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I have no problem with an extra bank holiday, and even have it ostentatiously patriotic. I would hate to see it named 'Britain Day'. It has no imagination. National 'Occupation of Scotland Day', a national 'Take the piss out of Welshie day' , or even a national 'Aye, ya get ta kill some Eenglish day' would be preferable terms.
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Why "bank holiday"?
Do banks control these things or is it simply b/c the banks are closed?
Wouldn't every Sunday be a "bank holiday"?
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is that not what i said?Originally posted by Zkribbler
But the U.K. doesn't have a national saint. It's various nations do:
England: St. George
Scotland: St. Andrews
No. Ireland: St. Patrick
Wales: the Dragon.
wales' saint is st. david btw.
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It's just a phrase, or moreover, 'Bank holidays act' was the name of the act which created them in the UK.Originally posted by Wezil
Why "bank holiday"?
Do banks control these things or is it simply b/c the banks are closed?
Wouldn't every Sunday be a "bank holiday"?
Pardon my ignorance.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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Okay, I can accept that. It still seems strange though. I wouldn't want my holidays to have anything to do with a "bank" - Why ruin a day off?Originally posted by Dauphin
It's just a phrase, or moreover, 'Bank holidays act' was the name of the act which created them in the UK."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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I'd like to see bank holidays for each of the patron saints of the UK and Ireland:
England - St George
Scotland - St Andrew
Wales - St David
Ireland - St Patrick
(Cornwall - St. Pirrian)
Plus a bank holiday that celebrates the Union on the day the Act of Union creating Great Britain was signed.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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dont you already celebrate a winged statue from Samothrace?Originally posted by molly bloom
Wonderful; let's celebrate St. George, an Asiatic.
That way we can all be one big happy integrated set of peoples.
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fixedOriginally posted by C0ckney
wales' saint is st. ddafvfvyydtddt btw.
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Sorry to see that your character-assassination motivated thread**** failedOriginally posted by Kuciwalker
Better luck next time, pro-troller
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Don't look at me. I don't know what the hell he's talking about either.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
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you missed at least two 'w's.Originally posted by Zkribbler
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"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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If Oerdin makes a thread, somehow Kuciwalker is often bored with it, trying to threadjack it into a meaningless spam thread.Originally posted by Zkribbler
Don't look at me. I don't know what the hell he's talking about either.
It's pretty cute how he tries to hide it now
I'm not going to help him with a spam-threadjack by continuing this discussion here, though.
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He wanted an opinion on (yet another) national holiday, and I provided it...Comment
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N. Ireland already has St. Patricks Day as a bank holiday, and 12th July, and all the bank holidays that the rest of the UK has. I'd almost move back just for that reason!Originally posted by C0ckney
i would prefer to see each country in the union have its saint's day as a national holiday.
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