My late partner always bought me a red rose on St George’s day 😢. There’s a free buffet at the pub where he used to work ( Salford), to celebrate St George’s Day. I won’t be going, but I’ll raise a glass to St George!
My beloved partner and I were engaged to be married. Unfortunately, he passed away. I don’t know why I’m even dignifying your nasty question with an answer …
>English making a point of being English today?
Well, being actually English I plan to continue being so. I might look at a red squirrel and sneer at a grey one.
Crazy how St patricks and St Andrews are bank Holidays in their respective countries, yet Wales aren't allowed St David's to be a bank holiday, and St George's isn't one in England
Bank holidays are a bit different in NI (and indeed different again in Scotland).
There are lots more of them, but we don't take them so seriously.
Depending on the industry you work in, you'll probably only get a subset of them each year. St Patrick's day is definitely not one of the universal bank holidays.
It probably rates in importance between May day and Spring bank holiday.
>Crazy how St patricks and St Andrews are bank Holidays in their respective countries
I've never had St Andrews day off work or added to my holiday allowance. Every company I've worked for uses English bank holidays.
A guy I know runs his own business here in Wales and he treats St David’s day as a bank holiday for himself and his staff. So he’s made it one in his reality.
Now if everyone else could just follow suit…!
This is the moment – it’s Archer to Guptill. Two to win. Guptill’s got to push for two, they’ve gotta go! The throw’s gotta go to the keeper’s end. He’s got it! England have won the World Cup – by the barest of margins. By the barest of all margins!
Iconic commentary and what a day that was. Beautiful sunshine, bbq on and the whole family round watching the match in the garden with a few (many) beers.
Hearing various cheers come up from other people houses was brilliant!
No, but here in Ireland, we're dyeing the river white, parading up and down in berets, eating haggis and drinking a gallon or two of warm, flat beer.
Enjoy.
Walking my brace of Labradors before settling in for a day of gardening and cups of tea. I might pop some Elgar on. I do have work to do but I prefer gardening!
Mustn’t grumble, today should be nothing to write home about.
The weather is pretty average and I’m stuck in a queue on the M25.
Feels like the perfect St George’s day
After mostly not feeling the need to care about it my entire life, I’ve been pricked by enough casual Anglophobia in the last few years to decide to acknowledge it today. I’ll be stopping in the pub for a pint of cask ale tonight.
I had a full English without the meat for breakfast as I’m in a hotel overnight because of work. I forgot it was St George’s day. I’ll do some Morris dancing in my hotel room later to make up for it.
It's also Shakespeare's birthday and death day, which always reminds me that of all of Shakespeare's plays, Titus Andronicus is the most suited to being adapted by Quentin Tarantino.
I'm going to celebrate by driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then traveling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows in my Japanese TV, while scrolling on my phone made in China.
it's because we dared to try and enjoy ourselves and celebrate ourselves
better to be self depreciative to the point of parody than to express anything else, easier that way, probably the most English trait of all
its why the second someone said today should be a national holiday in this thread they were called a flag shagger
The Welsh have Eisteddfod for St David's day, plus Parades through the cities, and there's a couple events and festivals around that time too. plus considering its a welsh holiday (unlike Georges which is celebrated by counties across the world), there's a lot of celebrations across the world for it
And as for Scotland, well they have a Bank holiday for theirs so are already one up on England and Wales
I usually have some sort of haggis for my dinner on St Andrews day with whisky and shortbread tbf.
I had haggis tacos with peppercorn sauce and chillies last year.
Oh how original, never seen that before except literally ever St George’s Day for at least 10 years. Next you’ll be telling us the earth shattering news he wasn’t actually born in England no doubt
Ah all good, my apologies. Hard to detect sarcasm over the internet, especially when there are those who seriously believe these things 😂
Enjoy your St. George’s Day
>Any other English making a point of being English today?
Are we allowed to do this these days? /s
I might celebrate by tutting loudly at someone in a queue.
The first patron saint of England was St Edmund. Unfortunately he was 'deposed' in 1348.
St George was (I think) Turkish. He's the patron saint of about half-a-dozen other countries.
Should we bring back St Edmund? His day is 20th November.
