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Reply | Yeah but you can't even be English these days
at 17:08 24 Apr 2024
Except roasts, toad in a hole, the fried breakfast, steak and kidney pie, pork pie, pasties, scotch egg, I could go on.
Sport is a excellent suggestion. England gave the world football! Literally the world's number one sport. Surely that alone is something to be proud of but when you add in tennis, boxing and darts it's suddenly a super impressive portfolio. That's without adding the sh1te sports like rugby and cricket  |
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Reply | Well, well, well
at 16:19 24 Apr 2024
Hopefully they come back fully refreshed and ready to steamroller the last few games.
All good thanks, I tend to keep my good eye closed nowadays. Leave something for Time Team innit .
All good with yerself? |
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Reply | Well, well, well
at 16:06 24 Apr 2024
Hi there Mr Footers, great to have you back. Just in time to celebrate promotion.. |
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Reply | Yeah but you can't even be English these days
at 12:58 24 Apr 2024
There you go. Proves my point completely .
Take the humble sausage Swanners. Have you ever had a euro sausage anywhere near as good? Yer, bratwurst is probably as close as it gets. I have no time for chorizo overrated, over processed and over here.
Also did you ever wake up in a hotel room in Spain after a few beers the day before and run downstairs for the help yerself breakfast buffet only to find the sausages aren't real? Instead there some weird boiled euro sausage?
I rest my case |
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Reply | Yeah but you can't even be English these days
at 12:36 24 Apr 2024
After having a quick read through this it does seem that the English desperately need to define and celebrate their own culture.
Look everyone loves mowing the lawn and eating freshly baked scones but there is so much he more to English culture then this.
I would suggest for example much of the best music of the last 60-70 years as come out of England.
I can't imagine the most innovative music, such as punk or rave, jungle etc originating anywhere else.
Fashion, ( have you seen the shocking dress sense of the average European? )even food. I feck1n love traditional English delicacies like pork pies, pasties, pickled onions etc.
Even on a wider scale its possible to argue that English/UK food is the food of the world. There is more variety and food options from around the world in English cities then anywhere else I've visited.
I'm sure there are hundreds of other cultural highlights others can think of
If we don't define and celebrate the finer points of English culture its left to morans like Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox to drap themselves in a St George's Cross and believe they are representing English culture |
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Reply | I mowed my lawn today….
at 17:47 23 Apr 2024
Had a pork pie with piccalilli for lunch.
Spent the afternoon drinking beer in the sun when I should have been working.
Now I'm about 2 beers away from attempting to construct a maypole in the garden.. |
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Reply | So this St George fella
at 17:21 23 Apr 2024
Early Christianity in Ireland and the UK is an interesting subject. Its almost alien to how we would recognise Christianity now.
The switch/conversion from pagan to Christianity is also not as clear or straightforward as you imagine. There seems to be a long transition period possibly lasting a couple of hundred years.
I have seen a pagan prehistoric barrow in Co Sligo that was part of a site that had probably been in use for a thousand plus years. Where the burials outside go from pagan to Christian, back to pagan and then finally Christian. Christians bring buried around a pagan monument is strange enough but the community or members of this community changing from one to the other and back again over such a long period of time isn't something that's well documented |
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Reply | So this St George fella
at 16:34 23 Apr 2024
Would undoubtedly be an interesting read.
The small townland/parish my daughter goes to school in, Drumlease. Is one of the places Patrick is supposed to have founded a church in and I was asked by the school the other year if I could have a quick look into it.
It turned out that an old deserted protestant cemetery at the end of the village was built on top of where it looked like Patrick in theory founded his early Christian church.
The Columba story is just as interesting read and obviously not as well known.
The reason Columba as to leave Ireland an set up a Christian outpost on Iona ( bringing Christianity to the UK) is down to a large battle near sligo ( involving all kinds of mythical powers) that causes the death of many men.
This large battle is down to the unauthorised copying of a religious text and his refusal to hand it back to the person/monastery that it was copied from.
Is a real insight into the importance of ownership of these early religious manuscripts |
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Reply | So this St George fella
at 16:09 23 Apr 2024
St Patrick is far from one of my strong points.
But if I remember/understand correctly his importance in Irish history if anything as been heavily exaggerated.
There were earlier ' Christian' saints like Brigid ( St Brigids day is now a holiday here) and Declan.
I would suggest Columba ( who brought Christianity to UK via Sligo) is probably the most important.
I think Patrick's importance is partially down to probably the most powerful clan in medieval Ireland, the O'Neils bigging up is importance due to them claiming they were directly related to him.
It was in their interests to raise his importance over others.
Pity he didn't clear Ireland of the midge rather then the snake |
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Reply | So this St George fella
at 12:42 23 Apr 2024
Not for me to say Ken .
Though I do think we could embrace that competitive spirit.
We could turn these days into saints days competitive drinking celebrations.
Like a Cheltenham Gold Cup for ritualised binge drinking |
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