St George's Day

[Dotsie]

Every time England are in some sort of sporting event you can't move for ruddy St George's flags round my way. I'm seriously thinking of putting up an Iraqi one for the olympics, but most of the dimwits here wouldn't recognise it.

Are you Iraqi? If you are, then put your flag up. If you're not, that would be a bit strange.

I don't know what an Iraqi flag looks like. Why should I? There's a lot of flags, I don't know most of them.

[Batty]

Only to the Daily Mail.

That's simply not true. The Daily Mail has never objected to the flag being shown. You have simply jumped on the bandwagon of people who diss the paper.

The people who object to our flag are usually council officials and the PC brigade. ... Oh, and the EU, who insist that if someone flies a British Flag, then an EU flag must be flown with equal prominence!

[Del]

WE get a Public Holiday for Australia Day! And we eat lamb and go to the beach and generally have a ball.

And this year we get TWO Public Holidays for the Queens Birthday (and not one of them are ON the Queens Birthday!)

We also get a holiday for the show! (The agricultural show) Every town and city gets one on the day its their turn. I have seen Kirsty Alsop's crafty thingie TV show the last few weeks.... your shows are tiny huh? Ours are HUUUUUUGE!

Brisbane Exhibition (Brissy Ekka)

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All made of fruit...there is a whole hall of these

[Batty]

Yay! Del. You managed to post photo's!!!

[Del]

And of course the Woodchopping and the Showbag Pavilion (more than 500 different bags last year)

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Batty: I ahve always been able to post pics (off the net) I just cant post MINE! (without all the red writing and the TOO BIG TOO BIG!

[Batty]

Posting pics from a phone are too large, but from your computer should't be a problem.
Photobucket has an 'edit' button, which allows you to resize them.

Is your woodcutting competition similar to the Highland Games Tossing the Caber??

[high eight]

Only to the Daily Mail.

That's simply not true. The Daily Mail has never objected to the flag being shown. You have simply jumped on the bandwagon of people who diss the paper.

The people who object to our flag are usually council officials and the PC brigade. ... Oh, and the EU, who insist that if someone flies a British Flag, then an EU flag must be flown with equal prominence!

No, I meant quite the opposite - the Daily Mail is always finding stories about people who object to putting up the flag, most of them of dubious veracity.

I don't jump on anybody's bandwagon - the Daily Mail lies, simple as that. http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/mail-blames-muslims-over-planning.html http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/doctors-advised-her-to-stay-in-hospital.html http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ec-challenges-mail-over-english-tests.html

[high eight]

Every time England are in some sort of sporting event you can't move for ruddy St George's flags round my way. I'm seriously thinking of putting up an Iraqi one for the olympics, but most of the dimwits here wouldn't recognise it.

Are you Iraqi? If you are, then put your flag up. If you're not, that would be a bit strange.

I don't know what an Iraqi flag looks like. Why should I? There's a lot of flags, I don't know most of them.

I was just musing on all the 'jelly-bellied flag-flapping' (Kipling reference) that goes on down my way every time England prepare to get knocked out of a major sporting event and reacted to it in a suitably cynical way.

[Bouncy Castle]

I don't see the problem with celebrating St George, or being English. It seems to me that the people who take exception are other English people. It's like the Campaign For Equal Heights.

No one has ever suggested that the Welsh shouldn't celebrate St David's Day, or the Scots St Andrew's. Go for it says I and b*gger anyone who doesn't like it.

Do the Taffs and the Jocks (said with love, by the way!) get a day off on David's and Andrew's days?

[Del]

Woodchopping:

There are lots of different competions depending on the width of the block, if its standing or laying, upper cutting, overcutting,



even climbing up vertical ones and cutting the top off (my fav)

[Batty]

Only to the Daily Mail.

That's simply not true. The Daily Mail has never objected to the flag being shown. You have simply jumped on the bandwagon of people who diss the paper.

The people who object to our flag are usually council officials and the PC brigade. ... Oh, and the EU, who insist that if someone flies a British Flag, then an EU flag must be flown with equal prominence!

No, I meant quite the opposite - the Daily Mail is always finding stories about people who object to putting up the flag, most of them of dubious veracity.

I don't jump on anybody's bandwagon - the Daily Mail lies, simple as that. http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/mail-blames-muslims-over-planning.html http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/doctors-advised-her-to-stay-in-hospital.html http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ec-challenges-mail-over-english-tests.html

Ah. So the Daily Mail reports that other people have objected to various issues - Not necessarily about flag flying (which is what we are discussing) - and then the Daily Mail get blamed for reporting those objections?
They should obviously have their printing presses shut down immediately!

[Tonyblack]

I don't see the problem with celebrating St George, or being English. It seems to me that the people who take exception are other English people. It's like the Campaign For Equal Heights.

No one has ever suggested that the Welsh shouldn't celebrate St David's Day, or the Scots St Andrew's. Go for it says I and b*gger anyone who doesn't like it.

Do the Taffs and the Jocks (said with love, by the way!) get a day off on David's and Andrew's days?

No, but as far as I know, kids get a half day off from school. Or at least they used to do when I was in school. In the morning we'd have the school Eisteddfod and we'd get the afternoon off.

[high eight]

No, I meant quite the opposite - the Daily Mail is always finding stories about people who object to putting up the flag, most of them of dubious veracity.

I don't jump on anybody's bandwagon - the Daily Mail lies, simple as that. http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/mail-blames-muslims-over-planning.html http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/doctors-advised-her-to-stay-in-hospital.html http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ec-challenges-mail-over-english-tests.html

Ah. So the Daily Mail reports that other people have objected to various issues - Not necessarily about flag flying (which is what we are discussing) - and then the Daily Mail get blamed for reporting those objections?
They should obviously have their printing presses shut down immediately!

When the DM reports those objections inaccurately - yes, something should be done.

I couldn't find a 'flag' story but there have been plenty in the past - all part of that foaming-at-the-mouth extreme right patriotism that the Mail fosters.

[The Mad Collector]

Woodchopping:

There are lots of different competions depending on the width of the block, if its standing or laying, upper cutting, overcutting,



even climbing up vertical ones and cutting the top off (my fav)

Those guys really know how to use their choppers

[Batty]

I couldn't find a 'flag' story but there have been plenty in the past - all part of that foaming-at-the-mouth extreme right patriotism that the Mail fosters.

If wanting to fly your country's flag makes you an extreme right-winger, then we will never agree about this issue!
The DM is certainly anti EU. I don't have a problem with that! The EU haven't signed off their accounts for 17 years, and are trading illegally.
That doesn't mean that I am anti anyone-who-isn't-British, though ...


edited for spelling.