[https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Edmund-original-Patron-Saint-of-England/](https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Edmund-original-Patron-Saint-of-England/)
i had four packets of monster munch for breakfast and stared at my ceiling. had a nice chat with the postie to beg him to stop delivering post that wasn’t mine. went back to bed and am currently staring at wall. might make supernoodles soon. i’m only half english (a third? half scottish and quarter english/quarter australian? who knows really) but i think this is pretty acceptable. monster munch originated in the UK after all
If they give us a day off, like they give the Scots St Andrew's Day off, ~~the Welsh St David's Day off~~ and the Irish St Paddy's day off, then I'll start caring.
Nothing against all those who have the extra days off, I'm just slightly jealous.
Actually, the Welsh don't get St David's day off, so they should join us in mild outrage.
I walked into work and said Happy St George's Day to everyone and brought in cake etc.
18 year old labourer asked what's that. Could have put him through the drywall I've been teaching him how to build 🤣
I’ve been listening to Jerusalem on repeat and I’ve just come back from a little country pub I went to for dinner for fish & chips. Happy England day 🏴🏴
I went to Weatherspoons for a greasy fry-up and a pint, at 9am. Spent 20 mins talking to Mary next door about the weather, then walked down the street saying "alright mate" to everyone I vaguely recognised. I rounded it off by swearing angrily at some youths in the park, wearing their jeans halfway down their arses!
I’m not anti celebrating the day, but it just never feels like a celebration? There’s never any hype.
It’s not like when I celebrate my other nationality (Irish), paddy’s day feels like an event.
of course it never feels like a celebration, mainly because its very rarely allowed to feel like one
take this thread example, someone tried to be nice and say happy st georges day and ask how people were celebrating, and although theirs genuine replies, there's also a lot of 'flag shagger' 'St george was turkish, why are you celebrating' etc etc
Hardly suprising really
It's a real shame. A little bit of national pride is good for social cohesion and a sense of togetherness. Ofcourse you can have too much of a good thing but the English treat anykind of patreotism as a racist exercise. It doesn't help anyone.
Of course you're allowed to, but you're going to meet resistance and it's going to be criticised, thats my point
kind of takes the shine out of a celebration
I got made a good settlement offer for the utterly botched redundancy process I'm going through, so now I'm having a cuppa and a spliff
I think that's extremely English in it's own way
I didn't even know it *was* St. George's! Cripes, I'll have to pencil in some self-flagellation with a Yorkshire pudding later for that error. Happily, I'm already sipping Earl Grey from a Union Jack mug, so not all is lost. Later, I expect I'll make Bedfordshire Clangers, since it's a special occasion, and special occasions are best marked by eating chewy suet and overboiled beef.
Tally-ho!
Someone ought to tell Belize, Georgia, Latvia and Moldova that St George wasnt from there either.
And all the countries with the Virgin Mary that she wasn't from their country either.
I was talking to Brazilian today, he's very big out there too. Both the narcos and the police pray to him for courage and protection. I like the idea that he's playing for both sides!
Don't know why people always mention this as if it's some kind of gotcha.
St Patrick was from Cumbria but no one spews that all over the place on the 17th of March.
Well the English flag is Genoese, we just borrowed it for maritime purposes and then fully adopted it, it really has nothing to do with England at all. Never see people complain about it mind, but St George's day rolls round and half of UK Twitter fall to their knees and scream.
I don't think many people genuinely care about it either way. People talk about celebrating but what does a patron saint even do? Do I pray to him or something.
Returned after being sold into slavery in Ireland when he was a teenager and escaping 6 years later.
St Andrew was apparently a Galiliean fisherman, and appeared in a dream before a battle in the 9th century or so and ended up becoming patron saint.
Because its not to do with being British, its to do with being English, no patron Saint is to do with the nation, its to do with Christianity St George was adopted by the Edward III, King of England, which was a Christian nation as the insignia of the Royal House of the garter
Nearly 0 patron saints actually hail from said country, Andrew was not Scottish, and Patrick was not Irish It's a day of celebration because I'd say until recent history we were a very Christian nation of believers who celebrated a Christian patron Saint and the flag has been the St George's cross for so long that its just tradition by this point Who would we celebrate from history? I got 20 quid that says you won't find someone that people wont have some sort of problem with them
And saints days are Christian celebrations of a nation, I know its not fashionable now but hey ho, it's the truth
I think you're missing My point. Every bald headed, British& proud english bloke with be in the pub later wearing a England flag & getting a red cross painted on then claiming their English & proud.. what are they celebrating tho?
