St George's Day

[mad_collie]

Should it be a bank holiday?

Discuss.

 

[monobrow]

Seem to remember a chain e-mail about it some time ago.... I'll see if I can drag it from the archives....

In fact, it'll probably be on the e-petitions site!

 

[The Bowmeister]

Should it be a bank holiday?

Discuss.

Only if St Davids, St Paddy's and St Jocks are as well

 

[True Blue Jack]

St. David's Day is not a bank holiday, so no.

It's the wrong time of year anyway. Too close to Mayday and if we have a late Easter then it's even more compressed. What we need is a Bank Holiday in early July (4th July - stopped having to fund the Yanks?). Most definitely we need a bank holiday to break up the long period between the end of August and Christmas. Many European countries have Armistice Day as a bank holiday - why not us?

 

[wgaf]

Yes it should be. We should force everyone even the heathen nations to celebrate our great national day. It should be a day where we are able to shove Englishness down the throats of the Jocks, trogs and bog trotters, much like they shove their respective countryness down our throats at evey opportunity.

 

[Tashy_Man]

Yes it should be. We should force everyone even the heathen nations to celebrate our great national day. It should be a day where we are able to shove Englishness down the throats of the Jocks, trogs and bog trotters, much like they shove their respective countryness down our throats at evey opportunity.

Looks like a nice bit of bait for a fishing trip.....how long till this gets moved then ????

Crack on fishies.................DT_Xtremez_09:

 

[True Blue Jack]

Yes it should be. We should force everyone even the heathen nations to celebrate our great national day. It should be a day where we are able to shove Englishness down the throats of the Jocks, trogs and bog trotters, much like they shove their respective countryness down our throats at evey opportunity.

WGAF - Do you realise that St. George was Welsh by birth? So was St. Patrick.

 

[The Bowmeister]

Yes it should be. We should force everyone even the heathen nations to celebrate our great national day. It should be a day where we are able to shove Englishness down the throats of the Jocks, trogs and bog trotters, much like they shove their respective countryness down our throats at evey opportunity.

Why don't we start a petition for A "British National day", where we could celebrate our Britishness using a national dish of Curry!! Perhaps we need to come up with a name for the patron saint???
How about "Saint Enoch" the patron saint of the British!!
and we also need a national flower or fruit maybe???DT_Xtremez_15:

 

[The Bowmeister]

WGAF - Do you realise that St. George was Welsh by birth? So was St. Patrick.

Nah your wrong pal, St George was a Filthy Turk

 

[wgaf]

Nah your wrong pal, St George was a Filthy Turk

Sh1te!!! You beat me to it!! There's actually some debate as to wether he was a Turk or French, I feel dirty nowDT_Xtremez_34:

 

[The Bowmeister]

Sh1te!!! You beat me to it!! There's actually some debate as to wether he was a Turk or French, I feel dirty nowDT_Xtremez_34:

No, He defo wasn't A French "Dirty Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey"::

 

[wgaf]

No, He defo wasn't A French "Dirty Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey"::

He may well have been a French knight who never set foot on our hallowed turf according to some historiansDT_Xtremez_09: . You really don't know how much that hurts me to say it.

 

[mad_collie]

Sh1te!!! You beat me to it!! There's actually some debate as to wether he was a Turk or French, I feel dirty nowDT_Xtremez_34:

Kebabs are part of our heritage now.

 

[Major Geek]

Yeah why not, I know they aren't Bank Holidays but we have to suffer St Paddys day and Burns Night etc etc.

http://www.stgeorgesday.com/home

 

[True Blue Jack]

Sh1te!!! You beat me to it!! There's actually some debate as to wether he was a Turk or French, I feel dirty nowDT_Xtremez_34:

And so the fish catches the fisherman. DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[vim_fuego]

Where would you put an extra day or two off then? I found this calendar (it's for 2003 but the days of note don't change from year to year) which lists all the excuses we could use...

The Rep of Ireland has a handily placed day off in late Oct...anyone know the reason?

http://www.startinbusiness.co.uk/hols/hols2002/ukhols2002.htm

 

[airframe doctor]

Why not.........

Why not.........

Don't see why not or a least place as much emphasis on it as the rest of the "conquered nations" DT_Xtremez_06: do with regards to their national days.
To register your vote visit.........
http://www.stgeorgesday.com/home

Rememeber the "company" gives us English Bank Holidays off so it's an extra day off for everyone!!!!DT_Xtremez_30:



Oh bu&&er MG beat me to it.

 

[MrMasher]

I thought St George was meant to have been Greek.

If its a day off then it has my vote.

Mind you, I don't celebrate St Georges Day as I dont class myself as English. British, yes, but not English.

I am Cornish. I always put up my St Piran flag on St Georges Day!

Bring forth the abuse from the English then....................DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[True Blue Jack]

Yeah why not, I know they aren't Bank Holidays but we have to suffer St Paddys day and Burns Night etc etc.

I thought the whole point of Paddy's Day and Burns Night is that you suffer the next day.

The Rep of Ireland has a handily placed day off in late Oct...anyone know the reason?

http://www.startinbusiness.co.uk/hols/hols2002/ukhols2002.htm

Apparently the Irish have a holiday on the last Monday in October each year and is to do with Hallowe'en.

http://homepages.iol.ie/~discover/holiday.htm

Works for me.

 

[vim_fuego]

Apparently the Irish have a holiday on the last Monday in October each year and is to do with Hallowe'en.

http://homepages.iol.ie/~discover/holiday.htm

Works for me.

There you go then...We are making a bigger deal out of Halloween by the year these days so why not tie in a public holiday...It fills in the vast gap between the late summer bank holiday and father Christmas's birthday on Dec 25th....