Are there any proper English traditions, for St Georges Day?

desprateseagull

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brighton, actually

• Apr 23, 2015

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Conkers at dawn?
Beer with breakfast?
Dragon slaying for lunch?
Pimms o'clock, etc..?

 

Last edited: Apr 23, 2015

KZNSeagull

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• Apr 23, 2015

• #2

Wear a red rose in your lapel
Slay some Frenchmen?

 

Herr Tubthumper

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The Fatherland

• Apr 23, 2015

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St George's Day, wouldn't happen in Germany

 

Norman Baker suck my lozenge

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Freshening up for the Ladies.

• Apr 23, 2015

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desprateseagull said:

Conkers at dawn?
Beer with breakfast?
Dragon slaying for lunch?
Pimms o'clock, etc..?

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Sounds like a good Wetherspoons!

 

Cadiz Seagull

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Between Haywards Heath and Trujillo, Extremadura,

• Apr 23, 2015

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Huge celebrations here in Cáceres, makes Lewes bonfire look a bit tame! San Jorge is their patron saint.

 

beorhthelm

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• Apr 23, 2015

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morris dancing?
pub crawl. alot of middle aged chaps in The City will be partaking of this one.

 

Norman Potting

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Sussex, Sussex not by the sea and actually nearer

• Apr 23, 2015

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Moaning about "why do Scots/Irish/insert name of nation here" celebrate their saint's day better than us?

 

wellquickwoody

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Melbourne

• Apr 23, 2015

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Row about racism on a chat forum?

 

8ace

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Brighton

• Apr 23, 2015

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Moaning that the day should be a bank holiday

 

Herr Tubthumper

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• Apr 23, 2015

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Manufacture nothing

 

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Mo Gosfield

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• Apr 23, 2015

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Apathy.

 

Bruntburger

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Peacehaven

• Apr 23, 2015

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Who was St George anyway?

 

Dick Head

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Quaxxann

• Apr 23, 2015

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Piping in the haggis if Ed Miliband gets in, apparently.









Really though, gathering Dandelions and making Dandelion wine.

 

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Dr Q

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Ilkley

• Apr 23, 2015

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Spend the day enjoying the satisfaction that you were born in the best nation on the planet.

Nothing else needed to beat that.

 

TWOCHOICEStom

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Brighton

• Apr 23, 2015

• #15

Luzzing plastic chairs?

 

gregbrighton

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• Apr 23, 2015

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Ummm go to a country pub and sing English country folk songs and watch some Morris Dancers. Sing Jerusalem and have a curry. Use a dildo.

 

Herr Tubthumper

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• Apr 23, 2015

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Bruntburger said:

Who was St George anyway?

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A foreign bloke I think.

 

Gullflyinghigh

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• Apr 23, 2015

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Forgetting it's actually happening?

 

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Gwylan

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Uffern

• Apr 23, 2015

• #19

St George he was for England,
And before he killed the dragon
He drank a pint of English ale
Out of an English flagon.
For though he fast right readily
In hair-shirt or in mail,
It isn't safe to give him cakes
Unless you give him ale

 

Driver8

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• Apr 23, 2015

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Apparently he killed his dragon near Beirut and is very popular with Muslims as well as Christians and Jews. That will upset a few.

He is also very big in Russia I recall.