THOSE FUCKING ENGLAND FLAGS!

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!

Okaaaaayyyyy....

http://www.vistech.net/users/rsturge/calflag1.gif

As you can see by the red star and the logo, we are also an independent country and Communist.

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/Graphics/graphics.nsf/graphics/Warwickshire+Coat+of+arms/$file/coatofarms.jpg

The Coventry coat of arms *should* feature Lady Godiva.

They also make for great weapons

I love you dog latin, for summing up my general state of mind over the last few weeks in ways that I never could.

England's youth are the equivalent to other countries doddering old war veterans, especially when football is involved.

I wish the US flag had been this. Also cool:

http://home.att.net/~bzygo2/nh97.jpg

happiness, more or less, it's about cutting trees, something in my liberty.

oh my my!

I called a French player a name last night. It was Willy Spagbol.

does that include wooden legs?

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
was bleaching
Phil Foden's
hair

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...