St George's day and not on post on Teams about it

[BusyAzureFatball]

It's St George's which should be a national celebration.

Yet nothing

What?

Well we don't have an office...

@BusyAzureFatball Its NOT St George’s Day though!

And when you wished everyone on Teams a Happy St George's Day, what was their response?

I'm failing to see the problem here?

Also, it isn't St George's Day.

i saw a post elsewhere that said because this week is still Easter (until Saturday which is Easter Saturday) all saints days are moved to next Monday.

not sure if that's true but is that the reason? 😂

can you not make your own post?

The thing is though, no-one gives a shit. It's never been a thing. No-one knows when it is and there's no cultural basis in any kind of celebration.

Feel free to have your own little celebration if you feel the need 🙄

Do you take that attitude with St Andrew's Day and St Patrick's Day which are widely acknowledge. even though this year St George's Day is next Wednesday?

Well quite. It hasn't been a national holiday since the 18th century. No one has ever really cared apart from primary school kids might make a little craft thing because their teachers need a theme for art class.

So English people should only be allowed to celebrate other English people? Presumably the Scots shouldn't celebrate St. Andrew's day either, since he never visited Scotland. I suppose at least the Welsh get "Watery David"...

What attitude?

I don't live in Wales. I'm also Irish so celebrate SPD.

Weird the country ignores it

Or they just don't care?

It's not like we ever really did anything for it, did we?

I don't recall it ever being a 'celebration'.

Maybe that's because the people of Wales/Scotland/Ireland make more of it than we do.

We've NEVER had big celebrations for it in this country so trying to pin it on 'wokeness' is REALLY reaching!

I get the day off for St Andrew's Day.

Good grief, I couldn't give a tinker's cuss about St George's Day or any other Saint's Day. No one cares about them. What have Saints Days got to do with "woke"?

My work Teams is clogged up with enough inane shite without people posting nonsense about St George's Day.

Clearly. Wales is St David's Day - March 1st.

I think you just wanted to make a big fuss but nobody is interested in joining you in it.

Blimey no wonder no one celebrates it if it has such complicated rules!

What are you even talking about? Can you show a single example of being arrested for saying you’re English?

and whyexactly should we be looking back fondly on war time Britain and a well known misogynist and racist? Oh yeah what a wonderful time, wish I was born then…

wasn't st george greek anyway?

It's not woke that people aren't bothered about something that most have never been bothered about.

In fact I'd say it's the exact opposite of woke surely

LOL. Nice try.

If you’re Irish why are you worried about St George’s day??? Or if you’re that concerned start something yourself, I’m Welsh and couldn’t give two shits about st David’s day but my kid’s school go mad for it, maybe you could do a teams meeting where one of you dresses up as the dragon and the rest as St George

THESE days...

That might be just logistics of when Trafalgar Square was available. It's the marathon next weekend I think.
They often have festivals/events there that aren't on the actual day of that event.
Plus if it was today (not the date shifted for this year) it's Wednesday.
Big festivals generally happen on weekends.

surely it's St Trans day anyway