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The truth is that there's more fuss about SPD here* than over there...Its a shame that there's more press and celebration around St Patrick's day (any excuse for a piss up) than there is over St George's!
Are we still allowed to shoot Welshmen crossing a certain bridge in Chester?Shoot a Frenchman with a longbow?
I think the only thing we did today was put up the England flag. I doubt the kitchen/restaurant.bistro/canteen or whatever they call it these days did anything special. Every other celebration day is catered for. Tho the coddle for St. Pats day was a bit suspect 1 year.Beware Greeks named after mental hospitals
I believe it to be the case that you can do so anywhere within the city walls during the hours of darkness, but didn't 'they' recently have a bit of a clear out of some of the more outdated laws? Whether this was one of them i don't know.Are we still allowed to shoot Welshmen crossing a certain bridge in Chester?
Baa, hwmbwg.I believe it to be the case that you can do so anywhere within the city walls during the hours of darkness, but didn't 'they' recently have a bit of a clear out of some of the more outdated laws? Whether this was one of them i don't know.
A Frenchman would of course be better, but a Welshman might be easier to find. Luring him to Chester shouldn't be especially problematic.
I believe we have touched upon this before, but if anything he would be regarded as a Turk in today's money.Beware Greeks named after mental hospitals
See i don't really subscribe to that idea. I think that the impetus behind some sort of 'reinstatement' of St Georges Day as a holy/holi day to rival St Paddy/Andrew/David is driven by two forces in particular, neither of which are particularly worthy of credit.Its a shame that there's more press and celebration around St Patrick's day (any excuse for a piss up) than there is over St George's!
The August Bank Holiday here used to be on the first Monday. It was shifted* to the last Monday in order to reduce the long drag to Christmas. In Ireland it is still the first Monday and the first Monday in October was slotted in to provide a rather more effective break in the Autumn. This is to 'celebrate' nothing more than the day off itself and is simply known as the October Public Holiday.I'm all for including another Bank Holiday into our already despairingly sparse calendar though, so does St George fit the bill on that account?
Not really. Given that we have a ludicrous 'Easter' situation that could see the festivities falling within a few days of the 23rd April, and May Day falling hard upon, this is very much not the time of year to slot in a new Public Holiday. If we must create a saints day that we could all get pissed/go dogging/eat curry/beat our patriotic breasts about, shurely St Edmund would be a better bet. I know that there is somewhere a campaign of some sort to reinstate the fellow as England's Patron Saint - he was certainly regarded as such before those pesky Normans with their Crusading ways decided that an 'indigenous' Saint wasn't 'one of us' - and the 20th November, though not ideal, would be a welcome break between the August bank holiday and Christmas.
Just a (rather long-winded) thought.