Would you wear clothing with the British Flag on it?

gurramok · 18-01-2012 11:22PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Post #89 was one of the posts which got me going . . . . .

GOODNIGHT, really Nodin, Goodnight . . . . . .

Z Z Z z z z z z z z z

How can we really believe any of your posts when you really said good night 23min ago?

Fratton Fred · 18-01-2012 11:23PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Did you used to be ginger?

bollocks, you've outed me:o

Fratton Fred · 18-01-2012 11:25PM

Nodin wrote: »

...to some, it is. If you were a kenyan getting the shite knocked out of you in the 1950's, or some lad from Aden who lost people during their liberation struggle, you wouldn't necessarily have Paul Weller at the forefront of your mind when you saw it.

would you wear something with the Spanish flag on it, or the French one, or the Dutch one?

What about the US flag, the German one, the Belgian (They're back again) or the Portugese?

gurramok · 18-01-2012 11:26PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

would you wear something with the Spanish flag on it, or the French one, or the Dutch one?

What about the US flag, the German one, the Belgian (They're back again) or the Portugese?

They never oppressed my nation.

Fratton Fred · 18-01-2012 11:33PM

gurramok wrote: »

They never oppressed my nation.

Maybe not.

I'm just curious if Nodin is as concerned about the plight of the Congolese, the Algerians, the Phillipinos or the Incas as he is about the Kenyans.

Maybe he is only worried about nations when it suits his bigoted political agenda.

EarlERizer · 18-01-2012 11:39PM

Bambi wrote: »

Thats f***king worse.
I see a nice shirt in a shop and I go "oh thats nice" then I see the ben shermen logo and my inner rocker kicks in and I drop it back on the rack in disgust. f****kin mods. Hairdryer riding posers :pac:

I'd sooner be seen as a smartly dressed well turned out individual on my hairdryer than be associated with scruffy greasy unkempt rockers :cool:

"what you give is what you get"

p.s. you must be the first one to openly curse the mods and not get banned :pac:

Stinicker · 18-01-2012 11:41PM

I have an Australian sweater which has the Union Jack on it as part of the Aussie Flag and I have no problem wearing that, However otherwise I would not really see a reason to wear the flag of a country which did so many despicable things to my countrymen.

fryup · 18-01-2012 11:41PM

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

Yes, I have.
I hate Britain. I have never felt British despite being born there. I always felt Irish, due to being born to Irish parents; and raised as Irish.
Children of the Irish diaspora often have this hatred of their country of birth, and become polarised. As we feel we are something different and do not belong to our country of birth; we reject and hate anything associated with it, and embrace anything that relates to our parents nationality.

hatred of all countries or just the uk??

maybe its because they're brought up with a chip on their shoulder like you that they're not willing to mix with people of their adopted country

Dyr · 18-01-2012 11:41PM

EarlERizer wrote: »

p.s. you must be the first one to openly curse the mods and not get banned :pac:

I've been rumbled, bugger :mad:

LH Pathe · 18-01-2012 11:43PM

Yes sadly the red white n blue of either the yank or brit flags are considered fashionable, in 3rd world in particular. The former is sexy n the latter rocks, apparently..

woodoo · 18-01-2012 11:44PM

I wouldn't wear clothing with any national flag other than Irelands. The British flag doesn't sit well with me. It reminds me of Johnny Adair type pricks during the summer up north. It reminds me of rangers football club. It reminds me of why our country is split and it reminds me of British imperialism.

I don't find the English flag or the Scottish flag or the Welsh flag a problem at all though. Its the union i don't like.

gcgirl · 18-01-2012 11:51PM

When I was a kid I had this cool tee shirt it's was kind of like the stars and stripes only instead of stars it's had skulls and blood basically it was a protest teeshirt about nicaragua and the **** that had gone on there, as for the union jack I have a hoodie with a union jack on it, any one complains I'll say well fec you and you Liverpool/Manchester jersey

Mike 1972 · 19-01-2012 12:14AM

Korvanica wrote: »

Why is everyone mentioning the Parka Jackets ? Its not like the Germans ever did anything to us ...

Tell that to anyone who grew up in the North Strand in the early 1940's

CamperMan · 19-01-2012 12:16AM

I am British... I dislike anything British... and I would not wear anything with the British flag on it...

Dyr · 19-01-2012 12:21AM

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Tell that to anyone who grew up in the North Strand in the early 1940's

My family was from there, my old man was born late 30s not far from where the germans dropped a few. None of them had anything against fritz.

fryup · 19-01-2012 12:25AM

CamperMan wrote: »

I am British... I dislike anything British... and I would not wear anything with the British flag on it...

good lad, you learn fast (been in ireland long??)

