Would you wear clothing with the British Flag on it?

wendell borton · 18-01-2012 05:59PM

Paparazzo wrote: »

There were a good few around last year, think it was for the queens visit. But pubs in dublin had union jacks outside them. Not sure what it is, but the union jack looks tacky. Think it's the over use as a pattern

DB10 · 18-01-2012 05:59PM

Thats because its associated with extremist organisations like the BNP, Combat 18, The National Front and Rangers FC supporters. Most people don't want to be associated with that, and prefer the Scottish flag or St Georges Cross to represent them.

Tayla · 18-01-2012 06:01PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The really sad thing, is that you probably believe all this arrogant stuff.

What part of it is arrogant exactly?
I said I thought acknowledgment and education on their side could move us towards a new era in response to a poster who thought we should have moved into a new era as a result of the queens visit and us receiving a loan from Britain.

OldNotWIse · 18-01-2012 06:02PM

Paparazzo wrote: »

There were a good few around last year, think it was for the queens visit. But pubs in dublin had union jacks outside them. Not sure what it is, but the union jack looks tacky. Think it's the over use as a pattern

I think Geri Halliwell wearing a micro dress with the Union Jack design and her boobs spilling out over the top pretty much ruined the flag for everyone lol

EarlERizer · 18-01-2012 06:06PM

Cú Giobach wrote: »

Gabh mo leithscéal, The only part of your post that "took sides" was you saying you agree with Lord Such's point, which was about "brit bashing" and vitriol and hatred against Britain or England when in fact most of the vitriol here is against the Irish. I read all your post but didn't quote the part that didn't take sides.
"We" around here could mean you are Irish but a UK Unionist.

oh,your been serious :eek: ........... I'll reply proper when I've stopped laughing!

.......You need to read slower or with a calm mind...... I agreed with the 'sentiment' of the post in that the bull**** that comes from thread such as this (from all 3 sides) is laughable if not pathetic!

Carry On

Batsy · 18-01-2012 06:08PM

RichieC wrote: »

USSR flag is the best of the lot. and their anthem.

The USSR doesn't even exist.

LordSutch · 18-01-2012 06:11PM

blatantrereg wrote: »

It's since the 70's apparently. (As in according to my parents). Even coming up to the formation of the Irish Free State most Irish people didn't have such antipathy as this. Remember that Nationalists were only one faction among the rebels. People could fly a Union Jack in the southside of Dublin without provoking comment.

It all comes from the Troubles in the North really.

Agreed, my Dad used to tell me about the large support in Dublin for England in the 1966 World Cup, and then the troubles arrived, the poison set in, and everything changed, that is until the las few years (or so I thought)

blatantrereg wrote: »

Back to the original question: No I wouldn't wear a British flag. I'm not British. I wouldn't wear the flag of any other foreign country either. No difference for me.

Fair enough, but would you go to the extreme of hacking off the Union flag from your Reebok trainers? Or peeling off the Union flag from the inside of your motorcycle helmet (because you hate the flag sooo much)?

Samich · 18-01-2012 06:12PM

Jaayyyyysus, the responses in this thread are shocking.

They're feckin clothes, the year is 2012, get over it. Having to cover a little 2x1 cm patch, sounds so petty and small minded.

celtictiger32 · 18-01-2012 06:12PM

would you wear clothing with the british flag on it

definately not!!! .........unless i was a butcher and needed an apron;)

Batsy · 18-01-2012 06:14PM

Bambi wrote: »

Well the welsh dont have their cross on it so they can just use the george cross instead

That's because the Welsh don't have a cross.

Batsy · 18-01-2012 06:15PM

Stripey Cat wrote: »

Will their flag change if the Scots leave?
http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/aug2007/union_flag.jpg

Which would be ironic considering that it was a Scotsman who came up with the idea for a Union Flag.

Fratton Fred · 18-01-2012 06:18PM

Cú Giobach wrote: »

Gabh mo leithscéal, The only part of your post that "took sides" was you saying you agree with Lord Such's point, which was about "brit bashing" and vitriol and hatred against Britain or England when in fact most of the vitriol here is against the Irish.

As I keep getting reminded (maybe it was even said in this thread) this is, of course, an Irish board and as such the Irish must not be insulted.

The Brits on the other hand must take all sorts of abuse because, well, this is an Irish board.

Vitriol towards the Brits is very rarely taken as such, almost as if it is totally acceptable to insult British people en masse (take the thread about QEII getting a new boat for example), which does lead to a lot of British posters getting somewhat annoyed and getting dragged into a pissing contest. I should know, I'm as guilty as anyone.

fryup · 18-01-2012 06:19PM

Bambi wrote: »

Well the welsh dont have their cross on it so they can just use the george cross instead

the welsh have a dragon not a cross

there was an attempt to adopt the welsh dragon onto the union jack but it never caught on

LordSutch · 18-01-2012 06:20PM

Feisar wrote: »

As I've said before the Union flag is the same as the Swastika to me.

