If one was to ‘find’ some spray paint how might one amusingly deface a St George’s Cross (hypothetically ofc)

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Just as the title says really. We’ve thought of a game of noughts and crosses but figured you Vipers might have a good idea of some other visual effects that could be added. TIA

You are being unreasonable = stop
spoiling the knuckledraggers fun

you are not being unreasonable = crack on gals!

You could maybe just grow up and ignore it! You are no better than the person doing it if you go around defacing them (and it's disrespectful to the country).

Everyone's views are valid but by defacing the flag you are just encouraging them in a game of tit for tat. We currently don't live in a society that says one person's views are more valid than another and we have the freedom to express ourselves which is why so many people want to come here.

I'm proud to be British/English and I'm not going to let a bunch of people from the left or far right make me ashamed of the fact or hijack my national flag. Should I stop wearing my England Rugby shirt? My England hoodie? It has the cross of St George on after all.

I'd also really like to know when people have been putting them up because someone has spent a fair bit of time doing it.

Why would you want to deface your own flag (presuming you’re English)? Are you a loon who actually supports the current shameful government, concommitantly suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome?

A symbol of the ‘far right’ not ‘’right’. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being right or left wing.

Yes, it can be either or both.

Just like plenty of people have always naturally had no hair on their heads, or have decided that they look/feel better shaving it all off - all totally innocent and great; but that doesn't mean that fascists haven't also sometimes co-opted the 'skinhead' theme to have a very sinister understanding.

The Indian svastika, an ancient, sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism that means "well-being" or "good fortune" and that was traditionally associated with prosperity and luck was twisted into a symbol of bigotry and cruelty by the Nazis.

In this way, a previously positive symbol (our flag) has been twisted to have negative connotations by the far right.

Just because something has an original meaning, doesn't mean that meaning remains static. Right now, the plethora of flags are being flown to represent racism and bigotry.

The best thing to do is leave it alone and get on with your day. Don't let such trivialities effect you so much as to post on the internet about how to change it. It is benal and all things will pass away. There is nothing you can do about anything.

Yes, this. People going out at night to paint roundabouts are doing it to make a point, and that point is entirely racist.

The flag itself is not racist, but it is being used deliberately to make "foreigners" and specifically those of different ethnicities, feel unwelcome. How can that be anything other than racist?

There should be a major re brand!

The St George’s flag topic is so divisive.

Any ideas how I can improve the Palestine flags flying everywhere I look too?

Any flag in the hand of nationalists becomes something non-neutral because it is a dog-whistle method of weaponising identity. Scotland during the independence referendum is a case in point.

I would spray the whole thing red then paint LFC in the middle. Either that or an anatomically dubious spunking cock and balls.

You’re completely right, my apologies. I meant the far right and thought that was what I’d typed. A combination of brain fog and entertaining a toddler all day.

Now the flags are on lamp posts where I am. I so want to attach a sign which says “why half mast? Is Farage dead?”

So if someone painted a pride flag on a roundabout you’d be ok with it being defaced? If not, why not?

On the motorway bridge near Maidstone Somone spray painted the word "gammon" on a flag that was hanging

Rip them down

Add some nice colourful stripes. Red orange yellow green…

I was pondering the very same thing OP.
I’m sick of all bloody flags.
Never want to see another one unless it is at the olympics.

Do you also think if ways to deface Palestinian or Ukrainian flags?

Grow up.

Paint the cross brown

Or a nice ombré - every shade from beige to black

"Buy a flag pole" Or just fill it in to make a red flag.

This type of slurring people who have concerns really doesn't help and doesn't make you look clever. Just divisive and adding to the problems.

I miss the laughing emoji.

I grew up in Northern Ireland - I hate all flags! To me they represent possession and ownership, exclusion and decisiveness. The so called country pride associated with flags is not benign.

Utterly pathetic, get a grip.