Be honest, did you have any idea it was St George's Day today?

No it isnt. He'd have identified as a Greek/Hellene or as a Roman or both depending on who he was talking to. Sure as shit wouldnt have identified as turkish.

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luujs@reddit

He would very likely have considered himself a Roman back then to be honest, even as a Greek speaker

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_Daftest_@reddit

It is. But it is both easy and entirely accurate to say he was not a Turk.

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Frazzle_Dazzle_@reddit

Aye same. The bastard sealed it underneath mars aswell

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X2seraphim@reddit

Over confidence in your own ignorance is always funny.

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Happy_Little_Fish@reddit

are you suggesting that I didn't see a dragon today?

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Suspicious_Field_429@reddit

Did he have to kill it?

Couldn't he have just not turned up at the church?

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Bbew_Mot@reddit

Was this guy a Catholic in good standing with the church? If so, call the Vatican, I think we've need to make him a saint!

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Kim_catiko@reddit

My son's nursery marked it by encouraging the kids to wear red and white, so that is how I knew. My aunt also always makes a point of mentioning it in the family group chat every year.

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Kapika96@reddit

Nope, none at all. Are there even any traditional things to do on St. George's day?

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ContributionIll5741@reddit

Complain about how the wokes, the gays and the Muslims want to make it illegal to be proud of being English? Well if Facebook is anything to go by.

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SuperCaffeineDude@reddit

I think this is the core problem, people have made it not fun.

It's boiled down to petty-defiance against the wokeies, and nobody wants to celebrate with dumb racists other than other dumb racists that don't know how to have fun without throwing punches (real or not).

There's nothing not fun about a Knights & Dragons (especially for kids), and it could be an interesting sidenote to explain the roman history and the flag's history. People just need to voice these sort of suggestions to their council rather than talk about great-repl-theory.

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bluesam3@reddit

great-repl-theory.

Oh great, now the LISP programmers are out to get us as well.

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seabutcher@reddit

You have to announce that you don't care who it offends.

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Choice-Demand-3884@reddit

Shout at hotels. Paint roundabouts.

Sit all day in Wetherspoons posting on Facebook about your 'psycho ex' .

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InviteWeary5945@reddit

Muppet

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Choice-Demand-3884@reddit

How's the WiFi in Spoons?

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DaveL16@reddit

Kill dragons

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Rich_27-@reddit

Typical English, coming into Wales and killing our Dragons

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remmy84@reddit

Yes because its my mates birthday so I always wish him a happy st georges day

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OverlyAdorable@reddit

I have a friend who's birthday is on the 1st of March. I've wished then a happy St David's Day a few times on that day

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ellasfella68@reddit

It’s my birthday tomorrow, that’s how I remember St. George’s Day.

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deHaga@reddit

They say you can tell a lot about a person by their mother's maiden name, the year you were born and your first pet's name

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ellasfella68@reddit

You’re a bad, bad person…

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Lazy-Contribution789@reddit

Me too, happy birthday for tomorrow 😁

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StrawberryF5@reddit

Happy birthday.

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StrawberryF5@reddit

Happy birthday.

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rdu3y6@reddit

Is he called George?

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit (OP)

Should probably wish him a happy birthday whilst you're at it too

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remmy84@reddit

He knows. Its funnier this way

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dirtymikeesq@reddit

I did know yes, but the same as other patron St days (other than St Patrick's day) noone really celebrates.

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FrostySquirrel820@reddit

A significant number of Scots might disagree with you.

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quartersessions@reddit

I've lived in Scotland my entire life and never heard of anyone I know or have any dealings with doing anything for St Andrew's Day. I believe St Andrews town has some sort of dance event, but that's about the sum total of it.

If anything, it is less of a thing than St George's Day, given that the Church of Scotland were overtly opposed to the celebration of saints' feast days.

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EmmaInFrance@reddit

Many Welsh people would also disagree!

It's definitely celebrated in schools in Wales. It's often when schools have their Eisteddfods, and primary school kids will dress up - girls in traditional Welsh costume, of course - and wear daffodils and leeks.

