What’s going on?
attempt to distract from worst Covid death rates in the world and self-inflicted economic meltdown via Brexit by appealing to Tory voters' core delusional persecution complex
― anecdotal certainly but not nothing (stevie), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
The govt has also cut red tape to allow dual flagging – two flags on one pole.
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
i remember the 70s and the national front marches and all the union flags on display there. the stink hasn't gone away.
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
I can remember seeing national front skinheads, led by some drummers and marching along The Headrow in Leeds, stinking the place up with their union jack t-shirts on St George's day in the late 80's as well.
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
Er, hello, Ibrox Park every second Saturday, pre-pandemic?
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
there is a bit of an inverse of flag-fuckery in the uk where just simply the existence of the butcher's apron is seen as vile and inherently racist. my stance is that nation states have to have a flag. it is normal for them to be flying on certain buildings. obviously flag-fuckery is loathsome.
i mean i have a bit of a cheek saying this because i have always had a distaste for union jack based on being congenitally a bit of a scot nat and hating the queen and also because i have found as i have gotten older that the saltire really bothers me also. i was back in glasgow for a visit in 2019 and was near george square during an "all under one banner" rally (for those not in the know these are big tent pro-independence rallies not ran or promoted by the SNP and which don't exclude any groups including fascists - of which there are not many in number in the scottish nationalist movement but it's the principle of the thing) and something about that sea of saltires really irked me.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
They want to spend a lot of tax revenue on flags so that people feel like they have to support the Union now I mean the money's been spent lads so.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/union-flag-to-be-flown-on-uk-government-buildings-every-day
but none of those FUCKING EU FLAGS
"Planning regulations in England that were introduced in 2007 to allow the EU flag to be flown on public buildings without acquiring planning permission will also be removed following the UK’s departure from the European Union."
― koogs, Thursday, 25 March 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
not so big a thing this time around here, by the look
to compensate, here'shttps://www.gbnews.uk/
― koogs, Monday, 14 June 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
Best of luck to the England team from the great people of West Bromwich East 🏴#ENG pic.twitter.com/eef6LPnAE1— Nicola Richards MP (@Nicola4WBE) June 13, 2021
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 14 June 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
Three pints more like
Three points!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🏴🏴🏴 pic.twitter.com/ryIo2zyvHH— Nadhim Zahawi (@nadhimzahawi) June 13, 2021
― nashwan, Monday, 14 June 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
How amazing does Regent Street look? All streets should be looking like this, ALL the time 😍 pic.twitter.com/ZuOLkMkOJ8— Stephen James (@StephenJamesGBR) May 22, 2022
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
Any kind of patriotic display is my idea of hell.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:21 (one year ago) link
last time i saw that many of those flags was a national front march
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
there is a family run dairy farm down the road from me that have a flagpole by the farmhouse and they rotate their flags. Sometimes they have a union jack that has some kind of sinister looking masonic symbol on it and they other odd looking ones that I couldn't i.d. At the moment they have St Georgie cross and a Ukrainian flag under it. Sometimes the old boy stops + chats + offers me an apple from their orchard while driving past on his dinky little tractor and trailer. I daren't ask him what the symbol on the union flag is as I'm already fearful he may be grooming me for some kind of human sacrifice ritual.
― calzino, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
there's a new flagpole in the park, has been there about 6 months and i've never seen a flag on it.
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
Just back from being in Scotland for a week, you see a lot of flags up there - Scottish flags, of course.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
not so much
― koogs, Friday, 2 December 2022 09:21 (one year ago) link
Not sure I've seen any tbh.
― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2022 10:42 (one year ago) link
Nope
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 2 December 2022 10:43 (one year ago) link
All we needed was an Arab world cup in winter. Yay!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 December 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link
And the Queen dying. Yay!!
― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2022 10:54 (one year ago) link
i saw a couple of tiny ones this morning in a windowbox which made me realise i hadn't seen them. the block by the shops which is usually draped in them has nothing.
― koogs, Friday, 2 December 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
Sadly if England improvise a bit of Purcell over those sweet Senegalese textures to get to the quarters we will see more of this shit.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 December 2022 11:27 (one year ago) link
only seen 1 of those plastic car ones so far. i'm guessing that no retailers bothered stocking them due to general pre-tournament antipathy, so any you see would've been kept from last time?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 2 December 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
As a barbermy most iconic workwas bleachingPhil Foden'shair
― Michael Jones, Friday, 2 December 2022 11:43 (one year ago) link
Feels a bit like that with Christmas this year. I mean, obvs there's Christmas stuff about the gaffe in town but it all seems a bit rote and "can't be arsed"
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 2 December 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/QcdWRtz/uuu.jpg
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
Can we guess the city?
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
swindon
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
Should I move it to the GTC thread?
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
Or guess it here!? Engish cities get sort of a lukewarm reception there
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
As an aside I posted it here because I streetviewed round a few British cities looking for flags, and there are a lot fewer than I remembered/imagined. I have a feeling they somewhat ubiqutuous but streetview seems to suggest otherwise!
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
it's Scandinavia you need to go to if you want to see national flags everywhere
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
I tried two Scandinavian cities and they both failed the 100 click street view challenge (how many flags can you see in 100 movements)
Aarhus 0Oslo 1
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
presented without commenthttps://www.thenational.scot/news/20184037.rangers-pub-bristol-bar-transforms-extreme-jubilee-makeover---see-inside/
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
Additionally
The city above: 3Derby: 0Peterborough: 1 (Polish)Blackpool: 0Ayr: 0Samara: 1Charleroi: 2 (1 Belgian 1 Ukrainian)Worcester MA: 4Tirana: 2Belgrade: 6Kyiv: 11
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
Its time to give Clacton a go at this
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 10:03 (one year ago) link
0!
Not a single flag in a hundred clicks
https://i.ibb.co/FXtDdwS/Screenshot-2023-04-04-at-12-11-27.png
I did discover this miniature spacecraft though
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 10:13 (one year ago) link
bump
lots of tiny flags in hammersmith, strung tightly from lamp post to lamp post.
one of the post-v1* houses a couple of roads over has a couple of large ones and some bunting.
park flagpost, not yet.
(* there's a gap in a terrace filled with two obviously cheaply-built blocks. graffiti in the plaster work is dated 1945)
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:53 (eleven months ago) link
you had one job...
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2024 10:10 (one month ago) link