Time To Ban The England Flag

Puck78

NMyTree wrote:

The National Enquirer said that Alien Invaders (from a distant galaxy) are eating our babies

oh, in the 50s communists were doing that, following the National Enquirer...

London Calling

world wrote:

Ok, call my source bullshit, but do you have a source for "These companies are banning flags for different reasons"?

Since you love the dailymail so mo much

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=388520&in_page_id=1770

As for your Muslim terrorist group threatening to kill us all if we display the english flag or whatever it was, that is so bullshit, i havent heared or seen anything like that here.

chime

London Calling wrote:

Since you love the dailymail so mo much

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=388520&in_page_id=1770

As for your Muslim terrorist group threatening to kill us all if we display the english flag or whatever it was, that is so bullshit, i havent heared or seen anything like that here.

Thanks for finding something that confirmed what I said earlier about Heathrow. I also haven't heard anything to do with the bans being connected to any threats.

It's all been PC (schools, Tesco) or health and safety (Heathrow, driving organisations).

And with the amount of cars that are driving around with flags as far as I can see not many people are paying any attention to either.

siochan

The first thing i want to say is that it doesn't have anything to do with the union jack - the England flag is plain white with (red)st george's cross on it.........I presonally don't have objections to flags but can see why some people would seeing as that specific flag was adopted by the neo nazi and white supremists.........I AM NOT stating that everyone with a this flag or who fly this flag are drawn to that persuasion....merely that its be abused...............Here in Belfast flags are such an issue and its really pathetic to get drawn into the territorial arguemnt surrounding that issue.....

So flag your flags at home why do you need them in a work place?

Finally the more absurd and weird censorship idea belongs to that of radio one who are banning all english world cup songs from the radio station - all 30 of them incase they offend anyone from Scotland Wales or Ireland listening to them ...............oh please I don't think any of the above mentioed nations would give a shit ..............

NMyTree

Not that I'm putting any stock into this article and it's claims.

But I'm fairly certain that if you take a good look the symbols and do some historical research of a majority of the nations (of the world's ) flags; you could easily tie in a majority of the symbols on those flags, in one way or another, with a very ruthless, violent episode in their history.

All this flag stuff (including the crap here in the states regarding the "Confederate Flag" ) are equally absurd. Just a bunch of idiots with nothing better to do, than try to manipulate and intimidate everyone into conceding to their stupidity.

Heineken Helen

Binaural wrote:

Trust me that they have.


PEACE

Lol, yeh I was silently laughing at the irony of that! But anyway - it can't do any harm getting rid of the English flag, can it? I mean nobody even knows when St. Georges day is over there... does anyone know who he was or what he did? Do they even know what the flag represents? Nah, it won't hurt anyone. Get rid of it - it's a bit dull anyway - I think they should come up with something more colourful :cool:

OutOfBreath

Well, if you go to the source (the sun) you'll see what a load of hogwash this is.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006250446,00.html

Some companies are not allowing sporting flags. Many of the instances is flags on cars, which could be a traffic hazard, and in some cases it is companies that, as companies usually do, dont want to be shown as "choosing sides" while doing business with different countries and groups. And few places, if anywhere, is the reason cited as "threats" or other from our new whipping boys, the muslims. The piece is liberatinlgy free of references to muslims saying what is claimed, apart from a mosque official quoted as "We're not offended - It's a national flag!". They accuse busybodies and other nice names of being the "brains" behind this, but again, being very free of references or quotes. It's just a list of various company policies where they dont want flags all over the place.

This whole case "The Sun standing up for every patriotic englishman to sport his flag" is a big bunch of bullshit. Perhaps it is a small problem in some companies, and some are probably being over-reactive and a bit too keen on being non-offensive. But the whole campaign here is just stupid, overblown and created by the tabloid of all tabloids, the sun. Only aim is selling a bit more papers and whipping up the nationalist atmosphere in preparation for the world cup.

Now, anything really happening in the world today?

Peace
Dan

Puck78

there's one thing of the sun: everything can happen in the world and the sun will still have a girl with breasts out in the front page. 911? The sun will show you tits. First bombs on baghdad? the sun will sqeeze the tits for you...

OutOfBreath

Puck78 wrote:

there's one thing of the sun: everything can happen in the world and the sun will still have a girl with breasts out in the front page. 911? The sun will show you tits. First bombs on baghdad? the sun will sqeeze the tits for you...

