Flags?

A local 99p shop (not a pound shop!) is still pushing all the flag-based tat they can. Was quite taken with a pair of Union flag wing mirror covers. Not taken enough to spend 99p, but they were interesting in a jaw dropping way.

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The thread is about the St George’s flag but I think it’s the saltire for Andy isn’t it??!!;)

Not whilst he is the only hope for Great Britain…;o)

And the thread is about plastic flags on cars and, indirectly, the fall of the England team from the world cup. You taken the flag off your car yet?

Flags as symbols and emblems are important. They are seen as representative of those that fly them. The so-called ‘Cross of St. George’ came about as a very accomplished 12th century exercise in Norman propaganda eagerly assisted by the Church of Rome.

If ‘George’ ever existed he was most certainly far from being a Saint. In the ‘Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire’ Gibbon describes him as a ‘parasite’ and ‘criminal’. Hardly fit for his elevation to Patron Saint of England.

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The thread is about the St George’s flag but I think it’s the saltire for Andy isn’t it??!!;)

Keep them until Andy Murry gets knocked out of Wimbledon. Oh dear what am I thinking its the Cross of St George not the UNION flag we are discussing

Well, it would to you. Let me explain. One is red the other is white. There you go – simples !

Looks a bit Welsh, to me…

Not seen any fluttering from cars either.

If they were flying the correct flag of England in the first place; the White Dragon Flag of the English, instead of some cobbled together, quasi religeous, Papal banner dating from the 12th century, they wouldn’t need to qualify it with the description: England.

Presumably the flags’ve all been neatly folded away until the next time they’re required – they never seem to be left on cars long enough for them to “wear out” :highly_amused:

What about those that have fallen off and litter the gutter, etc? They will fall to pieces faster than the England team given the right opportunities…

It’s the dolts who fly the flag of St George with the word England across the middle!! Oh I suppose they might be supporting Georgia…..:(

At least wiff the England flag, they can’t get it upside down unlike the Union jack… it’s foolproof for them.

I watch the Grand Prix and think FFS, if you are going to wave our flag, please hold it the right way up, you are signalling you are in distress holding it upside down.

there appears to be a distinct lack of little plastic flags on cars this morning,

Yes, I noted that too on my way into work – maybe it’s just coincidence, but there was very little traffic about when I was driving around last evening too…..

Presumably the flags’ve all been neatly folded away until the next time they’re required – they never seem to be left on cars long enough for them to “wear out” :highly_amused:

Ah. Talking ballast? (Ducks incoming teddies)

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Yeh its good, but i dnt half get some strange looks from people with their St. George Cross on their cars. Bt rollocks to em all. Nothing funnier than being on a motorbike and breezing past all the overheating England fans nursing a hangover on the motorway with the dragon flapping fiercely in the breeze…

I take my dragon with me as well, but she usually sits in the passenger seat. 😀

Of course I do have the Dragon on my bike. I bet that raises an eybrow or two in Birmingham he he.

Ha Ha – Great

Yeh its good, but i dnt half get some strange looks from people with their St. George Cross on their cars. Bt rollocks to em all. Nothing funnier than being on a motorbike and breezing past all the overheating England fans nursing a hangover on the motorway with the dragon flapping fiercely in the breeze…

HA HA good on ya Barnowl

My British flag flies rain wind or shine all year round or am going to be ‘attacked’ for it?