Just as well you're off to France then eh? It really means naff all to me that St George wasn't English. It's just a symbolic thing as a way to celebrate being English. If it was up to me, I'd celebrate the birth of our greatest ever Monarch, Elizabeth 1st to celebrate Englishness! There now, that should be something else for some of you to get all pedantic about! All you pedants need to have a day off!
I am not off to France to live as I need to work in this wonderful country ... However I don't intend to join in with a nation that sadly has lost itself. Respect for your nationalism ... I myself celebrate only one date in the UK ... Children in need only joking it's the 11/11 where so many were lost St Georges day in 2014 has become what? ... Racist day
Yep............I love my Country...........must be a racist!! Unbelievable tripe, but it is what is always thrown out there at anyone who speaks up for England, usually left wing liberals who take offence at everything.
Now, now. We dare not be patriotic! Do the Irish ignore St Patrick's Day? Or DT's Francais ignore Bastille Day? If you don't like it f*ck off...
Yep......people like DT can't understand what being patriotic is, so they automatically play the race card. Pathetic!!
That's dangerous ground right there. I wouldn't be respecting people for their nationalism. Patriotism yes but nationalism is a different Beast altogether.
I humbly suggest that it does not necessarily follow that being strongly for one thing makes you strongly against another. Perhaps we should refrain from accusations of racialism unless somebody deliberately and blatantly makes a racialist remark? Just a thought.
That's the problem, Swords. If you look up many online definitions of nationalism there's little there to distinguish it from patriotism. It is of little surprise that those whose interpretation majors on the extreme sense of nationalism should therefore be outraged, but I should hope they ask questions before they shoot.
I was correct, we do do this every year and it does always end the same.....even days after St georges has finished.. Has taken a bit longer than usual for the race acusation this year though. Guesss we must all be getting better...
You're dead right Imaz. However - and not wishing to start another row on here - if you can comprehend the profundity of that sentence, which you clearly can, it is all the more puzzling how someone like you can't appreciate the other equally penetrating quote about something being the Opium of the people.
Imaz, I find you to be a most peculiar individual. A kaleidoscope of interchangeable meanings and ironies. But all the better for it (I mean this as a compliment.)
