St Georges day #2

[leefer]

All the saints days are shit.....most irish,welsh,scots are like us and dont know who there saints were....its just a chance to have a piss up....nothin wrong with that if thats what makes you happy,ile wait untill saturday when weve put the gills down!

[Lumps]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/04/ngeorge04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/04/ixhome.html

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but, despite what the headline might say, that article seems to say that the Prison Authorities stopped them wearing the tiepins because there's a blanket ban on the wearing of all badges and insignia.

OK the initial complaint might have referred to the flag, but basically this is the same as the daft cow that couldn't accept that she wasn't allowed to wear her crucifix over her uniform at Heathrow, when the dress code said no jewellery.

Oh and I do hope you haven't taken up two threads with posts moaning the fuck on about not being allowed to celebrate St George's day! Because face it the only thing stopping you really is that you can't be arsed.

Yes I know it's not a bank holiday but then neither is St Patrick's over here and it doesn't seem to stop the Paddys does it?

And I've lived in England nearly all my life and my parents stuck a daffodil to my school uniform every fucking March 1st that I can remember when I was a kid, and my Mum's Welsh society in Swindon organises some do every year.

Anyway plenty of people do seem to be celebrating the day up here judging by the number of flags on cars and cabs and pubs I've seen today, and I've not spotted a single PC protest springing up to complain about them.

If you wanted a St George's day piss up you should have actually got around to organising one when it was mentioned in a thread on here about a month or so ago. Nobody would have arrested you for it if you had.

[Bogus Dave]

St george weren't even english anyway. pah

[axs]

I had fun with flags today.

and Guinness for the irony.

[BANGKOK RED]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/04/ngeorge04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/04/ixhome.html

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but, despite what the headline might say, that article seems to say that the Prison Authorities stopped them wearing the tiepins because there's a blanket ban on the wearing of all badges and insignia.

OK the initial complaint might have referred to the flag, but basically this is the same as the daft cow that couldn't accept that she wasn't allowed to wear her crucifix over her uniform at Heathrow, when the dress code said no jewellery.

Oh and I do hope you haven't taken up two threads with posts moaning the fuck on about not being allowed to celebrate St George's day! Because face it the only thing stopping you really is that you can't be arsed.

Yes I know it's not a bank holiday but then neither is St Patrick's over here and it doesn't seem to stop the Paddys does it?

And I've lived in England nearly all my life and my parents stuck a daffodil to my school uniform every fucking March 1st that I can remember when I was a kid, and my Mum's Welsh society in Swindon organises some do every year.

Anyway plenty of people do seem to be celebrating the day up here judging by the number of flags on cars and cabs and pubs I've seen today, and I've not spotted a single PC protest springing up to complain about them.

If you wanted a St George's day piss up you should have actually got around to organising one when it was mentioned in a thread on here about a month or so ago. Nobody would have arrested you for it if you had.

Errrrm

It mentions nothing about a "Blanket ban" whatosever! Only that the cross of St. george was banned. It is possible that some 'selective' journalism was used here but there are many articles from different sources on the exact same subject and regardless, the whole fucking point of this thread is about St. Georges day and the lack of patriotism.

I haven't taken up 2 threads at all, the first thread, if you had read it, is actually somebody's birthday thread and the fact that I/we can't be arsed with it all is the point of this whole fucking thread innit. As for not organising a piss, again the entrie fucking point of this thread is about the sheer apathy towards St. Georges day by both myself and others.

Perhaps you should pop over to the other St. Georges day thread and say a happy belated birthday to stfc11. And then consider actually reading a fucking thread before deciding upon it's contents innit.

[reeves4england]

Errrrm

It mentions nothing about a "Blanket ban" whatosever! Only that the cross of St. george was banned. It is possible that some 'selective' journalism was used here but there are many articles from different sources on the exact same subject and regardless, the whole fucking point of this thread is about St. Georges day and the lack of patriotism.

I haven't taken up 2 threads at all, the first thread, if you had read it, is actually somebody's birthday thread and the fact that I/we can't be arsed with it all is the point of this whole fucking thread innit. As for not organising a piss, again the entrie fucking point of this thread is about the sheer apathy towards St. Georges day by both myself and others.

