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I'm still getting cross about seeing all these England flags everywhere I go. I feel like a total prude saying this, but sports fans in Britain really do take soccer beyond a game. They'll turn anything into an excuse to get pissed and spout vitriol at other countries. Last night I was threatened in the street by someone asking me if I was French. It's a good thing I shook my head because he said "You're bloody lucky you're not!". These are the same kind of people who complain about refugees and illegal immigrants coming into the country, citing that they cause trouble and get in the way. These are also the same people who go off to countries like Holland and Portugal to watch a football match, get too drunk at the game and end up destroying entire towns and fighting the locals before going home back to England - cheers guys, thanks for letting the side up. They wave these flags, not because they want the England team to win the European cup, but because they say they "take pride in their country" - how is 22 men kicking a ball around a field representative of a nation's greatness?! Maybe I'm being a party pooper but when we lost the football last night, the town turned into bedlam. You'd think the French had gone and pissed all over our grandmothers' graves the way people were acting.

But it's not just the football that's worrying. The annual summer sporting events always seem to coincide with major political goings-on, in this case the election of the British representative in Europe. England is split into two camps: Pro and anti Europe. I am pro-Europe. I have a utopian idea in my head that one day everyone will forget their silly little differences and start behaving and treating each other like people, as opposed to a bunch of different nations who are ready to slit each others throats as soon as the heat gets going. I believe that if we join Europe, maybe all this xenophobia that gets hurled around like custard pies at a chimps' tea party will be put into context and these myopics will realise that we live on a tiny little mud slat in the middle of the sea and that the delusions of grandeur still harboured by the British today of being a "great nation" will be smashed to bits. Also, I believe that if we don't join Europe soon, we'll be left stranded and outcast by a more powerful economy, and then who will we turn to? I'll give you a clue, it's in the west, it's governed by a baboon and it has "alternative views" on the viability of the nation of Islam. No thanks, ta.

Others, my Dad included, are anti-Europe. I'm not quite sure what the logic behind this is but the more intelligent anti-European lobby cite the fact that the economic climate means we are not ready to join Europe and others say it may be dangerous to have a central government - which I guess are all fair points. My friend was on the train back from London on Saturday when he overheard two girls talking about the recent election.

Girl 1: I voted UK Independence. I don't wanna change to Euros. I like our pound, it should stay.

Girl 2: Quite right. If my Grandad knew we were going to join Europe, he'd be turning over in his grave. He fought against Hitler so we wouldn't have to join Europe. That's why I'm voting British Nationalist Party (BNP - extreme right party who are becoming alarmingly popular with the more "easily influenced" social demographic).

Obviously you don't need me to tell you how skewed these two girls were. I mean, the last comment was so full of non sequitor, Adam turned around and literally laid into them. "We're not Nazis, we're just very very patriotic" was their answer.

I'd just like to know where the line is drawn between enjoying your football, painting your face red and white for the game, getting pissed and threatening people from other countries when your team loses, hating on illegal immigrants, being "very very patriotic", and voting for a bunch of fucked up right-wing exploiters?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The line is drawn when you stop enjoying the football and start doing all the other stuff. Although if anyone enjoyed the football last night they need their head examined.

Doglatin is my new favourite poster. More epic rants please!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really see much wrong with outting out St Georges flags. It's a bit naff, but hey. It's the Union Flag that's really tainted by the far right.

I think you should move, dog latin.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I enjoyed last night's football, more than I had expected to.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(what I like about the St George's flag is that it's kind of ordinary, similar to lots of other European flags, in contrast to the brash monstrosity of the Union one)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought injury time was a little disappointing.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a line as much as a scale. Or a slope.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's terrible that English fans will start fights when they lose.

I always overturn cars instead.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

N., yeh I am thinking of moving actually. Heheh, I realise I'm starting to sound like Jonathan Ballsup with these rants... Sorry for coming off like a grumpy old man - of course there's nothing wrong with enjoying your football. I myself am not an amateur of the game and actually wnet out of my way to avoid it yesterday afternoon having a lot more fun in the sunshine of a country pub garden. But yeh, it's the flag waving and the jeering and the pride that gets me and I think that's what puts me off the most.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

also, I'm not half as offended by the Union flag than the England flag - I don't know what it is as they both represent patriotism etc. I'm just not into the whole "us against them" attitude given off by the English flag - it's like a red rag to a bull the way it gets waved around - "come on, try and get us, come on!". Also those stupid things streaming off of car windows piss me off because they're indestructible and my friend got cut by one that he found on the floor. Ironically, this was only seconds after he'd gone into his "taking pride in your country" rhetoric.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

and the day I take pride in my country is the day the people who are so fucking proud of it stop making me feel ashamed to live here.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the way people think continental Europeans are all peace-loving multilateralists! Clue: they are not.

