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DP’s new football flag has given me the ick!

266 replies

HollyUpNorth · 25/07/2025 12:55

DP is a big football fan and they have been promoted so he is excited for the new season to start. He goes with a group of 5/6 mates and they always have a flag to take to away matches. To mark their promotion, they’ve ordered a new one.

DP took delivery of it yesterday. It is an England flag with the club badge on it. They have added the text ‘On the charge with Farage’ 😩

Instant ick…am I overreacting!?

OP posts:
Snakebite61 · 27/07/2025 13:17

derxa · 26/07/2025 22:33

There’s always a Palestine flag flown at Celtic matches. Can’t say I’m keen. DH is a super fan but doesn’t really like it either.

You've got to be quite a shitty person not to care about Gaza.

DuncinToffee · 27/07/2025 13:50

It's not about the flag, it's about the text.

TreatTreat · 27/07/2025 13:54

SeaShellsSanctuary1 · 25/07/2025 13:41

At least point out bare minimum that Farage should be pronounced Faridge as in Garage so it makes no sense anyway

But it doesn't in Nigel's case.

Darls3000 · 27/07/2025 14:44

Does it have swastikas on it too?

llizzie · 27/07/2025 19:59

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llizzie · 27/07/2025 20:05

Snakebite61 · 27/07/2025 13:17

You've got to be quite a shitty person not to care about Gaza.

Read my post.

PandoraSocks · 27/07/2025 20:06

You only have to find someone who fought in the second world war to know how wrong you are

My father fought in the second world war. He would be appalled by Farage and Reform.

Eta: @llizzie what exactly are "William the Firsts?"

DuncinToffee · 27/07/2025 20:09

You only have to look at the England teams or any football team to celebrate the cultural diversity of this country

llizzie · 27/07/2025 23:14

PandoraSocks · 27/07/2025 20:06

You only have to find someone who fought in the second world war to know how wrong you are

My father fought in the second world war. He would be appalled by Farage and Reform.

Eta: @llizzie what exactly are "William the Firsts?"

Edited

I doubt that.

You don't know who William the first was?

PandoraSocks · 27/07/2025 23:33

Doubt what? That my father fought in the second world war or that he would have despised Farage and Reform? Both of those statements are true.

I know who William the first was. I don't know what you mean by "William the firsts" in your now (thankfully) deleted post.

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:36

amylou8 · 25/07/2025 13:57

Well he's going to be our next PM so you might as well get used to it now 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

He really isn’t.

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:39

Zellycat · 25/07/2025 14:45

I thought the only place Britain’s could display a Union Jack flag without being considered racist was football !

IMO no issue with flag - Brazilians can flag all they like, Ukrainians can flag, Americans can flag, Ireland can flag etc etc…. Tell me why showing national pride with a flag is racism in UK?

Mini cars - have the flag in tail lights
Tourist shops packed with flags on stuff
etc

Who told you Farage was racist? Why? Is he more racist than Starmer? How?

Who told you Farage was racist?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:46

CurlewKate · 26/07/2025 07:31

I love the idea that public school educated ex banker career politician Farage is somehow not a member of the elite….

Edited

Some people are gobsmackingly gullible, aren’t they?

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:49

PandoraSocks · 26/07/2025 10:45

You are supporting a post full of lies. Lucy Connolly did not recieve a greater sentence than a convicted rapist. Read the sentencing guidelines. A few examples:

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/operation-stovewood-seven-men-jailed-total-106-years-sexually-abusing-two-young-girls

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89g293zj2ko.amp

Edited

Don’t bamboozle them with fact ….

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:50

MasterBeth · 26/07/2025 20:09

He is in with cunts.

Oh yes.

Zellycat · 27/07/2025 23:52

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:46

Some people are gobsmackingly gullible, aren’t they?

True elites would not consider his education “public school”, nor did he attend Uni. Nothing about his pedigree is elite.

He has done well for himself despite not having elite education,

Sorry to disappoint.

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:55

ClareBlue · 27/07/2025 01:47

You need to educate yourself on what facisism is. You are demeaning and minimising the suffering of those that have lived and suffered under a facist regime. Do you genuinely thing that Farage government will be shooting 200 women and children on the banks of the Danube Thames, or disappearing political opponents or executing military leaders. Get a fecking grip.

They all start somewhere. Usually with winning an election.

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:57

Hear, hear.

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/07/2025 00:01

Zellycat · 27/07/2025 23:52

True elites would not consider his education “public school”, nor did he attend Uni. Nothing about his pedigree is elite.

He has done well for himself despite not having elite education,

Sorry to disappoint.

