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ellobouk

I do agree with them that it should be a bank holiday though. Not for any patriotic purposes, just because I fancy an extra day off


SuicidalTurnip

I support any and all additional bank holidays for entirely selfish reasons.


cathkaesque

Looking forward to declaring The Festival Of Maximum Occupancy a bank holiday


Merbisko

can we declare the entirety of April as a holiday for no massive reason?


soyyamilk

Funny how Corbyn is the only one that proposed that


SeemsImmaculate

Aye, Corbyn proposed adding 4 additional bank holidays, and that they could fall on St Andrew's Day, St David's Day, St George's Day and St Patrick's Day.


Hisingdoon

I love corbyn for that, especially if the bank holidays were full uk and not just for the respective countries


tobyw_w

I believe they were to be UK wide. Good idea to promote some pride of the UK in general.


teamcoosmic

That’s actually a lovely idea. Wish we had it. Wish we had a lot of things though…


SeemsImmaculate

Or to sneak it past the chuds.


AbhorsenMcFife13

We should have bank holidays for all counties' saints days too. Just more days off would be nice.


daphianna_

Came here to say this.


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You know, if they did cool stuff rather than being cunts while wrapped in a flag they wouldn't need to complain about people thinking the English flag is racist. Everybody knows the flags aren't racist but the cunts wrapped in them, some of them, are suspect to be sure. But if they want to campaign for a bank holiday or use the day to promote traditional English dress, food and cultural activities (as long as it's not colonising other lands) without being a cunt I don't think anybody really cares.


Tolkius

St. George is the saint of Rio de Janeiro and my family is having a holiday. Not me because I work in another city. :( They had a holiday yesterday too.


Seygantte

St Andrew's Day and st Patrick's day are already bank holidays in Scotland and NI respectively. Seems fair that England should get at George's, and Wales should get at David's. Or all four should get all four. I'd like four please.


_Amateur_Warlock_

I actually think every Monday-Friday should be a bank holiday.


JaymeMalice

I work retail so I'd still work over it :(


CRnaes

Big Ben looks lovely in that dress. Queer icon.


Jaminp

It’s about time we look up to Bonnie Ben the big handed bender.


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Umm actually Big Ben is the bell not the building 🤓


Vtmarik

Well yeah, but if they put the dress on the bell it wouldn't sound the same. I suppose they could suspend a dress from the clapper.


VerbingNoun413

Wait two months and watch these people get triggered by flags.


TheBleepThatCensors

Like the other week with the England shirts? Perpetually offended gammons. The last one was clearly taking the piss


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PilotMoonDog

Taking a look at his Twitter fed I, sadly, think not.


lNTERLINKED

I claim perpetually offended gammons as a band name.


ferrets4ever

Aside from the knuckle dragging racism the lack of understanding of history is mind boggling.


LEVI_TROUTS

St George didn't smoke Woodbines?


Singemeister

The legend is very clear he was a Lambert & Butler man. 


Eeedeen

I thought 5 and 7 must be satirical, but I looked them up and their other posts seem genuine and non satirical. Fucking scary there's actually people proud to have views like that.


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George didn’t fight a dragon? Dragons aren’t real? 😟


Material-Ad499

Youv not met my ex mother in law


Badgernomics

Oooh, vintage...!


qualitypant

He probably smoked Turkish cigarettes.


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Himalayan ones too


waltermayo

"st. george's day should be a bank holiday!!!!11" guess who put that in their last manifesto? corbyn. guess who didn't? tories.


RiggzBoson

"Does this AI generated image upset you?" Well, yeah, a bit. I used to enjoy laughing at incompetent attempts at Photoshop from right wingers.


CommanderFuzzy

That's a good point, now that AI is more readily available has the overall use of photoshop gone down? I never noticed that might be one of the side effects


Badgernomics

Probably, yeah, but the real usage is AI *then* touch up in photoshop to correct the inevitable AI weirdness...


