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We don't have special drinks, we don't have special hats, it doesn't make the news, and no-one seems to care.
But it's St. George's Day. A day in which Englishness should be celebrated. And how do we celebrate it? In the most 'English' way possible - by not celebrating it.
So I'm just putting this here so that a corner of Dakka will be, forever, England.
You know, in most classic paintings the dragon is shown to be quite small. Maybe this is why we don't celebrate it. It's not much of an accomplishment riding a horse over a creature the size of a dog and stabbing it with a sharp wooden stick. I could do that...
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The Dreadnote wrote:Isn't that thing just a Komodo Dragon?
Go to the National Gallery and check out the St. George and Dragon paintings. They all look like this (although obviously George is mounted in some of them) and in the older paintings, the dragon looks more like a dog.
wikipedia wrote:In the fully-developed Western version, which developed as part of the Golden Legend, a dragon makes its nest at the spring that provides water for the city of "Silene" (perhaps modern Cyrene) in Libya or the city of Lydda, depending on the source. Consequently, the citizens have to dislodge the dragon from its nest for a time, to collect water. To do so, each day they offer the dragon at first a sheep, and if no sheep can be found, then a maiden must go instead of the sheep. The victim is chosen by drawing lots. One day, this happens to be the princess. The monarch begs for her life to be spared, but to no avail. She is offered to the dragon, but there appears Saint George on his travels. He faces the dragon, protects himself with the sign of the cross, slays the dragon, and rescues the princess. The grateful citizens abandon their ancestral paganism and convert to Christianity.
You're King and your daughter is chosen as a sacrifice for a dragon. Knowing that a sheep will suffice instead, wouldn't you bend over backwards to one of the woolly buggers rather than waiting for some nonce to turn up on a horse?
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True but it just seems like you have ruined the extraneous reasoning behind my curry feast tonight. Damn you Wiki and Flashman if the Mrs finds this out there will be consequences!
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The Dreadnote wrote:Isn't that thing just a Komodo Dragon?
As opposed to what dragons and such are based on?
Best example, the mythical fire lizard Salamander, is based on the fact that salamanders like to sleep in old logs and such, and when people put them on fires they crawled out. People then thought they were born of the fire itself.
I'll raise a glass of tea to Englishness! When is tea time again? I think we uncouth colonials dumped it into the ocean. Something to do with taxes, I believe.
If it is before 4, then I'll have to make do with bagged tea. If it is later, then I can brew a pot with some loose tea I picked up at Harrod's last year.
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English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
To be honest, I don't care about the religious aspect or where St. George was from. St. Patrick wasn't Irish, for example. For me it's more about having a day to celebrate our country - we should do it, and not feel bad about it. We should not let others make us feel bad about it (super-liberals and the BNP's appropriation of this day being two examples).
You can be proud to be English/British without being a racist - I think more of us should come out of our closets and drown out both the fascists who disgrace our great country, and the extreme left-wingers who are seemingly ashamed of it.
Of course saying that more of us should come out of our closets just reinforces another stereotype that some may have of Englishmen.
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Gitzbitah wrote:If it is before 4, then I'll have to make do with bagged tea. If it is later, then I can brew a pot with some loose tea I picked up at Harrod's last year.
You can keep the tea my old son [and I would hope you enjoy it at the price you will have paid at Harrods!], but I shall be drinking either nice [warm] beer or really cold cider until I am blind. Tis more traditional!
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notprop wrote:Of course saying that more of us should come out of our closets just reinforces another stereotype that some may have of Englishmen.
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Gitzbitah wrote:If it is before 4, then I'll have to make do with bagged tea. If it is later, then I can brew a pot with some loose tea I picked up at Harrod's last year.
You can keep the tea my old son [and I would hope you enjoy it at the price you will have paid at Harrods!], but I shall be drinking either nice [warm] beer or really cold cider until I am blind. Tis more traditional!
Albatross wrote:You can be proud to be English/British without being a racist - I think more of us should come out of our closets and drown out both the fascists who disgrace our great country, and the extreme left-wingers who are seemingly ashamed of it.
I think patriotism is a load of bollocks. Which I have just learned makes me a left winger. As the old saying goes learn something everyday, learn something worthwhile once a blue moon.
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Flashman wrote:You know, in most classic paintings the dragon is shown to be quite small. Maybe this is why we don't celebrate it. It's not much of an accomplishment riding a horse over a creature the size of a dog and stabbing it with a sharp wooden stick. I could do that...
It is painted in Heroic Scale, rather than True Scale
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It's not really got much to do with Britain. St. George is the patron saint of England so every year we set aside a day to display our ignorance of all things religious by forgetting it ever happened.
It's like St. Patrick's day, but without the silly hats and fake accents
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