i've instilled national pride in someone? how'd i manage that? am i being ignorant again? damn it.


st.george is the english saint dude, like st.patrick is the one for ireland, you just don't know who saint george is 'cause noone celebrates his day :S.

he was a patron saint, and what he did was a poorer job than the other 3:finger:

moley...I saw that. :(

He killed dragons...Welsh ones;)

EDIT: undeleted it...it was almost funny, not bad for a Welshman.

im sorry :D i deleted it so not to offend, haha.

I suppose I am a pasive fan. Other than Jeff Lynn (e?), I couldn't name anyone in the band. I don't own any ELO, but I enjoy the stuff that makes the airwaves.

Mr. Blue Sky
Livin' Thing
Down Bring Me Down
Evil Woman
Sweet Talkin' Woman


I'm certain there are plenty more I enjoy. They just escape me right now.

St. George was Turkish and apparently killed a dragon in Libya!

St. Patrick, on the other hand, was a Roman guy who was born in Scotland, which I suppose gives him more connection with Britain... so we prefer to celebrate him...

Nah, he was Palestinian. :confused:

Ah, well I looked it up and it said Turkey the first time, I looked it up somewhere else now and it says Palestine. I'd always been told he was Spanish actually!

Safe to say he wasn't from England.

BY THE WAY, I put up the Britain thread (a very open ended one) in the polls forum. Go vote on its UK-ers, and make us look even cooler than we already are!

He had an english name thats enough :o:

Too right. To think of it, so did a lot of the the disciples. We Brits get everywhere.

Well it`s not called St Mustapha Akiakiaki`s Day now is it

http://www.100greatblackbritons.com/..._of_lydda.html
We were both right...oh and he was black??????? :laughing:

st.david or Dewi Sant was a celtic monk. he is the patron saint of wales.:)

It is said that he once rose a youth from death (but i don't know what that means) and he magically rose a hill from the ground so he could be heard throughout the land and gave sight back to his blind teacher.

he lived over 100 years.

No, he was definitely named after George I, king of England (1714-27 AD). Even though St. George was born long before, it was just a fantastic bit of insight on the part of Sainty's mum.

A black patron saint? Now we're double-cool.

Go to the bloody Britain thread!


he built the first defibrillator?

And look at all that bling he has on.

Great , a chav patron saint :rolleyes: