AIBU to think tatty lampost flags are imposing on communities?

I live in a part of the UK where flags on lampposts are used like dog piss. To mark territory.

I dislike using flags like dog piss. I think it's disrespectful, unpatriotic and fuelled by hate. Because it is.🤷‍♀️

I wouldn't think most people have any issue with individuals hanging good quality flags from their own property. Individuals are free to display flags at their own premises. What we don't like is tatty rags hanging from communal street furniture.

Our local self-named "flag man" not so long ago pleaded guilty in court to assaulting a woman by beating her so maybe that's why he hasn't had time to maintain his flags.

Just as well you don't live in Switzerland. Flags fluttering in every village from flagpoles, lampposts, businesses and individual houses. All well kept of course and looks lovely.

Round here there are still a few flags flying but they seem in good condition and well fastened so not a problem.

Would the people who support right wing thugs cable-tying the flags they like onto lampposts also support left wing thugs cable-tying the flags they like onto lampposts? And what about middle of the road people who aren't even thugs? Can they tie stuff to lampposts?

Who should decide which flags are cable-tied onto lampposts? Should everyone be free to tie stuff so that every lamppost in the country has someone's flag, symbol, slogan on it, no matter how offensive, intimidating, provocative, rude or joyous other people may find it? Or maybe we should all agree not to do that and keep our streets clear of all that guff, which seems to me to be a very British thing to do.

It might get some of that twee knitted postbox shit out of the public realm, too...

Enjoy them in private then please. Rather than littering public space with plastic tat. Its embarrassing as a country to have this kind of ridiculous behaviour.

I cannot stand flags either

Yabvu calling 999 over an England flag. Did they laugh at you? 999 is for emergencies not for complaints. I'm English so no I'm not offended by England flags.

So why did people only start to hang flags off lampposts when rascist grifters told them to? Could have been celebrating their country's flag for years, nice flagpole in the garden, raised on St George's Day, the jubilee, England getting to the final stages of a sporting tournament. But no, only when a couple of rascist criminal thugs tell them to. Go figure.

I don't at all, it was entirely the specific tone of the posters 'gosh no our flags are a beauteous delight' feigned innocence.

The problem in the UK actually is that the union jack has been so massively used to present views of xenophobia and colonialism that it's hard to separate out. Anyone who actually wants to feel a positive identity with their flag should be as horrified as the rest of us at the xenophobic hijacking.

That's you're actually annoyed at it being pointed out instead suggests your own feigned innocence is just the same

Absolutely nothing wrong with being patriotic. Absolutely everything wrong with putting cheap plastic Chinese made flags on lampposts that look incredibly tatty, make an area look chavvy and waste public resources taking them down.

It's a sign you're in a run down area where people have not had the opportunity of education.

How shocking and ignorant are YOU that you assume everyone who enjoys their own flag in their own country is racist!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raise_the_Colours_(organisation)

Eta this works

Nope, not only in England, plenty of us in NI hate the notion of plastering a flag everywhere too.

Gosh how shocking that that's your point of view when you were simply innocently commenting on the joy you derive from flags.

Your link just says bad title

Only the English seem to get offended or talk negatively about the country's flag and use of derogatory words. I like them, none are 'tatty' where I live. English and proud. What's wrong with being patriotic!

No sorry I haven't seen any of this! I only hear stories of illegal immigrants murdering and raping etc

I live in a country that has always had our flags up everywhere. Why do you dislike the flag of your country?

Oh Dahling,nylon flags are sooo last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaisetheColours(organisation)

The haters are the criminal grifters behind the 'raise the colours' tripe.
Eta why on earth would you want to align yourself with these chancers

I live in Glasgow, twice I've been caught in throngs of them in the city centre. Once with my children. You've not seen it?

Who are these people? I think you have been watching too many BBC drama programs!

Haters gonna hate!😘

Our flags are maintained too @MyLimeGuide apparently that makes us racists.