Could someone please tell me why, after a very unconvincing 1 - 0 victory over a not very good side, did the fans of one of the least patriotic countries1 in the world dance in the middle of one of Ipswich's main streets blocking traffic for twenty minutes? If I was being unkind I'd suggest people were taking every opportunity to celebrate in case another didn't come along. As it is I'll just say you might want to pace yourself.
1 By this I mean England, not Britian. And if you don't believe me English people, what did you do this year on April 23?
I personally was celbrating Shakespeare's birthday.
Also, I was at Tesco today while the game was on because I believe the World Cup to be rather farcical. I saw the highest concentration of ridiculous St George car flags I've ever seen in the car park. And also at least three children with St George's cross painted on their faces. Did they even know the game was on?
Sigh, I liken it to American's celebrating St Patrick's day.
If St Patrick has a day, we should probably give one to ol' George too I reckon.
In the words of the Grauniad's Stuart Jefferies, the St George flag is the perfect representation of English people during the summer- red and cross.
I don't understand why everyone's so excited anyway, the test series finished last weekend, and we drew (and played fairly rubbishly throughout), and the ODIs don't start til sometime next week.
Celebrating the birthday of Steve. Much more important than googling April 23rd Phil.
Imogen, you are a silly girl aren't you!
The thing is that all of you moan about the football but if we won the World Cup (which we will) you would all suddenly be all "I love england! WOO HOO!"
Support your country or leave...France has some room
Yeah Mark, if I remember rightly, you were down the pub jointly celebrating my birthday and St. Georges day!
I was there aswell steve peice so was kev
Why shouldn't people celebrate! WE WON!!!
I'll have you know I wikipedia'd it - thankyou very much.
I would move to France... unfortunately, I took GCSE French, which has enabled me to say that teenage smoking is bad, that the train station is to your left and that I have one sister, but left me incapable of saying pretty much anything else, like 'I am bleeding to death, please fetch a doctor', 'this internet service is shoddy' or 'I would like to buy a house', all of which are essential to every day life. Also, there's no cricket in France, but there is football, and Jean-Marie Le Pen. Which is basically like trading in an ice cream with a bug on it for a whole cone full of bugs. French bugs.
Then stop whinging about England
Love it or leave it
My dear sir, I do not whinge about England. I continue to celebrate with joy, cake and innaccurate bowling our glorious victory over those dastardly Australians last summer in five games of some of the finest sport ever witnessed on English soil. I am almost overcome with excitement at the thought of actually being present in the stands of the Oval for the upcoming test against Pakistan, in order to eat strawberries, cheer Monty and sing 'Jerusalem' off-key. I just can't bloody stand football.
Rah Rah Rah Imogen
Well, after that witty comment, I hereby declare Imogen to be the winner of everything ever.
Eye contact mark
Sorry, that should have read:
Rah Rah Rah ImogenWell, after that witty comment, I hereby declare Imogen to be the winner of everything ever.
I apologise, it'll never happen again.
Monty Panesar - not such a muppet as he's made out to be...
You can easily say you'd like to buy a house with GCSE vocab and grammar...
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I was celebrating the Conch Republic's independence, of course! Next year I'll be celebrating Israeli independence day, I reckon...
Should I have been mourning Shakespeare's death, or Felixstow's own John Mills'? Or celebrating the 5p and/or 10p coins? Or buying, writing and copyrighting books?