ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Tremaine** · 24-04-2012, 14:13

Nothing wrong with being English and even celebrating it. Not sure a flag in your front garden is needed though. Much better to be restrained I should think, in these times. We don't have to run round bladdered in St Georges T shirts and Union pants, litter the streets with our drunken bodies or act the fool on the council estate. The multiculturalists will be happy, St George gets an outing, and nobody whinges that it might offend and affect "them". EDL, and their foreign counterparts might have twisted nationhood out of shape but in the end, we are who we are and making the best of it.

**naguere** · 24-04-2012, 14:29

Cycle camping in France, every summer I hit on a tremendous small town ,Baugé

I pitched up there for ten years on the trot. It was a fave place for Catholic NI people and it did enable their young

to escape 'The troubles' for a while. It didn't rain much either .

They had priests with them.

The flag of St George fluttering from my tent.

In the end, a weeks cycling from Roscoff was too much of an effort.

but , by God they did get angry.

Get away from the troubles my arrse.

**MacStab** · 24-04-2012, 16:15

Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

Why? She didn't stick a box of OMO in the window of Kensington Palace & have it away with an Egyptian grocer's son while His Grace was in the Falklands, did she?

No, but the flower and teddy bear sellers of London will find a reason to bump her off if they need to increase their sails numbers. Twas they who did for Di after all.

**Junder** · 24-04-2012, 16:23

For all you patriots over in England want to see how it's done you should pop over to northern Ireland on say the 11th and 12th of July

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**Victorian_Major** · 24-04-2012, 18:06

Originally Posted by Junder

For all you patriots over in England want to see how it's done you should pop over to northern Ireland on say the 11th and 12th of July

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Oh that was patriotism, was it? I thought it was a bunch of thugs dressed up like Mr Ben messing for a fight by playing shite music and marching. As an English person watching it I found it unfathomable and all a bit pointless - it must be an Irish thing.

**Junder** · 24-04-2012, 18:14

Originally Posted by Victorian_Major

Oh that was patriotism, was it? I thought it was a bunch of thugs dressed up like Mr Ben messing for a fight by playing shite music and marching. As an English person watching it I found it unfathomable and all a bit pointless - it must be an Irish thing.

Well, you will buy into republican propaganda.

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**Biscuits_AB** · 24-04-2012, 18:25

Originally Posted by Junder

For all you patriots over in England want to see how it's done you should pop over to northern Ireland on say the 11th and 12th of July

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No thanks. We've seen enough bigotry with the BNP.

**Victorian_Major** · 24-04-2012, 18:39

Originally Posted by Junder

Well, you will buy into republican propaganda.

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No, but I will observe that the only Englishness I saw in NI was in the rather bemused soldiers who had been time warped back into the 1700s.

**CaptainPlume** · 24-04-2012, 19:56

Originally Posted by Victorian_Major

Oh that was patriotism, was it? I thought it was a bunch of thugs dressed up like Mr Ben messing for a fight by playing shite music and marching. As an English person watching it I found it unfathomable and all a bit pointless - it must be an Irish thing.

That was what happens when you give Scottish Protestants too much booze.