Have you noticed that the majority of people who bedeck their houses with England flags...

Originally Posted by Sparky***

i agree with ginners.

what harm is it doing. If it helps raise people's spirits and brings a bit of community spirit and colour to otherwise drab concrete buildings, then great.

Round my way there's loads of different flags, not just england ones.

they're called embassys

*** ginners in sensible post shocker ***

Originally Posted by believe

they're called embassys

No, actually they're called 'embassies'.

But keep at it, you're doing well.

Originally Posted by believe

they're called embassys

Imperial Tobacco was an English company

Originally Posted by Sparky***

i agree with ginners.

what harm is it doing. If it helps raise people's spirits and brings a bit of community spirit and colour to otherwise drab concrete buildings, then great.

Round my way there's loads of different flags, not just england ones.

ive spotted a couple of portugal flags near me and one even an irish one which is funny as theyre not involved, but like you say it hides the drab concrete etc

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

*** ginners in sensible post shocker ***

98% of my posts are sensible tbh


(this isnt one on them)

Originally Posted by Ginners

definitely a lot of people with no interest in footy adopting the england flags but tbh theyre doing no harm, everyone just wants to support england which cant be a bad thing.

Agreed.

Why are people so uptight about this!? ...it's not the end of the world ffs!
It's only the national flag, people go off as if it's a swastika! ...most of the car flags will be kids asking their Dads to put them up I'd imagine.

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

*** ginners in sensible post shocker ***

Where?

Originally Posted by Sparky***

No, actually they're called 'embassies'.

But keep at it, you're doing well.

i thought about that then decided to just post it anyway. you know what i mean though.

Originally Posted by believe

i thought about that then decided to just post it anyway. you know what i mean though.

Of course I do treacle.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Of course I do treacle.

funny story about me and the embassies in kensington but it deserves it's own thread.

Originally Posted by Fuzzy Dunlop

Where?

everywhere mate, look around

Originally Posted by Ginners

everywhere mate, look around

Your posts;


Sorry, can't see it.

Originally Posted by Fuzzy Dunlop

Your posts;


Sorry, can't see it.

theres one in there somwhere, trust me

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

Agreed.

Why are people so uptight about this!? ...it's not the end of the world ffs!
It's only the national flag, people go off as if it's a swastika! ...most of the car flags will be kids asking their Dads to put them up I'd imagine.

I confiscated my daughters st georges hair band that her gran bought her. £#%&! that shit.

Originally Posted by dodger

I confiscated my daughters st georges hair band that her gran bought her. £#%&! that shit.

Why?

Originally Posted by dodger

I confiscated my daughters st georges hair band that her gran bought her. £#%&! that shit.

Originally Posted by dodger

I confiscated my daughters st georges hair band that her gran bought her. £#%&! that shit.

what an awful dad!


can i have it?

Jingoism, in American usage, a term for the blatant demand for an aggressive foreign policy. The word is probably derived from a music-hall song popularized in England during a crisis with Russia in 1877–1878:

We don't want to fight, but, by jingo, if we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men and got the money too.

By March 1878 "jingo" was a term of political reproach. In the United States it has been directed toward those who have advocated the annexation of Canada, the seizure of Mexico, expansion in the Caribbean or the Pacific, or a bellicose interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, or drunk chavs from £#%&!y shire towns lobbing plastic chairs around sun drenched plazas.

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

Why?

Because I don't want her to be associated with A. The kind of mongs who wear that stuff every four years. B. The knuckle dragging right wing merchants who drape themselves in the flag C. Any kind of nationalistic fervour and overt patriotism.

And why don't I want any that? Because it's at best distasteful and at worst very dangerous.

Originally Posted by dodger

Because I don't want her to be associated with A. The kind of mongs who wear that stuff every four years. B. The knuckle dragging right wing merchants who drape themselves in the flag C. Any kind of nationalistic fervour and overt patriotism.

And why don't I want any that? Because it's at best distasteful and at worst very dangerous.

It's the World Cup ffs
Every Nation competing will have flags & scarves flying in their Country this Summer.
What's dangerous about it?

I'm not being funny at all, I just wonder why you would politicise something so trivial.