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View Poll Results: Should St George's Day be a national holiday?
Yes 16 80.00%
No 3 15.00%
Don't care! 1 5.00%
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Old 23rd Apr 08, 04:13 PM
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I think it should be a national holiday along with St David's day, St Patrick's Day and St Andrew's day.

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How can we justify a holiday when half of the Nation don't know when St. Georges day is until it's upon them, and then just use it as another excuse for a p!$$ up? :eek:
It's OK, we just have a p*ss-up on St. Patrick's day instead.
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Just seen some of St George's finest out celebrating. P@~sed as rats the lot of em!
Why shoud we celebrate a Turkish Roman anyway? Surely we've got better people to have as our patron saint! St Douglas Bader perhaps?
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Just seen some of St George's finest out celebrating. P@~sed as rats the lot of em!
Why shoud we celebrate a Turkish Roman anyway? Surely we've got better people to have as our patron saint! St Douglas Bader perhaps?

Spot on Steepler.

St Douglas Bader. Spiffing idea.
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It's OK, we just have a p*ss-up on St. Patrick's day instead.
It'd be rude not to.
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We should have another bank holiday in memory of the dragon. It's only sporting!
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I'm all for another day off but let's not get all commercial about it. I saw St George's Day cards in a shop last week!
Just out of interest though. How many of you can claim to be truly English?
I'm only half. (The other bit's Irish.)
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As far as I know I'm all english I'll agree to most occaisions being a naional holiday if it means a day off
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Agree to anything if it a) involves a day off and B) involves a piss up !
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