St George also never visited England and died in Palestine.
I don’t get why people think pointing out that St. George wasn’t English is some kind of gotcha, it just speaks to the snobbish looking down your nose at anyone you deem lower class and therefore less intelligent than you.
You’re making stereotypes and caricatures out of the majority of the general public and lower classes. Imagining they’re too thick to understand history, it’s embarrassingly elitist and doesn’t help your cause, it just puts people off and makes them roll their eyes.
👋👋excellent points.
Regardless of the origins of St George it’s still Englands flag, and seeing it everywhere actually makes people feel proud of this little shitty island we call home.
Dunno what I hate most this or the ‘Patriotic’ roundabouts. Prolly this.
And not only that but what England a few other European places know as St George, Islam also recognises as the prophet Al-Khibr
Yes? So? And? I don’t know why these weirdos think this is such a gotcha.
Again, for the third time today
Where’s
The
Meme
The St. George’s flag, a red cross on a white field, was adopted by England and the City of London in 1190 for their ships entering the Mediterranean to benefit from the protection of the Genoese fleet. The English Monarch paid an annual tribute to the Doge of Genoa for this privilege.
They rented it, but then stopped paying.
England stole it.
Should we all be racist now? What’s the Church’s position? I’m so busy down on the farm I won’t have much time for the ol’ racism.
It was originally Genoese, adopted so English ships could sale the Mediterranean relatively safely, and rather typically English, the flag was never given back to Genoa, but kept and eventually adopted as the “English” flag. Even at the time the “English” flag was the Plantagenet royal family crest of three gold lions on red. The George Cross was never the “English” flag until the Tudor’s in the 16th century, long, long after Richard I was dead and buried.
*Anatolia. Turkey didn’t exist.
The Richard I facts are incorrect.
Andrew forgot to mention that there’s no evidence dragons ever lived in England.
I’m amazed that the meaning of symbols change based on context.
Just like memes!
Not about the flag though is it?
Must be terrible you lot watching all the v days and royal or sporting occasions when we must only be proud of uk.
Even the welsh tolerated it during the rugby World Cup where it was emblazoned in Cardiff. Mad eh.
I think the rebellions mainly about illegal immigrants assaulting and sexually assaulting young girls and women in general and having no consequences and english people are being arrested for facebook posts… it’s about the lack of action by the government.
Written by somebody who has no idea what a patron Saint is, how they came to become the patron Saint of many nations and cities and the cultural, and historical connotations with said places.
St George was born in Roman Anatolia, not Turkey. Turkey didn’t exist in St George’s time. 🤓🤓🤓
This is a reach if ever I saw one, they are anti-Muslim and support European groups who are also anti-Muslim, finding out that St George was a Roman who died in Roman occupied Palestine wouldn’t change a thing, most extremists would actually find it more romantic wielding the flag of a Roman in the face of non-European “savages” like the good old days.
More content about flags. It’s fucking boring.
As a racist myself, I’m so glad people are confirming that non English people and things can never be adopted as English.
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St George also never visited England and died in Palestine.
I don’t get why people think pointing out that St. George wasn’t English is some kind of gotcha, it just speaks to the snobbish looking down your nose at anyone you deem lower class and therefore less intelligent than you.
You’re making stereotypes and caricatures out of the majority of the general public and lower classes. Imagining they’re too thick to understand history, it’s embarrassingly elitist and doesn’t help your cause, it just puts people off and makes them roll their eyes.
👋👋excellent points.
Regardless of the origins of St George it’s still Englands flag, and seeing it everywhere actually makes people feel proud of this little shitty island we call home.
Dunno what I hate most this or the ‘Patriotic’ roundabouts. Prolly this.
And not only that but what England a few other European places know as St George, Islam also recognises as the prophet Al-Khibr
Yes? So? And? I don’t know why these weirdos think this is such a gotcha.
Again, for the third time today
Where’s
The
Meme
The St. George’s flag, a red cross on a white field, was adopted by England and the City of London in 1190 for their ships entering the Mediterranean to benefit from the protection of the Genoese fleet. The English Monarch paid an annual tribute to the Doge of Genoa for this privilege.
They rented it, but then stopped paying.
England stole it.
Should we all be racist now? What’s the Church’s position? I’m so busy down on the farm I won’t have much time for the ol’ racism.
It was originally Genoese, adopted so English ships could sale the Mediterranean relatively safely, and rather typically English, the flag was never given back to Genoa, but kept and eventually adopted as the “English” flag. Even at the time the “English” flag was the Plantagenet royal family crest of three gold lions on red. The George Cross was never the “English” flag until the Tudor’s in the 16th century, long, long after Richard I was dead and buried.
*Anatolia. Turkey didn’t exist.
The Richard I facts are incorrect.
Andrew forgot to mention that there’s no evidence dragons ever lived in England.
I’m amazed that the meaning of symbols change based on context.
Just like memes!
Not about the flag though is it?
Must be terrible you lot watching all the v days and royal or sporting occasions when we must only be proud of uk.
Even the welsh tolerated it during the rugby World Cup where it was emblazoned in Cardiff. Mad eh.
I think the rebellions mainly about illegal immigrants assaulting and sexually assaulting young girls and women in general and having no consequences and english people are being arrested for facebook posts… it’s about the lack of action by the government.
Written by somebody who has no idea what a patron Saint is, how they came to become the patron Saint of many nations and cities and the cultural, and historical connotations with said places.
St George was born in Roman Anatolia, not Turkey. Turkey didn’t exist in St George’s time. 🤓🤓🤓
This is a reach if ever I saw one, they are anti-Muslim and support European groups who are also anti-Muslim, finding out that St George was a Roman who died in Roman occupied Palestine wouldn’t change a thing, most extremists would actually find it more romantic wielding the flag of a Roman in the face of non-European “savages” like the good old days.
More content about flags. It’s fucking boring.
As a racist myself, I’m so glad people are confirming that non English people and things can never be adopted as English.
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