Happy St George's Day !

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Bow to the great Turkishman and Roman soldier. Patron saint of so many countries. I take it Motherland will be celebrating in its usual muted format?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Yes by no doubt having it's usual St. George's thread on ShrimperZone! Huirray, Rule Brittania and all that.

 

[* ORM *]

Hmmmm Rule Brittania? You haven't quite got the hang of this have you. Jerusalem maybe.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Hmmmm Rule Brittania? You haven't quite got the hang of this have you. Jerusalem maybe.

Isn't that in Israel? :unsure:

 

[OldBlueLady]

Happy St George's Day, English and proud!

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[Benfleet A1]

Yes by no doubt having it's usual St. George's thread on ShrimperZone! Huirray, Rule Brittania and all that.

You do know that it isn't the law to reply to absolutely everything even if you don't agree or want to contribute a little more than a sarcastic remark, don't you?

I will celebrate today by painting my house and necking a couple of bottles of Spitfire tonight.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I am celebrating by getting my car washed at a Kosovan carwash.

 

[Ricey]

Happy St George's day everyone. This is such a poorly celebrated day, people seem to care more about St Patricks day than they do St George's. I hate it when all the plastic paddys are out celebrating, wish more of a song and dance was made about today then about those Irish *****.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Happy St George's day everyone. This is such a poorly celebrated day, people seem to care more about St Patricks day than they do St George's. I hate it when all the plastic paddys are out celebrating, wish more of a song and dance was made about today then about those Irish *****.

St Patrick's day is only celebrated in the UK because it is used as marketing ploy by a massive drinks company. In fact a few years ago St Patrick's day fell on a Sunday and Guiness marketed the preceding Saturday as St Patrick's Eve because they knew they would sell more pints on a Saturday.

The only thing stopping celebration of St Georges day is apathy. If you go down the pub in an England shirt tonight and sink a few pints you are not going to get locked up by the political correctness police.

 

[slapheadsteve]

Happy St Georges Day

Celebrating by leading a pub crawl this evening doing 4 pubs in Rochford.

 

[Beefy]

Happy St George's day everyone. This is such a poorly celebrated day, people seem to care more about St Patricks day than they do St George's. I hate it when all the plastic paddys are out celebrating, wish more of a song and dance was made about today then about those Irish *****.

Don't hate, buddy. Paddy's Day is fantastic. There's no way that we'd celebrate St.George's Day the same way. If it was a public holiday in England people would spend it in IKEA anyway.

 

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How about celebrating Paddys day in an England shirt with a pint of Guinness?

Ooh Grout, Spitfire. How I miss the Old Dr Butler's Head, one of the few proper pubs left in the city. A few pints of Spitfire with some doorstep sandwiches please.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

St Paddy's day probably has more to do with the potato famine scattering the Paddies throughout the world. When away from home people are more vocal about their origins - see our away matches as an example. I am more Essex now I haven't lived there for 20 years than I was when I lived there.

 

[dingleydangley]

St Paddy's day probably has more to do with the potato famine scattering the Paddies throughout the world. When away from home people are more vocal about their origins - see our away matches as an example. I am more Essex now I haven't lived there for 20 years than I was when I lived there.

Yup. As with the Irish, I always find the English diaspora markedly more patriotic than those of us still here. I haven't lived in Essex for twenty five years but was getting all dewy-eyed about it with someone from Billericay this morning. By the way, almost all of the posts above seem to see both St George's and St Patrick's as drinking festivals. I'm a Britpaddy who's really queasy about patriotism/nationalism and I don't drink. I'm probably best off at the Kosovan carwash, too.

 

[PrawNZ]

Was down pub earlier having a Bombay sapphire & tonic then a Strongbow! I refuse to have anything to do with paddys day

 

[ozzie]

been living in germany now 24 years and living abroad does make you more patriotic:happy:. my st georges day will be great if real madrid smash bayern münchen tonight..bayern are the worst s§§§s on the planet...hope chelsea wins the champ.league

 

[Uncle Leo]

Currently struggling with my post St George's Day hangover. Took a day trip to York - what a damn fine city that is for a beer or ten.

 

[Beefy]

Yup. As with the Irish, I always find the English diaspora markedly more patriotic than those of us still here. I haven't lived in Essex for twenty five years but was getting all dewy-eyed about it with someone from Billericay this morning.

This is so true. I was telling one of the girls in the office about lazy afternoons with a pint of lager and a pint of prawns on the sea wall by the Peter Boat earlier. I got misty-eyed.

 

[londonblue]

This is so true. I was telling one of the girls in the office about lazy afternoons with a pint of lager and a pint of prawns on the sea wall by the Peter Boat earlier. I got misty-eyed.

That may have been cataracts. I suggest you see a doctor.