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St George's Day

Post by as » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:03 am

I'll be out on the pop from noon onwards, any excuse for a drink, after all :pissed:

Anything beats St Guinness day anyway, a load of p**sed up anal-passages wearing silly hats and pretending to be Irish :wink:

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Re: St George's Day

Post by Gary the Enfield » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:45 am

as wrote:I'll be out on the pop from noon onwards, any excuse for a drink, after all :pissed:

Anything beats St Guinness day anyway, a load of p**sed up anal-passages wearing silly hats and pretending to be Irish :wink:

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Not to take away from this great day, and your undoubted patriotism, but you do know St. George wasn't English and never even set foot in England don't you? Also Richard the First spent a grand total of two months in England and was French.

Just saying, like.

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Post by bobo the clown » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:00 am

Well, Gary, it's nice to see flags & events in a border city like Chester where we see the stumpie Cymraeg's constantly blarping on about Dewi Sant, Owain Glyndwr, Leeks and fecking dragons.

Still, for the record Dewi Sant was Irish, Dragons don't exist, Leeks are just tall onions and Owain Glydwr was an English educated rich bloke in the English army and took part in an invasion of Scotland.

While I'm on a rant, St. Patrick actually was a Welshman, so all the green hat wearing Leprachaun hunters may need a history lesson too.

History, eh. "It's just one fecking thing after another"*
(* Alan Bennet, from the History Boys)
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Post by mrplow » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:05 am

bobo the clown wrote: History, eh. "It's just one fecking thing after another"*
(* Alan Bennet, from the History Boys)
Just a guess, but have you been to Theatre Clwyd recently ?

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Post by Gary the Enfield » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:10 am

bobo the clown wrote:Well, Gary, it's nice to see flags & events in a border city like Chester where we see the stumpie Cymraeg's constantly blarping on about Dewi Sant, Owain Glyndwr, Leeks and fecking dragons.

Still, for the record Dewi Sant was Irish, Dragons don't exist, Leeks are just tall onions and Owain Glydwr was an English educated rich bloke in the English army and took part in an invasion of Scotland.

While I'm on a rant, St. Patrick actually was a Welshman, so all the green hat wearing Leprachaun hunters may need a history lesson too.

History, eh. "It's just one fecking thing after another"*
(* Alan Bennet, from the History Boys)
Which just expands my point. Most Patron Saints have bugger all to do with the countries they represent. Saint George is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres (Spain), Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, Gozo, Milan, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Barcelona and Moscow.

F*ck National days. The sun's shining, let's go and worship Sol. With some Ol. :pissed:

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Post by thebish » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:14 am

Gary the Enfield wrote:
F*ck National days. The sun's shining, let's go and worship Sol. With some Ol. :pissed:
what - the ageing centre-back??

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Post by bobo the clown » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:17 am

mrplow wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:History, eh. "It's just one fecking thing after another"*
(* Alan Bennet, from the History Boys)
Just a guess, but have you been to Theatre Clwyd recently ?
Oes.


(that's "yes" in Welsh ... although, in fact, there isn't actually a simple word for "yes", this is what is generally used. How can a language not have a simple word for "yes" ??)

I actually lit the History Boys at a local amateur production and, of course the film is good. Grammar Schools, don't you just miss 'em ?
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Post by jimbo » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:36 am

bobo the clown wrote:
mrplow wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:History, eh. "It's just one fecking thing after another"*
(* Alan Bennet, from the History Boys)
Just a guess, but have you been to Theatre Clwyd recently ?
Oes.


(that's "yes" in Welsh ... although, in fact, there isn't actually a simple word for "yes", this is what is generally used. How can a language not have a simple word for "yes" ??)

I actually lit the History Boys at a local amateur production and, of course the film is good. Grammar Schools, don't you just miss 'em ?
Funny you should mention it - watched the film last night again. Great film.

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Post by General Mannerheim » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:50 am

do we really have to have this conversation every year? jeeezus.

balls to the geezer who supposedly killed a dragon, he probably wasnt even real, dragons certainly arent, and neither is god or any of that ol shite.

but today is about England and its patrons celebrating being English.

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Post by Tank » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:56 am

General Mannerheim wrote:do we really have to have this conversation every year? jeeezus.

balls to the geezer who supposedly killed a dragon, he probably wasnt even real, dragons certainly arent, and neither is god or any of that ol shite.

but today is about England and its patrons celebrating being English.
And the more we keep supporting it, the more pressure we can put on the government, into making it a Bank Holiday. :D

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Post by General Mannerheim » Fri Apr 23, 2010 11:02 am

Tank wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:do we really have to have this conversation every year? jeeezus.

balls to the geezer who supposedly killed a dragon, he probably wasnt even real, dragons certainly arent, and neither is god or any of that ol shite.

but today is about England and its patrons celebrating being English.
And the more we keep supporting it, the more pressure we can put on the government, into making it a Bank Holiday. :D
it would be a sure fire election banker! plus all the non-voters would make the effort too if that was a policy! never gonna happen though. least it will be on a saturday next year! :pissed:

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Re: St George's Day

Post by as » Fri Apr 23, 2010 11:47 am

Gary the Enfield wrote:
as wrote:I'll be out on the pop from noon onwards, any excuse for a drink, after all :pissed:

Anything beats St Guinness day anyway, a load of p**sed up anal-passages wearing silly hats and pretending to be Irish :wink:

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Not to take away from this great day, and your undoubted patriotism, but you do know St. George wasn't English and never even set foot in England don't you? Also Richard the First spent a grand total of two months in England and was French.

