Comments on: End of Empire Day http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/03/end_of_empire_day.html Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:38:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/03/end_of_empire_day.html#comment-22997 ninme Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:14:24 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/03/end_of_empire_day.html#comment-22997 <p>Yeah, I think it really has to be either for something concrete ("Empire", skittles), or else an anniversary of something (July 4).</p> Yeah, I think it really has to be either for something concrete (”Empire”, skittles), or else an anniversary of something (July 4).

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/03/end_of_empire_day.html#comment-22899 Rueful Red Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:22:11 +0000 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2008/03/end_of_empire_day.html#comment-22899 <p>We used to sing "Rule Britannia, two tanners make a bob, three make eighteen pence and four two bob". That was in the days when a penny weighed a lot and would wear a hole in your pocket.</p> <p>At least the Empire Day stood for something concrete. "Britishness" doesn't, since it has to include the Scots and the Welsh as well as newer groups. Just can't be loyal to faddish abstract favoured by liberals.</p> <p>Actually, I'd say the motto that's most seen on all British streets now is "This is a no smoking area". That's it.</p> We used to sing “Rule Britannia, two tanners make a bob, three make eighteen pence and four two bob”. That was in the days when a penny weighed a lot and would wear a hole in your pocket.

At least the Empire Day stood for something concrete. “Britishness” doesn’t, since it has to include the Scots and the Welsh as well as newer groups. Just can’t be loyal to faddish abstract favoured by liberals.

Actually, I’d say the motto that’s most seen on all British streets now is “This is a no smoking area”. That’s it.

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