# St.Georges Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517 "2008-04-23T08:10:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/121 "2008-04-27T19:27:27Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Well, I don’t think it made me want to be English anymore than I already do want to–there’s a lot you blokes do right. Of course, there’s a lot y’all get wrong, too… [/QUOTE] There’s something very wrong about seeing “blokes” and “y’all” in the same sentence. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/122 "2008-04-27T21:48:25Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] There’s something very wrong about seeing “blokes” and “y’all” in the same sentence. [/QUOTE] Done deliberately. 😃 Probably should have worked mates in there as well. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/123 "2008-04-28T06:25:48Z")
[QUOTE=Orual] Every time I hear “Jerusalem”, I picture Eric Idle and John Cleese singing in a tea chest. [sub]… I’m not allowed to be an honorary Englishwoman, am I …[/sub] [/QUOTE] After some short deliberation I’ve decided that you can be an honorary Englishman. Moreover, the adjudicating panel of mates, oppos, and pals have also voted to bestow upon you the title of “Associate” member of the august body of souls known throughout the universe as English. This decision of theirs was made so much easier in light of the fact that anyone who seems to be an afficionado of _Monty Python_ cannot be anything but a real decent bloke. Now then after me…“Land of Hope and Glory…” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/124 "2008-04-28T16:51:53Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Done deliberately. 😃 Probably should have worked mates in there as well. Heh. [/QUOTE] Please don’t, or at least be careful; a lot of Americans think you can use “mate” in the plural vocative sense (as in ‘how’s it going, mates’). You can’t. With regard to flying the St George’s flag, Chowder said > [@](#): > > It’s got to the stage where Englishmen and women are told that to fly our flag may cause offence to others. Well fuck 'em I say, my flag is gonna be hanging out the window and there are a couple that I can attach to my car. > > If “they” want to be offended that’s tough titty Who are “they” and do you have any examples? FWIW I don’t know a single person in Scotland who puts up a flag anywhere (other than public buildings etc) because it’s St Andrew’s day. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/125 "2008-04-28T16:59:37Z")
[QUOTE=G. Odoreida] FWIW I don’t know a single person in Scotland who puts up a flag anywhere (other than public buildings etc) because it’s St Andrew’s day. [/QUOTE] Well, you can’t make a very good flag out of wool. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/126 "2008-04-28T20:20:15Z")
“The Proms” and “Last night at the Proms” – What is, please? Jodi, American ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/127 "2008-04-28T20:39:36Z")
It’s a bunch of concerts that go on during the summer. Sort of background noise for most Britons, but everyone knows what they are (and I suspect most, if not nearly all, have at least seen the Last Night on TV). > **[BBC Proms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proms)** > > The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London. The 2023 Proms season ran from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September. The Proms were founded in 1895, and are now organised and broadcast by the BBC. Each season consists of concerts in the Royal Albert Hall, chamber music concerts at Cadogan Hall (or occasionally other venues), additional Proms in the Park events a... ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/128 "2008-04-28T21:55:22Z")
[QUOTE=G. Odoreida] Who are “they” and do you have any examples? [/QUOTE] I may be wrong about this, but it sounds like the same ‘they’ as cited by various newspapers as poised to insist we only sell straight bananas, classify marmalade as a vegetable, etc. Largely, an illusory ‘they’, cooked up by the tabloid press to fill the space between pictures of tits. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/129 "2008-04-28T22:17:40Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I may be wrong about this, but it sounds like the same ‘they’ as cited by various newspapers as poised to insist we only sell straight bananas, classify marmalade as a vegetable, etc. Largely, an illusory ‘they’, cooked up by the tabloid press to fill the space between pictures of tits. [/QUOTE] There are spaces? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/130 "2008-04-28T22:36:49Z")
Exactly ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/131 "2008-04-28T23:08:41Z")
Oh Page Three, launching pad for so many of the worst music/modeling/acting careers in history, how I miss thee. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/132 "2008-04-29T05:58:48Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Oh Page Three, launching pad for so many of the worst music/modeling/acting careers in history, how I miss thee. [/QUOTE] Ahem…you do know there is a website don’t you? P3 girls of past and present, in all their glory 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/133 "2008-04-29T15:22:47Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I may be wrong about this, but it sounds like the same ‘they’ as cited by various newspapers as poised to insist we only sell straight bananas, classify marmalade as a vegetable, etc. Largely, an illusory ‘they’, cooked up by the tabloid press to fill the space between pictures of tits. [/QUOTE] So… marmalade is a vegetable then… and it fills the space between tits? Hells Fire, sign me up for some of that! I’ll wave whatever flag you want me to! Or just send me to the website… or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517/134 "2008-04-29T15:33:55Z")
[QUOTE=nd\_n8] So… marmalade is a vegetable then… and it fills the space between tits? Hells Fire, sign me up for some of that! I’ll wave whatever flag you want me to! Or just send me to the website… or whatever. [/QUOTE] If that doesn’t straighten your banana, I don’t know what will. Oo er missus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-georges-day/446517.md?page=6)