Reply to: St Georges day twice

[edison]

Here's a nice crossword to celebrate the day: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2...by-george.html

LOL, good one

[northernladuk]

I know that's what you meant but it's funnier to call you a twat

Good point well made TBF

[ladymuck]

Harsh!! Yes but no. Was a tongue in cheek comment but there is a miniority that tend to take a dim opinion of someone waving the flag for some reason.

I know that's what you meant but it's funnier to call you a twat

[northernladuk]

How so?

Kinda kidding but often on chats about having the Union or St Georges flag flying someone will say it's only racists and BNP/UKIP supporters that do it. Patriotism isn't as much a thing here as it seems to be in every country so when you are someone in some comment will mention racists or something of that ilk so just having a play on that.

The St Georges flag has long been mired in controversy. Just google it. Loads of articles discussing it. People have been prosecuted for flying it and there are laws about it. There were changes to regulations as recently as 2012 about what flags you can fly when. This article nails the point I was jokingly making.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-a8398376.html

It’s a vexing question, or perhaps more a question of vexillology (the study of flags, don’t you know). But the simple answer is that being overly fond of the English or British flags these days marks you out as a certain type of person.

You fly the flag, you’re a close-our-borders, take-back-control, I’m-not-racist-but Brexiteer who brushes away a tear at the first strains of the national anthem. You fly the flag and you’re a gammon-faced Middle Englander one heart-pump away from a coronary as you spit bile from the fourth row of the Question Time audience. You fly the flag, you’re a bulldog-tattooed, shaven headed, there’s-no-black-in-the-Union-Jack sports casual yomping around London fuelled by cheap lager and steak bakes, demanding the release of the English Defence League’s jailed founder Tommy Robinson.

He's just being a twat, no need to get upset

Harsh!! Yes but no. Was a tongue in cheek comment but there is a miniority that tend to take a dim opinion of someone waving the flag for some reason.

[ladymuck]

How so?

He's just being a twat, no need to get upset

[tazdevil]

Dats racist

How so?

[northernladuk]

Great I get to fly the national flag twice this year

Dats racist

[xoggoth]

I thought he meant Santa

I did mean JC. A quick Google shows NAT is right, most historians agree that he did exist, yet I distinctly remember reading something a few years ago that said earliest references to him were over a hundred years later. Funny how "facts" change.

At least we know that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer wasn't real. Or was he? Better Google.

[sadkingbilly]

I thought he meant Santa.

Like Jesus, he's rooted in a small grain of truth. Apparently, St Nicholas did exist.

he lives in NL with zwarte piet

[woody1]

While the existance of St George is debatable, that some bloke called Jesus existed stands on firmer ground than the existence of Julius Ceaser. Only Jesus was born, according to the available evidence, in October.

Talk to some secular historians and they'll tell you that few serious historians doubts the existence of Jesus. The miracles and resurrection and being the Son of God and the third person of the Trinity are of course matters of faith/opinion.

I thought he meant Santa.

Like Jesus, he's rooted in a small grain of truth. Apparently, St Nicholas did exist.

[WTFH]

I know this is an image from FB, so it will fail in a few days...

[sadkingbilly]

my local barman's called Jesus.

[xoggoth]

Ah, another celebration of someone who probably never existed, just like Christmas.

[ladymuck]

Here's a nice crossword to celebrate the day: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2...by-george.html

[eek]

Real contractors work on bank holidays

While inside at Natwest I was paid for the King’s Coronation bank holiday no work required