This being the highlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQLAprgywcI
This being the highlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQLAprgywcI
Americans are seriously ****ing weird about their flag. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
They need to calm down.
Oh God, yes. Almost like they have no identity and this is what they cling on toQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Why did the dozy cünt stop running?Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
I hope for your sake that Chief isn't about to hear you say that. He runs Old Glory up every morning and lowers it every night, I seem to recall. Gets very tetchy if you take the pïss.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
I can't imagine ever going out and buying a flagpole, tbh. It seems deeply weird.
:hehe: That is an absolute shockerQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
That is the question, b. I going to go with being a cocky b'stard and not realising that he still had guys chasing him down. He got lucky as the Bears still won.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I do think it very odd when you see Yankee suburbia in films and they have flags outside their homes. I used think it was exaggerated for effect but not so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
They also have a very curious predilection for calling people “Sir” and an utterly fúcking bizarre sense of regard for people who “have served” in the forces.
There is one house I can think of with a flag pole, just as you come into Dun Laoghaire. I have always just assumed they are nutters.
House at the bottom of my parent's road has one, they just fly random flags such as California State, Jolly Roger, F1 teams, etcQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Are you not tempted to knock the door and politely ask "what the fúck?".Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
That's the thing, though, isn't it? Over here, if you see a private citizen purchasing a flagpole, it's a pretty fair bet he's a thoroughgoing cock with some deeply unpleasant views. It's just not something a normal human would ever do. Over there, it's seen as perfectly normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
That's a rather metropolitan view, is it not? :-OQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Dunno. :shrug: It's my view. I've always found flag fetishism weird. It seems to me that the only reason to fly a flag in this country is to advertise something about yourself and your views.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Not much need to do that now though, is there? Much easier to open a facebook account and start signalling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I certainly used to feel this way, but I think the inclination to wave a flag has broadened out to non-swivel eyed loons too; people who simply want to reassert the belief that there's nothing wrong with patriotism and that they object to mass immigration.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Well on Twitter, certainly, you often see people with Union Jack/St George's cross symbols by their name. Virtue signalling, perhaps, but maybe the good kind?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Tricky one all the same innit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
A chap may stick a few of your Georges Cross flags out the window during a World Cup finals and he will be lambasted for this.
We’re mad for football/sport related flags over here. Not me I should add but neighbours may have them out for weeks on end, perhaps too lazy to just bring them in after the first match.
No flag poles mind, just lashed out the front window.
Well, 'good' is obviously a value judgement and patriotism can certainly have both a good and a bad kind IMO. Like many old things with new names, virtue-signalling is as old as the hills, and done by all sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Perhaps, but I don't think it's controversial to say that virtue-signalling is intrinsic to the modus operandi of a certain type of lefty, whereas it is by no means as important to either the identity or the motivations of your average rightist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I think the difference is that it isn't really seen as the natural or necessary symbol of patriotism. Our patriotism is rather more subtle than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
There are sound reasons for the US attaching such importance to symbols (flags, anthem, military) and it is to do with the federal structure of the union and the sheer size of the country. They need this stuff because little else binds the together.
We have a rather different view of what our country is and those symbols are not really needed.
That said, they are ****ing weird about it. THey almost treat it as a battle flag.
So right wing signalling is the good kind?Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Well I think right wing virtue signalling is a very different animal, and a far more palatable one, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Interesting.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
I assume they're attempting to be humerous. I don't think these are people I wish to enter any form of dialogue withQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
The only place you see flags frequently in this country is Cornwall......and they're all clearly mentalQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Leon Lett did that for the Cowboys many years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
In the Super Bowl. :hehe:
Mind you, we were about 30 points up at the time anyway.
Yes, if they hadn't still won that guy would be toast. On the other hand, Aaron Rodgers gettin' it done.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Anybody else get it done ega??? Say it! :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by eastgermanautos