Spooky innit? I guess the same rules for right-wing politics work around the same rules for comedy and that is...
TIMING!
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
thinking last weekend was a 'celebration' = massive amnesiac idea of WW2.
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
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."
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link
X-post, or maybe you do. But I've not noticed it on TV coverage of matches.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
which prolly won't be too long - cue single centenarian standing on beach.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
well quite. Being an island in the Southern Hemisphere gives Australia every reason to shrug about Northern Hemisphere wars past and present.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:49 (nineteen years ago) link
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!
― dave amos, Monday, 14 June 2004 09:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― ___ (___), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― -Bruno, Monday, 14 June 2004 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Okaaaaayyyyy....
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/Graphics/graphics.nsf/graphics/Warwickshire+Coat+of+arms/$file/coatofarms.jpg
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
The Coventry coat of arms *should* feature Lady Godiva.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link
They also make for great weapons
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Oliver Pyper (stickthrower), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I wish the US flag had been this. Also cool:
http://home.att.net/~bzygo2/nh97.jpg
― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
happiness, more or less, it's about cutting trees, something in my liberty.
oh my my!
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I called a French player a name last night. It was Willy Spagbol.
― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
does that include wooden legs?
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm really happy when Germany lose. i don't like to see them succeed. nor Brazil. only because it feels predictable and i long for hierarchal change. nothing against the nation, it's people or it's customs - quite the opposite in fact.
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:10 (nineteen years 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