My point isn't about Tory versus Labour. It is about the fact that each time our 'national' day comes round, it descends into a shame fest. We must be one of the only countries in the world where that is the case.
He didn't even know it was St George's Day himself. He seems to be bothered that some other people can't be bothered about a day he isn't bothered about! Could almost suggest it's a desperate attempt to manufacture controversy...Does it? Who is shaming here and we’ve got loads of wokies.
I’m pretty woke and I completely agree we need to celebrate it more. Even the squeamish soft left understand they need to at the very least STFU. A few edgy kids on Twitter don’t mean shit. They’re an excuse for us not to do more IMO.
He didn't even know it was St George's Day himself. He seems to be bothered that some other people can't be bothered about a day he isn't bothered about! Could almost suggest it's a desperate attempt to manufacture controversy...
Does it? Who is shaming here and we’ve got loads of wokies.
I’m pretty woke and I completely agree we need to celebrate it more. Even the squeamish soft left understand they need to at the very least STFU. A few edgy kids on Twitter don’t mean shit. They’re an excuse for us not to do more IMO.
I don't get it tbh. Nobody has complained about St George's Day, apart from maybe Tony. Nobody has said don't celebrate it - people can knock themselves out (or one off) over it.Not just him though is it? It’s a whole media-politics complex with total control of the country telling him we can’t do it or the blue fringes will cry.
It's not just edgy kids on twitter, it comes up as a topic of conversation every year.
Kings Day (as you'll know well) is a prime example, brings the whole country together. We should do something like that here. Boats and booze also fine.
Is it?
I thought paganism or something? It’s all Morris dancing and May poles
Was more thinking it’s easier to nick an existing bank holiday and May Day is a bit crap.
He didn't even know it was St George's Day himself. He seems to be bothered that some other people can't be bothered about a day he isn't bothered about! Could almost suggest it's a desperate attempt to manufacture controversy...
Fuck off you total wanker
Fuck off you absiolutely clueless cretin.
Fuck you, prick.
I have checked. Yes May Day is a day of the solstice but it’s the bank holiday that was introduced by the Labour Party in 1978 by Michael Foot to celebrate Labour Day
Anyone else read that as no-one on day release?No one should do an all dayer in release no matter what the occassion
It’s all these right-wing snowflakes getting outraged we aren’t celebrating it, whilst simultaneously making no effort to celebrate it.I don't get it tbh. Nobody has complained about St George's Day, apart from maybe Tony. Nobody has said don't celebrate it - people can knock themselves out (or one off) over it.
But it appears the Woke is the latest go-to conspiracy.
I didn’t complain about it. Just find it ironic in the current political climate. There’s a lot of very public people and organisations who get angry about Johnny Foreigner arriving on our shores with their culture and belief systems and then consider themselves the ultimate patriot for celebrating a Johnny Foreigner arriving on our shores with his culture and belief systems. Usually atheists too just for added irony.I don't get it tbh. Nobody has complained about St George's Day, apart from maybe Tony. Nobody has said don't celebrate it - people can knock themselves out (or one off) over it.
But it appears the Woke is the latest go-to conspiracy.
I didn’t complain about it. Just find it ironic in the current political climate. There’s a lot of very public people and organisations who get angry about Johnny Foreigner arriving on our shores with their culture and belief systems and then consider themselves the ultimate patriot for celebrating a Johnny Foreigner arriving on our shores with his culture and belief systems. Usually atheists too just for added irony.
I’m an atheist myself. A hypocrite also as I celebrate Xmas the same as anyone else and if we did get an extra bank holiday for St George’s day I’d gladly take it. I just wouldn’t spend it getting angry at boats arriving on the south coast.Atheism is sensible tbh
Yep. My current missus is Polish/Lithuanian. Been together for 25 years and married for the last 19 of them. I reckon I'll call it a day now!Yeah,you on number three?
Correct?
I’m an atheist myself. A hypocrite also as I celebrate Xmas the same as anyone else and if we did get an extra bank holiday for St George’s day I’d gladly take it. I just wouldn’t spend it getting angry at boats arriving on the south coast.
Yep. My current missus is Polish/Lithuanian. Been together for 25 years and married for the last 19 of them. I reckon I'll call it a day now!
Just back home fell out with my mate. He knows he cant fight me but 20 years friendship has just gone. Hope I wake up tomorrow we are still mates?
That's what drink does .
My next door neighbour is Polish, he had a bust up with his missus a few months ago, and he told me the other day she's gone back home to Poland. He's been on the vodka more than usual. Their daughter used to pop round a lot and she was gorgeous, but since his missus left she hasn't been round so may have gone back home too ?
I’m 10x more ‘woke’ than the tonester but I can still appreciate the National day. We don’t celebrate it enough. Pouring scorn on it gives it to the far right. Fuck that, I like this country, we do many things so well and we should have one day where we celebrate the good things. We’ve done many bad things too but I we should come to terms with that through the year.
Happy St. George’s day and let’s win the ducking euros.
I still don't know what the hell this "woke" thing is? Can someone explain to an old fogey (who doesn't really give a shit, it's just that I don't want to sound too old when in a conversation with younger people!)
Sorry mate that’s gone over my headIf people on here are trying to make it about 'wokeness' and left and right and Englishness and all that, surely the fact I'm the second post and stating I celebrate it put a bit of an early spanner in the works, ha ha.
Sorry mate that’s gone over my head
That’s the problem with it though ain’t it. It shouldn’t be owned by the dickheads be proud of all of what this country is, not just roast beef and Union Jack shorts, we got jerk chicken and dub sound systems and they’re as English as the rest.Basically with my political views and ethnicity and family heritage and nationality I'd be the last person you'd expect to celebrate it.
Saying that, any excuse for a piss up.
At its most basic it means you’re tolerant. For instance if I defend your right to have a foreign wife and that foreign wife to live with you in the U.K. to a racist who for no logical reason doesn’t agree with me they’d label me woke.I still don't know what the hell this "woke" thing is? Can someone explain to an old fogey (who doesn't really give a shit, it's just that I don't want to sound too old when in a conversation with younger people!)
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