I don't find the England flag any more annoying than other signifiers of cultural pride.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Enrique, no quite right. If anything they are worse! The amount of National Front posters openly on display in the street last time I visited France was shocking.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm seeing more England flags and shirts on display than ever. it's...interesting.

the mood in Pinner after the final whistle didn't seem as bad as it could've been. much passion - even aggression - in the pub during the match (French players being hurled with abuse, tho more because of the Premiership clubs they played for rather than their nationality i think, in reality - after all the players are adored by their respective club fans at Arsenal, Chelsea and imminently Spurs). the loudest environment i've ever watched a match in. we left soon after but i'm assuming there was no real trouble (unlike in Croydon and several hertfordshire towns as reported on BBC Breakfast News).

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The line is drawn when you stop enjoying the football and start doing all the other stuff.

Trouble is, everyone has a different idea of where "the other stuff" begins. Some ppl believe you should just watch the football and cheer if yr team wins and that's it. Others will say that it is about pride in yr nation's team and you are perfectly entitled to express that pride by emblazoning yr team's national identity on everything. On an aesthetic level, I don't mind the flags. I don't even mind that one of the local pubs has decided to whitewash all the tables and paint the St George Cross on them. The same pub has - thoughtfully and sensibly - decided to put up the flags of all the other competing nations in the tournament too.

One thing that MasterCard ad brings home is how utterly tasteless the majority of St George Cross decoarted stuff looks...the towel, the fingernails, speshly the cakes. Ugh.

Where does chanting during a match turn nasty? Someone in the pub last night shouted "You dirty Frenchman!" every time a French player went in for a hard tackle. I guess he was kind of on the line of what is acceptable IMHO. If he'd said "you dirty French ****" he would've crossed it.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Before last nights game started, I was all like "O.K., I just want to see a great game of football, I don't care who wins". Then the English fans started booing over "La Marseillaise" and then I thought 'I hope they get fucking hammered, the wankers'.

― Michael B, Monday, 14 June 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Where does chanting during a match turn nasty? Someone in the pub last night shouted "You dirty Frenchman!" every time a French player went in for a hard tackle. I guess he was kind of on the line of what is acceptable IMHO. If he'd said "you dirty French ****" he would've crossed it.

If this is the case (and I don't) then I crossed the line severa;l times last night.

― chris (chris), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

was interesting to compare this weekend (England v France) with last weekend (D-Day)

(which, btw, nobody seemed to post anything about. don't mention the war)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true it's getting increasingly feverish - almost more so than in 2002 when the Queen's Jubilee coincided with the World Cup and the after-effects of 9/11. Woolworths are now selling an "England Supporters Kit" which includes war-paint, a battle flag and a broken bottle of beer.

And it's true that it is bloody naff having all this merchandising. I'd rather not display my patriotism with a "Chocolate Jesus"-style commemorative England bog brush. And why does a football match have to tie in with national pride? It's JUST A GAME OF FOOTBALL not FUCKING WORLD WAR II!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost to koogs, oddly.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

???

I think it's more interesting that the football dovetailed nicely into the rise of the UKIP in the Euro elections.

I think I called several English players bad names too.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

D-Day is all about quiet dignified introvert remembrance koogs ;)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

D-Day celebrations=massive amnesiac idea of WW2.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The first footie thread I've ever been interested in reading. Because this is aspect of football that concerns me most. It is symbolic warfare. Of course it's going to lead to jingoism and then Nationalism. Organised symbolic conflict which is supposed to take the place of actual organised conflict becomes a justification and excuse for disorganised actual conflict.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's more interesting that the football dovetailed nicely into the rise of the UKIP in the Euro elections.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if FCUKIP is right-wing or not, sorry for jumping to that conclusion, I was referring to stuff upthread.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

> D-Day celebrations=massive amnesiac idea of WW2.

thinking last weekend was a 'celebration' = massive amnesiac idea of WW2.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Seen on way to friend's game/BBQ party:

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, a broken bottle of beer?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i always knew you led a double life as a terrace menace Suzy...

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What gets me is the St George cross flags/shirts/etcetera that have the word 'England' across the middle. HAD YOU FORGOTTEN WHAT IT MEANT? You don't see the French writing 'Francais" across the Tricolor (sic), do you?