Many adults will also do something like wear a daffodil or daffodil brooch and make Welsh Cakes to share with friends or at work.

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dirtymikeesq@reddit

Interesting 😅

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love_in_october@reddit

People do celebrate patron saint days, just not so much outside of the place they're for.

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Sxn747Strangers@reddit

Only just now.

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biggiebestbanana@reddit

Only because of all the ai slop that gammons have been posting in every Facebook group, trying to start arguments. I’m 50+, thoroughly english, and the date has never meant anything to me. In fact I’m convinced it wasn’t even a thing at all until about ten years ago when suddenly people started agitating about how important this day was that nobody previously cared less about.

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Decard_Pain@reddit

I did, I've always enjoyed it, I wouldn't say celebrated it but I've always done quiet things for it.

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Charlie_Yu@reddit

Yes I studied life in UK test

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seabutcher@reddit

Literally only because I saw a couple of Facebook posts starting with the words "I don't care who it offends...".

I'm starting to wonder if being passive-aggressive towards an imaginary victim is literally the only custom of the occasion.

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Rich_27-@reddit

No.

But I am in Cardiff

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leah_amelia@reddit

Cymru am byth!

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International-Bed453@reddit

Surely you'd remember the dragon?

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Rich_27-@reddit

*Insert Mother in law joke here

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m1_ab@reddit

Haha, I was about to comment exactly the same thing!

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Rich_27-@reddit

Hello fellow Cardiffian

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leah_amelia@reddit

Not until I opened my calendar app this morning. Just thought ‘oh it’s St. George’s Day, ok then’ and moved on with my life. I find it odd that St. George’s a Turkish man is the patron saint of England and the nationalist chest-thumping over it is just a bit weird in my opinion

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Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit

I lowered my Falkland flag to raise the Cross of St George

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Financial_Breath5433@reddit

Absolutely as also Shakespeare day of passing 🇬🇧

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No-Jump-9601@reddit

I usually wait for the flags to go up and assume it’s St George’s Day. This year that tactic hasn’t worked.

The local former BNP pub did try to help with the addition of red and white balloons but I missed the subtitles of it to begin with.

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jake_folleydavey@reddit

I’ve just found out because of this post

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yiddoboy@reddit

Yes. And Shakespeare's birthday.

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Kind-Elder1938@reddit

and death day too

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cyanicpsion@reddit

Shakespeares birthday, and also my mate Steve... So it's an easy one to remember

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Granddukecockwomble@reddit

Yes I knew, but I don't recognise St. George. St. Edmund is the true patron Saint of England. The famously England hating Richard I had a vision of George after the battle of Lydda, he was into the cult of saint George also founded in Lydda. Then later Edward III formed the order of the garter and named St. George it's patron saint. The switch was made for two reasons, one was to removed more Anglo Saxon Identity England and two to have a war loving saint to follow in troubled times. More importantly though, I'm not religious so I don't give a damn.

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Kind-Elder1938@reddit

well said - someone who actually knows a thing or two. Edmund was martyred by being shot with arrows

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ikickchild@reddit

Yes because the town I lied in before moving to the UK was called St George

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ForwardImagination71@reddit

Yes, but only because our local BBC radio station was dog whistling asking listeners what we think of the English flag. Of course they got a lot of people biting and saying "I'm proud of our flag and I shouldn't be made to feel guilty about it" 🙄

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jordsta95@reddit

Now the question is which flag were they proud of? The flag of this country, or the St George's Cross?

Being proud of the St George's Cross is the same as being proud of your county flag IMO. Nothing wrong with it, but it just irks me when people say shit like "I shouldn't be ashamed of my country's flag" with a St George's Cross. Your country flag is the Union Flag, England hasn't been an independent country for over 300 years.

Sure, we call our constituent states countries, but your country of origin (to the rest of the world) is the United Kingdom, not England. It's one of those things which shouldn't rile me up but does.

