Happy St George's Day!

I shall be celebrating with a cream tea later

I know you all long to be English so have a lovely day, whatever you're doing xx

Demelza wrote:I shall be celebrating with a cream tea later

I know you all long to be English so have a lovely day, whatever you're doing xx

On this day 97 years ago the English would have been putting the finishes touches on their diabolical planning for the invasion of Turkey.

Weird that the incompetence of the ruling class miltary twats gave rise to our true national day.

Enjoy your tea Dem and make sure you swallow all that cream..

It's the 30th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum - a true English achievement.

Oh, Happy St. Georges Day.

Absolutely pissing it down here.

What's that got to do with St. George?

It means I'm not having a Happy St George's day.

Ah. Would you really have had a good one otherwise?

vilkrang wrote:It means I'm not having a Happy St George's day.

Last week you were begging for rain.

taipan wrote:

vilkrang wrote:It means I'm not having a Happy St George's day.

Last week you were begging for rain.

Really? Weird.

Brass Monkey wrote:Ah. Would you really have had a good one otherwise?

No, but a slightly better one perhaps.

At least we haven't loads of faux-English pretending they GAF about some patron saint shit. S'what I like about it.

Brass Monkey wrote:It's the 30th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum - a true English achievement.

Big in the UK I know, we lost out & where drowned with the Commodore 64 hype. The ZX wins by the street in terms of name coolness.

I had a Commodore 64. Can barely remember any games from it though, I know there was a Batman game that I found really hard but if I loaded the second side of the tape it would get me to the last level which I could complete.

There was also one in a desest where you could stab cactus's to get water, but I can't remember the name of it. Then there was Impossible Mission where a dude at the beginning says "Stay a while.... Stay Forever!".

Was there some game with a fox too? I seem to rememeber a fox or something.

Games were really f*cking hard back in the day too, was a huge achievement to complete any game whereas today as long as you put the time in there is barely any game that is too hard to actually complete..

Mick Sawyer wrote:
Big in the UK I know, we lost out & where drowned with the Commodore 64 hype. The ZX wins by the street in terms of name coolness.

I reckon they win in terms of gameplay, creativity and variety of games - I think there ended up being something like 20,000. They also spawned an abundance of programmers that the games today are influenced by.

MHR George Spectrum.

As well as being the (reputedly) 448th birthday of Wm. Shakespeare it's also the 84th birthday of the "Lollipop Girl", Mrs Shirley Temple Black and would have been the 76th birthday of "The Big O". Here's something to fit Viks' mood:

Isn't he married? Or did you mean me?

I meant the weather appeared to be depressing you. Roy O was married twice although neither wife is alive. His first wife, Claudette, died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. His second wife, Barbara, passed away at the end of last year. I'm unaware of your marital status but I'm sure you're very content whatever it is. It was really meant as a tribute to "The Big O" who was noted for songs that were depressing in content but uplifting in delivery.

Mick Sawyer wrote:

Demelza wrote:I shall be celebrating with a cream tea later

I know you all long to be English so have a lovely day, whatever you're doing xx

On this day 97 years ago the English would have been putting the finishes touches on their diabolical planning for the invasion of Turkey.

Weird that the incompetence of the ruling class miltary twats gave rise to our true national day.

Enjoy your tea Dem and make sure you swallow all that cream..

It's a pity such diatribes as these which regularly appear on these boards at this time of year like daffodils but not as pleasing have no basis in fact. The planning stage had long passed for the "diabolical" invasion of Turkey (or rather the Ottoman Empire - Turkey did not come into existence until 1922) with which we had been at war since the previous November after it had allowed its ports to be used by German ships to attack Russia. The naval assault on the Dardanelles Straits had begun on 19 February as this shows:

Gallipoli Campaign

Whilst you are perusing this you may care to scroll down to the list of casualty figures and compare the killed and wounded incurred by the forces of the United Kingdom with those incurred by those of Australia and New Zealand combined and I think you will find that the ratio is 2:1 in favour (although that is unfortunate use of the term) of the UK although I accept that because of the smaller forces the proportionate loss incurred by the ANZAC forces is greater.

As for the diabolical element perhaps you might care to have a look at this and then decide which was the more diabolical:

Armenian Genocide

Everyone enjoy their non-bank holiday national day?

celebrated a greek George's name day yesty...(he resides in the same nursing home)..apparently the Orthodox church, Greeks and Malts also celebrate St George's day

horace wrote:celebrated a greek George's name day yesty...(he resides in the same nursing home)..apparently the Orthodox church, Greeks and Malts also celebrate St George's day

as do the Russians, Portuguese, Bulgarians and almost everywhere else from Mons in Belgium to Newfoundland to Rio de Janeiro:

Patronages of St George

so St George is not really the english saint as opposed to St Paddy in Ireland...I note that St Andrew is a deal in the orthodox Church too...wonder of there have been attempts to give Oz a patron saint...beyond a St Bruce Pythonesque joke

horace wrote:so St George is not really the english saint as opposed to St Paddy in Ireland...I note that St Andrew is a deal in the orthodox Church too...wonder of there have been attempts to give Oz a patron saint...beyond a St Bruce Pythonesque joke

More than an attempt - since 1844 it has been Our Lady Help of Christians (an alternative name for the Virgin Mary) whose feast day is 24 May:

Who are the Patron Saints of Australia?