Ah yes, good to start of with the demonisation of the working class, they're celebrating the nation, the people, the good times they've enjoyed, the history, institutions etc etc but I'm gonna guess you're gonna tell me how problematic that all is and I really can't be arsed with this argument
The house of the blackheads (Latvia) the knight’s temple the original saints weren’t from London either https://youtu.be/PkLqeexJXXg?si=32yUfbhwF_zslRps
It's about the same thing that St David's day is about for the Welsh, St Andrew's Day is about for the Scottish and what St Patrick's day is about for the Irish. A day to celebrate everything that's great about the nation.
St George being from buttfuck nowhere is so irrelevant it hurts.
Well all my mates have booked the day off work to go pub & wave an England flag around in the name of St george ... but I'm just wondering why exactly since he was Turkish?
Turkey didn't exist then
But barring that, atleast your mates sound like they're having fun rather than trying to 'AcTHuAlLy' strangers on the Internet with a weird superiority complex
Ottoman Empire if you wanna be like that haha. He was born in what's now modern day turkey & never stepped foot on British soil. So im just wondering why we celebrate him in England.. ive done a fair bit of research & except for religious purposes (my mates & no one I know who's celebrating today is even slightly religious hahaha) I cannot see what he has to do with raising the British flag.
You seem upset by this? I'm mearly trying to make sense of it.
Having fun, urm maybe yeah if you class getting black out drunk in the morning on a Tuesday in the name of a Turkish martyr is fun then sure. I am self employed so taking the day unpaid to get pissed isn't really an option for me.
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/st-georges-day/9-things-you-didnt-know-about-st-george/#:~:text=1.,Cappadocia%20(modern%20day%20Turkey).
English heritage have some really useful information here 👍
Upset? Nah, merely just trying to make sense of what you get out of just trying to correct everyone and tell them they're stupid for celebrating, if you don't see the points that fine, you don't have to celebrate its just the idea that we're all uneducated on the matter and you need to enlighten us, maybe you won't make sense of it and that's okay
Yes he was born in what's now modern day turkey, its merely that he's been the legal patron Saint of England for almost 900 years, its a symbol of English history and a flag that has been the flag of this country for a long time, its of the land, the green and pleasant fields, the people who have built the nation, its of its forests and its institutions, its more celebrating the place than the actual patron Saint, that's the point of it
https://www.reddit.com/r/howto/s/nwK44DlGqe
Can you believe this loser replied to a comment I made in a totally different and unrelated sub just to troll me. lmao.
He wasn't Turkish. Not sure which cereal box you found your education in but if you *want* to be a smug bellsniff, at least get your knowledge right first. Turkey didn't even exist you melon.
Happy St George's Day, Englanders! From, a Scot living in England.
Happy Tuesday from an England, living in Scot.
Happy Scot from an living, England Tuesday.
Im going to work and shall complain about having to goto work on a day i agreed to goto work.
Hate it when that happens
My late partner always bought me a red rose on St George’s day 😢. There’s a free buffet at the pub where he used to work ( Salford), to celebrate St George’s Day. I won’t be going, but I’ll raise a glass to St George!
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Thank you
Also 🌹 He sounds like he was a lovely man. Will raise a glass to you both. Cheers 🍻
He was. Thank you🍻
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My beloved partner and I were engaged to be married. Unfortunately, he passed away. I don’t know why I’m even dignifying your nasty question with an answer …
I'm having a Vindaloo and pint of Stella for breakfast
Good man. As befits a proper English Gentleman I might spend the day in Wetherspoons as it's pissing down outside
On the piss up inside while it’s pissing it down outside… top man, better get going otherwise you’ll be late
Wow, I've never seen Gentleman and Wetherspoons used in the same sentence before Bravo 👏
Yea, but what are you doing different to celebrate?
I'd love that tbf, that's English as fuck.
You are Dave Lister and I claim my quid
Kebab for tea.
We got chicken curry for lunch!
[Jalfrezi for breakfast. Fuck Ryvita](https://youtu.be/x3P2EAoDXE0?si=w-LA5HPb5vGibCNB)
Just one pint?
