I read this in the paper and it sickens me to think we are discouraged from showing pride in our country. At the moment it's mostly only the bigots and racists who have the balls to display the flag, most "normal" people are too afraid to offend, so it compounds the problem.
Anyone remember a couple of years ago when all those racist came out of the woodwork, displaying England flags on their cars during the world cup or something.
Why would anyone do that? I suppose it's demeaning to babies. Reminds me of Britney Spears gibbering about her baby clothing range "empowering babies".
deject wrote:Isn't hte St. George's Cross one of your national icons?
Yes. St.George was a Greek soldier who was martyred by the Romans (no relation) as he refused to worship their pantheon of gods, preferring instead Mr. Jesus H Christ.
Despite having nothing to do with our country, he is indeed our patron saint (ignore rubbish about dragons etc).
i live in st. georges and went to primary school here so i did know all that tosh. shame ive long forgotten, although i can remember a dragon. which ever cupcake said this deserves a beating
Oh please, this is bullocks. Iam going out know to buy a Uion Jack and fly it outside my house. Any one got a problem with it, They will learn why we ruled half the world once. (Cunts like these is the reason why we no longer have an Empire!).
It's the St. George cross (England) rather than the Union Jack (or more correctlly, Union Flag)(Britain) that seems to be the problem. In recent years it has been used as a symbol (the big fist on the Northern Ireland version doesn't help much here) by certain racist groups who advocate removal of anyone not "English" from the country, despite the fact that many of the people they are targeting were born here, and that if you go back a few years, we're all French, Italian or Scandinavian anyway.
It's now widely accepted that we take back our flag from these wankstains and simply be proud to support our nation, especially now we're at least achieving some success in the sporting arena: Rugby and Cricket, at least.
I personally feel more embarrassed wearing anything with a Union Flag on, as it tends to be reminiscent of our subjugation of other nations, and Spice Girls pants. Excellent choice for a Mini roof, though.
FatherJack wrote:I personally feel more embarrassed wearing anything with a Union Flag on, as it tends to be reminiscent of our subjugation of other nations, and Spice Girls pants.
LMAO
The Spice Girls should be banned from wearing pants.
StGeorge flag, Our English flag is something to be proud of! But the British flag, Or the Union Jack is something to be amazingly proud of! It really saddens me thats no British School (To my knowledge and with talking to my History teacher) teaches British History, or how our boys kept our home from being invaded. Since 1066 there hasnt been 1 successfull invasion of the British isles, French tried in 1700s a few times but never got anywhere. Funniest was the French invasion of Fishguard. Women in with pitchforks manage to capture alot of the invasion horse and drive the rest away
