Happy St George’s Day
- Thread starter JtB
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Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
This is a real life dragon with a venomous bite. Dates back to prehistoric times:
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/wfQjHSFnfWs?si=1oJHmP75SVVOtHq7
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/wfQjHSFnfWs?si=1oJHmP75SVVOtHq7
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
- Location
- In green and pleasant hills.
It's a pity the country doesn't make more of the patron saint (and yes, I know all the history). Most other countries I've been to have a special day of their own.
Mrs M
Guru
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Just realised it’s 18 years ago (scary how time flies) that I got plates put into my lower back SI joint and got my life back. 😀
Time Waster
Veteran
Can I just make the point that St George shouldn't be the English patron Saint? We had a better one before him. St Edmund! And he came from England or rather east anglia where he was an Anglo saxon King. A real person too!
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
I don’t think they are strictly venomous as they don’t secrete venom, they just cause infection in those they bite, who then succumb to sepsis. They don’t breathe fire either - pretty lame dragons if you ask me. 😁
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Noted in message #6 😉
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
That's pretty much it. Their mouths are festering with all sorts of germs and stuff. It's not unknown for people who are bitten by one to die 6 moths later.
Flick of the Elbow
less than
- Location
- West Edinburgh
Enjoying the irony that ‘the English’ are complaining that their rightful Anglo-Saxon patron saint has been usurped 
(Given that the Angles and Saxons usurped the British to such an extent that the British language got confined to the margins and the country became known as Angleland, the land of the Angles).
(Given that the Angles and Saxons usurped the British to such an extent that the British language got confined to the margins and the country became known as Angleland, the land of the Angles).
Ian H
Ancient randonneur
I'm proper English - I don't do this absurd patriotic stuff.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
As a Scotsman with a very cosmopolitanism heritage I do find it strange that nowhere in the UK celebrates Vlad the Impaler day.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Wasn’t St George real? I thought he was born in Cappadocia and died in historic Palestine.
craigwend
Grimpeur des terrains plats
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
He also wrote the famous English Holidaymakers drinking song, "Here we go, Here we go, Here we go"
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Sounds a lot like our local MP