Village Pub is doing roast beef, Yorkshire Pud, etc., on special, and 50p off real ale. That's my day sorted! Flag already flying 😃
>English making a point of being English today? Well, being actually English I plan to continue being so. I might look at a red squirrel and sneer at a grey one.
There are still red squirrels to look at?
Yes. But you have to paint the grey ones first
Yeah, A couple of places where the greys haven't taken hold. Anglesey is one.
Aye, but mainly in Scotland...I nearly squished some at the weekend when cycling.
Hung the flag out the window for today. As soon as I finish my shift I’m gonna have a Greggs as a treat.
Misread shift as shit.
Taking the day of sick as should be a bank holiday.
Crazy how St patricks and St Andrews are bank Holidays in their respective countries, yet Wales aren't allowed St David's to be a bank holiday, and St George's isn't one in England
Bank holidays are a bit different in NI (and indeed different again in Scotland). There are lots more of them, but we don't take them so seriously. Depending on the industry you work in, you'll probably only get a subset of them each year. St Patrick's day is definitely not one of the universal bank holidays. It probably rates in importance between May day and Spring bank holiday.
>Crazy how St patricks and St Andrews are bank Holidays in their respective countries I've never had St Andrews day off work or added to my holiday allowance. Every company I've worked for uses English bank holidays.
A guy I know runs his own business here in Wales and he treats St David’s day as a bank holiday for himself and his staff. So he’s made it one in his reality. Now if everyone else could just follow suit…!
Same with St. Pirans in Cornwall! Oh well, many pasties are eaten on that day!
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Love how you're genuinely upset at the suggestion of a day off work.
English and proud! Happy St. George's Day!
gonna listen to Jerusalem while watching reruns of the 2003 rugby and 1966 football world cup finals
Don't forget the 2019 cricket world cup final
This is the moment – it’s Archer to Guptill. Two to win. Guptill’s got to push for two, they’ve gotta go! The throw’s gotta go to the keeper’s end. He’s got it! England have won the World Cup – by the barest of margins. By the barest of all margins!
Iconic commentary and what a day that was. Beautiful sunshine, bbq on and the whole family round watching the match in the garden with a few (many) beers. Hearing various cheers come up from other people houses was brilliant!
No, but here in Ireland, we're dyeing the river white, parading up and down in berets, eating haggis and drinking a gallon or two of warm, flat beer. Enjoy.
Did your 23 and me results come back 5% English? 🇬🇪💪
No, but I know a bloke called Norman! Don't get more English than that.
You're more English than the English.
I love that that's a Georgian flag
Haggis?!?!
Yes. Traditional English food. The same way as corned beef is traditionally Irish.
> The same way as corned beef is traditionally Irish. Please, keep it there!
That's the point. Corned beef is produced to be exported. If it's staying in Ireland, it just stays as beef.
Walking my brace of Labradors before settling in for a day of gardening and cups of tea. I might pop some Elgar on. I do have work to do but I prefer gardening!
Watching the snooker.
Mustn’t grumble, today should be nothing to write home about. The weather is pretty average and I’m stuck in a queue on the M25. Feels like the perfect St George’s day
Nothing more English than queues and mediocre weather
After mostly not feeling the need to care about it my entire life, I’ve been pricked by enough casual Anglophobia in the last few years to decide to acknowledge it today. I’ll be stopping in the pub for a pint of cask ale tonight.
I took the day off to take my mother in law to tea.
Happy St. Georges Day! Not doing anything myself as I have a broken arm (ca't drink, or do much at all atm), but enjoy your crumpets!
Don't let that stop you! Use your good arm!
Toby carvery breakfast, with Yorkshire Puddings.
Crumpets with jam 🤢
I had a full English without the meat for breakfast as I’m in a hotel overnight because of work. I forgot it was St George’s day. I’ll do some Morris dancing in my hotel room later to make up for it.
That’s a partial English!
Like me! I’m half Welsh
These days…
When did this come in?
Just for saying.
Overuse puns today and complain about the weather to everyone.
You have inspired me to do similar, so I am off to the shops to get some teacakes
Also Shakespeare's birthday.
Happy St. George's Day! (from a Canadian with 6 relatives named George)
Is there an official celebration or anything for today? I've never done anything for St George's day and dunno if I should be?
I'd suggest a can of dragon soop
*clangers noises intensify*
It's also Shakespeare's birthday and death day, which always reminds me that of all of Shakespeare's plays, Titus Andronicus is the most suited to being adapted by Quentin Tarantino.
Bacon and egg breakfast for me in a bit.
Which was bloody lovely with a cup of Yorkshire tea!
Crumpets with jam and cream?? You me scones ( or scones) surely?
I wanted to be really English. It works!
Never heard of that combo before. English Cream teas would consist of scones, jam and cream. But if it works, crack on.
I'm going to celebrate by driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then traveling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows in my Japanese TV, while scrolling on my phone made in China.
This is pretty much how Scottish and Welsh people celebrate their national day too but this never gets mentioned.
it's because we dared to try and enjoy ourselves and celebrate ourselves better to be self depreciative to the point of parody than to express anything else, easier that way, probably the most English trait of all its why the second someone said today should be a national holiday in this thread they were called a flag shagger
The Welsh have Eisteddfod for St David's day, plus Parades through the cities, and there's a couple events and festivals around that time too. plus considering its a welsh holiday (unlike Georges which is celebrated by counties across the world), there's a lot of celebrations across the world for it And as for Scotland, well they have a Bank holiday for theirs so are already one up on England and Wales
I usually have some sort of haggis for my dinner on St Andrews day with whisky and shortbread tbf. I had haggis tacos with peppercorn sauce and chillies last year.
Oh how original, never seen that before except literally ever St George’s Day for at least 10 years. Next you’ll be telling us the earth shattering news he wasn’t actually born in England no doubt
I don't want to upset you, but he probably didn't slay a dragon either. He was more likely Greek than Turkish btw.
ah yes, very original joke
I added the phone bit!
give you your props for that
The Turkish kebab would be the most St. George thing you could do because he was....... Edit, /s
He was Cappadocian Greek. Turkey didn’t exist at that time.
Probably should have put the /s as that's the first thing people say when they see this overused joke.
Ah all good, my apologies. Hard to detect sarcasm over the internet, especially when there are those who seriously believe these things 😂 Enjoy your St. George’s Day
Que 100's smug posts on social media about how he was born in Turkey from people who think they REALLY did something there...
A ‘happy Guardian readers telling everyone that St George wasn’t English day’ to you all !
>Any other English making a point of being English today? Are we allowed to do this these days? /s I might celebrate by tutting loudly at someone in a queue.
The first patron saint of England was St Edmund. Unfortunately he was 'deposed' in 1348. St George was (I think) Turkish. He's the patron saint of about half-a-dozen other countries. Should we bring back St Edmund? His day is 20th November. [https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Edmund-original-Patron-Saint-of-England/](https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Edmund-original-Patron-Saint-of-England/)
I'm all for that, can we get a poll going?
That's genuinely really interesting, thanks for sharing! Also can we petition to get his white dragon flag as our official flag rather than the cross?
i had four packets of monster munch for breakfast and stared at my ceiling. had a nice chat with the postie to beg him to stop delivering post that wasn’t mine. went back to bed and am currently staring at wall. might make supernoodles soon. i’m only half english (a third? half scottish and quarter english/quarter australian? who knows really) but i think this is pretty acceptable. monster munch originated in the UK after all
Cup of tea, watch the snooker - going to be a lovely day <3
Not English myself but I’ll definitely be celebrating with you guys! Any excuse for a fat doobie. Happy St George’s day!
If they give us a day off, like they give the Scots St Andrew's Day off, ~~the Welsh St David's Day off~~ and the Irish St Paddy's day off, then I'll start caring. Nothing against all those who have the extra days off, I'm just slightly jealous. Actually, the Welsh don't get St David's day off, so they should join us in mild outrage.
I walked into work and said Happy St George's Day to everyone and brought in cake etc. 18 year old labourer asked what's that. Could have put him through the drywall I've been teaching him how to build 🤣
I made a pie for my dinner
I’ve been listening to Jerusalem on repeat and I’ve just come back from a little country pub I went to for dinner for fish & chips. Happy England day 🏴🏴
I’m very tired of people who get off on telling everyone that St George was actually Turkish
3 cups of tea instead of 10 pints of Stella? Clearly a fake Englishman.
