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

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

Yet nothing

These days, if you say you’re English, they’ll arrest you and throw you in jail!

Because England is a nation maybe??

The OP could then have been disgusted if Ed Balls Day was mentioned first on Monday!!

Of course these days if you say you're English you're sent to jail.

Usually we give everyone a bag of salt & vinegar dragon scales. Nobody likes the prawn cocktail ones.
Other than that, we're faily low key given the church unilarerally moves the days around according to the moveable feast that isxeaster.

It's May Day soon.
We (the English) seem to prefer skipping round a maypole.

Well, I know I'm pretty old by Mumsnet standards but no one bothered about these days when I was a child. There would be a mention in school assembly, our Welsh headmaster wore a daffodil on St David's Day but that was about it. I'm not much of a one for performative nationalism or patriotism.

If anyone should be thrown in the slammer it's the OP. Specifically for the heinous offence of posting utter shite all wrapped up in a shrivelled bawbag but also for being wantonly stupid and aggressively tiresome.

It's also, apparently, International Pallas's Cat Day.

You could join the Olympic cycling team with the speed of that backpedaling

Look, we try not to mention it since Marty lost his magic flute and murdered HR Pufnstuf...

Backwards cycling: new olympic sport.mstart the campaign now!

Also we don't have an office

Are you farmers?

My very white (I suspect racist) local high street has attached union flags to the lamppost. Idiots. But anyway, people do celebrate it still and it absolutely should not be a national holiday.

Put it on teams then, FFS 🙄

You're moaning about others not doing it and you haven't even done it yourself!

Also, Eid is basically Christmas.

I'm willing to bet people message Christmas on teams!

Eid is a religious observance. St George's day isn't.

Never fucking heard of it. Lol.
There was a bank holiday two days ago isn't that sufficient?
If you celebrate that day with all your like-minded friends why not just have your own party? The entire country doesn't need to care/get involved.

I informed mine this morning, funnily enough. He took it very well I thought.

You might. I don't.

Yes but if any husbands take it up as a hobby it will be outing.

Now that I know it's actually next week (learn something new everyday 😁) I have time to prepare a St George's Day Basket for my daughter.
It will contain classic English products like Yorkshire Teabags and Walkers crisps.
A gift voucher for Marks and Spencer.
A plush toy of a dragon and a plastic sword so she can pretend to slay the dragon.
To read she's getting an Enid Blyton.
The basket will be decorated in red and white ribbons.

What time should we come round?

I like my G&Ts with lots of ice and a slice of fresh lime. None of this room temp with lemon and one ice cube rubbish. I don't care how George takes them.

That poster is joking. It's a Stuart Lee joke that you can't even say you are English any more, without being arrested.

What's depressing is some people really do seem to think that's true - going by comments I read on Facebook groups etc.
Actually.... it's scary - not depressing 🙁

I thought he was fictional and made up as some guy from the Crusades? I mean, he wasn't slaying any dragons.
Maybe get a real saint and have his day on a better day ( not in the middle of potentially Easter and before several bank holidays anyway). You could pick anyone. Apparently St Patrick was born in Port Talbot!
I'm not familiar with any English saints that weren't martyred during the Reformation, and I'm presuming we couldn't have them!
OTOH- Kebabs, Turkish Delight, Baklava, Babaganoush...