Happy St George's Day

[Buzzer]

Cecil Rhodes once said that "to be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life".


I love being English.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

'Jerusalem' sung before the game on Saturday was a timely and stirring thing to be part of. Wonderful. Proud to be English.

 

[shingle]

I'll add to that, I love being English too

He is an Englishman!
BOAT.
He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is an Englishman!
ALL.
That he is an Englishman!
BOAT.
For he might have been a Roosian,
A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an!
ALL.
Or perhaps Itali-an!
BOAT.
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!
He remains an Englishman!
ALL.
For in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!
He remains an Englishman!


I last sung this tune out of my hotel window to the street below at a cheap hotel in China about 15 years ago.

It was just after I was told to pack my bags and leave by the local Police for staying at a non designated tourist hotel. That's how it was a few years back

 

[Titus]

So why couldn't we have chosen an English Saint? I blame Thatcher.

 

[pastafarian]

So why couldn't we have chosen an English Saint? I blame Thatcher.

who really gives a toss

all i know is i live in the greatest country in the world.

 

[Brovion]

So why couldn't we have chosen an English Saint? I blame Thatcher.

Indeed. All you FOREIGNERS and FOREIGN-LOVERS take your (fictitious) FOREIGN saint and get out of my country! St Edmund is te REAL patron saint of England as any true patriot knows. If you disagree it means you're FOREIGN and should go back to your own country.

[Ahh the annual St George's Day binfest. The same way that the Remembrance Sunday binfest means it's nearly time to put the sprouts on for Christmas, and threads saying "NSC isn't what it used to be" are a sure sign that it's the height of summer, so the St George's Day binfest means that summer is just around the corner.]

 

[topbanana36]

beautiful picture is it really the green and pleasant land.

 

[The Birdman]

Fish and chips and Beer in Savannah Cafe Bar the Broadway Haywards Heath

 

[brighton terra]

'Jerusalem' sung before the game on Saturday was a timely and stirring thing to be part of. Wonderful. Proud to be English.

Jerusalem should be our national anthem. It's so much more rousing than the current dirge!

 

[beorhthelm]

Cecil Rhodes once said that "to be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life".

ironic then that he went off to build another nation.

Merry St George's all.

 

[The Spanish]

Jerusalem should be our national anthem. It's so much more rousing than the current dirge!

ok i'll bite. NO ITS NOT. the current one sends shivers down my spine, and is one i have grown up with as our national anthem - the one the rest of the world can identify as well. the one you hear when the flag is raised at yet another olympic medal ceremony.

the other reminds you of a ****ing school assembly - and has only been kicked about as a national anthem in this new depressing identity crisis era. i hate this discussion. one of the things we pride ourselves on is our sense of tradition. leave the new anthems and recently invented symbols of nation hood to some tragic war traumatised balkan states. Not in my name.

ps happy st georges day everyone

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

beautiful picture is it really the green and pleasant land.

I don't know. Is it?

I love Englishness and England.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

A friend of mine was once asked "if you weren't English, what would you have wanted to be."

"****ing English, of course." was his English reply from his English mouth.

 

[mune ni kamome]

Terrible looking place. No parking, storage heaters with no gas, periodic flooding from the stream, impossible to insulate, no double glazing because of grade 2 listing. Nearest football club probably Oxford or Swindon.Total nightmare.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

ironic then that he went off to build another nation.

Merry St George's all.

He also claimed world peace could be enabled by England, Germany and the US. I take his thoughts with a pinch of salt.

That aside, have a lovely day everyone.

 

[Dr Q]

Happy St Georges's Day to all.

 

[The Large One]

Jerusalem should be our national anthem.

This.

It's so much more rousing than the current dirge!

The British national anthem that the English have stolen? England doesn't have a national anthem.



"There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England".
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 

[skipper734]

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!'

 

[grummitts gloves]

I like St George's Day because it's my birthday!