Flags

[Orang Utan]

Can you not just take a photo in the shop?

Would feel too weird - might next time I’m in if I don’t feel too self-conscious

 

[gentlegreen]

I have some cheap Chinese flags as a curtain in my back room - mostly to wind this bloke up...
I used to fly a Breton one on top of an antenna mast ...
He just put new ones up.

 

[ddraig]

"if it's got a jack, put it back"

 

[Orang Utan]

A couple of alternative UK flags:

25 readers' designs for a new union jack

After our piece on possible alternatives to the union jack, many readers decided to design their own.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[not-bono-ever]

I have a cupboard full of flags that were rescued from my dads garage. Pics to follow

 

[Orang Utan]

"if it's got a jack, put it back"

for you:

 

[brogdale]

There was this.



e2a: Courtesy of a 2002 NUS commission of Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

 

[ddraig]

No thanks OU! Dragon is just fine

 

[nogojones]

I mean, we all own things with Union jacks on. I have a block of Tesco butter in the fridge with one on, for example. My drivers licence has one too. So the “or anything with a Union Jack flag on it?” part will definitely be bumping the numbers.

I bought a union jack DAB radio a few years back from Home Bargains (post jubilee, or the olympics or some other bollocks). They had loads of flagged up goods to shift and they were all cheap as. £15 quid for the flagged up DAB compared to a nice black one of the same make for £30.

But over the years as Radio 4 got worse I've stopped using it

 

[Orang Utan]

Wow, we have a lot of flags:

List of United Kingdom flags - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[steeplejack]

The two flags of Belarus. The red-green effort is the old Soviet flag without the hammer and sickle, and was re-imposed by the Lukashenko regime in 1994 after one of his famous "referendums". The white-red-white flag was the flag of independent Belarus from 1991-94 and is now the opposition's flag. It is Belarusian Freedom day today, the 25th March.

 

[hitmouse]

I have some cheap Chinese flags as a curtain in my back room - mostly to wind this bloke up...

Read this and was expecting your back window to look like this:

Which probably would work alright as a windup, tbf.

 

[DotCommunist]

Dual flagging sounds like a euphemism for something.

 

[Orang Utan]

There is some shower gel in the £1 section in my local pharmacy that smells of poppies and has silhouettes of skinny soldiers and barbed wire against a red sky. Can’t even bring myself to buy one just to post a picture of it on social media

Tried finding the thing online. Couldn't find it but I found this:

 

[gentlegreen]

Read this and was expecting your back window to look like this:

Which probably would work alright as a windup, tbf.

Indeed.

I'm in the weird position of having plans to apply for French citizenship one day and actually learn about their history and political system - though I don't think I'm obliged to actually pledge allegiance to the 5th republic beyond being a decent citizen.
Maybe if I get as far as a ceremony I'll watch the cafe scene from Casablanca before I go in ...

My understanding of the country I've lived in for 60 years is very sketchy - I did a few UK citizenship tests yesterday to remind myself ... I only know anything because of Time Team so it's basically neolithic / bronze / iron / Roman / Saxon - and I lose interest after that ...

 

[A380]

I came across a disparaging nickname for the Union Flag the other day, which I could use to puncture flag shaggers days. but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was? butchersapron , you are normally quite good at information like this... any idea?

 

[A380]

Tried finding the thing online. Couldn't find it but I found this:
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Noe that’s PROPER remembering.

 

[brogdale]

Tried finding the thing online. Couldn't find it but I found this:
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Dorniers flying over a WW1 Tommy; nice touch.

 

[fishfinger]

Dual flagging sounds like a euphemism for something.

It's the nationalists version of the hanky code.

 

[existentialist]

Indeed.

I'm in the weird position of having plans to apply for French citizenship one day and actually learn about their history and political system - though I don't think I'm obliged to actually pledge allegiance to the 5th republic beyond being a decent citizen.
Maybe if I get as far as a ceremony I'll watch the cafe scene from Casablanca before I go in ...

My understanding of the country I've lived in for 60 years is very sketchy - I did a few UK citizenship tests yesterday to remind myself ... I only know anything because of Time Team so it's basically neolithic / bronze / iron / Roman / Saxon - and I lose interest after that ...

I don't think a UK citizenship test is any kind of representative test of Britishness! Not unless you have some very specific interests in particular niches. It's as well I don't have to do one, because I've failed the couple of test ones that made it onto the 'net .

 

[gentlegreen]

I don't think a UK citizenship test is any kind of representative test of Britishness! Not unless you have some very specific interests in particular niches. It's as well I don't have to do one, because I've failed the couple of test ones that made it onto the 'net .

I feel sure someone's taking the piss - dates of changes to do with Scotland etc ...
I was surprised yesterday with "PAYE" - but I suppose this test is for people who already live and work here ...

 

[MrSki]

 

[Dystopiary]

Union jacking off.

 

[brogdale]

Fashion/gift idea for the peasant in your life?



Sod-off, sod-off, so doff your hat to your betters...

 

[Flavour]

The union jack is genuinely quite popular around the world on a purely aesthetic level, weirdly enough.

 

[Yossarian]

The union jack is genuinely quite popular around the world on a purely aesthetic level, weirdly enough.

In China, it's nicknamed the "rice character flag."

 

[killer b]

Would feel too weird - might next time I’m in if I don’t feel too self-conscious

I checked to see if anyone had submitted it to Giant Poppy Watch, but no joy - this bottle of gin has similar energy though

 

[bimble]

I mean, we all own things with Union jacks on. I have a block of Tesco butter in the fridge with one on, for example. My drivers licence has one too. So the “or anything with a Union Jack flag on it?” part will definitely be bumping the numbers.

True. My fridge is festooned with British flaggery. I’ve got a tiny tiny one on a rivet on some jeans too which jeans I think were made in America .

 

[killer b]

I recently noticed the back indicators of modern Mini Coopers are little light-up union flags

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I recently noticed the back indicators of modern Mini Coopers are little light-up union flags

They're an optional extra that costs a bit more, which is a very handy feature for those of us who like to judge.