Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

Rear-gunning again rA, what a surprise

What?s your point (made a million times before, keep up!) about St George? Santa came from Turkey too, I don?t see the relevance other than an excuse for another little in-chortle

The old ones are the best ones, AF and you just couldn’t resist resurrecting and recycling your own - made soooo many times before little old ‘in joke’, yet again! - could you?

The relevance? I just find it amusing that all those racists who seem so happy to adopt, erect and hide behind the cross of St.George seem oblivious to the fact that he was quite probably black and of Palestinian parentage. ‘In-chortle’? Well if I didn’t laugh I’d cry at what is currently happening in and to our country.

P.S. I think someone should have had a word with you about Santa. Seems a little overdue.

[Andy_Faber]

all those racists seem oblivious to the fact that he was quite probably black and of Palestinian parentage.

So I referred to Deepseek which I find more reliable than ChatGPT as it is better at weeding out bias and urban myths. And it says

‘ There is no historical evidence that Saint George was Black or of Palestinian descent in the modern sense. He was likely born in Cappadocia (in modern-day Turkey) around the 3rd century to Christian Greek parents. While he served as a soldier in the Roman army in the region of Syria Palaestina—and may have died there—that does not make him Palestinian by ethnicity, as the modern Palestinian national identity did not exist then. Iconography traditionally depicts him as a Roman soldier of Anatolian or Greek background. The claim of Black or Palestinian heritage is not supported by early sources.’

Stop being so desperate

[ramAnag]

So I referred to Deepseek which I find more reliable than ChatGPT as it is better at weeding out bias and urban myths. And it says

?‘ There is no historical evidence that Saint George was Black or of Palestinian descent in the modern sense. He was likely born in Cappadocia (in modern-day Turkey) around the 3rd century to Christian Greek parents. While he served as a soldier in the Roman army in the region of Syria Palaestina?—and may have died there?—that does not make him Palestinian by ethnicity, as the modern Palestinian national identity did not exist then. Iconography traditionally depicts him as a Roman soldier of Anatolian or Greek background. The claim of Black or Palestinian heritage is not supported by early sources.?’

Stop being so desperate

Me…desperate! Really? I actually couldn’t care less what ethnicity St.George was. It’s you who’s got your pants in a knot, first off over me having the audacity to laugh at Swale taking the p*ss out of you and secondly over me daring to suggest that our patron saint may have been a little ‘dusky’.
I’ll also let you into a secret, and I don’t think you’ll need DeepSeek or Chatwhatever to check it out…but, sorry to disappoint…there were no dragons and Santa isn’t real either.

[swaledale]

The old ones are the best ones, AF and you just couldn’t resist resurrecting and recycling your own - made soooo many times before little old ‘in joke’, yet again! - could you?

The relevance? I just find it amusing that all those racists who seem so happy to adopt, erect and hide behind the cross of St.George seem oblivious to the fact that he was quite probably black and of Palestinian parentage. ‘In-chortle’? Well if I didn’t laugh I’d cry at what is currently happening in and to our country.

P.S. I think someone should have had a word with you about Santa. Seems a little overdue.

Mm the concept of "rear gunner" as often put forward by some on here is as I understand it where another poster actively supports another, seeing as you merely made a neutral observation I'm begining to see that some use phrases without actually thinking or about what their meaning is.! Sigh!

Though quite why, if another poster supports or otherwise agrees with a post of another, that should elicit such a response is a tad puzzling, perhaps there is some insecurity at play here? Especially if one is deluded enough to think thier opinion or view is held by the majority? Must be a shock to find out its not!

[MadAmster]

Mm the concept of "rear gunner" as often put forward by some on here is as I understand it where another poster actively supports another

A dirty mind can be a joy for ever if you've got one. There could well be other connotations to that term...