Happy St George’s Day

[Ian H]

 

[Cycleops]

This is a real life dragon with a venomous bite. Dates back to prehistoric times:

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/wfQjHSFnfWs?si=1oJHmP75SVVOtHq7

 

[Tail End Charlie]

It's a pity the country doesn't make more of the patron saint (and yes, I know all the history). Most other countries I've been to have a special day of their own.

 

[Mrs M]

Just realised it’s 18 years ago (scary how time flies) that I got plates put into my lower back SI joint and got my life back. 😀

 

[Time Waster]

Can I just make the point that St George shouldn't be the English patron Saint? We had a better one before him. St Edmund! And he came from England or rather east anglia where he was an Anglo saxon King. A real person too!

 

[figbat]

This is a real life dragon with a venomous bite. Dates back to prehistoric times:

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/wfQjHSFnfWs?si=1oJHmP75SVVOtHq7

I don’t think they are strictly venomous as they don’t secrete venom, they just cause infection in those they bite, who then succumb to sepsis. They don’t breathe fire either - pretty lame dragons if you ask me. 😁

 

[figbat]

Can I just make the point that St George shouldn't be the English patron Saint? We had a better one before him. St Edmund! And he came from England or rather east anglia where he was an Anglo saxon King. A real person too!

Noted in message #6 😉

 

[Drago]

I don’t think they are strictly venomous as they don’t secrete venom, they just cause infection in those they bite, who then succumb to sepsis. They don’t breathe fire either - pretty lame dragons if you ask me. 😁

That's pretty much it. Their mouths are festering with all sorts of germs and stuff. It's not unknown for people who are bitten by one to die 6 moths later.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Enjoying the irony that ‘the English’ are complaining that their rightful Anglo-Saxon patron saint has been usurped
(Given that the Angles and Saxons usurped the British to such an extent that the British language got confined to the margins and the country became known as Angleland, the land of the Angles).

 

[Ian H]

It's a pity the country doesn't make more of the patron saint (and yes, I know all the history). Most other countries I've been to have a special day of their own.

I'm proper English - I don't do this absurd patriotic stuff.

 

[Drago]

As a Scotsman with a very cosmopolitanism heritage I do find it strange that nowhere in the UK celebrates Vlad the Impaler day.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Can I just make the point that St George shouldn't be the English patron Saint? We had a better one before him. St Edmund! And he came from England or rather east anglia where he was an Anglo saxon King. A real person too!

Wasn’t St George real? I thought he was born in Cappadocia and died in historic Palestine.

 

[craigwend]

As a Scotsman with a very cosmopolitanism heritage I do find it strange that nowhere in the UK celebrates Vlad the Impaler day.

https://www.whitbygothweekend.co.uk/

 

[DRM]

The first ex-pat? Did he eat a Full English on the beach?

He also wrote the famous English Holidaymakers drinking song, "Here we go, Here we go, Here we go"

 

[DRM]

That's pretty much it. Their mouths are festering with all sorts of germs and stuff. It's not unknown for people who are bitten by one to die 6 moths later.

Sounds a lot like our local MP