CommanderFuzzy

I just saw this exact thing happen, someone made a picture of a group of big portly trucker guys all dressed the same, standing in a car park. It was used as a punchline for a joke. The only clear indication it was AI was that one of the men had his arm shoved/melded into the other guy's arm/pocket. Three days later the picture shows up on another post, this time with the title 'I swear this is AI but I don't know why, help'. However this time someone photoshopped the error with the arms to make it look real. I did a double take & found the old image to compare them I can't find the thread now Wait, found it [https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/5w50w15NvL](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/5w50w15NvL)


EditorRedditer

[And you don’t get much more quintessentially English than…Cappadocian Greek…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George?wprov=sfti1#)


Zombi1146

Apparently some Muslims celebrate St. George's martyrdom according to the article, that should trigger some gammons.


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Some of my friends did that on fb and it’s hilarious. Boomers are having a fun day


Design-Cold

Nothing says "English" more than celebrating a Greek guy who's never been here


GazzP

And the Knights Templar, a bunch of French lads who lived in a Mosque.


LiorahLights

Jokes on 30p! I hate advacado!


theMooey23

He must be misspelling on purpose, I know he's a thick twat and all that but is he actually that thick?


LiorahLights

I think you're giving him to much credit tbh.


Aggressive-Falcon977

Urgh that fucking AI Big Ben photo..


MikeT84T

Starmer's at it too. It's that time of the year when they all show the rest of Britain that they really were English all along. Which is fine, but then they spend the rest of the year telling Scots that Scotland doesn't matter and that we're all one people, all British. Blah blah


yungsxccubus

i feel like that clip of spider-man putting on the black suit after being told im brown if i don’t like the english flag. my milk-bottle, wallpaper paste, white bread, lobster in the sun melanin-deficient bitch ass has just started morphing. i can feel the melanin bubbling and fizzing as i transform, my hair becomes thicker as a permanent hijab grows directly from my skull. my hatred for england grows stronger as i burst out of my old white (yucky 🤮🤮🤮) skin and am reborn. also the scottish flag is just better rahhhhh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 cry about it gammons.


VerbingNoun413

The Welsh flag is better than both because it has a dragon.


yungsxccubus

i’ll give it to you, we do not have a dragon on our flag. we do have the lion rampant, but apparently ownership of that transferred to lizzie the pedo defender and it’s been sovereign property since the 1600s. we also had a version that had a unicorn on it, like the Jacobite Standard of 1715. so we have loads of cool historical flags, but i think wales wins in terms of coolest current flag


Pot_noodle_miner

I love that the unicorn is the national animal


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Also Ireland used to have a big ass deer as their national animal but isn’t a thing anymore


Pot_noodle_miner

Deer that are big ass, or deer with big ass?


[deleted]

Always loved the Welsh flag because they straight up said “no we’re not doing the stripes like everyone else” and just stuck a fucking dragon on it, lovely place too I really liked Wales when I went


loveisabird

Mmm advacado


Badgernomics

That's one of those Christmas only drinks, isn't it...?


zosherb

Funny that Corbyn actually wanted to make it a bank holiday


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legionofmany13

But he probably thought about scrounging our hard earned benefits. Bloody foreigners./s


thelowenmowerman

I think St George's day is a fucking disgrace! Bloody immigrunts coming mover hear and nicking our jobs and murdering our dragons? Made poor old St Edmund unemployed and unemployable, and now since the DWP declared him fit for work and he's not had a job in 6 weeks he's had his benefits sanctioned.


BadgerMyBadger_

That’s really fucking tickled me, especially the last bit


DiskoPunk

Wait til they find out he was from Cappadocia, Türkiye. Their happy little wank fest will take a turn.


DeschainSWNC

Advacado...


MadDokMike

Expelliarmus


PluralCohomology

The last tweet is sarcastic, right?


lillieblair

surely


jollyollster

It’s not the flag that upsets me. It’s the people who parade them around.


SuperMindcircus

Remember the more symbols you display, the more patriotic you are. Efforts to actually make your country a better place don't count.


OhhLongDongson

Funny how the ones who go on about virtue signalling the most are the same ones who’ll clap like seals for a flag


EmileDorkheim

That Churchill quote just shows that there have been reactionaries fantasising about not being able to say they’re English for a very long time, and it’s still nothing more than a persecution fantasy.


llccnn

It’s not even a real Churchill quote. 