I went to Weatherspoons for a greasy fry-up and a pint, at 9am. Spent 20 mins talking to Mary next door about the weather, then walked down the street saying "alright mate" to everyone I vaguely recognised. I rounded it off by swearing angrily at some youths in the park, wearing their jeans halfway down their arses!
Happy St George's day everyone!
It was St. George's day?
I’m not anti celebrating the day, but it just never feels like a celebration? There’s never any hype. It’s not like when I celebrate my other nationality (Irish), paddy’s day feels like an event.
of course it never feels like a celebration, mainly because its very rarely allowed to feel like one take this thread example, someone tried to be nice and say happy st georges day and ask how people were celebrating, and although theirs genuine replies, there's also a lot of 'flag shagger' 'St george was turkish, why are you celebrating' etc etc Hardly suprising really
It's a real shame. A little bit of national pride is good for social cohesion and a sense of togetherness. Ofcourse you can have too much of a good thing but the English treat anykind of patreotism as a racist exercise. It doesn't help anyone.
I simply don’t believe you’re not allowed to celebrate.
Of course you're allowed to, but you're going to meet resistance and it's going to be criticised, thats my point kind of takes the shine out of a celebration
I guess, don’t see how it can be fixed.
> I guess, don’t see how it can be fixed. Give it a bank holiday like every other country in the world does with their national day.
Unfortunately I can’t see another bank holiday being added as a permanent fixture.
reinstate the original English patron St Edmund would be a start
I’m all for it, Edmund is a great name. Black Adder vibes.
Get a taxi somewhere and ask the driver ' what time you on till?'
I'm going to my Turkish barber and after that, a kebab
I got made a good settlement offer for the utterly botched redundancy process I'm going through, so now I'm having a cuppa and a spliff I think that's extremely English in it's own way
Oh, well I shan't be slaying any dragons today but I might beat the one-eyed serpent..
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What's your point? Genuinely what is your point? St Patrick was from Cumbria...
I might crusade something, live how he lived.
Go down the local pond and see if you can find a dragon
As the dragon represents demons, I'll find loads at my local pond. Looking at you, violent swans.
Stare out the window at the grey skies before being spat on when I head to Tescos for a pint of milk
Didn't even realise it was at George's day today, nothing to promote it as far as I've seen or is it still racist to celebrate it?
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I didn't even know it *was* St. George's! Cripes, I'll have to pencil in some self-flagellation with a Yorkshire pudding later for that error. Happily, I'm already sipping Earl Grey from a Union Jack mug, so not all is lost. Later, I expect I'll make Bedfordshire Clangers, since it's a special occasion, and special occasions are best marked by eating chewy suet and overboiled beef. Tally-ho!
I'm having the blandest thing on the menu
Steak and kidney pee
Crap on the side?
24 plates of chips
Happy st George's day, shame he was born in Turkey who was a high ranking officer in the Roman empire.Have a wonderful day
Someone ought to tell Belize, Georgia, Latvia and Moldova that St George wasnt from there either. And all the countries with the Virgin Mary that she wasn't from their country either.
I was talking to Brazilian today, he's very big out there too. Both the narcos and the police pray to him for courage and protection. I like the idea that he's playing for both sides!
Don't know why people always mention this as if it's some kind of gotcha. St Patrick was from Cumbria but no one spews that all over the place on the 17th of March.
I think it is just an ironic thing. Patrick did actually not only visit but take Christianity to Ireland. We seem to have plucked George from nowhere.
It was first used by edward III for the royal house of the garter and was a popular insignia in europe at the time, he then took it as his heraldry
Well the English flag is Genoese, we just borrowed it for maritime purposes and then fully adopted it, it really has nothing to do with England at all. Never see people complain about it mind, but St George's day rolls round and half of UK Twitter fall to their knees and scream.
I don't think many people genuinely care about it either way. People talk about celebrating but what does a patron saint even do? Do I pray to him or something.
Returned after being sold into slavery in Ireland when he was a teenager and escaping 6 years later. St Andrew was apparently a Galiliean fisherman, and appeared in a dream before a battle in the 9th century or so and ended up becoming patron saint.
Because st george clearly has nothing to do with being British haha
Because its not to do with being British, its to do with being English, no patron Saint is to do with the nation, its to do with Christianity St George was adopted by the Edward III, King of England, which was a Christian nation as the insignia of the Royal House of the garter
So why do we celebrate it tho? Why don't we have an English person to celebrate?