Perhaps you should pop over to the other St. Georges day thread and say a happy belated birthday to stfc11. And then consider actually reading a fucking thread before deciding upon it's contents innit.

Ooh, get her!
Fair point though BR  

[Samdy Gray]

Uh oh, I think BR may have just started a long-rant-fest with Lumps. That's forum suicide. Lump's always wins these arguments/debates.

[Jamiesfuturewife]

I had fun with flags today.

I personally dont feel like Ive had enough fun with flags recently

[Simon Pieman]

don't you mean wags?

[flammableBen]

Uh oh, I think BR may have just started a long-rant-fest with Lumps. That's forum suicide. Lump's always wins these arguments/debates.

Lumps is ace.

I've just been reading a copy of the Wakefield prison report in question. Fascinating stuff. Interesting how the media pick out bits of things. They do actually cut off a quote mid-sentance and of course it's taken out of context from the rest of the section about Race Relations.

You can read it here if anybody really cares that much.

http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/hmp-yoi-inspections.html/FinaldraftWakefield.pdf

[Boeta]

i think its this country's strength that we don't get all excited by nationalism. america's flag-waving patriotism borders on the naive and child-like.

[Tails]

I wore an England hat at work yesterday and it was ripped off my head by the HR manager because it was highly inappropriate. Ridiculous! Although I filed a complaint under the discrimination act. HAHA!

[Simon Pieman]

Are you allowed to wear hats to work?

[Sippo]

I'll never forget the time a forum member was asked to leave revolutions because of an england hat. They even said that if it was anyother hat it would be ok, but as its football related it will need to be removed!

The bastards never did get back to me when I wrote to complain.  :x

[Lumps]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/04/ngeorge04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/04/ixhome.html

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but, despite what the headline might say, that article seems to say that the Prison Authorities stopped them wearing the tiepins because there's a blanket ban on the wearing of all badges and insignia.

OK the initial complaint might have referred to the flag, but basically this is the same as the daft cow that couldn't accept that she wasn't allowed to wear her crucifix over her uniform at Heathrow, when the dress code said no jewellery.

Oh and I do hope you haven't taken up two threads with posts moaning the fuck on about not being allowed to celebrate St George's day! Because face it the only thing stopping you really is that you can't be arsed.

Yes I know it's not a bank holiday but then neither is St Patrick's over here and it doesn't seem to stop the Paddys does it?

And I've lived in England nearly all my life and my parents stuck a daffodil to my school uniform every fucking March 1st that I can remember when I was a kid, and my Mum's Welsh society in Swindon organises some do every year.

Anyway plenty of people do seem to be celebrating the day up here judging by the number of flags on cars and cabs and pubs I've seen today, and I've not spotted a single PC protest springing up to complain about them.

If you wanted a St George's day piss up you should have actually got around to organising one when it was mentioned in a thread on here about a month or so ago. Nobody would have arrested you for it if you had.

Errrrm

It mentions nothing about a "Blanket ban" whatosever! Only that the cross of St. george was banned. It is possible that some 'selective' journalism was used here but there are many articles from different sources on the exact same subject and regardless, the whole fucking point of this thread is about St. Georges day and the lack of patriotism.

I haven't taken up 2 threads at all, the first thread, if you had read it, is actually somebody's birthday thread and the fact that I/we can't be arsed with it all is the point of this whole fucking thread innit. As for not organising a piss, again the entrie fucking point of this thread is about the sheer apathy towards St. Georges day by both myself and others.

Perhaps you should pop over to the other St. Georges day thread and say a happy belated birthday to stfc11. And then consider actually reading a fucking thread before deciding upon it's contents innit.

I've probably got your back up accidentally here, 'cause the second part of my post wasn't aimed at you but at everyone posting in the threads bemoaning the lack of St Georges day celebrations, and there were plenty of them.

And as for the Wakefield prison stuff, the quote given in the link you pasted reads:

"Prison Service orders made clear that unauthorised badges and pins should not be worn.'' As one of her recommendations, she adds: "Staff should not wear unauthorised pins.''

which sounds to me like a ban on wearing pins and badges on uniforms.