2 stroke · 19-01-2012 12:28AM

Would I wear clothing with the British Flag on it?
I wouldn't even walk on it, if it was on fire.
Tell your wife to bring it back

later12 · 19-01-2012 12:29AM

It depends how stuck I am for clothes.

As a rule, I wouldn't wear it. But I'd have just as much an aversion to wearing the Irish one.

Flags suck ass. They reduce grown men to fighting over stripes and colours.

Dudess · 19-01-2012 12:32AM

gcgirl wrote: »

When I was a kid I had this cool tee shirt it's was kind of like the stars and stripes only instead of stars it's had skulls and blood basically it was a protest teeshirt about nicaragua and the **** that had gone on there

Yeah, symbols can be played around with - I like that idea.

Fratton Fred · 19-01-2012 12:40AM

later10 wrote: »

It depends how stuck I am for clothes.

As a rule, I wouldn't wear it. But I'd have just as much an aversion to wearing the Irish one.

Flags suck ass. They reduce grown men to fighting over stripes and colours.

What always amuses me, is that i could put on my England football shirt, go to Tesco and expect to get around five comments such as "You've got a nerve" or "you're ****ing brave".

If I did the same thing in my England rugby shirt, no one says a thing.

go figure.

to be honest though, I don't wear either very often, because I'm all grown up.

--LOS-- · 19-01-2012 12:42AM

No I wouldnt, not for hatred of the english though, just don't get it, why would irish people be walking around advertising the english flag. Always annoys me when english chain stores like topshop etc over here are full of stuff with the union jack printed on it. I don't even get their obsession with making stuff with it on it in the first place

LH Pathe · 19-01-2012 12:45AM

I blame the original punk rockers for making it fashionable, thought they were only deriding it you can bet today's kids will be doing it wrong.

Eh .. Gotta blame the latter.

Fratton Fred · 19-01-2012 12:46AM

Bambi wrote: »

My family was from there, my old man was born late 30s not far from where the germans dropped a few. None of them had anything against fritz.

No one I know that fought in WWII has anything against Fritz either. They accepted that 90% of Germans were no different to them.

That same logic doesn't seem to work with regards Britain and Ireland though, There seems to be a belief that Tracy from Essex was alive and kicking and therefore responsible for the famine in the mid 19th century, whereas Sinead, whose great great great grandfather was a wheat farmer in tipperary at the time, was a completely innocent bistander.

DazMarz · 19-01-2012 12:47AM

My fave Def Leppard t-shirt has the Union Jack on it... I don't care what people say to me when I wear it.

Fratton Fred · 19-01-2012 12:48AM

--LOS-- wrote: »

No I wouldnt, not for hatred of the english though, just don't get it, why would irish people be walking around advertising the english flag. Always annoys me when english chain stores like topshop etc over here are full of stuff with the union jack printed on it. I don't even get their obsession with making stuff with it on it in the first place

British flag.

The Union Jack, or to be correct, the Union Flag (It is only called the jack when it is flying from a Royal Navy vessel) is the flag of Britain. The English flag is the cross of St George.

Celly Smunt · 19-01-2012 12:48AM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

What always amuses me, is that i could put on my England football shirt, go to Tesco and expect to get around five comments such as "You've got a nerve" or "you're ****ing brave".

If I did the same thing in my England rugby shirt, no one says a thing.

go figure.

to be honest though, I don't wear either very often, because I'm all grown up.

Totally agree,i can walk around London with an Ireland jersey and not an look will be passed,in fact quite the opposite.

It's time for Ireland and the Irish to grow up.

ejmaztec · 19-01-2012 12:48AM

A few months ago, Tesco in Abbeyfeale were selling trying to sell stick-on GB plates, but for some peculiar reason which escapes me, no-one seemed to be buying them.

fryup · 19-01-2012 12:50AM

pmcmahon wrote: »

Totally agree,i can walk around London with an Ireland jersey and not an look will be passed,in fact quite the opposite.

It's time for Ireland and the Irish to grow up.

if only:cool:

Celly Smunt · 19-01-2012 12:50AM

ejmaztec wrote: »

A few months ago, Tesco in Abbeyfeale were selling trying to sell stick-on GB plates, but for some peculiar reason which escapes me, no-one seemed to be buying them.

Same with that rangers shirt that's been knocking around my local JJB for the past 10 years.

onedaysoon · 19-01-2012 12:54AM

Scumbags

Would you wear clothing with the British Flag on it?

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