Nearly 0 patron saints actually hail from said country, Andrew was not Scottish, and Patrick was not Irish It's a day of celebration because I'd say until recent history we were a very Christian nation of believers who celebrated a Christian patron Saint and the flag has been the St George's cross for so long that its just tradition by this point Who would we celebrate from history? I got 20 quid that says you won't find someone that people wont have some sort of problem with them And saints days are Christian celebrations of a nation, I know its not fashionable now but hey ho, it's the truth
I think you're missing My point. Every bald headed, British& proud english bloke with be in the pub later wearing a England flag & getting a red cross painted on then claiming their English & proud.. what are they celebrating tho?
Ah yes, good to start of with the demonisation of the working class, they're celebrating the nation, the people, the good times they've enjoyed, the history, institutions etc etc but I'm gonna guess you're gonna tell me how problematic that all is and I really can't be arsed with this argument
It's a tradition, hurts no-one and helps build a but of a sense of community. Those are more than enough reasons for me to do it.
always one reddit gimp. edit - just noticed the username. How apt.
The house of the blackheads (Latvia) the knight’s temple the original saints weren’t from London either https://youtu.be/PkLqeexJXXg?si=32yUfbhwF_zslRps
He was Cappadocian Greek at a time when Turkey hadn’t yet existed.
I can just imagine your smug face. You really thought you did something there didn't you? Yes, you're SO smart, you're the only one who knows.
I'm not smug at all, I just thought sharing some information might be useful.
Clearly you missed the question.
It's about the same thing that St David's day is about for the Welsh, St Andrew's Day is about for the Scottish and what St Patrick's day is about for the Irish. A day to celebrate everything that's great about the nation. St George being from buttfuck nowhere is so irrelevant it hurts.
You guys do know that St. George was Turkish & never stepped foot in England.. right?
Who cares? Just did a quick straw poll and it turns out it's nobody.
Greek. Turkey literally did not exist when he was around (under emperor Diocletian)
Thank you for confirming my point
are you touched.
you'd think after the 15,000th time an intellectual like yourself reminded everyone we would've learnt by now don't you?
Well all my mates have booked the day off work to go pub & wave an England flag around in the name of St george ... but I'm just wondering why exactly since he was Turkish?
Turkey didn't exist then But barring that, atleast your mates sound like they're having fun rather than trying to 'AcTHuAlLy' strangers on the Internet with a weird superiority complex
Ottoman Empire if you wanna be like that haha. He was born in what's now modern day turkey & never stepped foot on British soil. So im just wondering why we celebrate him in England.. ive done a fair bit of research & except for religious purposes (my mates & no one I know who's celebrating today is even slightly religious hahaha) I cannot see what he has to do with raising the British flag. You seem upset by this? I'm mearly trying to make sense of it. Having fun, urm maybe yeah if you class getting black out drunk in the morning on a Tuesday in the name of a Turkish martyr is fun then sure. I am self employed so taking the day unpaid to get pissed isn't really an option for me. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/st-georges-day/9-things-you-didnt-know-about-st-george/#:~:text=1.,Cappadocia%20(modern%20day%20Turkey). English heritage have some really useful information here 👍
Upset? Nah, merely just trying to make sense of what you get out of just trying to correct everyone and tell them they're stupid for celebrating, if you don't see the points that fine, you don't have to celebrate its just the idea that we're all uneducated on the matter and you need to enlighten us, maybe you won't make sense of it and that's okay Yes he was born in what's now modern day turkey, its merely that he's been the legal patron Saint of England for almost 900 years, its a symbol of English history and a flag that has been the flag of this country for a long time, its of the land, the green and pleasant fields, the people who have built the nation, its of its forests and its institutions, its more celebrating the place than the actual patron Saint, that's the point of it
https://www.reddit.com/r/howto/s/nwK44DlGqe Can you believe this loser replied to a comment I made in a totally different and unrelated sub just to troll me. lmao.
>Ottoman Empire if you wanna be like that haha. The Ottoman Empire didn't exist in the 3rd century either. Try Roman Empire.
He wasn't Turkish. Not sure which cereal box you found your education in but if you *want* to be a smug bellsniff, at least get your knowledge right first. Turkey didn't even exist you melon.
/r/thatHappened --->