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Am I being unreasonable?
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Deguster · 09/09/2022 15:37
My neighbour just really seems to like flags - not just British ones. He flies the Welsh, Scottish and Irish flags on the appropriate saints days. He flew the Italian flag for a week when the local trattoria reopened after lockdown.
There are plenty of nations “flaggier” than the UK - the states for starters.
DickDarstedly · 09/09/2022 15:40
@Culldesack it is not a game. It’s a serious question. You claim that it is only the British who have mixed feelings about flying their national flag. This implies other countries don’t. That is just not true. Britain is famously covered in Union Jacks. I have no problem with that whatsoever at all. I have Union Jack bunting on the front of my house! I just don’t understand the idea that other countries are ‘allowed’ to be more patriotic. It’s not true!
Hoppinggreen · 09/09/2022 15:42
Culldesack · 09/09/2022 15:29
I'm not having a go at you. Just that it's annoying, when it seems to be only the Union Jack and flag of St George, that get tarred with that brush.
Hoppinggreen · 09/09/2022 15:22
To be fair it’s the one time you can do it and people won’t think you are a “certain type”
And yes, I know that the Flag itself isn’t inherently racist etc but generally there tends to be a certain section of the community that displays it.
I completely agree but it IS the case
DappledThings · 09/09/2022 16:06
Ever thought of moving out of the UK to a country in your beloved European Union?
I absolutely have and am jealous of friends who have done. Too many commitments here to make it workable sadly. That's the sad bit, that I have to consider leaving my own country to remain part of the greater whole.
zingally · 09/09/2022 16:35
I hung one from my window shortly after the announcement. It'll stay there for the official 12 days of mourning, and I'll take it down the day after the funeral.
I couldn't give a rats ass what the neighbours might think. I'm British and proud, and although I can a bit "take or leave" the monarchy, I was very fond of the Queen.
Culldesack · 09/09/2022 16:47
DappledThings · 09/09/2022 16:06
Ever thought of moving out of the UK to a country in your beloved European Union?
I absolutely have and am jealous of friends who have done. Too many commitments here to make it workable sadly. That's the sad bit, that I have to consider leaving my own country to remain part of the greater whole.
🙄
WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 09/09/2022 16:49
DappledThings · 09/09/2022 16:06
Ever thought of moving out of the UK to a country in your beloved European Union?
I absolutely have and am jealous of friends who have done. Too many commitments here to make it workable sadly. That's the sad bit, that I have to consider leaving my own country to remain part of the greater whole.
LMFAO.
WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 09/09/2022 16:52
ShandaLear · 09/09/2022 14:44
It’s because it’s been hijacked by the far right in the same way as the England flag, and in NI it is seen as a symbol of oppression by many. To me it looks tacky and screams skinheads and football hooliganism.
DixonD · 09/09/2022 13:30
Yes it’s weird isn’t it? Like we’re embarrassed of the U.K. I know our history is a bit controversial sometimes, but still…
IcedPurple · 09/09/2022 12:41
GB is the only country where flying your nation's flag, even in the country itself, is seen as controversial.
Oh FFS. 
It's shitty comments like this that make me want to keep an England flag up permanently just to piss off people like you.
dworky · 09/09/2022 17:54
Cheeselog · 09/09/2022 12:44
Not been to Germany, have you?
IcedPurple · 09/09/2022 12:41
GB is the only country where flying your nation's flag, even in the country itself, is seen as controversial.
😎
ShandaLear · 09/09/2022 19:05
WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 09/09/2022 16:52
Oh FFS. It's shitty comments like this that make me want to keep an England flag up permanently just to piss off people like you.
ShandaLear · 09/09/2022 14:44
It’s because it’s been hijacked by the far right in the same way as the England flag, and in NI it is seen as a symbol of oppression by many. To me it looks tacky and screams skinheads and football hooliganism.
DixonD · 09/09/2022 13:30
Yes it’s weird isn’t it? Like we’re embarrassed of the U.K. I know our history is a bit controversial sometimes, but still…
IcedPurple · 09/09/2022 12:41
GB is the only country where flying your nation's flag, even in the country itself, is seen as controversial.
Why do you think I give a rats ass what you do in your own house? I’m just telling you what those flags means to me.
Culldesack · 09/09/2022 19:07
WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 09/09/2022 16:49
LMFAO.
DappledThings · 09/09/2022 16:06
Ever thought of moving out of the UK to a country in your beloved European Union?
I absolutely have and am jealous of friends who have done. Too many commitments here to make it workable sadly. That's the sad bit, that I have to consider leaving my own country to remain part of the greater whole.
Do you need the meaning of patriotism explained to you?
Culldesack · 09/09/2022 19:11
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