St George's Day

[Dr Faustus]

Brindley Arms are hosting an event... don't think the bar is open as early as it was for Yeovil though

[bolty58]

Plate tater pie and peas followed by Parkin for lunch at this office. 

 

2 x Boltoners

1 x DMB

1 x Dirty Leeds

1 x Geordie

1 x Kent

 

I will be sporting my St Georges flag cufflinks in a pure white cotton Abelard along with Forever England Pantharellas.

 

The rest will be in a variety of England shirts (RU, RL, FA etc.)

 

"Land of Hope & Glory" belted out at noon.

[Casino]

Plate tater pie and peas followed by Parkin for lunch at this office. 

 

2 x Boltoners

1 x DMB

1 x Dirty Leeds

1 x Geordie

1 x Kent

 

I will be sporting my St Georges flag cufflinks in a pure white cotton Abelard along with Forever England Pantharellas.

 

The rest will be in a variety of England shirts (RU, RL, FA etc.)

 

"Land of Hope & Glory" belted out at noon.

 

im waiting to see you starring in an aussie reality show ridiculing poms

 

let it go, man

[Zico]

Thank God we had a few fucking fat bullies when the jackbooted bullies were making a move eh?

Who, Giant Haystacks?

[tomski]

Who does Kent support?

[enzo gambaro]

Who, Giant Haystacks?

I think WHOOOOOSH is the word you're after.

[no balls]

I think secret to a tasteful St George's Day is to not try too hard to be patriotic.

[frank_spencer]

I think secret to a tasteful St George's Day is to not try too hard to be patriotic.

Don't be daft everyone knows it's getting pissed off yer trolley on Stella then a kebab on the way home. Whilst wearing a fancy dress knights outfit

[Zico]

Carling then a chippy tea on St Georges day, surely

[no balls]

I have bought new plastic patio furniture in case it's a hot day & too much lager is supped.

[bolty58]

im waiting to see you starring in an aussie reality show ridiculing poms

 

let it go, man

 

 

Keep waiting. You'll be waiting for the rest of your life.

 

Like most, you have little understanding of how deeply English/British influence is entrenched here. I couldn't let it go even if I wanted to.

 

A bit like your life is inextricably linked with Bury.

[bolty58]

Who, Giant Haystacks?

 

 

I was thinking more of your antecedents.

[M G WHITES]

Out at 12 on the dot.Rose will be on.Dont like it, stay in.In fact think i will fly my flag now.Its great being right wing,lefty puffs

[Casino]

Out at 12 on the dot.Rose will be on.Dont like it, stay in.In fact think i will fly my flag now.Its great being right wing,lefty puffs

 

 

a rose you say?

 

you've changed

[Carlos]

It's Nigel Evans.

[frank_spencer]

Keep waiting. You'll be waiting for the rest of your life.

 

Like most, you have little understanding of how deeply English/British influence is entrenched here. I couldn't let it go even if I wanted to.

 

A bit like your life is inextricably linked with Bury.

 

Damn immigrants coming into the country setting up their little ghetto's and refusing to embrace the local customs.

 

 

 

 

[bolty58]

You do yourself a disservice Frau Spencer.

 

The local customs ARE the same as yours. Full marks for commenting on something you know fuck all about mind. Par for the course for plenty on here.

[bolty58]

george orwell (1903-1950) - english author

"In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman, and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box".

 

william shakespeare

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard favoured rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.
On, on you noblest English!
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof;
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought,
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
And you, good yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here the mettle of your pasture.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit; and upon this charge
Cry "God for Harry! England and Saint George".

(Henry V - Henry urges his men into the attack at the Siege of Harfleur)

sir winston churchill (1874-1965)

"When I warned them (the French Government) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken! Some neck!".

(Speech to Canadian Parliament 1941)

rupert brooke (1887-1915) - english poet

"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven".

("The Soldier" - 1914)

george orwell (1903-1950) - english author

"The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic. You notice it the moment you set foot on English soil. It is a land where conductors are good tempered and policemen carry no revolvers. In no country inhabited by white men is it easier to shove people off the pavement".

 

sir winston churchill

"The French cannot forgive us because they owe us so much"

 

cecil john rhodes (1853-1902)

"Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen".

"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life"

 

 

sir winston churchill (1874-1965)

"There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England".

[bolty58]

Aldermanic girth 

 

Today, somewhere in Perth.

 

 

 

[gonzo]

Happy St George's day folks.

 

I want that trifle.

[Sweep]

I love trifle

 

 

Anyway Bolty, why are you eating yours out of a bowl when the others have a plate?

[bolty58]

I love trifle

 

 

Anyway Bolty, why are you eating yours out of a bowl when the others have a plate?

 

 

It would be justified as I made the fucker (and the mushy peas) but no sir. I have a plate like everyone else except the Dirty Leeds lad with the blu top on.

 

Happy St George's day folks.

 

I want that trifle.

 

 

I'm yer man pal. I make a mean trifle.

 

Hopefully you meant to eat and not as a sex wax substitute for one of your lemon parties?

[Not in Crawley]

george orwell (1903-1950) - english author

"In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman, and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box".

 

william shakespeare

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;

Or close the wall up with our English dead!

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility:

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger;

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

Disguise fair nature with hard favoured rage;

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.

On, on you noblest English!

Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof;

Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,

Have in these parts from morn till even fought,

And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

And you, good yeomen,

Whose limbs were made in England, show us here the mettle of your pasture.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,

Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:

Follow your spirit; and upon this charge

Cry "God for Harry! England and Saint George".

(Henry V - Henry urges his men into the attack at the Siege of Harfleur)

 

sir winston churchill (1874-1965)

"When I warned them (the French Government) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken! Some neck!".

(Speech to Canadian Parliament 1941)

 

rupert brooke (1887-1915) - english poet

"If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven".

("The Soldier" - 1914)

 

george orwell (1903-1950) - english author

"The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic. You notice it the moment you set foot on English soil. It is a land where conductors are good tempered and policemen carry no revolvers. In no country inhabited by white men is it easier to shove people off the pavement".

 

sir winston churchill

"The French cannot forgive us because they owe us so much"

 

cecil john rhodes (1853-1902)

"Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen".

"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life"

 

 

sir winston churchill (1874-1965)

"There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England".

 

Henry V

'I wear it for a memorable honour,

For I am Welsh, you know,

Good countryman'

 

(He was also a Plantagenet, so half French, but aligned kinship with Edward, Black Prince of Wales)

 

Churchill - well we all know how proud he was of his American mother and heritage.

 

Orwell - I suggest you look at the Lion and the Unicorn - Socialism and the English Genius; a great man who questioned the very nature of what it is to be English in the gathering storm. Also, pretty much a socialist.

 

Brooke - well, yes a more heartfelt rendering to one's homeland you'd be hard pressed to find. But overall the war poets were hardly tub thumping nationalists.

 

As for Rhodes - didn't he spend most of his adult life in South Africa and was pro-expansion of the British Empire at the suppression of the indigenous people? I only know what I've heard based on that ludicrous quote that's attributed to him, so perhaps he was a lovely man.

 

Not anti- English at all, just hate nationalism. It means nothing to me really and a lot of nationalist rhetoric can be taken wholly out of context.

 

But happy St George's Day!

[zurichwhite]

Fuck off Norway - Gazza 1994

[mannyroad58]

Happy St G's day to everyone