MissPrism

Have a look at Google UK
http://www.google.co.uk/logos/stgeorge0
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I love the dragon's nonchalant expression.

MissPrism

Hmm
Try http://www.google.co.uk/logos/stgeorge08.gif
or http://tinyurl.com/6kxlmb

GSteed

Today is Saint George's Day! My wife presented me with kisses and flowers early this morning. Call or email all of your friends named, George. Wish them Happy Name Day and 100 Years! Tonight host a party. If your guests know the rules you will get lovely gifts!

hetismij

It's also Shakespeare's birthday, and the day he died. And my brothers birthday, he's not called George (or William) though
Happy St George's day to all you English and Greeks out there.

willit

Does anybody in England actually care?

I don't mean this in a sarcastic manner, it is just that I am completely indifferent to St Georges day, and know of nobody who makes an issue of it. I know there was some sort of festival in Salisbury at the weekend, and that English Heritage is calling for more recognition of the day, but I am not sure how one should celebrate.

Morris dancing, ceremonial slaying of large reptiles in effigy, binge drinking ?

Trish

I'm married to a greek George and to the best of my knowledge Saint George's day is next Monday, it's after Easter.

PatrickLondon

There's a certain amount of formal public acknowledgement:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/ap...itishidentity1

but like most of us, I'm not a great flagwagger, and like this post from diamondgeezer, tend to the facetious when faced with organised patriotism:

http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/20...53518047027921

flanneruk

"Does anybody in England actually care?"

Depressingly, yes. The politicians are smelling a bandwaggon.

There's a rash of St George's flags springing up. Outside Downing Street apparently, and on town halls and the like. Real banana republic behaviour, and utterly unEnglish.

In ten years' time, everyone appearing on the box will have to have a rose in their lapels, there'll be an attempt to bring the early May bank holiday forward to April 23, and we'll have "cohesion raising" events (suitably non-racist, of course).

Josser

Well, if we can wrest the flag away from the skinheads, it's a good thing.
What's wrong with having a booze-up?
BTW, Miss P. I liked the Google dragon.

hetismij

Trish definitely St georges day today. maybe in the Orthodox calender it is a different day. I should of course have included the Portuguese, Serbs, Russians, Montenegrins Georgians (of course), Ethiopians, Chinese, Palestinians and Canadians in my best wishes for St Georges day, oh and the good folk of my neighbouring town, Amersfoort.
Popular guy this St George, but on the whole rather neglected in England.

J_R_Hartley

I shall be doing a bit of Morrising in celebration, followed by a game of cricket with tea and cake and shall finish up by getting blind drunk and burning an effigy of the Pope.

willit

Actually sounds like a good day out. Might give the pope burning a miss though

J_R_Hartley

There is a kicking the French option, if you are interested.

Next year we shall be introducing "Mocking Americans"

Cholmondley_Warner

Next year we shall be introducing "Mocking Americans"

That's an all year round passtime already.

Sadly the fact that local authorities are staging events takes away the one true St George's Day tradition.

It is traditional for us to moan into aour traditionally english pints (before our traditionally English curries) about how every other taff jock or mick gets to celebrate their saint day but the odious town hall lefties won't let us celebrate our own saint.

So by putting on celebrations the politicians have actually ruined the one genuine St George's Day traditon.

flanneruk

I'd say it's traditional for us to feel smug that we don't go in for all the nationalistic twaddle lesser nations need to prop their egos up with.

Either way, the bleeding politicians are ruining things.

What's Boris's line on these filthy foreign habits,then?

Cholmondley_Warner

What's Boris's line on these filthy foreign habits,then?>>>

What with him being a part Captain Kirk I would imagine he's in a bit of a tizzy.

(Wait until the seppos find out that his grandpa was a MOOSLEM)

J_R_Hartley

I agree, celebrating National Days is foreign, and is to be frowned upon.