― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)
Doglatin is my new favourite poster. More epic rants please!
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)
I think you should move, dog latin.
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)
I always overturn cars instead.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
― Michael B, Monday, 14 June 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
(which, btw, nobody seemed to post anything about. don't mention the war)
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:20 (twenty-two 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-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)
thinking last weekend was a 'celebration' = massive amnesiac idea of WW2.
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)
which prolly won't be too long - cue single centenarian standing on beach.
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)
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-two years ago)
― ___ (___), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― -Bruno, Monday, 14 June 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)
As a barbermy most iconic workwas bleachingPhil Foden'shair
― 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)
https://i.ibb.co/QcdWRtz/uuu.jpg
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:21 (three years ago)
Can we guess the city?
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:44 (three years ago)
swindon
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:55 (three years ago)
Should I move it to the GTC thread?
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:46 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 0Oslo 1
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:30 (three years ago)
presented without commenthttps://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 (three years ago)
Additionally
The city above: 3Derby: 0Peterborough: 1 (Polish)Blackpool: 0Ayr: 0Samara: 1Charleroi: 2 (1 Belgian 1 Ukrainian)Worcester MA: 4Tirana: 2Belgrade: 6Kyiv: 11
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:36 (three years ago)
Its time to give Clacton a go at this
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 10:03 (three 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 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
you had one job...
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2024 10:10 (two years ago)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0056pvs/downing-street-live-downing-street-live
― koogs, Friday, 12 July 2024 15:40 (two years ago)
is that always on?
― ledge, Friday, 12 July 2024 15:55 (two years 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 (two years ago)
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 (one year ago)
https://i.ibb.co/0jxxMcfs/flag.png
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 19 December 2025 13:08 (eight months ago)
https://i.ibb.co/RksmhSgC/flag2.png
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Friday, 19 December 2025 13:12 (eight months ago)
Weirdly despite the ‘unit3 th3 n@tion’ bullshit and England into the last 16 of the World Cup, I’ve seen very few England flags on display this time around.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 4 July 2026 14:11 (two months ago)
think it may be related, people don't want to display 🏴 because people will think they're a racist
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 4 July 2026 14:14 (two months ago)
There are a few more England flags near me because of the football. The ones that were up before the football and remain after the football will be sus. My Bangladeshi neighbour and I keep mooting the idea of getting Bangladesh/Trans/Pride flags and putting them out to rankle bigots.
― einstürzende louboutin (suzy), Saturday, 4 July 2026 14:18 (two months ago)
Seen hardly any too, which is interesting.
― stanes on the knees and blood on the jumber (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 July 2026 14:37 (two months ago)
Feel like I've seen the usual amount tbh (bearing in mind we only just hitvthe Ro16). Unfortunately some RTC arseholes put one up on every lamp post on Middleton Road in Mitcham recently which is the furthest into London I've seen that.
― nashwan, Saturday, 4 July 2026 15:02 (two months ago)
I've seen a fair few in Bethnal Green but I guess has some tension there.
― LocalGarda, Saturday, 4 July 2026 15:06 (two months ago)
Hardly much here, but near where my mother lives (zone four Bexley) they have put flags up all year round up posts, so many places are ready for patriotism and some other -isms.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 4 July 2026 15:18 (two months ago)
Haven’t seen many round here at all
― hat stays on (gyac), Saturday, 4 July 2026 16:22 (two months ago)
I've seen them in one place around here, thought I'd better take a picture today because they may ask be gone tomorrow
https://ibb.co/jvnbVWjK
― Bog Dork (koogs), Sunday, 5 July 2026 09:43 (two months ago)
i always get the feeling that's the work of one person
(two if you count the sneaky Spanish addition)
― Bog Dork (koogs), Sunday, 5 July 2026 09:45 (two months ago)
Only one flag up round our way and it's the three lions football crest which seems like a very deliberate choice not to put up a st george
― Angine de Postecogloutrine (NickB), Sunday, 5 July 2026 09:56 (two months ago)
koogs, is that in Bermondsey? There’s a few estates that go flag-wild there and in Rotherhithe.
― einstürzende louboutin (suzy), Sunday, 5 July 2026 10:53 (two months ago)
let mowow be mowow
― miserable pessi reign (imago), Sunday, 5 July 2026 10:59 (two months ago)
https://www.checkpostcode.uk/west-london/W12/W129DB
it's w12, the romantically named kelmscott gardens. William Morris would be proud.
― Bog Dork (koogs), Sunday, 5 July 2026 11:18 (two months ago)
Someone seeing the rectangular white panels on that building and thinking they would be ideal to cover with more almost entirely rectangular white panels.
― nashwan, Sunday, 5 July 2026 11:48 (two months ago)
Went to the shops.
Far too many blokes in Eng shirts
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 July 2026 14:30 (two months ago)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/11/drenched-by-beer-england-fans-go-wild-for-the-world-cup-pint-toss-celebration
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 July 2026 20:06 (two months ago)
Don't understand this shit at all. Imagine watching the game and some weird coked up bullies throw a load of pints at everyone.
― LocalGarda, Saturday, 11 July 2026 20:16 (two months ago)
The quintessential England fan experience
― 99 gram lychee (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 July 2026 21:10 (two months ago)
you don't have to be a cunt to be a travelling england fan, but
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 11 July 2026 21:54 (two months ago)
I'd boycott.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/mural-jude-bellingham-morgan-rogers-chip-shop-west-midlands
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 July 2026 07:40 (two months ago)
Big dan burn scarfing a jar of pickled eggs or gtfo
― Angine de Postecogloutrine (NickB), Wednesday, 15 July 2026 08:26 (two months ago)
Still not seeing many of TFEF.
― stanes on the knees and blood on the jumber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 July 2026 09:25 (two months ago)
and TFFT
― Angine de Postecogloutrine (NickB), Wednesday, 15 July 2026 09:28 (two months ago)
State of 10DS today..
― nashwan, Wednesday, 15 July 2026 11:09 (two months ago)
lol this is sure to go down wellhttps://www.thenational.scot/news/26282100.douglas-alexander-tells-scots-support-england-argentina/
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 15 July 2026 11:21 (two months ago)
Literally the oldest rivalry in world football, you Blairite cunt.
― stanes on the knees and blood on the jumber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 July 2026 11:31 (two months ago)
Kieth said it the other day. Hilarity ensued.
― 99 gram lychee (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2026 11:40 (two months ago)