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Kind-Elder1938@reddit

Nope - sorry, the flag for England is the red cross on the white background, The one you refer to is the UNION flag, which combines the flags of England, Wales and Scotland. The clue is in the phrase UNITED kingdom. UK is NOT a country - despite it appearing on all those forms we have to fill out

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InviteWeary5945@reddit

Whats wrong with being proud of your flag and country?

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VerbingNoun413@reddit

I'm proud of my flag.

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reverandglass@reddit

Yes, the Google doodle changed.

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MrMonkeyman79@reddit

Yep, the date of st georges day is just one of the many useless bits of information my brain has stored.

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Kind-Elder1938@reddit

why not try to remember that April 23rd was Shakespeare's birthday

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bopeepsheep@reddit

Same. Questions like this always make me think about TV quizzes and how baffling some viewers find it when a contestant knows things. I'd find it baffling to live without knowing useless facts like this. If only there was a way to monetise them (without having to go on TV).

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Emergency-Living6584@reddit

Yes because it’s my birthday

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CowDontMeow@reddit

I only know because reform voters are spamming every local group they can find moaning about the lack of celebrations for a day we historically haven’t celebrated.

If they’re so hell bent on being “proud 2 b bri’ish” surely they could’ve banded together and organised something somewhere? Something simple like a permit for a local park and a BBQ or something seeing as it’s nice weather.

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Dear_Imagination5552@reddit

Funny that, I only know because of all the self loathing cry babies crying about it

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Sidian@reddit

It should obviously be a national holiday. Perfectly valid to complain about. The fact we don't and haven't is largely because the English, or rather the English middle class and above, are the most self-hating people in the world.

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FUCKFASCISTSCUM@reddit

It's kind of funny how many grievances could be solved by people just realising they're allowed to organise events within their community and have fun doing it.

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Scratch_Careful@reddit

Thats funny because i only know because guardian readers feel the need to tell me hes a turk every year.

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CrustyHumdinger@reddit

Actually a Greek-speaking Roman soldier, from what is now Turkey.

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ContributionIll5741@reddit

Nah they're just hateful bastards who live for seething and moaning.

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spidertattootim@reddit

Do something positive? Don't be ridiculous.

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Dear_Imagination5552@reddit

I work in the city and was happy to see there was some morris dancing thing going on in Leadenhall market. Not that that’s a particular interest of mine, but it’s good to see outward celebration of St George’s Day in such a corporate area

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Kind-Elder1938@reddit

Yup I sent all my friends a Jacquie Lawson card -but it had to be an ordinary one 'cos despite asking her for years, she only does 'special day' cards for Welsh, Irish, Scots and Americans. We English do not get one.

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Pitiful_Piccolo_5497@reddit

I didn't, til I was asked to give an interview on the radio about Morris dancing. 🤣 totally out of left field at 10 in the morning.

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WorcsBloke@reddit

Are you a Morris dancer, or were they do desperate they were just ringing random numbers?

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Le-mal-aim3@reddit

I knew it was in April. That's good enough.

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smeghead9916@reddit

No.....but I'm Welsh

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KuriousAndFurious@reddit

Found out through google - But I knew my town is holding an event on the weekend

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ToastedCrumpet@reddit

Yes. It’s my bro’s birthday, as well as Shakespeare’s birthday/death day so it’s always stood out.

Prefer St Paddy’s day ☘️

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Sorry_Commercial_959@reddit

Yeah, there were some paper flags at work with clipart on them. One had a soldier from an indeterminate army...maybe WW2 Greece?

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downbarton@reddit

Yes - because fuck Reddit

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schmerg-uk@reddit

Yes but only because we have an annual St George's Day street party thing (including a wheelbarrow race) on the Sunday before or after it

https://www.rexfeatures.com/livefeed/2026/04/19/st_george's_day_celebrations,_pinner,_london?

https://rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=990986&ClubID=827

The highlight of the celebrations is always the Wheelbarrow Race, a unique Pinner event in which teams of two take it in turns to push their partner in a wheelbarrow, drink beer and race round the streets of Pinner. This starts at Little Common (just past the Police Station) and ends at Church Farm Green (opposite the Parish Church).