No disappointment here. Dulwich College is and always has been a well regarded school. Many “true elites” are rather too dim for university.

llizzie · 28/07/2025 00:19

Snakebite61 · 27/07/2025 13:17

You've got to be quite a shitty person not to care about Gaza.

Statements like that have to be quantified. I might possibly agree with you when the Hamas military surrender their captives and their weapons. We don't know how many Palestinians have been killed by Hamas militia. We do know that the hostages whereabouts are known to the medics who treat them and the Palestinians who bag up the dead when they kill them. Hundreds of Israelis were taken hostage into Gaza by Hamas fighters, knowing that the IDF would go and get them back, because it is the first rule of any government to protect its's citizens. Hamas is a terrorist organisation. Now the converts they made in Britain are also a terrorist organisation.

I would expect the British government to do the same if British hostages were taken by terrorists.

A Hamas government was elected by the Palestinians in Gaza. Then the Hamas military took over control, in what could be described as a military coup. The Hamas Government is in exile.

The Hamas fighters send statistics to the Hamas Health ministry who put out the figures that the Hamas leaders give them. No one knows if they are true figures or not.

The Hamas militia are funded by Iran and are similar to the Revolutionary Guard there. They also have 'silent' members of ISIS and are joined by Islamic Jihad Groups with connections to Boko Harran.

Those leaders are terrorists who took control of Gaza and the Palestinian people. The people have to do what they are told. The Palestinians are not free to do as they please. The men do not stay with their families at night, which is why they were seen 'digging out their families' from bombed buildings, looking clean and well even when there is no food or water for the people.

Hamas military can end the war right now if they will give up the hostages and lay their weapons down. They refuse. The Hamas government is powerless to help the Palestinians. Because Hamas killed Israelis in an attack which the Ayatollah of Iran admitted to knowing about in advance, as did UN workers, Iran finances Hamas with cryptocurrency. They probably also finance the boats.

When Hamas surrenders the hostages and lay down their weapons, the Palestinians will also be free. That is when the world will help them.

The Hamas military men feed themselves first. They look strong and healthy, and the only reason why there are emaciated babies is because food has been withheld from them. As the BBC cannot go into Gaza, because neither they nor the IDF will guarantee their safety and they have no insurance, they cannot verify the photos of the emaciated babies and children, but it served a purpose because food is now being flown in, because the food in lorries within Gaza cannot be distributed.

None of the countries bordering Gaza will intervene. None of them will admit Palestinians. In fact, there have been Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon for 50 years at least. The Lebanese do not mix with them.

So long as the Hamas terrorist organisation are still in control of Gaza no one - certainly not the women and children - are safe.

I do not think the Palestinian civilians have any freedom. They have no say in their lives. That is standard for a country under martial law. Hamas military completely control them, because they have to have civilians as a shield to protect themselves, like those shields our policeman shelter behind in a riotous situation here.

When there are free Palestinians, then they can be helped. Any help anyone gives them goes to Hamas military.

I am not sick: it is a fact.

HerewardtheSleepy · 28/07/2025 02:41

Zellycat · 25/07/2025 14:45

I thought the only place Britain’s could display a Union Jack flag without being considered racist was football !

IMO no issue with flag - Brazilians can flag all they like, Ukrainians can flag, Americans can flag, Ireland can flag etc etc…. Tell me why showing national pride with a flag is racism in UK?

Mini cars - have the flag in tail lights
Tourist shops packed with flags on stuff
etc

Who told you Farage was racist? Why? Is he more racist than Starmer? How?

Try listening to what that ignorant bastard says.
I've scraped better things than Nigel Farage off of the sole of my shoe.

DestituteDesperate · 28/07/2025 09:06

Snakebite61 · 27/07/2025 13:17

You've got to be quite a shitty person not to care about Gaza.

Don’t do that.

cardibach · 28/07/2025 12:03

PandoraSocks · 27/07/2025 23:33

Doubt what? That my father fought in the second world war or that he would have despised Farage and Reform? Both of those statements are true.

I know who William the first was. I don't know what you mean by "William the firsts" in your now (thankfully) deleted post.

My father was in the RAF in WWII as well @llizzie
I can assure you that he would have been appalled by Farage and Reform.

llizzie · 28/07/2025 12:39

Do you know what the second world war was about?

Do you mean that your father fought against fascism but sided with Hitler?

TaupeLemur · 28/07/2025 12:57

Farage is a right wing twat. Many football fans are right wing twats. Many are not. The flag isn’t ’football Culture’ the flag is your DH being an absolute prick. Not surprised you have the ick.