Just saying, like.
I'm English - we're not patricotic, we just feel superior to everyone else :D

And, I'm fully aware that he wasn't English, I actually posted that expecting a 'you must be a racist' backlash on here, perhaps I misjudged some of you :wink:

It's an excuse to get drunk - plain and simple :pissed:
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Re: St George's Day

Post by Gary the Enfield » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:00 pm

as wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
as wrote:I'll be out on the pop from noon onwards, any excuse for a drink, after all :pissed:

Anything beats St Guinness day anyway, a load of p**sed up anal-passages wearing silly hats and pretending to be Irish :wink:

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Not to take away from this great day, and your undoubted patriotism, but you do know St. George wasn't English and never even set foot in England don't you? Also Richard the First spent a grand total of two months in England and was French.

Just saying, like.
I'm English - we're not patricotic, we just feel superior to everyone else :D

And, I'm fully aware that he wasn't English, I actually posted that expecting a 'you must be a racist' backlash on here, perhaps I misjudged some of you :wink:

It's an excuse to get drunk - plain and simple :pissed:
wtf? :crazy: Perhaps you did. Racist remarks would propogate that kind of response on here.

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Re: St George's Day

Post by as » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:24 pm

Gary the Enfield wrote:
as wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
as wrote:I'll be out on the pop from noon onwards, any excuse for a drink, after all :pissed:

Anything beats St Guinness day anyway, a load of p**sed up anal-passages wearing silly hats and pretending to be Irish :wink:

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Not to take away from this great day, and your undoubted patriotism, but you do know St. George wasn't English and never even set foot in England don't you? Also Richard the First spent a grand total of two months in England and was French.

Just saying, like.
I'm English - we're not patricotic, we just feel superior to everyone else :D

And, I'm fully aware that he wasn't English, I actually posted that expecting a 'you must be a racist' backlash on here, perhaps I misjudged some of you :wink:

It's an excuse to get drunk - plain and simple :pissed:
wtf? :crazy: Perhaps you did. Racist remarks would propogate that kind of response on here.
Calm down, dear Image
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Post by William the White » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:33 pm

Shakespeare Day as far as I'm concerned.

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Post by Raven » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:33 pm

I'd prefer Oct 21st as a Bank Holiday, then again lets go for both :)
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Re: St George's Day

Post by Gary the Enfield » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:34 pm

as wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
as wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
as wrote:I'll be out on the pop from noon onwards, any excuse for a drink, after all :pissed:

Anything beats St Guinness day anyway, a load of p**sed up anal-passages wearing silly hats and pretending to be Irish :wink:

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Not to take away from this great day, and your undoubted patriotism, but you do know St. George wasn't English and never even set foot in England don't you? Also Richard the First spent a grand total of two months in England and was French.

Just saying, like.
I'm English - we're not patricotic, we just feel superior to everyone else :D

And, I'm fully aware that he wasn't English, I actually posted that expecting a 'you must be a racist' backlash on here, perhaps I misjudged some of you :wink:

It's an excuse to get drunk - plain and simple :pissed:
wtf? :crazy: Perhaps you did. Racist remarks would propogate that kind of response on here.
Calm down, dear Image
:D I'd never tire of slapping that smug git.

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Post by TANGODANCER » Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:08 pm

Gary the Enfield wrote:
Not to take away from this great day, and your undoubted patriotism, but you do know St. George wasn't English and never even set foot in England don't you? Also Richard the First spent a grand total of two months in England and was French.Just saying, like.
Aye, old "Coeur de Leon" and "King" John were the sons of the Queen of France and Richard spent all his time at the Crusades whilst John robbed the peasants blind with taxes over here. :wink:
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Re: St George's Day

Post by bobo the clown » Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:10 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
Not to take away from this great day, and your undoubted patriotism, but you do know St. George wasn't English and never even set foot in England don't you? Also Richard the First spent a grand total of two months in England and was French.Just saying, like.
Aye, old "Coure de Leon" and "King" John were the sons of the Queen of France and Richard spent all his time at the Crusades whilst John robbed the peasants blind with taxes over here. :wink:
To be fair, that's not the only thing he spent a lot of time doing !
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Post by TANGODANCER » Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:22 pm

bobo the clown wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
Not to take away from this great day, and your undoubted patriotism, but you do know St. George wasn't English and never even set foot in England don't you? Also Richard the First spent a grand total of two months in England and was French.Just saying, like.
Aye, old "Coure de Leon" and "King" John were the sons of the Queen of France and Richard spent all his time at the Crusades whilst John robbed the peasants blind with taxes over here. :wink:
To be fair, that's not the only thing he spent a lot of time doing !
No, you're right, but he was a warrior king first and foremost rather than a ruling one. He only reigned for ten years and spent only six months of that in England. Course, he did nip back in time for the weddings of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe. :wink:
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