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N-F-F-C@reddit

I literally used to live in Pinner and never heard of this

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klymers@reddit

This was my fourth year going and every year I drag various friends and family along who all love it. Definitely a highlight of my year and definitely the only reason I have any awareness of St George's Day.

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sbaldrick33@reddit

I like the wording to this.

"I only know it's St George's Day because we do a special thing every year to commemorate it."

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schmerg-uk@reddit

Well yes, but what I mean is until this I wouldn't have known

And if you ask me these days "when is St Georges day?" then I'll say "Oh, the wheelbarrow race is around Easter sometime so I don't know the day but St Georges Day must somewhere around March / April / May"

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jsusbidud@reddit

Yes. Also Shakespeare's birthday

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Smeeble09@reddit

Yes, but only as my 3yo was dressed up as his school is called St George's.

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Stan-Ferris@reddit

No, but I'm in Northern Ireland

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Gwyllithar@reddit

yes, but I didn't care so I did nothing.

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AccomplishedMove3149@reddit

Yes, but only by chance

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Bright-Ad9305@reddit

Yes because I went to a funeral of a bloke called George yesterday and asked his family why they didn’t do it today…to which they said: fully booked. Two other Georges families got theirs in first!

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Howthehelldoido@reddit

No.

If it was a bank holiday, I might have paid a little more attention.

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Scottie99@reddit

Of course, we learnt all the saints days at school.

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5ubredhit@reddit

No, and I couldn’t care less about it unless they turn it into a bank holiday.

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PianoMiddle346@reddit

Of course

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Zealousideal-Low3388@reddit

Nobody is stopping you from celebrating.

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240psam@reddit

Surely you're not a real person

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sbaldrick33@reddit

These days...

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Ok-Instruction6458@reddit

Yeah.. I actually saw a few England flags and thought it must be St. George's day. A far cry from the street parties and knees ups of yesteryear, young man.

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silentv0ices@reddit

Yep I did know but only as it's my birthday always hugely annoyed me we don't get it as a day off.

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StrawberryF5@reddit

Happy birthday.

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silentv0ices@reddit

Thanks

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Mindless_Fig_7652@reddit

Are you William Shakespeare?

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silentv0ices@reddit

Not quite that old.

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Justboy__@reddit

Happy Birthday buddy 🎂

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silentv0ices@reddit

Thank you.

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VileyRubes@reddit

Embarrassingly, I forgot. The kids reminded me when they came back from school.

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adamlbrown3@reddit

Not giving a monkeys about this stupid saint is my absolute favourite British tradition

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laidback_chef@reddit

No, i did wonder why there was so much talk about St. George, I guess we're here on the calendar.

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laidback_chef@reddit

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Caddy666@reddit

i'm not religious, why the actual fuck should i care?

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pixel-powder@reddit

Only because my friend's son has his birthday, and his name is George

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Glittering_Vast938@reddit

Yeah because it pops up automatically in my Calendar, otherwise it would have passed me by unnoticed!

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birdonthewire76@reddit

Yes because it would also have been my dad’s 94th birthday.

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Mccobsta@reddit

Seeing this 6 hours later and yeah I didn't know

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AndrewHinds67@reddit

I found out via a Reddit post this morning. However, I didn't care. I'm not a flag shagger.

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ConcertoOf3Clarinets@reddit

It took over the google uk homepage

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Legendof1983@reddit

I gathered it must be when I saw my neighbour putting up her collection on flags out yesterday afternoon

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Spank86@reddit

I didn't even realise they'd canonised Boy George tbh.

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r99c@reddit

Yeah, a few Instagram stories. April 23rd is also our dog George's birthday, so that's the more important thing happening today.

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bizzlej278@reddit

The gov banned the flag so what’s the point…

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Shoddy_Pilot_2737@reddit

Absolutely, I was even called a racist for mentioning it

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MrBoggles123@reddit

Yes because patron Saints days comes up a lot in pub quizzes.

Also the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and his death.

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Mac4491@reddit

Yes, because my dad died 4 years ago today.

He was born on St Andrew’s day.

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OrganizationOk5418@reddit

No, and I don't give a fk, never have done.

