THOSE FUCKING ENGLAND FLAGS!

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

Any kind of patriotic display is my idea of hell.

last time i saw that many of those flags was a national front march

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.

there's a new flagpole in the park, has been there about 6 months and i've never seen a flag on it.

Just back from being in Scotland for a week, you see a lot of flags up there - Scottish flags, of course.

not so much

Not sure I've seen any tbh.

Nope

All we needed was an Arab world cup in winter. Yay!

And the Queen dying. Yay!!

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.

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.

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?

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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"

https://i.ibb.co/QcdWRtz/uuu.jpg

Can we guess the city?

swindon

Should I move it to the GTC thread?

Or guess it here!? Engish cities get sort of a lukewarm reception there

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!

it's Scandinavia you need to go to if you want to see national flags everywhere

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 0
Oslo 1

presented without comment

https://www.thenational.scot/news/20184037.rangers-pub-bristol-bar-transforms-extreme-jubilee-makeover---see-inside/

Additionally

The city above: 3
Derby: 0
Peterborough: 1 (Polish)
Blackpool: 0
Ayr: 0
Samara: 1
Charleroi: 2 (1 Belgian 1 Ukrainian)
Worcester MA: 4
Tirana: 2
Belgrade: 6
Kyiv: 11

Its time to give Clacton a go at this

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

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)

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