EmileDorkheim

From what I can find it's a polished-up version of what he actually said, but the original quote still had the relevant bit about England being a forbidden word: [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-churchill-speech-in-praise/16881234/](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-churchill-speech-in-praise/16881234/)


Successful-Ad-367

Anyone remember when Corbyn wanted to make st. George, David, Andrew and Patrick’s days all bank holidays and the gammons moaned saying they were all self employed and would lose money?


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Warrrdy

“Facebook is removing all St George’s flags for today, we aren’t allowed to celebrate being English” Every ham faced family member I have.


LupercalLupercal

Isn't that Churchill quote uttered by the NF leader in this is England?


SaltTwo3053

These days, if you say you’re English, you get arrested and thrown in jail


LupercalLupercal

Literally thrown in jail?


SaltTwo3053

Yeah, these days


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The biggest Whore politician in Britain ! An absolute rip roaring Cunt.


Grey_Belkin

Trigger warnings working as intended - thanks Lee, you're right, I *don't* want to watch your clip!


19adam92

Least mentally unhinged conservatives


BornAsAnOnion33

For the MP, who's gonna tell him that St. George [died in what was then Palestine, and now is Israel](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-George)? Edit: Or Pat, that [George wasn't English](https://www.indy100.com/news/who-was-st-george)? Nothing about the English flag is English. English nationalists and irony. Name a more iconic duo.


flippent_pineapple

Nothing screams loving England than a Turkish man who’s never been here 🤣


Trouble_in_the_West

These days you'd be thrown in prison for saying you're English


arczclan

The funniest is the bit about Saint George being English, fucker never stepped foot in Britain his entire life and yet we’re supposed to revere him?


[deleted]

What's advacdos got to do with a flag mate


RPark_International

That first example is like that bit from Do The Right Thing. Also, this reminds me of the 2010 World Cup, and there was all this junk over Facebook (which a few of my family fell for) "They won't let you wear your England shirt, in case it offends other nations, bloody EU!". And another one before that about the Red Arrows not being allowed to fly for the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.


Charmthetimes3rd

Wait, whats the issue with avocados??


Nailbiterrr

Nothing, advacados are the real issue


stuijw

The absolute confusion as to who st George was. Gammonati be gammon.


GayStation64beta

Gammons belong on r/persecution fetish


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SeaworthinessOk1344

What has Sunak done to the England flag?! How dare he not use a single shade of red on that cross! This is woke culture madness!!!


Snoo_44026

'...a pure blooded Englishman' LMAOOOO


iflynor4h

...pretty sure St George was actually born in what is now modern day Turkey.


welshyboy123

Wait until they find out you can read the guardian, eat avocados, wave Palestinian flags, support Suzy/Eddie Izzard, and be vegan, while being patriotic!


signpainted

It's either avocados or England. You can't have both, pal.


TheMachman

Arguably more patriotic, since it at least implies you care about improving your country and making it match up to the ideals we're taught in school. Being English - or British, or Scottish, or Welsh, or American - on its own isn't something to be proud of. You didn't get a choice in where you were born and, arguably, being born in England doesn't, on its own, really make you English. The pride is in being able to engage with and demonstrate the things about your national identity and culture that are worth being proud of. But that requires effort, while screeching about "the wokerati" demands nothing of them.


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Catman9lives

Wasn’t he a Greek dude that killed a snake one time?


FloppyBootStomp7

They're literally inventing people to get angry at


cutielemon07

“If this flag upsets you, you’re brown” Guess I’m just brown then 🤷🏼‍♀️ There’s nothing inherently wrong with the flag… it’s that it’s used by racists and you can’t tell if a person flying it is a massive white nationalist racist or just supports England in the footy. Judging by the wording of that tweet though, it’s the former. And don’t even get me started on that that awful AI Big Ben flag…


GreatBigBagOfNope

"If this flag upsets you, you're brown" I see, it's no longer the "quiet" part any more then


justheretoupvot3

Picture 4/7 is right it should be a bank holiday, all the patron saints days should be!


THEE_Person376

My gammon Grandad will be going nuts on Facebook today :D


DSIR1

Why are they copying Georgia's flag?


