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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Bush Tucker Man on March 03, 2008, 14:30:53
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I forgot to post this over the weekend
On Saturday afternoon, I got dragged to the 'White Rose Shopping Centre' (which is a medium sized 'mall' on the southern edge of Leeds)
During the course of our perambulations up & down the shops, we ended up in a cards/wrapping paper/cuddly toy present shop
There was, much to my amazement, a double stand full of green tinted items, bearing such words as; 'Happy St Patricks Day'
I pointed these out to the wife & was gazing in a not quite believing way, when an assistant came up to me asking if I wanted any help
Before I could utter a word, SWMBO (seemingly reading my mind) whisked me away :-.
How could she know that I was going to ask if they'd be having a similar range of items for St Georges Day??
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BTM,
Sadly most of the English don't know when St Georges day is ... or where he was from, or in fact anything other than the name :(
When the people in England take their patron 'turkish' saint seriously, then it might be different.
P.S. He's also the patron saint of Moscow :)
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...............and also he doesn't have a hand in the free marketing for Guiness. But then again having Irish ancesters I have an excuse to celebrate!!!!!
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This is symptomatic of the loss of the cultural identity of England, and to be honest I dont know how it happened, but I DONT think its due to immigration.
I cant think of many British Cultural symbols that have not been hijacked by football and im sorry to say that most non-brits would see St George as the patron saint of football violence and club18-30 drinking binges. I think we did and still do have a lot to be proud of, we just dont seem to have an up to date "Brand" to stick it on!
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It was st davids day last saturday and i could not even find a daff to wear. just loads of irsh stuff
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BTM,
Sadly most of the English don't know when St Georges day is ... or where he was from, or in fact anything other than the name :(
When the people in England take their patron 'turkish' saint seriously, then it might be different.
P.S. He's also the patron saint of Moscow :)
Neil, I know he's quite wide-spread as a Saint/religious icon
I cant think of many British Cultural symbols that have not been hijacked by football and im sorry to say that most non-brits would see St George as the patron saint of football violence and club18-30 drinking binges. I think we did and still do have a lot to be proud of, we just dont seem to have an up to date "Brand" to stick it on!
That's the problem, the 'yob culture' (& organisations like the NF/BNP) stole it for their own ends
Sadly, the Cross Of Saint George is now tainted due to those conotations.
Unfortunately, also, a lot of people haven't distinguished the differences between Nationalism & Patriotism
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It was st davids day last saturday and i could not even find a daff to wear. just loads of irsh stuff
There were plenty on the side of the A3095 here :-)
Andy
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The thing with Paddy's day is the Yanks all think they are Irish and go mental; the card companies go silly to make more money and having made all the junk sell it wherever they can get away with it.