there's a lot of incorrect perception around all this stuff.
Basically I think we are governed by days of the week in which these things fall.
St Paddy's Day in England isn't anywhere near as big as some people make it. Its Guinness driven and if it falls on a Thursday - Sunday it will attract interest. On a Monday or Tuesday it will be a damp squib. Its not English people celebrating Ireland, its people with Irish heritage celebrating their heritage and other people jumping on as an excuse to have a beer.
St Georges Day hasn't got a brewery publicising driver and not a huge outcry from the majority of people for a need to overly celebrate it. Not because they are not proud to be English but just because there isn't the drive there to largely engage with what is a pub event. You'll always have the diehards, and if it falls Thursday - Sunday then you'll then get a step up in people wanting to get out and use it as an excuse. But its not really enough to encourage people to use up precious annual leave for.
The chip on shoulder attitude that too frequently gets included (some people find this racist, if it were St Paddy's Day blah blah) winds me up no end though. If you want to do something to celebrate being English, great. Just do it. Stop worrying about other people or comparing.
The fact we live in such a great country is probably emphasised by the fact we (collectively) don't see the need to have to make a big song and dance about it.
there's a lot of incorrect perception around all this stuff.
Basically I think we are governed by days of the week in which these things fall.
St Paddy's Day in England isn't anywhere near as big as some people make it. Its Guinness driven and if it falls on a Thursday - Sunday it will attract interest. On a Monday or Tuesday it will be a damp squib. Its not English people celebrating Ireland, its people with Irish heritage celebrating their heritage and other people jumping on as an excuse to have a beer.
St Georges Day hasn't got a brewery publicising driver and not a huge outcry from the majority of people for a need to overly celebrate it. Not because they are not proud to be English but just because there isn't the drive there to largely engage with what is a pub event. You'll always have the diehards, and if it falls Thursday - Sunday then you'll then get a step up in people wanting to get out and use it as an excuse. But its not really enough to encourage people to use up precious annual leave for.
The chip on shoulder attitude that too frequently gets included (some people find this racist, if it were St Paddy's Day blah blah) winds me up no end though. If you want to do something to celebrate being English, great. Just do it. Stop worrying about other people or comparing.
The fact we live in such a great country is probably emphasised by the fact we (collectively) don't see the need to have to make a big song and dance about it.
ended up in the Duchess of Edinburgh that night after Bexley shut down
I did exactly the same mate. Jumped in a cab after it all kicked off.
Actually remember you leaving. I ended up back at the Albany listening to the pub scheme radio behind the bar reporting incidents at pretty much every area in the borough. Think that was the last year of Trax being open for SGD.
Yes. St Paul is the patron saint of London and his day is 25th January. Not that that matters to Charlton fans, we celebrate him every day as it's his sword that is on our club crest.
It was on St. Georges day 2009 I had my cardiac arrest and life took a different route, after huge effort and rehabilitation I'm still here, the coma left me learning to read write walk and talk again, something I hadn't really mastered anyway 😉, so happy St. Georges day everybody and thank you NHS.
Happy St George’s day. There’s seven of us of different nationalities celebrating this afternoon at an Italian restaurant in Marylebone: English Irish Welsh Croatian Australian Columbian.
Happy St George’s day. There’s seven of us of different nationalities celebrating this afternoon at an Italian restaurant in Marylebone: English Irish Welsh Croatian Australian Columbian.
Singapore
Have you put a dot on the invite list to denote which one is bringing the gear?
Happy St George’s day. There’s seven of us of different nationalities celebrating this afternoon at an Italian restaurant in Marylebone: English Irish Welsh Croatian Australian Columbian.
Singapore
Have you put a dot on the invite list to denote which one is bringing the gear?
Happy St George’s day. There’s seven of us of different nationalities celebrating this afternoon at an Italian restaurant in Marylebone: English Irish Welsh Croatian Australian Columbian.
Singapore
Have you put a dot on the invite list to denote which one is bringing the gear?
No, he’s the one who lost the draw and are on a table for 1
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ended up in the Duchess of Edinburgh that night after Bexley shut down
Was just about to put the same.
English
Irish
Welsh
Croatian
Australian
Columbian.
A very good question, Beckenham area.