Either you are being deliberately provocative? or you are filled with blind ignorant hate? whatever and whoever you are, that is a disgusting statement to make, and I say that as somebody who had family in WWII who witnessed at 1st hand the horrors of what the Nazi's did. The Swastika (in its Nazi guise) is a flag of evil, and you cannot honestly compare it (or what it represents) to the Union Flag.

Your post is a disgrace, and if I was a Mod . . .

Fratton Fred · 18-01-2012 06:22PM

Tayla wrote: »

What part of it is arrogant exactly?
I said I thought acknowledgment and education on their side could move us towards a new era in response to a poster who thought we should have moved into a new era as a result of the queens visit and us receiving a loan from Britain.

That the British should apologise (again) or that Irish history should be taught in British schools.

Why is it the British are expected to know all about 1916, the famine etc when the majority of Ireland doesn't even know its own history and, as demonstrated on various times in this thread, don't even know the difference between England and Britain.

Ghost Buster · 18-01-2012 06:23PM

SV wrote: »

Refusing to wear the flag is not the same thing as any of those.

......and having a flag on an item of clothing is not the same as 'wearing the flag'.
By your logic anyone who uses Tipex is a nazi sympathiser cos it has a german flag on it. :eek:

Nodin · 18-01-2012 06:24PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Either you are being deliberately provocative? or you are filled with blind ignorant hate? whatever and whoever you are, that is a disgusting statement to make, and I say that as somebody who had family in WWII who witnessed at 1st hand the horrors of what the Nazi's did. The Swastika (in its Nazi guise) is a flag of evil, and you cannot honestly compare it (or what it represents) to the Union Flag.

. . .

Yes, I'm sure the 500,000 or so killed in reprisals after the 1857 Rebellion in India would agree with you.

ejmaztec · 18-01-2012 06:24PM

celtictiger32 wrote: »

would you wear clothing with the british flag on it

definately not!!! .........unless i was a butcher and needed an apron;)

Already been done.

Fratton Fred · 18-01-2012 06:26PM

Nodin wrote: »

Yes, I'm sure the 500,000 or so killed in reprisals after the 1857 Rebellion in India would agree with you.

Hi Nodin, you must have been tied up, its not like you to be late in having a dig at the British.

What regiments were in India at the time? Not Irish ones by any chance.

LordSutch · 18-01-2012 06:26PM

Nodin wrote: »

Yes, I'm sure the 500,000 or so killed in reprisals after the 1857 Rebellion in India would agree with you.

Ah, there you are

ejmaztec · 18-01-2012 06:27PM

Ghost Buster wrote: »

......and having a flag on an item of clothing is not the same as 'wearing the flag'.
By your logic anyone who uses Tipex is a nazi sympathiser cos it has a german flag on it. :eek:

I'd Tippex that out:eek:

Nodin · 18-01-2012 06:28PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Hi Nodin, you must have been tied up, its not like you to be late in having a dig at the British.

What regiments were in India at the time? Not Irish ones by any chance.

Ahhh look. Deflection and obfuscation already.

Whats next? 'But the Belgians...'?

old hippy · 18-01-2012 06:30PM

Sometimes I wish Ireland and Britain would just get a room :mad:

the_syco · 18-01-2012 06:30PM

Washout wrote: »

SO my wife is Indian...

Get her a 100% beef burger.

Kotek Besar · 18-01-2012 06:31PM

Nothing like a 24 page thread of Irish insecurity to keep me occupied on a dull Eastender-less Wednesday evening..

KeithAFC · 18-01-2012 06:31PM

All this stuff is in the past. I wish people would move on.

Nodin · 18-01-2012 06:34PM

KeithAFC wrote: »

All this stuff is in the past. I wish people would move on.

Rather odd that you make that remark without, for once, some historical thing linked in your sig.

celtictiger32 · 18-01-2012 06:34PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Already been done.

was 20 odd pages in when i came on ...who has the time;)

Helix · 18-01-2012 06:35PM

i wouldnt wear anything with a british flag, and im still not sure why. ive no issue with british people and i lived there for a year. i also refuse to wear a poppy over here (canada), and again i dont know why

i think nationalism and national pride is ridiculous, yet it's engrained in my mind that i simply couldn't bring myself to wear anything with a union jack on it, or something that represents their armed forces

i assume its all subconscious

old hippy · 18-01-2012 06:36PM

KeithAFC wrote: »

All this stuff is in the past. I wish people would move on.

Me too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16617666

Would you wear clothing with the British Flag on it?

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