Happy Saint Georges Day

[Beanz]

Happy Saint Georges day to fellow Saddonians, English or not. It is a typically English day, persisting it down and in a not so typical English way I am celebrating by not getting inebriated.

[Kirkland Laing]

Me too but that's because it's my birthday. I'm waiting for a work phone call to happen then I'm off out for a piss-up. I'm going to end up in an Indian restaurant paying the staff to stay open and keep serving our table beer. They know me well, peace be upon them, they always politely carry me to my taxi. Happy St. George's Day everybody.

[El Kabong]

What are typical traditions for St. George's Day? I'm interested because....well hell I love a reason to drink and celebrate.

[Beanz]

What are typical traditions for St. George's Day? I'm interested because....well hell I love a reason to drink and celebrate.

Find a queue and join it, apologise when there is no need, watch Dot Cotton murder Jerusalem on Eastenders, go abroad find someone for whom English is not their first language and shout at them in English demanding a fryup and chips when the local cuisine is much tastier, invent the idea of international competitive sport and then spend years not doing very well at it, take ideas from other countries and reinvent them, establish seats of learning in science,literature,art and history and break free from conventional institutions like the church and aristocracy whilst simultaneously deeply entrenching a hieriacical class system, get pissed.

[El Kabong]

What are typical traditions for St. George's Day? I'm interested because....well hell I love a reason to drink and celebrate.

Find a queue and join it, apologise when there is no need, watch Dot Cotton murder Jerusalem on Eastenders, go abroad find someone for whom English is not their first language and shout at them in English demanding a fryup and chips when the local cuisine is much tastier, invent the idea of international competitive sport and then spend years not doing very well at it, take ideas from other countries and reinvent them, establish seats of learning in science,literature,art and history and break free from conventional institutions like the church and aristocracy whilst simultaneously deeply entrenching a hieriacical class system, get pissed.

The bold and underlined part is all I'll need and do. You Brits are as self loathing as anyone else I've ever encountered. Certainly your history is not entirely great, but it's not all bad either....where's you're pride England? Britain?

"Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime" - George Henry Borrow

"He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against the ale, that is, good ale." - George Henry Borrow

[Beanz]

What are typical traditions for St. George's Day? I'm interested because....well hell I love a reason to drink and celebrate.

Find a queue and join it, apologise when there is no need, watch Dot Cotton murder Jerusalem on Eastenders, go abroad find someone for whom English is not their first language and shout at them in English demanding a fryup and chips when the local cuisine is much tastier, invent the idea of international competitive sport and then spend years not doing very well at it, take ideas from other countries and reinvent them, establish seats of learning in science,literature,art and history and break free from conventional institutions like the church and aristocracy whilst simultaneously deeply entrenching a hieriacical class system, get pissed.

The bold and underlined part is all I'll need and do. You Brits are as self loathing as anyone else I've ever encountered. Certainly your history is not entirely great, but it's not all bad either....where's you're pride England? Britain?

"Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime" - George Henry Borrow

"He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against the ale, that is, good ale." - George Henry Borrow

I am entirely proud of being English. Today is not about Britain it is about England, birthplace of Shakespeare, this green and pleasant land in which multicultural tolerance and creativity in contemporary music and the arts has helped influence the world. Have a real ale or a decent pot of tea and raise your drinking implements to England. Cheers indeed.

[Beanz]

Me too but that's because it's my birthday. I'm waiting for a work phone call to happen then I'm off out for a piss-up. I'm going to end up in an Indian restaurant paying the staff to stay open and keep serving our table beer. They know me well, peace be upon them, they always politely carry me to my taxi. Happy St. George's Day everybody.

Happy birthday mate. Have a lovely meal and a good sup.