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2006-07-06 Britain
St George Too Offensive To Be Britain's Patron Saint?
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Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-07-06 03:18|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Lithuanians don't particularily care who we offend with it.

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania will rise again!
Posted by Steve">Steve  2006-07-06 08:54||   2006-07-06 08:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Did the Dragons complain?
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-07-06 09:58||   2006-07-06 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 This is the exact kind of stuff that depresses me and convince me there's no more of the famed RB Will-To-Live among a large part of Europe.
If we rewrite our History and our very own symbols to please people who are not only hostile, but oppress "us" unbelievers whenever possible, what is our colelctive future? I mean, what's the point of submitting already, to people who are clearly inferior both materially (civilization achievements) and spiritually (I do think christian values and their reformation & enlightenement version are way better than sharia...)? When will we stop seeing ourselves as guilty people who must attone for their sins (thanks to marxism and its assault on western civilization)?
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-06 10:07||   2006-07-06 10:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Better clean up Shakespeare too,

And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George Albans!'


Far more stirring. If you want to go to war for a train station.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-06 10:17||   2006-07-06 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Another missive from Daily Mail Island. Move along please.
Posted by Howard UK 2006-07-06 10:23||   2006-07-06 10:23|| Front Page Top

#6 They want to do away with St. George because the dragon complained.
Posted by Fred 2006-07-06 10:38||   2006-07-06 10:38|| Front Page Top

#7 If St Alban replaced St George, the red cross on a white background would have to be replaced as England's flag by Alban's symbol, a diagonal yellow cross on a blue background...
Yellow stripes? Perfect.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-07-06 11:12||   2006-07-06 11:12|| Front Page Top

#8 comparing Lithuanians to Englishmen is kind of like comparing the wolf with the lab
Posted by bk 2006-07-06 11:35||   2006-07-06 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 How about Saint Richard (the Lionhearted)?
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-06 13:04||   2006-07-06 13:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Richard the Lionheart? The one who nearly bankrupted England to ransom him from that charming Kurd, Saladin? The one so unequipped to rule his kingdom that he didn't even speak the language, but only his mother's French? Out of the frying pan, into the fire, I should think.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-06 13:52||   2006-07-06 13:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Okay, so it was a fable, who gives a shit. It's the symbolism that's important. Good triumphing over evil, courage against grave odds, etc. I.E. - St. Patrick supposedly drove pagan beliefs out of Ireland w/snakes as the symbolism. Maybe they should have a referendum and let the British citizens decide. I've always been kind of partial to St. Michael, St. Sebastian, or Maximillian Kolb.
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-07-06 14:21||   2006-07-06 14:21|| Front Page Top

#12 comparing Lithuanians to Englishmen is kind of like comparing the wolf with the lab

Well, yeah, we've only been officially Christian since 1387, and I'm not too sure it's taken hold yet. ;)
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-07-06 15:24|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-07-06 15:24|| Front Page Top

#13  I've always been kind of partial to St. Michael, St. Sebastian, or Maximillian Kolb.

I think that St. George is perfect for England, and should be left alone. I think all the Church of England "priests" who are afraid to "offend" muslims should be dismissed, stripped of any trappings of office, and deported to Zimbabwe. It's time for Britain to stand up and decide if they're going to be a free people or a satrapy of Saudi Arabia. You don't have long to make up your minds.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2006-07-06 15:47|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2006-07-06 15:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Actually, the Poles aren't that bad.

The Belorussians are the real nutcases (stole our emblem, claim we are part of their territory even though there was never a Grand Duchy of Belorussia as far as I recall, and basically hijack train passengers on the Vilnius-to-Warsaw route by charging them about $30 each to pass through a tiny sliver of Belorussia, among other things.)

It's ok, though. They keep claiming everything their neighbors have is originally theirs, so it's not like they're singling us out. ;)
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-07-06 15:47|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-07-06 15:47|| Front Page Top

#15 Howard, the Sunday Times had an article on it too. It's real.
Posted by JSU 2006-07-06 16:29||   2006-07-06 16:29|| Front Page Top

#16 Actually, the Poles aren't that bad.

Oh yeah? What about the Polish magnates in 1429 preventing the crown from Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor getting to Vytautas the Great.

Ok, maybe my grandparents held a grudge.
Posted by Steve">Steve  2006-07-06 17:11||   2006-07-06 17:11|| Front Page Top

#17 How about Brave Sir Robin?

Ouch!
Posted by Xbalanke 2006-07-06 17:42||   2006-07-06 17:42|| Front Page Top

#18 Lets not forget it was a Polish General who engineered the defeat of the Turks at Vienna in 1452.
And also lets not forget the Spanish Brigade sent to Afghanistan was the St.James Apostella Brigade......that particular St. James got his title for beating the Moors, at the Plain of Stars.(Apostella).
I think we should offend the hell out of them. Call em names, spray pork fat on their dead, raise pigs in their back yard and have large numbers of nubile women run around naked in the streets.....did I mention giving away free beer?
They think we are infidels no matter what we do. We could all be Trappist monks or Carmelites and they would still want to kill us just because we are western and mostly Christian and mainly cause we are not muslim.
Those psychopaths are offended by everything we do........including breathe and they are only appeased when we bleed.
Time for everyone to wake up to the bell and realize we are in a war of cultural survival and there is no peaceful coexistence with them. IT is, sad to say, US or THEM........take your pick, I like Western culture, no matter how flawed it is, compared to the mentally suffocating, repressive, women hating, alternative.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-07-06 18:00||   2006-07-06 18:00|| Front Page Top

#19 how kum dragenz never eet men?
Posted by muck4doo 2006-07-06 20:10|| http://evolvedamnyou.blogspot.com/]">[http://evolvedamnyou.blogspot.com/]  2006-07-06 20:10|| Front Page Top

#20 Steve, yeah, forgot about that! My bad. But recently it's been the Belorussians who have been the major pains in the ass.

Just remember, any time the Poles get outta line, we can always remind them that John Paul II was half Lithuanian, and that's obviously where he got all his smarts. ;)
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-07-06 20:33|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-07-06 20:33|| Front Page Top

#21 If St Alban replaced St George, the red cross on a white background would have to be replaced

How about a white cross on a white background as a compromise?
Posted by SteveS 2006-07-06 22:36||   2006-07-06 22:36|| Front Page Top

#22 Yeah and if the Lithuanians ever get out of line, we can always remind them that it's the Poles patrolling their skies at night :-)
Posted by Threremp Sholutle2252 2006-07-06 22:37||   2006-07-06 22:37|| Front Page Top

#23 How about a white cross on a white background as a compromise?

Already taken.
Posted by Threremp Sholutle2252 2006-07-06 22:39||   2006-07-06 22:39|| Front Page Top

#24 It is official, England is surrendering to Islam.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-06 23:09||   2006-07-06 23:09|| Front Page Top

#25 How 'bout one of my personal favorites - St. Winston:

Posted by DMFD 2006-07-06 23:28||   2006-07-06 23:28|| Front Page Top

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