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coffeewalnut08@reddit

Yes, I did. Been aware of it for a few years

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daniel_guillon@reddit

I knew it was and didn’t give a fuck

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Fit-Obligation4962@reddit

I found out today that’s it. I haven’t eagerly been awaiting the day buying presents , and making food.Just another day. If you want to wave a little flag it’s up to you.

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masha1901@reddit

No, no I didn't, but then I'm not feeling fabulous today. Better than I was yesterday, but not feeling tickety boo.

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TheHess@reddit

No, I don't care about patron saints of foreign countries.

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Agitated_Camera_6198@reddit

Yep I remember clocking the date when I woke up, thinking "Oh it's St George's day today" then hitting snooze.

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LouisaB75@reddit

I clicked on the Google doodle by accident and saw it was. Until then, no clue

They really should make it a public holiday. We get few enough as it is.

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PipBin@reddit

I did and then I forgot.

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TheLadyHelena@reddit

Yes, but I don't care.

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NeitherBag4722@reddit

I did but because I live in Wales there's no chance of a flag wanker putting up an English flag anywhere near me.

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ctrlaltdelaney@reddit

The Roman army horse bro who we celebrate for helping the 1% avoid the same fate as the 99% when it all got a bit too real.

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waxfutures@reddit

I very rarely know what the date is on any given day until I have to type it at work, so I only really notice the holidays that give us a day off.

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LionLucy@reddit

Yes it’s my birthday

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Unable-Object-8469@reddit

Yes but because I'm from Barcelona and we celebrate St Jordi's day ( St George's day) :-)

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Spare_Blueberries@reddit

Sad day for dragons

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soggyarsonist@reddit

No though my kids have to attend St George's event with scouts at the weekend.

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Future_Direction5174@reddit

I know it’s sometime around now, but can never remember the exact date.

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KybeRio@reddit

It's the 23rd of April, so... yes? Then again I am a history nerd so knowing this stuff comes naturally.

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Suspicious_tuna@reddit

Google home page

Although I had to hover over it to work out exactly what it was.

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jordsta95@reddit

Same. I saw the dragon and thought it was St David's day

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mysteriousmistress66@reddit

Nope. I had genuinely no idea. I've never paid attention to stuff like this though

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OllyDee@reddit

No, I had absolutely no idea. It’s not really relevant to me so that’s not surprising.

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ThisIsAnAccount2306@reddit

Only found out cos a friend posted about it on Facebook about 10am.

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MattFairley2@reddit

Yes - it’s my dads birthday and his name is George!

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1HeyMattJ@reddit

I did cause I was randomly looking at the calendar on my phone a couple of days ago.

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sleepyprojectionist@reddit

Only because of the Google doodle.

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LuKat92@reddit

Yes but only because I’m a major flag nerd and have put out the St George Cross today (I will also be putting out flags for ANZAC Day on Saturday and South Africa’s Freedom Day on Monday)

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit (OP)

Love that, I've always admired that

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kernowgringo@reddit

Saw a picture of Grant Mitchell and something about reclaiming the flag on front of a newspaper... Felt proper patriotic

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SarkyMs@reddit

I just said "apparently it's still George's day today"

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truckosaurus_UK@reddit

Yes, our office canteen has been plugging its St George's Day menu (Shepherd's Pie) for the past week. (I had an Asda Meal Deal instead).

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jmabbz@reddit

You could have gone for an Asda ready meal like shepherds pie. It is St George's day after all!

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OkTadpole2920@reddit

Well that's not very exciting!

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sbaldrick33@reddit

Should have been dragon pie.

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Bbew_Mot@reddit

No but what's the point in it being St George's day when nobody celebrates it? It might as well be Mr Blobby day.

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jmabbz@reddit

Why not both?

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Guilty-Vermicelli320@reddit

On St Patrick's day there were organised events in my city. Some commentators were complaining that nothing gets done for St George's day but nobody wants to organise anything.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

There just isn't a tradition of it, celebrations of "Englishness" tends to be the kind of thing you see at May Day, or maybe street parties at some Royal event.

