here:eek: the house would have been raised to the ground by now lol. Thats the trouble being half English and half Irish, I have to stay in the middle of the road and go with the flow, or to put it another way, run with the foxes and hunt with the hounds lol.
Bernard.
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Cheers Bernard,yes i can see why you couldn't fly the flag!:eek:.At least you are with us in spirit mate;)

Rob
 
Evzone said:
To celebrate Ive just finished off a wonderfully traditional English dinner of chicken tikka masala, pilau rice and an onion bhaji washed down with a couple or three of Cobras..............Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
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Maybe that should now be 'cry god for Harry,England,UK Treefrogers next meeting and St George'!!;)

Rob
 
For what it's worth I think there was an element of feeling that that the Union flag was hijacked by the extreme right back in the 70's. Thankfully that seems to have died off a bit now.

I saw quite a few houses and places of work yesterday with flags flying.

Overall i think the main reason for not celebrating St George's Day is that a lot of people just genuinely are not bothered about it or even know when St George's Day is.

Everyone flies a flag when it's World Cup time or Euro Championships - so it's definately not the case that we can't fly the flag for PC reasons.
 
I just noticed the flag is flying proudly at full mast here at the Heart of England NHS Trust Hospital and we serve about as diverse a population as is possible.
So i think the PC Brigade element is really overated when it's possibly apathy that is more to blame for the lack of St George celebrating.
 
Could well be,and the apathy is just as sad as the pc element.There are still plenty of flags on the cars this morning,always good to see.:)

Rob
 
James

Not sure depends i think on the higher management of said places. For example ALL DURHAM county offices told they could not celebrate it.

Lady on local news was told to take her flag down in office 'as might offened'

So it may not be a direct PC attack from goverment etc but some people (in power) are still being PC. EVZone qoute in the canteen was another example of this.

I dont care i work for myself and as such our van..........which is white!! lol always has the flag in.

i used to be in the Pub business and it basically comes down to marketing and booze!! St patricks day was adopted by Guiness (obvious marketing, who wouldnt) so when it comes to that day all the breweris and distriputers plough a ton of money into pubs etc promoting the day and in return you see guiness sales jump 110%+ on that day and in recent years magners cider has jumped on the band wagon!! sales in my last year of being in a club Magners went up in one day by 220%!! it was working out every other drink served!

So if an english brewery could develop a mass marketed drink (that was not an ale) you would all of a sudden see St georges day take off!! :rolleyes:

Agree with you on one thing the old right wing dont help things.......always the way when an extreme group hijack a flag!!

Tony
 
So you guys are saying that you now cannot fly the St. Georges flag in England as it may offend someone???
 
thebritfarmer

that is an issue yes........further to this thread to what level depends on where you are and who has the power to decide!! ie if you boss at work does not have a back bone and yeilds to PC then no you cannot fly a flag! small or large!

but as James rightly pointed out at one stage the flag was seen as a sign of idiot football hooligans.....(not fans). However this is more of a reason it shoul dbe treated correctly and shown by more NORMAL people to show that there can be pride.

Tony
 
thebritfarmer said:
So you guys are saying that you now cannot fly the St. Georges flag in England as it may offend someone???
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It seems that way in certain places like Tony mentioned - but it's a request not a law.
My place of work is in the public sector and we have a big flag flying.
During Football championships there are flags absolutely everywhere.

But St Georges day itself kind of slips by unnoticed. again as Tony said it needs the pubs/breweries to really get behind it.
 
Thin end of the wedge when you can't fly your own flag in your own country. It's a shame these do gooders (if you can call them that) haven't nothing better to do. They need to mind their own bloody business.
 
thebritfarmer said:
Thin end of the wedge when you can't fly your own flag in your own country. It's a shame these do gooders (if you can call them that) haven't nothing better to do. They need to mind their own bloody business.
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Well said indeed.No one is going to stop me flying my flag and there has been a groundswell of opinion like this over the last few years.We are not overtly nationalistic, just proud of our flag the same as any other nation.Another gem from the PC brigade these days is that we should stop wearing a poppy on rememberance day,because it celebrates War.My answer is based on a careful weighing up of the argument and differing opinions....B******s.:mad:

Rob
 
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