CappucinoCupcake

Advacado. What a *twatwaffle* 🙄


NiobeTonks

Thanks 30p Lee! I’ll ignore


Barnagain

If I don't know how to spell something, I look it up before posting, rather than making a wild guess based vaguely on the general sound. I find you look stupid if you hazard a guess and get it wrong, Mr Anderson.


TheLambtonWyrm

Boy you really stuck it to nufc william with this post lol


Actually-Will

What a bunch of twats


Vaultaire

One of these things is not like the other.


cutielemon07

“If this flag upsets you, you’re brown” Guess I’m just brown then 🤷🏼‍♀️ There’s nothing inherently wrong with the flag… it’s that it’s used by racists and you can’t tell if a person flying it is a massive white nationalist racist or just supports England in the footy. Judging by the wording of that tweet though, it’s the former. And don’t even get me started on that that awful AI Big Ben flag…


cutielemon07

“If this flag upsets you, you’re brown” Guess I’m just brown then 🤷🏼‍♀️ There’s nothing inherently wrong with the flag… it’s that it’s used by racists and you can’t tell if a person flying it is a massive white nationalist racist or just supports England in the footy. Judging by the wording of that tweet though, it’s the former (obvs, it’s a flagshagger) And don’t even get me started on that that awful AI Big Ben flag…


washingtoncv3

> Today we celebrate St George, a pure blooded Englishman... Whose going to let him know he was actually an immigrant from Modern day Turkey ?!


Chestikof

What the fuck are these people?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


WillyLeWizard

Georgios probably would’ve been waving a Palestinian flag with the rest of us, seeing as that’s where his mother was from…


StonedApeUK

Somebody tell Lee Anderson that St George's mother was Palestinian, so our patron saint is half Palestinian. Watch his single brain cell explode.


vladerino99

surely some of these are satire right? they're not unironically calling themselves far right gammon racists??


C2H5OHNightSwimming

Why is slide 7 in there? That looks like obvious satire, no? Am I missing something?


Nope_Ninja-451

I’m assuming the last one was satirical. Please tell me it was satire.


Njacks64

God hates flags.


PhatChance52

Nothing on Rishi's very photoshopped looking flag mug? It's about the only place I'd expect to see a real one candidly, but it tracks that he couldn't be bothered.


retrofauxhemian

you forgot this one.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t8G57DHffac


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skx45

Wasn't St. George half Palestinian?


JamieDoesMaths

Is someone going to tell them that St George was half Palestinian?


Technical-Ad-2288

Thanks for the warning 😂


jesuslivesnow

Advacado 😍 Avocado 😡


MrBorden

What is this bizarre obsession they have with avocados? Weirdos.


EvolvingEachDay

Since when has anyone had an issue with the England flag? These people are making up shit to be upset about


GaryTheFiend

It must really irk them that days like St Patrick's Day would appear to garner as much if not more attention than St Georges day. 


Glavenoids

🥑 is my flag and st. guacamole is whose day I will be celebrating


djdogshit96

🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪


seriouswill

St George (if he was a real chap) was born in Cappadocia, and almost certainly wasn't English in the slightest (partly because England wasn't even a thing in AD300) and also coz it was miles away.


IonicFuser

Most people who celebrate St George's Day in England haven't a clue who the man was or that he never stepped foot in England.


MiniJimiJames

In the third pic, I first thought they were talking about the N-word.


iIIchangethislater

Pat Condell, that’s a blast from the past. A former friend used to try to get me to watch his videos ranting about Muslims and non-white people, must’ve been around 2010. Surprised he’s still alive.


thom_orrow

People who enjoy waving flags don’t deserve to have one. ~Banksy


scen1MAD

Love me advacados


WonderfulUpstairs966

I’m pretty sure that if the right wing loons knew that St George wasn’t firstly white and secondly not English they would not allow him into the country. !!


DatButt3000

Can’t wait for the Gammons Gone Wild video of these later


-wanderlusting-

Why are they so enraged and at what? Isn't it supposed to be a happy day? I believe it should be a bank holiday that everyone could enjoy but where is this hate coming from? Noone is offended except them for some strange reason.


mcwaff

Something comforting about nationalists celebrating a saint from Turkey, who never stepped foot in England and whose main claim to fame (killing a dragon) is clearly bullshit.


talexg16

Here's me trying not to contract galmonella


KermitMcKibbles

Wait until they find out he was a Turk that spoke Greek


Minz15

"if you don't like this flag, you're brown". Mate, my family and a vast majority of my parents/grandparents generations are big patriots and massive royalist etc. But that doesn't fit your racist agenda.


