Happy St Racist's Day
 

Only joking :D

Seeing as nobody else appears to have done it, English types wave your flag with pride today :)

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But not any other day unless you want to be branded "racist" by some loony or other.

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Only if it's used to attack other countries/races which does happen but thankfully not often.

Celebrating your national flag as I expect the Saesneg to do today is to be encouraged.

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Just flying it raises hackles. I'm not sure whose though. Offended on someone else's behalf?

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Has anyone noticed much about it this year? I remember the last few years there was an effort to give the day more prominence but it seems to have fizzled out. Usually one the tabloids tries to stoke up excitement but that doesn't appear this year either. It doesn't help though that I live around London. I wondered if anywhere else had more effort put into the day?

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I think there is more interest in Shakespeare this year..There seems to have been a big push to make the day about the bard rather than St George.

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all the efforts gone into trying to kill each other in the name of football

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/spo...emi-final.html

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Which would be better as a national day. Part of the problem is there is no flagpole event or occasional we're marking and I think England, Britain even, needs proper events to mark so we can pretend it's about that rather than us. Having a party 'cos we're English' just doesn't seem a very English thing to do.

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That's ok then. otherwise it's a stupid title for a thread.

Have we kicked all the foreigners out or something, then?

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It's been really bizarre for me.

The room where I studied Latin, attended assemblies and sat some GCSE exams has been refurbished by a charity and become a tourist attraction. I'm seeing the shops I visited to buy random things as a kid in the news.

Never did appreciate Stratford properly as I was young and lived there. George Bernard Shaw comes to mind.

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English and proud... we should have a England Day and make it a National Holiday.

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to be totally honest with everyone, l sometimes feel ashamed to be ENGLISH. In the UK on St Georges Day. which I didn't even know about.

My neighbour had the England Flag, and l said 'oh ****' and we don't celebrate it, could it be that WE may offend people by celebrating it, or Not.

St Georges Day should be a bank holiday. We should all be proud to be English. But we don't celebrate it.

We should do what the Irish do. On St Patricks day, they go totally mad, a celebrate like mad.

But St Georges day - a damp Squid.

What the hell is wrong with this country. England is great country, with great people. But what we are scared of to celebrate it.

I know that one house where l live, had an England flag, but was told to take it down as it offended neighbours.

And this is not me causing trouble, we should be proud of our country.

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We became a joke.
We became insignificant.
We became a laughing stock and a pushover.

We have Dave.

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Thank goodness you told us it was a joke or else we would never have known, what with it not being funny and all

In your opinion to be encouraged, not in mine or the vast majority of us, we're just not that interested or insecure to be bothered with nationalistic jingoism

Are they celebrating st Patricks day or using it as an excuse to get bladdered. I've heard stories about being asked to take flags down and most of them turn out to be bs

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ooh heck its all kicking off not:dozey:
Anger as council officials say UK city is ‘too multicultural’ to celebrate St George’s Day
According to the Daily Star Sunday, Kalphna Woolf, founder of 91 Ways to Build a Global City, which aims to unite Bristol's multicultural communities, said people can be frightened of the white and red St George's flag.

look out its a highly dangerous piece of cloth duck and cover .

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/663...t-George-s-Day

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Papa smurg, this is precisely what l am saying. Up and down the country, where we have Indian, Pakistani, Hindus and other fiaths. They have many celebrations each year to celebrate there faiths.

These are ALL allowed to 'combine' the faiths as part of the 'COMMUNITES TOGETHERNESS' and yet Councils wont allow ST GEORGES DAY.

What a pathetic way of looking at the English.

Even DC and co wont celebrate it. This is NOT ENGLAND ANYMORE

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Some of the parades are great, and you are treated as one. Which is great. They give you anything you want.

And they are great people.

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The problem with St George's Day isn't that it offends people, it barely offends anyone other a small minority of offence-takers, it's that few care. Although it's changing slightly the British nationality has been stronger than the English nationality. The day itself has little historical importance in our history, it's not remembering any (real) historical event. We don't have a tradition of celebrating it. Some people have tried to make it a bigger thing but the public don't bite.

You need a proper event and it's hard to make one up from nothing. The Americans have independence day, the French have Bastille Day. We don't have a day we celebrate winning/fighting for our independence from our colonial oppressors or the ancien regime.

I suppose we could mark a military victory but it's a bit lame to start doing so now after decades of not doing so. Waterloo or maybe Victory in Europe Day for example.

I think Guy Fawkes night is a good candidate but it might bring religion into it which is complicated. Still it has benefits: It's already a sorta celebration with fireworks, it's based on a real and important part of our history and it might force people to learn that history so we don't have IDIOTS swarming the Internet with those poxy V for Vendetta masks thinking the day is about commentating the death of a freedom fighter.

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Damien I think you are right, St George is nothing to do with English history or being English. I have always thought it strange that we have a "patron saint" who was a Roman soldier, a Christian martyr apparently from Cappadocia although nobody really knows, but a legend brought back by the "crusaders" of that dark period in English history! Then there's the obscure myths on dragon slaying! Amusing fact is that St George is also the patron saint of Romania (and several other countries) :)

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What about Magna Carta day or the last-time-that-England-won-the world-cup day whichever is more recent? :D