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sheepandlambs@reddit

Lots of people do celebrate it. But usually the kind of unpleasant people you want to avoid.

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Bbew_Mot@reddit

Of course, because English culture is under threat and my comment is racist against English people! /s

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jmabbz@reddit

I did and I'm all for it (mostly in the hope it becomes a bank holiday in the future).

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ClarifyingMe@reddit

Yes because I was shown a Sadiq Khan post about the weekend event, then a bunch of people were moaning and being racist as per, and some people were defending that it can't be thursday since people won't be able to attend. Then I thought "ah, it's on thursday". But tell the truth, I immediately forgot.

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jimmywhereareya@reddit

All you need is a big brewery to hijack the day in the same way as guiness did with St Patrick's Day and everyone will be celebrating

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Old-Law-7395@reddit

Yes, its my brother in laws birthday

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EuroSong@reddit

Of course I did. I am a British patriot. It's just a shame that we don't make a big deal about it, like the Irish do for St. Patrick's Day.

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virusdancer@reddit

Aye, only found out from another post somebody made about it - it wasn't in my Outlook or Google calendars.

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sloth_ers@reddit

No, and tbh I dont really care.

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Lazy-Contribution789@reddit

Yeah but only because it's the day before my birthday. It was my Gran's birthday too but otherwise I wouldn't give it any thought.

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veryblocky@reddit

If you asked me when is St George’s Day, I could’ve told you 23rd April. But no, I did not notice it was today.

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Best_Weakness_464@reddit

Of course. It's Shakespear's birthday.

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Mdl8922@reddit

Of course.

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corysphotos19@reddit

I didn’t no as I’m not English

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LaurenNotABot@reddit

Only because the app for my car told me .

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AnyOlUsername@reddit

I’m Welsh. I know St David’s day and that’s it.

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VolcanicBear@reddit

I found out when I was in the pool today. It was the lifeguard's birthday and an old woman said to someone that is how you can easily remember their birthday.

However, I don't really care to be perfectly honest.

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No_Room_3932@reddit

No, I never remember when any of the saints days are

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pip_goes_pop@reddit

My phone’s calendar includes all national days so did flag it this morning.

Makes bugger all difference to me though as I don’t do anything for it. Perhaps we need to have a food or drink associated with on it. Most people only recognise St Patrick’s Day as an excuse to drink Guinness. Maybe St George’s Day needs to be drinking an IPA or mead or something.

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love_in_october@reddit

St Patrick's day is a holiday on the island of Ireland. We also have parades and different events to go to.

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pip_goes_pop@reddit

Fair but I was talking about the people on the UK mainland who celebrate it. My mistake was forgetting Northern Ireland would be covered under AskUK.

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love_in_october@reddit

My husband wrote it on the calendar. He's English and I'm Northern Irish. We only celebrate St Patrick's day really.

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moreboredthanyouare@reddit

Is it by fuck?

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Crittenberger@reddit

I did, even before all the flag shaggers got weird about it on Facebook, but mostly because St George's day is the day commonly accepted as Shakespeare's birthday, and it's really hard to avoid Shakespeare in my particular social circles

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Throwaway91847817@reddit

Im sure the flag shaggers will make it known

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Cool-Word2409@reddit

I knew because of Reddit. Not that I care.

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beant64@reddit

No, only saw when checked my calendar

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UNarbs@reddit

I knew it was St George’s Day today but I honestly have no interest in going out of my way to do anything for it other than maybe read a few articles on Wikipedia about the history of it

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ahktarniamut@reddit

You should go out and stick some flags on some poles

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Level_Pea_7469@reddit

Make it a bank holiday and I'd give a shit

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xSamxiSKiLLz@reddit

Yes, but only because they did a St George's Day themed lunch at work (beef roast)

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Neither_Computer5331@reddit

Honestly, no. But your thread did remind me that I saw a local pub putting up English flag bunting last week, and a few St George’s Day signs.

The English need to make more of it! Stop being so scared of having an identity and use it as a fun day to go to the pub.

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luxbritt@reddit

well yes because it’s the same date every year !

