Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[E*F*4L]

hope you have a good one

[DC]

bunch of english b'stards, how racist of them to have their own day!!1

i heart st georges day though.

[DarkAngelMJH]

Yeah lol how bad of us to not celebrate it or put up flags. Stupid country this is! But we get to dress in our jeans at work which is always good

[John]

What i dont get, is that on St Patricks day (hi baz!) we all get extremely drunk on Guiness. How come we dont celebrate our own day? Get drunk on some real ole english ale or something

[DarkAngelMJH]

What i dont get, is that on St Patricks day (hi baz!) we all get extremely drunk on Guiness. How come we dont celebrate our own day? Get drunk on some real ole english ale or something

Because that would be racist against the people of the Asian and other communities

It's pathetic! It's our country

[John]

I wont get into a pointless race debate, but no one is stopping them from enjoying it with us! Whatever happened to share and share alike?

[DarkAngelMJH]

True should be a bank holiday too so we can all celebrate with lots of beer!

[John]

I agree. Ye Ole English beer actually. Properly pulled out of a pump!

[E*F*4L]

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may as well not have Saint Georges Day as nobody in this country gives a :* i put a flag on my car this morning & i only saw two others on the way to work & about five on the way home

[Nik B.]

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may as well not have Saint Georges Day as nobody in this country gives a :* i put a flag on my car this morning & i only saw two others on the way to work & about five on the way home

Why should we give a toss. Everyone still has to work, and as far as I know, very few people bother getting insanely drunk.

[E*F*4L]

Why should we give a toss. Everyone still has to work, and as far as I know, very few people bother getting insanely drunk.

oh i dunno !

[KingTutsWWH]

Meh. I'm not patriotic and have a personal nationality crisis anyhow, so Saint George's Day means absolutely nothing at all to me I'm afraid. Was actually surprised to see a couple of flags on cars today.

It certainly should be a public holiday though. The English, in comparison to others have such a boring way of 'celebrating' things. I have experienced Irish, Scottish, Spanish, French and Italian Saint's days. They know how to celebrate!

What do we do in England? :rolleyes:Give me strength...

[Lucinda]

All very well making it a public holiday but we have 2 in May and then hardly any the rest of the year!

The only people who tend to display England flags are builders vans and football fans during the World Cup.

I like today's Google illustration, cleverly managing to combine Romeo and Juliet with George and the dragon.

[DarkAngelMJH]

I've seen quite a few cars with them flags on their windows and also lots of pubs all decorated. I even put a flag in my bedroom window

[Andy B]

It was St George's day? Hmm who knew.

[Robbie Keane]

I am always amused by the people who question why we don't celebrate St. Georges Day and then say it's because of them damn muslims, because the muslims are to blame for everything. Total fallacy. In reality, we don't celebrate it because most of us, for whatever reason, don't care about it. It has no emotional investment to us in the way that St. Patricks does for a small nation in Ireland, and that Independance Day does for America (an actual real day celebrating an actual real event that changed the landscape of the country forever), and the only people who seem to care are the ones who believe that we should have our own day because everyone else does and because, in our minds, it's taking back some imaginary power from the muslims that we never lost in the first place other than due to our own apathy towards it.

If the country truly cared about the day as a holiday, it would have been turned into one by now. But it doesn't, bar a vocal minority who unfortunately seem to resemble a BNP rally rather than a thoughtful party of patriots.

[John]

But its an excuse to get pissed

[Robbie Keane]

That is true, but we've already tagged onto St. Patricks Day for the annual "Let's get hammered" day.

[Lucinda]

M1TCH3LL, I won't quote your entire post, but I totally agree. It's just some story about a saint defeating a dragon. And we already get pissed on Saint Patrick's Day, whether we ourselves have any connection with Ireland or not. There's just a minority who like to blame everything on "political correctness" (usually those who read 'news'papers such as The Sun and the Daily Mail).

[DarkAngelMJH]

Well how rude, I do not read the scum or daily fail. The councils have backed out in putting up flags due to fear of upsetting the minority.

[Robbie Keane]

M1TCH3LL, I won't quote your entire post, but I totally agree. It's just some story about a saint defeating a dragon. And we already get pissed on Saint Patrick's Day, whether we ourselves have any connection with Ireland or not. There's just a minority who like to blame everything on "political correctness" (usually those who read 'news'papers such as The Sun and the Daily Mail).

And they're the ones who ruin it for the rest of us because now we see St. Georges Day as an excuse for the right-wing racists to congregate outside of pubs, talking about how we should be proud of being British because "them pakis can celebrate their holidays so why can't we?" as if the mere presence of foreigners has stopped us from being able to celebrate a day that we rarely ever celebrated anyway. It's just a power and, in some cases, a British-verging-on-white pride thing and were I an Asian in this country, I probably would feel so alienated by what St. Georges Day now means that I would never celebrate it even if it became a national holiday. That's why St. Paddys Day is a success - you don't hear anyone saying "oi, f**k those English and American people celebrating our day." Everyone joins in together without any fear of hatred or prejudice and gets along fine.

But no, not St. Georges Day. Why would I want to be proud of a country who only wants to celebrate a day of their own because everyone else does and we therefore think that we should too, without even considering the ways to make it open to everyone in such a multi-cultural society?

[E*F*4L]

oh, it's turned into a religious argument now

oh, it's turned into a religious argument now

St Patrick's Day (St. Paddys Day is offensive to Irish people) isn't celebrated by English people, it's a excuse to go out & get pissed end of.

no such thing as "multi-cultural society" either, change has to work both ways.

[DaNNiP15]

all the flags round here got taken down by the council... then got put back up again due to an uproar

[Robbie Keane]

no such thing as "multi-cultural society" either

Oh I just HAVE to hear the explanation for this.

[E*F*4L]

Oh I just HAVE to hear the explanation for this.

multi-cultural society means EVERYONE accepts everyone else's opinions, beliefs, values & works together.

example;

there is no 'I' in TEAM.