St George's Day

[Yorkie]

To all my fellow Englishmen have a happy St George's Day, today mostly i will be in York looking to shoot a few Scottish from the battlements with a Longbow.

Yorkie

"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one" [George Mikes How to be An Alien]

[big pete]

Hope yer aims better than yer batsmen in the recent one days!;)
Joking apart , good to see some one prepared to fly the flag celebrating nationality, not nearly enough in my opinion.
Us Scots are pretty good at it though , even with arrows out our ars$s (Braveheart , Bannock burn 1314 in case you forgot):drunk:
Have a good day Yorkie and be careful with your knocking:mand: .

[Yorkie]

Pete cheers mate, the BBQ is being lit at 1500, and the drink is flowing already, so looks like a bit of charcoal on the outside and raw in the middle!!

This is the Longbow of modern choice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgustaWestland_Apache

Firing these arrows:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire

Or in keeping with the arrow theme:

http://www.solidpartners.com.my/site/index.php?cat=16&page=41

You are right about the support for today it is rather embarrassing, we (The English) should rightly have more flag waving pride.

Yorkie

[gary tompkins]

Yorkie, you were originally far enough North to be a borderline jock :mand:

[Yorkie]

GT,

You are far enough South to be French, my friend.

Hope you are having a good day, oh and it is very sunny up North. (String vest and rolled up trousers)

Yorkie

[Mand]

Happy st georges day!

Our flag is flying, then again it always is except for when its time for a wash and then its the turn of the cheshire flag.

Mand more english than most....

[Darkness]

St George: a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina.

Today is a good day for a BBQ though!

[Mr Cake]

Wasn't St. Patrick a tee-total Brit? Don't see you pointing that one out when its Paddy's day. Let us have our day, will you! Anyway, we get to celebrate it all over again because St. George's has been moved to the 2nd of May this year. Today is Holy Saturday.

Happy St. George's day!

C

PS. That little red dragon on a green and white background has only been a welsh flag since the 70s. You ought to be flying the cross of St. George seeing as Wales is also represented by it since the act of union in the mid-sixteenth century. You're what's known as a conquered nation, dear boy. Edward I in fact.

[Pomp1]

Happy St.George's Day from an alien guest..

[Mr Cake]

Not quite, Max. Our flag came from the city of Genoa.

C

[Pomp1]

Not quite, Max. Our flag came from the city of Genoa.

C

Funny you say that, Milan has the same flag as England as well..

[big pete]

Pete cheers mate, the BBQ is being lit at 1500, and the drink is flowing already, so looks like a bit of charcoal on the outside and raw in the middle!!

This is the Longbow of modern choice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgustaWestland_Apache

Firing these arrows:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire

Or in keeping with the arrow theme:

http://www.solidpartners.com.my/site/index.php?cat=16&page=41

You are right about the support for today it is rather embarrassing, we (The English) should rightly have more flag waving pride.

Yorkie

Yorkie I like yer style mate, keep deliverin the goods:roger:
As for any one else thats not keen on the fact that people celebrate their nationality (outside good natured banter!) theres plenty other threads to read.
Me.......Scottish 1st but still very much British
Hope the heads ok in the morning Yorkie:dizzy:

[big pete]

Wasn't St. Patrick a tee-total Brit? Don't see you pointing that one out when its Paddy's day. Let us have our day, will you! Anyway, we get to celebrate it all over again because St. George's has been moved to the 2nd of May this year. Today is Holy Saturday.

Happy St. George's day!

C

PS. That little red dragon on a green and white background has only been a welsh flag since the 70s. You ought to be flying the cross of St. George seeing as Wales is also represented by it since the act of union in the mid-sixteenth century. You're what's known as a conquered nation, dear boy. Edward I in fact.

Act of the union 1707 to unite the crowns of Scotland and England also known of union of the parliaments, seemed to work fine till the little gay Italians (Bonnie prince Charlie) dad took issue in 1715 , dont think Wales or Ireland had a lot of say in1707!!
St Patrick, son of a Roman tax collector Im lead to believe , spent most of his childhood in a place called Beneventium, which is supposedly the modern day Banavie, which funnily enough is where I stay. Hasten to add this is the modern theory and not as reported in history books:) Did a damn good job with the snakes tho.

[Mr Cake]

I meant the 1536 act of union. Whats this about snakes?

C

[Yorkie]

Here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick

Yorkie

[Yorkie]

England, delivering battle winning Longbow since 1346 - 1415.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt

Yorkie.

[Mr Cake]

Ah right. There wasn't anything for St Patrick to banish. Quiet shift then :thumbsup:

C

[Mr Cake]

England, delivering battle winning Longbow since 1346 - 1415.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt

Yorkie.

You mentioned it once but I think you got away with it :)

C

[Yorkie]

Only needs to be mentioned once. Because the French know its fact!

This is the original usage, i was talking about a modern take!

But they need reminding from time to time!

Yorkie

[farl]

It's moved to 2nd May this year... Can't be celebrated in Holy week. Chance to get the flags ready again...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/saints/george_1.shtml

[big pete]

England, delivering battle winning Longbow since 1346 - 1415.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt

Yorkie.

With a bit of help from the Welsh it seems, :cool:

[LouSCannon]

I enjoyed St George's day... in Wales! But found a pub called the George and Dragon and had several pints of Spitfire to right the balance!

[He11cat]

Was celebrated.. But burning a four poster bed and fogging up a large area of 2 streets and right up in the sky opps .. And having to explain don't need to call the fire brigade!!!
It's that prievil fire thing isn't it!! Men and fires and bbqs .. Add beer and lethal combination!! But St Georges celebrated as every other bugger has a Sts day!!
Why we are shamed into thinking it's bad :(

Celtic blooded way way back with some Dutch ..
But born In Croydonia!

[Yorkie]

It's moved to 2nd May this year... Can't be celebrated in Holy week. Chance to get the flags ready again...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religi...george_1.shtml

Happy with that, I like the "Can't be celebrated in Holy Week", Ill celebrate on the correct day and then again on the 2nd.

Yorkie

[bex]

St Georges Day, was so hot, largely spent leather-clad on the Monster sweating like a scouser in Dixons.

[buzzbomb]

Hey Hey calm down Bex...:twak:

Theres nowt wrong with a sweating scouser...:fiery:

We're very touchy...:grump:

[bex]

I know all about it, I'm half scouser myself :biggrin:

[buzzbomb]

Stay cool Bex...:cool:

I'm just pulling your leg...:chuckle::chuckle: