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Happy St Georges Day

i_b_b_o_r_g
i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
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Have a great day, whatever you choose to be doing and wherever you choose to do it

I bought a bottle of Spitfire for this afternoon.

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  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    Happy St. George's Day everyone!
  • Ianaddick62
    Ianaddick62 Posts: 263
    Bet a lot of people don't even know its St Georges day!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,269
    And upon this charge cry
    God for Harry, England and St George
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,093
    There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, a word which means more to me than any other, that word is England.

    Sir Winston Churchill

    Happy St Georges Day
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,793
    Happy St George's day chaps
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Happy St Georges day everyone.

  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,653
    Happy St. Georges Day everyone

    And to my parents, Happy 40th Anniversary!!
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    British by birth.
    English by grace of God.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,040
    Happy St. George's Day
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,001
    Great that it's the same day as the London Marathon.

    Happy St George's Day.

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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,423
    Have a great day everyone.
    Happy St George's day.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Have a great St George's day! Great to be home
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,001
    ValleyGary said:

    Great that it's the same day as the London Marathon.

    Happy St George's Day.

    Why is this funny?
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,670
    edited April 2017
    Happy St George's day.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,377
    Winning the lottery, being English!

    Happy St G's day
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,624
    They should make this a bank holiday
  • Jon2461
    Jon2461 Posts: 81
    Happy St Georges Day Everyone.
    Rip Pte Neil Clarke Murdered by the Ira on this day in Londonderry 1984 aged 20.
    Gone but not Forgotten.
    There will always be an England.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Have a great day, whatever you choose to be doing and wherever you choose to do it

    I bought a bottle of Spitfire for this afternoon.

    You should have got a bottle of Ethiopias finest!

  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    cafcdave123 said:

    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Have a great day, whatever you choose to be doing and wherever you choose to do it

    I bought a bottle of Spitfire for this afternoon.

    You should have got a bottle of Ethiopias finest!

    I was lucky to source a bottle of Spitfire round these parts
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,346
    Bloody foreigners. Coming over here, slaying our dragons.

    Happy St George's Day, everyone!

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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Always one
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited April 2017
    Happy St George's day to all my Guardian reading chums and the rest of you!
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
    Or close the wall up with our English dead.
    In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
    As modest stillness and humility:
    But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
    Then imitate the action of the tiger;
    Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
    Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
    Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
    Let pry through the portage of the head
    Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
    As fearfully as doth a galled rock
    O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
    Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
    Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
    Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
    To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
    Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
    Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
    Have in these parts from morn till even fought
    And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
    Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
    That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
    Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
    And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
    Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
    The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
    That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
    For there is none of you so mean and base,
    That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
    I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
    Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
    Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
    Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'


    Happy St. George's Day to you all!
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,624
    edited April 2017
    How true - and wrong
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,709
    Lordflashheart said:

    How true - and wrong

    Pretty much how a lot of people see it
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,695
    ThreadKiller said:

    They should make this a bank holiday

    Possibly one for the General Election thread, but this is now one of Corbyn's policies.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    blackpool72 said:

    Lordflashheart said:

    How true - and wrong

    Pretty much how a lot of people see it
    I know it's changing, but yes that's pretty much how it it has been seen for a long while.
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    ValleyGary said:

    Great that it's the same day as the London Marathon.

    Happy St George's Day.

    Not so good when you're trying to get to Dockhead for a beer!

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