St George`s day

**skauwt** · 23rd April 09, 07:08 AM

Well i`d like to wish all the folk from my neighbouring country all the best for today and i hope all fairs well for you regardless of current national boundries,
i`d like folk to remember we all are people regardless of what country we come from and that on the outside some of us may appear different but inside we are all made of the same stuff

**george7** · 23rd April 09, 07:09 AM

Hooray St. George!

**English Bloke** · 23rd April 09, 07:16 AM

Thanks Skauwt... Happy St George's Day to you too.

**McMurdo** · 23rd April 09, 07:49 AM

Happy St. George's Day all.

**O'Callaghan** · 23rd April 09, 08:06 AM

I hope you're all clad in St. George's tartan today! What do you mean, you're not? LOL!

**English Bloke** · 23rd April 09, 08:40 AM

Nope, seeing as St George was reputed to be Turkish, I'm wearing a fez and drinking this actually!

Courage, chivalry and charity. The qualities of St George.

He's also patron Saint of Russia, Aragon, Asturias and Catalonia (Spain), Ethiopia, Georgia (no surprises there), Greece, Lithuania, Palestine and Portugal. The Bulgarian Army, Beirut, Malta, and the Isle of Gozo (Calypso's island from the Odyssey). And Scouting. And people with syphillis. The fellow certainly got around....

**ccga3359** · 4th May 09, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by English Bloke

And people with syphillis. The fellow certainly got around....

**ccga3359** · 4th May 09, 05:05 PM

Wow what a thread. Of the 10 years I spent in England I only recall seeing the Union flag waving on all the buildings, never St George's cross. It was this flag that I was born under and would have been the one I died under had it not been joined by the maple leaf.

I believe in an eventual united Ireland but would not easily accept an altered Union flag. I hear McClef's arguement and can sympathize with him but again would resist an altered Union flag. I am proud to call Trefor a friend and a brother and I pay the utmost respect to his national flag. Both him and I are both British citizens and proud of it, in that we are the same but don't call me a 'Brit', I was born in England, there is a difference.

I don't recall ever celebrating St George's day only Guy Fawkes day. I take the original sentiment and say thank you, thank you very much and raise a glass to you in acknowledgement.

**skauwt** · 23rd April 09, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by O'Callaghan

I hope you're all clad in St. George's tartan today! What do you mean, you're not? LOL!

now now there`s no need for affective prejudice i thought this was a friendly site that welcomes folk from all parts of the world regadless of country