THOSE FUCKING ENGLAND FLAGS!

Doglatin is my new favourite poster. More epic rants please!

I think you should move, dog latin.

I always overturn cars instead.

I don't find the England flag any more annoying than other signifiers of cultural pride.

the mood in Pinner after the final whistle didn't seem as bad as it could've been. much passion - even aggression - in the pub during the match (French players being hurled with abuse, tho more because of the Premiership clubs they played for rather than their nationality i think, in reality - after all the players are adored by their respective club fans at Arsenal, Chelsea and imminently Spurs). the loudest environment i've ever watched a match in. we left soon after but i'm assuming there was no real trouble (unlike in Croydon and several hertfordshire towns as reported on BBC Breakfast News).

Trouble is, everyone has a different idea of where "the other stuff" begins. Some ppl believe you should just watch the football and cheer if yr team wins and that's it. Others will say that it is about pride in yr nation's team and you are perfectly entitled to express that pride by emblazoning yr team's national identity on everything. On an aesthetic level, I don't mind the flags. I don't even mind that one of the local pubs has decided to whitewash all the tables and paint the St George Cross on them. The same pub has - thoughtfully and sensibly - decided to put up the flags of all the other competing nations in the tournament too.

One thing that MasterCard ad brings home is how utterly tasteless the majority of St George Cross decoarted stuff looks...the towel, the fingernails, speshly the cakes. Ugh.

Where does chanting during a match turn nasty? Someone in the pub last night shouted "You dirty Frenchman!" every time a French player went in for a hard tackle. I guess he was kind of on the line of what is acceptable IMHO. If he'd said "you dirty French ****" he would've crossed it.

If this is the case (and I don't) then I crossed the line severa;l times last night.

(which, btw, nobody seemed to post anything about. don't mention the war)

And it's true that it is bloody naff having all this merchandising. I'd rather not display my patriotism with a "Chocolate Jesus"-style commemorative England bog brush. And why does a football match have to tie in with national pride? It's JUST A GAME OF FOOTBALL not FUCKING WORLD WAR II!

I think it's more interesting that the football dovetailed nicely into the rise of the UKIP in the Euro elections.

I think I called several English players bad names too.

Spooky innit? I guess the same rules for right-wing politics work around the same rules for comedy and that is...

TIMING!

thinking last weekend was a 'celebration' = massive amnesiac idea of WW2.

One of those steroid milkfloat things used by collecting binmen had a French flag displayed INSIDE THE RUBBISH CAGE.

This after meeting my French friends Gilles and Florence for coffee, when they said that the French flag is also taken over by the far right after Ed explained the bit about Union Jackasses. Which just shows that most countries' flags are focal for the wingnuts within.

I had a big case of Sport Tourettes last night but mostly our party was wondering if Robson is now old and dribbly enough for incontinence pants. We also spent serious time slagging off Emile Heskey: 'Oohhh! See Emily play...NOT."

X-post, or maybe you do. But I've not noticed it on TV coverage of matches.

thinking last weekend was a 'celebration' = massive amnesiac idea of WW2

it had been turned into a grotesque, self-congratulatory circle-jerk by current ruling elites, at any rate.

which prolly won't be too long - cue single centenarian standing on beach.

well quite. Being an island in the Southern Hemisphere gives Australia every reason to shrug about Northern Hemisphere wars past and present.

i hate the england flags, i don't really know why, but combine them with the recent election results and you just want to throw up. thatcher's children are back!

... and post it!

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/27/st-georges-flag-fly-10-downing-street-remaining-england-world/

I leave the country for a year and it goes fucking mental. What’s going on?

🇬🇧Latest flag news...

The UK government has asked for the union jack to be flown on all UK government buildings every day of the year from now on.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) March 24, 2021

Think Scottish succession and the subsequent need to change 20 billion union flags could well bankrupt the future rumpUK.

"succession" obvs a cunning portmanteau of success and secession.

This is the Conservative Party Manifesto for the 2019 Election.

64 pages, How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Zero. https://t.co/7JlREXFGRx https://t.co/CGDCt9LniM

— Dr Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford) March 22, 2021

(prompted by random mp complaining about lack of union flags in bbc report, see thread)

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

The govt has also cut red tape to allow dual flagging – two flags on one pole.

i remember the 70s and the national front marches and all the union flags on display there. the stink hasn't gone away.

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.

Er, hello, Ibrox Park every second Saturday, pre-pandemic?

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.

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.

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."

not so big a thing this time around here, by the look

to compensate, here's
https://www.gbnews.uk/

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

Three pints more like

Three points!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 pic.twitter.com/ryIo2zyvHH

— Nadhim Zahawi (@nadhimzahawi) June 13, 2021

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?

As a barber
my most iconic work
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Phil Foden's
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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)

you had one job...