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Also, Patrick was actually from what's now England (or at least somewhere in Britain, depending on which one of about 20 possibilities you choose to believe).

I've always taken a day or two off around Bonfire Night. Started when I was at school/college and we'd get the afternoon off. The stated reason was that transport was too difficult. That made sense, but I'm sure that at least once we had the 6th off as well and I've always suspected that the...

As far as the DNA thing's concerned presumably you could (for example) be descended from hugeneots or royalists who moved from France to Britain around that time? Or indeed didn't move then but wouldn't have supported Napoleon anyway. I tend to be somewhat cynical about what these things...

I watched this just now. I am prepared to admit that it's not actively harmful, even if I happen to find it singularly irritating.

I assume that the lunch break has "always" existed in some form or other. As far as you second sentence is concerned, if we were discussing Britain or the British I'd agree in this context (i.e. the late 19th century origins of meal breaks in cricket), but I don't think we can reasonably...

Strictly speaking, the tea break is an Australian invention. https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/steven-lynch-on-cricket-s-fondness-for-the-tea-break-655633 Being open to other country's good ideas is something to be proud of though.

Whenever I see Morris dancers, I start to wonder whether we'd have been better off if we hadn't won the war.

Ohh, dragons? Now you have my attenton.

But I'll be drinking anyway. :tantrum:

Between Bonfire night and Christmas. Pfft. What kind of pointless Saint's day is that?

Beyond "some point in April" I'm not entirely sure when St George's Day is.