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 (twenty-one years ago)

D-Day celebrations=massive amnesiac idea of WW2.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

flags excite the right wing in people for some reason. here in australia there have been multiple kerfuffles over flag burning and whether it falls within the constitutional right to free speech in the past couple of years. it's a bit beyond me personally. but then i was also completely mystified by the outrage over today's kids not knowing what d-day was as well. perhaps i have no soul.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

People should know what D-Day is, of course -- it need not be a right-wing commemoration as it tends to be.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

D-day commemorations become more preposterous if they continue to happen on years w/ zeros on the end of them after every veteran has died.

which prolly won't be too long - cue single centenarian standing on beach.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

should they? why is that? not saying they shouldn't, just that i couldn't really understand the outrage over it.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

D-Day anniversary is more correctly a commemoration (xpost). Also it was implied that all the stops were out as this was meant to be the last ceremonies of this type to do with this war.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

but then i was also completely mystified by the outrage over today's kids not knowing what d-day was as well

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 (twenty-one years ago)

you're being sarcastic mark?

― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not being sarcastic at all. what made you think I was?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, I think you'll find Australians fought in these wars too, not to mention also being in Iraq right now. The odd history lesson about this and the repercussions of WWII probably wouldn't hurt.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Leonard Johansson (UEFA High Heid Yin) praised the English FA for the steps they had taken to prevent known hooligans travelling to Portugal in an attempt to minimise violence.
This seems to have worked to an extent, with no major clashes at or around the stadium last night. What I can't work out is how on earth it all kicked off in Croydon. I can't fathom the mentality that says 'we love England and everything that remotely symbolises all that is good about England' then goes and throws stones at Bobbies in their quintessentially English silly hats.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't sure. only a large number of australians died beneath the british flag and rather a lot of fighting in ww2 went on in the southern hemisphere too, so i actually do think we should acknowledge it as an important part of our national history.... but the uproar about people forgetting the details surprised me, that's all.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the poor old aussies even had to fight in vietnam.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I found it slightly more distressing to see French flags adouring a pub up here. A touch unnecessary from the Scots minority.

― ___ (___), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, when it comes to football, i think the french are quite multilateralist : cf all the algerian and moroccan flags in the stadium yesterday.

― -Bruno, Monday, 14 June 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm basically with Dog Latin on this. Flags make me angry - they just seem to reek of ignorance and act as carte blanche for acts of ugly xenophobia in our country's namer.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

a flag need only be a geographic reference, tho religion tends to dominate proceedings (perhaps one reason why i LIKE the USA flag).

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

as a geographic reference, you can't beat the Cyprus flag.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

more animals on flags please

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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"succession" obvs a cunning portmanteau of success and secession.

― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 16:46 (four years ago)

This is the Conservative Party Manifesto for the 2019 Election.

64 pages, How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Zero. https://t.co/7JlREXFGRx https://t.co/CGDCt9LniM
— Dr Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford) March 22, 2021

― koogs, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 16:47 (four years ago)

(prompted by random mp complaining about lack of union flags in bbc report, see thread)

― koogs, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 16:48 (four years ago)

What’s going on?

attempt to distract from worst Covid death rates in the world and self-inflicted economic meltdown via Brexit by appealing to Tory voters' core delusional persecution complex

― anecdotal certainly but not nothing (stevie), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 16:58 (four years ago)

The govt has also cut red tape to allow dual flagging – two flags on one pole.

― calzino, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:03 (four years ago)

i remember the 70s and the national front marches and all the union flags on display there. the stink hasn't gone away.

― koogs, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:06 (four years ago)

I can remember seeing national front skinheads, led by some drummers and marching along The Headrow in Leeds, stinking the place up with their union jack t-shirts on St George's day in the late 80's as well.

― calzino, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:16 (four years ago)

Er, hello, Ibrox Park every second Saturday, pre-pandemic?

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:20 (four years ago)

there is a bit of an inverse of flag-fuckery in the uk where just simply the existence of the butcher's apron is seen as vile and inherently racist. my stance is that nation states have to have a flag. it is normal for them to be flying on certain buildings. obviously flag-fuckery is loathsome.

i mean i have a bit of a cheek saying this because i have always had a distaste for union jack based on being congenitally a bit of a scot nat and hating the queen and also because i have found as i have gotten older that the saltire really bothers me also. i was back in glasgow for a visit in 2019 and was near george square during an "all under one banner" rally (for those not in the know these are big tent pro-independence rallies not ran or promoted by the SNP and which don't exclude any groups including fascists - of which there are not many in number in the scottish nationalist movement but it's the principle of the thing) and something about that sea of saltires really irked me.

― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:29 (four years ago)

They want to spend a lot of tax revenue on flags so that people feel like they have to support the Union now I mean the money's been spent lads so.

― nashwan, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:36 (four years ago)

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/union-flag-to-be-flown-on-uk-government-buildings-every-day

but none of those FUCKING EU FLAGS

"Planning regulations in England that were introduced in 2007 to allow the EU flag to be flown on public buildings without acquiring planning permission will also be removed following the UK’s departure from the European Union."

― koogs, Thursday, 25 March 2021 17:42 (four years ago)

two months pass...

not so big a thing this time around here, by the look

to compensate, here's
https://www.gbnews.uk/

― koogs, Monday, 14 June 2021 15:23 (four years ago)

Best of luck to the England team from the great people of West Bromwich East 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿#ENG pic.twitter.com/eef6LPnAE1
— Nicola Richards MP (@Nicola4WBE) June 13, 2021

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 14 June 2021 15:43 (four years ago)

Three pints more like

Three points!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 pic.twitter.com/ryIo2zyvHH
— Nadhim Zahawi (@nadhimzahawi) June 13, 2021

― nashwan, Monday, 14 June 2021 15:48 (four years ago)

eleven months pass...

How amazing does Regent Street look?

All streets should be looking like this, ALL the time 😍 pic.twitter.com/ZuOLkMkOJ8
— Stephen James (@StephenJamesGBR) May 22, 2022

― koogs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:38 (three years ago)

Any kind of patriotic display is my idea of hell.

― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:21 (three years ago)

last time i saw that many of those flags was a national front march

― koogs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 15:16 (three years ago)

there is a family run dairy farm down the road from me that have a flagpole by the farmhouse and they rotate their flags. Sometimes they have a union jack that has some kind of sinister looking masonic symbol on it and they other odd looking ones that I couldn't i.d. At the moment they have St Georgie cross and a Ukrainian flag under it. Sometimes the old boy stops + chats + offers me an apple from their orchard while driving past on his dinky little tractor and trailer. I daren't ask him what the symbol on the union flag is as I'm already fearful he may be grooming me for some kind of human sacrifice ritual.

― calzino, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 16:15 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

six months pass...

not so much

― koogs, Friday, 2 December 2022 09:21 (three years ago)

Not sure I've seen any tbh.

― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2022 10:42 (three years ago)

Nope

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 2 December 2022 10:43 (three years ago)

All we needed was an Arab world cup in winter. Yay!

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 December 2022 10:51 (three years ago)

And the Queen dying. Yay!!

― Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2022 10:54 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

As a barber
my most iconic work
was bleaching
Phil Foden's
hair

― Michael Jones, Friday, 2 December 2022 11:43 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

three months pass...

https://i.ibb.co/QcdWRtz/uuu.jpg

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:21 (two years ago)

Can we guess the city?

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:44 (two years ago)

swindon

― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:55 (two years ago)

Should I move it to the GTC thread?

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:46 (two years ago)

Or guess it here!? Engish cities get sort of a lukewarm reception there

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:49 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 0
Oslo 1

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:30 (two years ago)

presented without comment

https://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 (two years ago)

Additionally

The city above: 3
Derby: 0
Peterborough: 1 (Polish)
Blackpool: 0
Ayr: 0
Samara: 1
Charleroi: 2 (1 Belgian 1 Ukrainian)
Worcester MA: 4
Tirana: 2
Belgrade: 6
Kyiv: 11

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:36 (two years ago)

four weeks pass...

Its time to give Clacton a go at this

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 10:03 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

four weeks pass...

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 (two years ago)

ten months pass...

you had one job...

― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2024 10:10 (one year ago)

three months pass...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0056pvs/downing-street-live-downing-street-live

― koogs, Friday, 12 July 2024 15:40 (one year ago)

is that always on?

― ledge, Friday, 12 July 2024 15:55 (one year ago)

ha, that was just raised as a bug but apparently it was done for the election and scheduled for two weeks.

― koogs, Friday, 12 July 2024 16:44 (one year ago)

one year passes...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/406050736693

seen in a picture of the recent riots. 'in 5 baskets' and plenty of other people willing to sell the same crap...

seller here. mental health hockey flag in the banner, but everything else is fabric xenophobia
https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/finalthirdflags?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l161211

― koogs, Friday, 5 September 2025 09:14 (four months ago)

three months pass...

https://i.ibb.co/0jxxMcfs/flag.png

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 19 December 2025 13:08 (one month ago)

https://i.ibb.co/RksmhSgC/flag2.png

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 19 December 2025 13:12 (one month ago)

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