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evenifihateit@reddit

It was on a slide on this morning's flash meeting at work so yes

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Pyriel@reddit

Only because my daughter came in to wish me Happy St Georges Day.

She went away suitably admonished. She wont do that again!

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Snadadap@reddit

I saw my neighbours have put up an England flag and thought they were just Brexity, completely forgot it was the 23rd

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feetflatontheground@reddit

I saw the Google Doodle and didn't know what it was about until I clicked on it.

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Pedantichrist@reddit

Yes, I have ex-military friends who are off to drink 10 pints and shout about horse much more they, as true Englishmen’ add to society than the brown people who will clear up their vomit for them.

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MonkeyHamlet@reddit

The flagshaggers opposite me have swapped out the Temu Union Flag for a cross of St George with a Chelsea symbol in the middle.

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Foxtrot7888@reddit

Yes because children get to wear beavers/cubs/brownies/guides etc uniform to school today if they want to.

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Nevernonethewiser@reddit

Nope. Clicked the Google thingy because dragon and found out.

Happy Turkish dragon-murderer day, I guess.

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contigo510@reddit

He wasn’t Turkish. Not in any of the stories. Where do the people that sneer at it keep getting this from?

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Nevernonethewiser@reddit

Who's sneering?

He was Cappadocian, where do you think that is?

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tvthrowaway366@reddit

Cappadocia is in modern-day Turkey but the idea that St George was Turkish is a total anachronism; it’s like saying Julius Caesar was Italian

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Nevernonethewiser@reddit

At the time he would technically have been Greek, and was a soldier in the Roman army.

Either way, dragons aren't real, he never set foot on England and being a saint is meaningless because it's all fairytales.

So it's really not worth the first guy getting emotional about it.

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tvthrowaway366@reddit

Come on mate, he’s got you bang to rights, you’ve initially tried to double down, just take the L and move on with your day

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changhyun@reddit

*Greek

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dankpokemon01@reddit

Only because my football club made a post about it

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Dannypan@reddit

I don't even remember St George's Day is April 23. This isn't the usual performative nonsense from people, it's just that it's such a normal day in this country to most people that it's never held any importance to me. I only saw it was when I saw posts online.

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ofgraveimportance@reddit

My partner just asked what the date was and then said “is it St George’s day?” And this post popped up at the exact same time!!

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Physical-Fish1913@reddit

Not until an hour ago, but only because I didn't realise it was the 23rd today. I'm not very patriotic anyway 😄

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drivelhead@reddit

Automod says I can't say no, but no.

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FireWhiskey5000@reddit

It’s ST George’s day? I thought it was on the 24th or the 25th? Anyway hope everyone is having a good Thursday.

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contigo510@reddit

What a bitter little person you must be

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Dry_Action1734@reddit

No clue. Explains why someone had an English flag draped around him yesterday (sort of).

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Fyonella@reddit

Yes, as soon as I picked up my phone and saw it was 23rd. We learnt all the Patron Saints days in infant school. 🤷‍♀️

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Friendly_Bad_8882@reddit

Yes, only because because my English teacher taught me today's date 2/3/4 is also Shakespeare's birthday.

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farfetchedfrank@reddit

I knew it was coming up because they had an event in town last weekend with knights and dragons and stuff.

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undoneyet@reddit

My mother always used to wear a red rose for stGeorges day, but she never wore a leek, a thistle or a shamrock for the others. She was wartime generation though.

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chronicbint@reddit

Not till I went on reddit.

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theModge@reddit

Likewise.
Plus I somehow had it in my head it was in early May?

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Live3ish@reddit

I only rembered when I saw today Google doodle

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Inner-Device-4530@reddit

Yes, from the age of 18 (so 32 years ago) I have always gone out for a drink on St George's day, me and my best mate for 2 or 3 pints. He died 7 years ago, I still go out and remember the times we had together

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Infamous-Shopping725@reddit

The Scouts celebrate St George’s day, and like many other groups, used to hold a parade in my District, on the closest Sunday. Unfortunately this has had to be permanently cancelled due to the local police being unable to support our event because they now have to deploy most of the police force to manage the EDF parade which comprises a gang of the most violent unpleasant thugs for miles around looking for a fight with whoever they can provoke, using “being patriotic” as an excuse. We’ve also decided this year to downplay the St George’s story with our scouts so we aren’t associated with the current hostile takeover of the imagery.

