Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned
- Thread starter Blue Hills
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
The NAAFI, established in January 1921, is strictly for other ranks only. H'officers are only permitted on NAAFI premises on business.
My brother is a Major.
He tells me that officers are expected to leave their hats on a table near the entrance to warn the soldiers that they are on the premises.
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
St. George's day is on Monday 28th April this year.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Yes, this one is news to me too. I find myself a little irritated that this is the case.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
It’s due to the proximity of Easter.
You can’t have Easter and St George’s Day in the same week, apparently. It’s just too much fun.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
Weird (culturally) that nothing much is made of St George's Day, but Paddy's day is a worlwide drunkfest. I remember marching on parade in the Scouts for St George's, but that was about it. I did see a FB post quite a few years ago (it smelled a little bit hard-right) that was trying to "bring back" SGD celebrations and for everyone to make more of a thing of it like Paddy's Day, but nothing has changed
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Isn't it normally the same day as Shakespeare's (supposed) birthday. And also his death day? The umpty-pumpth of April.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Paddy’s Day is nothing more than a Guinness marketing day.
If a company could successfully market St George, then they would.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Yes. Shakespeare's Birthday is supposedly 23rd April, and that is also St George's day unless Easter interferes.
According to Wikipedia
"When St George's Day ... falls between Palm Sunday and the Second Sunday of Easter inclusive, it is transferred to the Monday after the Second Sunday of Easter"
unless that is the 25th (St Marks day), when it will be on the 26th.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
So it would just take an English brewery to jump on the wagon and promote it then? Top of my list would be Timothy Taylor's Landlord, or Fuller's London Pride. There are quite a few other big names (Old Speckled Hen, which is Greene King) Wychwood Hobgoblin, and of course Newcastle Brown. But I doubt many of them are popular in pubs anymore which is where it would be flogged most
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Landlord is quite often sold as a guest ale in pubs. The others are not common as draught beers, as you suggest.
Courage Directors would be a big name which is sold in quite a few pubs.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
Carling at Spoons?
I guess that would be the obvious choice, and would appeal to many of the target audience. But I wasn't sure if it was "English". All I can find is that it has Canadian heritage
Put a “Union Jack” on it and nobody would care.