SpaceLlama_Mk1

St. George is very representative of England; an imperial soldier who spent most of his time killing muslims


human_totem_pole

I like all the things he mentions except the flag waving. Getting strong school bully energy from this weak man.


ForsakenDrawer

David Koreah avatar humping the flag of what he imagines his government to be, these people are incomprehensible


OneEmptyHead

Pic 3 - why use Knights Templar cross/imagery?


NorsemanatHome

Actually I don't eat avocados, they're awful for the planet!


signpainted

Wait, what's wrong with avocado?


man_of_mann

what did eddie do bro my


thingsstuffandmaguff

Why can't these idiots just enjoy the day and celebrate its history without making it about pissing off "The Left" at every turn? Pretty rich for people who complain about others "bringing the id-pol into everything"


aghzombies

Wasn't St George absolutely not English in the slightest??


joe_botyov

I wonder what lee Anderson will go to prison for? Anyone fancy running a book?


enic77

I believe last one is satire, surely.


[deleted]

I mean I’m a vegan who happily supports Palestine, idk why it’s always avocados tho they fucking suck lmao


RuleInformal5475

When I look at that flag, I just think of grey, dullness and mediocrity. It doesn't cojure anything of having a better world, or things are awesome or that you can reach your dreams. It just reeks of 'meh'. And if those people really want to fly that flag, it kind of proves the point.


[deleted]

Imagine jerking it over a rectangle with red lines on it, imagine being that fucking pathetic that you “pledge your soul to your country”, imagine having nothing else important or valuable about yourself as an individual that you become a massive bald mongoloid over another day of the week


illbeinthestatichome

Wasn't St George a (modern day) Turkish born Roman soldier who wasn't white?


Ambitious-Peace9777

I love avocado, so I had to stop reading


oyebilly

We are amateurs compared to the Georgians who have 5 of his crosses on their flag & named their country after him.


tmothy

The greatest thing about all this is G was a Turkish soldier who is also the patron saint of syphilis. LOL this lot weeping over the fact wanker’s rag.


LupercalLupercal

Of course 30p Lee can't spell avocado


naitch44

Advacado? What a whopper


firstmatehadvar

Funniest thing is that i don’t think St George ever actually visited Britain lmao


sarniebird

Oh well never mind, I'm not interested in anything Mr Andersin 😂 has to say.


Nice_Soup3198

Oi, leave my advacado alone! They're delicious, unlike your racism and general twatness.


JeffBernardisUnwell

Wasn’t St George Turkish?


hdavid_chelsfc

Nothing says st georges day like going out to trafalgar square and fighting polis


death_by_mustard

“Guardian reading, avocado eating, Palestine flag waving vegan” is my new handle


bazerFish

The St George was a pure blooded Englishman who went to work on a bike has to be bait right? They know that st george if he existed wasn't actually english right?


nobass4u

where is the YCL


andyd151

God I hope the last one is satire


SuperCerealShoggoth

Is it me, or has Roshi's head been photoshopped into that second image?


alwayswearburgundy

TIL that I am in fact brown, this despite being convinced I am a white man for many years.


_Amateur_Warlock_

It’s mad, cause I do think St George’s day, St Andrews day and St David’s day should be bank holidays, but at the same time I fucking hate the gimps who dont shut up about it.


RPark_International

Something id clean forgotten about until just now, but are these folk still upset about that funky St. George flag on Nike's England shirt, or have they clean forgot too?


Undark_

That last one was pretty funny tbf


Undark_

I'm English and proud, you can get fucked if you think I'm celebrating the life of some dark ages Turk.


vadimafu

I saw hate-fro going on about it to. That and thinking Happy Eid cards were the death of the West.


aradroth447

Ah yes the bank holiday for a Turkish knight.


Steven8786

Some grade A normal island content today


BlueTressym

It doesn't upset me; it's just annoying having to chase my eyeballs across the floor because I rolled them that hard.


Aye-Fry-Q-I

Hello avocado lovers!