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Dranask@reddit

Yes I know the date. Always have done for some reason. Maybe because it’s 10 days after my birthday.

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JoesRealAccount@reddit

I found out when my boss told me I was missing out on St Georges Day pints at lunch by working from home...

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asymmetricears@reddit

I saw a news story about it this morning, but before that I had no idea.

I'll care if they give us a day off like Scotland does for Andy's.

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Justboy__@reddit

I didn’t at first but found out earlier and was lamenting the missed opportunity to send my kid to school dressed as the flag and then kick off when he gets sent home.

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geesegoosegeesegoose@reddit

I didn't realise until I saw a comment mentioning it about half an hour ago. Glad I did actually because my partner is Catalan and St George's Day is way more of a big deal to them than to us, and I have a gift ready for her but would have forgotten to get it out otherwise!

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_Daftest_@reddit

Of course. He's an important Orthodox saint, and my wife has gone to Divine Liturgy this morning to commemorate the feast.

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monkeymastersev@reddit

I thought it was in May?

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westfieldram@reddit

Make it a bank holiday, then no one will forget!

But yeah, this is the first I knew it was today!

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Hollskipollski@reddit

Yes, because I have friends in Spain/Catalunya and they are celebrating

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musicallymotivated93@reddit

Yes, but only because it's my cousin's birthday today.

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_scorp_@reddit

Yes going to an English bar do listen to English songs dance English dances and drink traditional English drinks ….

So yeah down the pub as usual then :-)

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alarming_wrong@reddit

nooope. not until I saw an article in the Daily Mirror by Ross Kemp about reclaiming the flag and St George's day from the racists

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Jaded_Leg_46@reddit

No idea untill it was in nearly every post in another sub.

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sbaldrick33@reddit

Ironically, the raise the colours dullards have actually made it more difficult to tell if you dont know the date.

But yes, obviously I remember that St George's Day is usually April 23rd. Shakespeare's (supposed) birthday too. Plenty of Englishness to celebrate for those that actually want to celebrate as opposed to bitch about some mythical cabal preventing them from doing so, somehow.

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oldie349@reddit

Nope. But I’m usually more aware of st David’s day.

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-secretsocietytattoo@reddit

I only realised because the Google logo is a dragon and rose today. It honestly isn't that important to me.

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Responsible_Bird3384@reddit

I did know. Only because I have a couple of friends with birthdays today.

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Bad_Combination@reddit

I know St George's Day is 23 April, it had just sort of escaped me that was today's date until I saw something in the local news

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permanently-cold@reddit

Yeah this was also me. Just hadn't realised it was the 23rd today

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Time-Mode-9@reddit

I wouldn't have known if I didn't see this post

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Djinjja-Ninja@reddit

Yes, but only because the regular pub quiz night tonight is cancelled for their St Georges day celebrations with a couple of bands.

They put up flags, banners, dragons the whole 9 yards. The staff wear fancy dress. They've been banging on about it for nearly 2 weeks on Facebook.

They're painfully patriotic when it comes to things like St Georges and Remembrance Day etc.

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xjezika@reddit

The local gammons reminded me on our communities Facebook page.

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thefooleryoftom@reddit

Nope, no idea. Wasn't on any of my calendars, either.

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doctorgibson@reddit

Yes. Always used to go to the parade for scouts, so the date is always stuck in my head

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WorcsBloke@reddit

Yes. Always have done. I don't actually do anything about it, except maybe have some English cider at lunchtime. The local town parade the church organises is on Sunday. But yeah. I know.

The thing I find weird is when people seem to actively try not to know it's today. That's largely an online, performative thing I appreciate, but it's still odd. You don't see Welsh people proudly telling everyone they don't know when St David's Day is.

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