On behalf of all dragons, let's slay this national day of nothingness (St Georges Day)

Member Name: DannoStanno

Product:	St Georges Day
Date:	19/05/09 (14 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Excuse to drink

Disadvantages: Imperial connotations, patriotic rubbish

Did I miss another unecessary holiday? Oh well, life goes on I suppose, unless of course you are the last dragon and get slayed by a man named George without even having the chance to go forth and multiply and extend the dragon family for another couple of generations before all that smoke coming out of your nostrils adds to Global Warming and you die anyway.

Hmmm, maybe my misanthropic views and opinions will not be recognised by all, but I have no desire to celebrate St Georges Day and get vaguely frustrated by the growing bandwagon of ficcal supporters wishing to hijack 23rd April in order to get drunk... whilst waving a flag!

Firstly the legend of St George himself: it's a very dull, unbelievable story centred in a country far away from England in an apparent time interval which can only be pinpointed within about 500 years (did anyone say Christmas...!). St George himself, by all historical accounts (which themselves have a huge effort to prove such make-believe), was not English, not British, not Scot, not Pict, not, well you get the point. He is thought to be Tunisian if anything, though this is further irrelevance! He is also a celebrated Saint within Germany, Georgia, regions of Spain and other countries that aren't England, and thus why is England trying to make him their own?

Secondly I am very uncomfortable with the whole Englishness thing. I am English, was born here like my parents and their parents before them. I pay my taxes, I vote, I immerse myself in whatever's left of the community but I do not like this country and furthermore feel aggrieved about the savage history and colonial past that still shadows us. Most of the troubled areas in the world still have much of their foundation in botched up British imperialism (Afghanistan, Middle East, even Fiji!!!) and I feel England have been fortunate not to get their fingers burnt for their historical mistakes.

Oh yes, and then there's the BNP factor. Yes for years the flag and all things nationalistic were stolen by this bunch of bigoted hatemongers, and yes I suppose this was unfair on anyone with any real sense of patriotism who wished to wave a flag without declaring themself a racist. Yet in my own warped opinion, both the flag and St George's Day should be given to the BNP and the whole sorry mess of jiongoistic nonsense and hate politics deleted from the social conscience!

Oh, and St Patrick's Day is much more fun anyway...

Summary: A waste of space in the calendar. let's hope this day doesn't start celebrating English attrocities