Happy Saint George's Day - Page 3

23-04-2010, 20:09

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

I wonder if the BNP's heads will explode when they find out St George, their proud symbol of all that is ethnically indigenous North European, was born in Palestine from a Turkish father and a Palestinian mother?

not quite but it didn't half make his eye twitch

Peter_ · 23-04-2010, 20:38

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Originally Posted by Derek S

Bloody foreigners, coming over here, being our patron saint...

Hey get your own foreign Patron Saint

Tezcatlipoca · 23-04-2011, 01:59

It's that time of year again...

Happy Saint George's Day

tosh mate · 23-04-2011, 02:01

Happy Saint George's All

Russ · 23-04-2011, 02:20

Happy racist day.

Only joking

Gary L · 23-04-2011, 09:50

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Originally Posted by Russ

Only joking

No, you're not

If I didn't read it here, I'd never have known it was British N Proud day again.
how come it's kept such a secret?

**Hugh** · 23-04-2011, 09:58

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Originally Posted by Gary L

No, you're not

If I didn't read it here, I'd never have known it was British N Proud day again.
how come it's kept such a secret?

You appear to be confusing the lack of ability to read a calendar with secrecy....

btw, St George is the patron saint of England (and many other countries/cities), not of Great Britain.

squealy · 23-04-2011, 10:09

Happy St. George's Day.

**Hugh** · 23-04-2011, 10:12

Point of information.

St George's Day is the 2nd of May in the Church calendar this year, as the normal date clashes with Easter.

The reason is that the Saturday between Christ's crucifixion and resurrection is a day of mourning and so cannot also be a feast day for a saint.

Gary L · 23-04-2011, 10:25

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Originally Posted by Hugh

You appear to be confusing the lack of ability to read a calendar with secrecy....

I don't usually read a calendar to find out if today or tomorrow is a 'special' day.

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Point of information.

St George's Day is the 2nd of May in the Church calendar this year, as the normal date clashes with Easter.

The reason is that the Saturday between Christ's crucifixion and resurrection is a day of mourning and so cannot also be a feast day for a saint.

Ridiculous. changing a date because something else clashes with it.
they'll look a bit odd celebrating it 2 weeks after everybody else.

Halcyon · 23-04-2011, 11:41

Happy St Georges day everyone

Peter_ · 23-04-2011, 11:45

**Chris** · 23-04-2011, 12:09

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Point of information.

St George's Day is the 2nd of May in the Church calendar this year, as the normal date clashes with Easter.

The reason is that the Saturday between Christ's crucifixion and resurrection is a day of mourning and so cannot also be a feast day for a saint.

Seeing as very few people will actually be feasting for the saint, and even fewer will be praying at him and hoping for his intervention in some crisis or other, I think that point of information is slightly moot.

Still, how typically English to have a patron saint's day that's subject to delay or cancellation.

Now ... who thinks I should wrap myself in the flag and then go for a celebratory pint somewhere down Sauchiehall Street?

Derek · 23-04-2011, 12:21

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Originally Posted by Chris

Now ... who thinks I should wrap myself in the flag and then go for a celebratory pint somewhere down Sauchiehall Street?

There was a guy in a full St. George get up doing parkrun at Pollok park today. He seemed to be chasing Scooby Doo for the run as well

**Hugh** · 23-04-2011, 12:45

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Originally Posted by Gary L

I don't usually read a calendar to find out if today or tomorrow is a 'special' day.

Obviously not very special to you, then, if you can't remember it without being reminded....

btw, shouldn't it be ENP day?