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

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The Mayor of London hosted a St George’s day family festival in Trafalfar Square on Monday.

My skipping days are over, I shimmy.

Go ahead no one is stopping you!

can’t make it compulsory for others though

Mine is looking forward to our VE street party a bit less, although I have invited my Italian friend to back him up if needed

Yes, thanks to the OP and the informative responses on this thread, I'll now be able to order a kebab from my favourite Turkish takeaway on the 28th and bask in the glow of my patriotism.

Don’t forget to leave out a maiden for the dragon…..

Not sure where we would find one around here to be honest

I celebrate st Patrick’s day because it’s fun and involves booze and I know a lot of Irish people and they know how to enjoy themselves

I will acknowledge a college who is celebrating Eid and has bought in food or any one who is celebrating something and wafting food under my nose 👍

literally have no clue what to wear , dance , eat or do in celebration of St George ? And as it was never mentioned growing up or celebrated at school or church or at brownies I Have no cultural expectations of it ( other than the skin head facists who marched marched in the streets ) that all I associate it with

please post suggestions of what we should all be doing

@pimplebum I think there were some Morris Dancers at the Trafalgar Square event.
So dance.....with bells on 😂
(and drink tea)

Just come back to this … I’ve been out all day parading a Dragon up and down the streets of Newcastle.

It’s a sad state of affairs that people thought my original post was serious … what’s that say about us ??

And yes, a quote from my 2nd favourite comic .. the “I saw him and he looked fat” Stewart Lee…

Churchill would probably be non-binary if he was alive now 🥺🥺 #brokenbritain

I know we do not like to talk about it, but of course Churchill was a secret furvert. It was sad how he ended up altering his appearance to actually look like a dog to fit in with his identity and I do not think he did himself any favours by doing all of those insurance adverts.

it is fair to say that in my part of the world virgins are in short supply....

They wind each other up. They're always talking about how 'terrified' they are.

Since this thread has taught OP when St George’s Day actually is she can spend the next few days putting her room-temperature IQ to the task of crafting a suitable Teams post to celebrate the day.

Why do we need to celebrate? I have never celebrated St. George's day in my life and I don't know anyone who has either.
And how does one celebrate exactly? I'd love to know what a St. George celebration looks like.
You can go and ahead and celebrate whatever you want. The rest of us can choose to ignore it, if we wish.

Yep, it's all "I'm so scared for my childrens/grandchildren future. It breaks my heart" etc etc. All because they've seen a few brown people.

"Saw them at the shopping centre. Sat on the benches they were. Terrifying!"

"Do you remember when no one locked their doors and everyone sang roll out the barrel?"

Due to a chain of events I won’t bore you all with here, but basically involving a mass import of crumpets which got lost by the airline and delivered today, on their expiration date, coupled with a migraine that meant I ordered take out for lunch, and throupled with a child who changed their mind about wanting crumpets the minute they’d gone in the toaster, I just ate two crumpets with baba ghanoush on them. Classic British with a culinary nod to Georgie’s roots.

I0/10 would not recommend.

I rather suspect that the dragon in the tale was in fact someone who had also accidentally eaten Baba GhaCrumpet and chundered it up so spectacularly that it was mistaken for flames.

I have never felt the need to celebrate it, and it has unfortunately become linked to groups I want nothing to do with, so no English flags on display here. By blood I’m only half English, three eighths Scottish and one eighth Welsh, so I’m British.

But St George’s day is being held on Monday 28th this year in any case.

A kebab.

Exactly. Performative nationalism is very un-English and is not at all the done thing.

I love Crumpets and I love anything with aubergines in but you my friend are one sick puppy

Honestly, the humour on this thread is so bloody English (or maybe British) perhaps OP has achieved what she set out to achieve 😂

Excuse me? "Very White"? Fucking vile, racist post. Being White and hanging a flag does not make people racist. Nor does it make them idiots.

Anyway OP, despite the fact that a bunch of middle class mummies chomp at the bit each year to point out that "hE wAsn'T eVeN eNgLisH hAHa U rAciSts WoUlDn'T eVeN LEt hIM iN tHe cOuNTrY iF he wAs aLiVe tOdaY" and jump at the chance to abuse people with "gammon" etc St.George celebrations aren't unique to England, many countries also celebrate. So feel free to celebrate in your own way and don't be perturbed by the hateful comments.

I'm in Catalonia and even our tiny town had a little parade, some people dressed up and a lovely lady gave me a single red rose when I walked past her! I didn't see anyone calling them "racist" despite the massive amount of flags decorating the streets.