Or in this case, showing off a blonde in an england bikini....
Looks like the sun is the porn mag for those too shy to actually buy one.

Peace
Dan

Heineken Helen

OutOfBreath wrote:

Or in this case, showing off a blonde in an england bikini....
Looks like the sun is the porn mag for those too shy to actually buy one.

Peace
Dan

Yep, and I can tell ya that the sun is the paper of choice for men in construction in Ireland . Well the working men - the engineers seem to buy 'intelligent but easy' The Independant. The Project manager (when he can be bothered dipping his hands in his pockets) buys the ultimite in 'look how intelligent I am' - The Times :eek: . I buy the Star (an Irish tabloid) it gets the points across, doesn't make me think at ALL BUT it's getting as bad as the sun. In that I don't see how an article on road death or something requires a picture of Glenda Gilson or Roberta Rowat holding a sign saying 'please slow down' :rolleyes:

merlyn

well if britain didn't let them in they'd be no probs. muslim faith is a bunch of shit. half these dicks over here kill people does it say for them to do that no. so they are liars and satans work they'll get there comeupance hopefully britain will grow some balls especially blair n the rest of those government cocks n send them all back. i've got muslim friends that are nice people but hey one goes they're all going they tried to fuck us n it crashed down on them then n will again.

OutOfBreath

Subscribe to the sun, do you?

Peace
Dan

reeferchief

Heineken Helen wrote:

Lol, yeh I was silently laughing at the irony of that! But anyway - it can't do any harm getting rid of the English flag, can it? I mean nobody even knows when St. Georges day is over there... does anyone know who he was or what he did? Do they even know what the flag represents? Nah, it won't hurt anyone. Get rid of it - it's a bit dull anyway - I think they should come up with something more colourful :cool:

St George's day is the 23rd of April, my son was born on it in 2004.
Plenty of people celebrate it including myself for whom it's now a double celebration(so I get twice as pissed:D), even though St Patricks day seems to be celebrated more by the english.:) Any excuse for a piss up I suppose:D

Heineken Helen

reeferchief wrote:

St George's day is the 23rd of April, my son was born on it in 2004.
Plenty of people celebrate it including myself for whom it's now a double celebration(so I get twice as pissed:D), even though St Patricks day seems to be celebrated more by the english.:) Any excuse for a piss up I suppose:D

Well yes, I know when it is - I was there for it this year by accident... and apart from all the pubs having the st georges flag all over them, there didn't seem to be any festivities to mark the occasion. The year I lived in London (2000) it came and went without a mention at all.

reeferchief

Heineken Helen wrote:

Well yes, I know when it is - I was there for it this year by accident... and apart from all the pubs having the st georges flag all over them, there didn't seem to be any festivities to mark the occasion. The year I lived in London (2000) it came and went without a mention at all.

Yeah I suppose around the country not that much happens for it, in the town I grew up in a lot of people go out and get pissed and celebrate the day, I suppose were more patriotic up north, plus London is a much more diverse and multi cultural society than smaller towns, so that may have been a factor.

Heineken Helen

reeferchief wrote:

Yeah I suppose around the country not that much happens for it, in the town I grew up in a lot of people go out and get pissed and celebrate the day, I suppose were more patriotic up north, plus London is a much more diverse and multi cultural society than smaller towns, so that may have been a factor.

Well, that's probably true. I just thought it was funny cos my cousins boyfriend and I used to slag eachother a lot and coming up to st georges day, he was going on and on about it but I suspected he actually didn't know when it was. So I waited til it was over and til he said something else and I said 'when exactly IS st georges day?' and he kinda mumbled about it being some time in May or something . He didn't live that down for quite a while... cos he had said he was gonna put the st georges flag in the window and all for it

FinsburyParkCarrots

Heineken Helen wrote:

Yep, and I can tell ya that the sun is the paper of choice for men in construction in Ireland . Well the working men - the engineers seem to buy 'intelligent but easy' The Independant. The Project manager (when he can be bothered dipping his hands in his pockets) buys the ultimite in 'look how intelligent I am' - The Times :eek: . I buy the Star (an Irish tabloid) it gets the points across, doesn't make me think at ALL BUT it's getting as bad as the sun. In that I don't see how an article on road death or something requires a picture of Glenda Gilson or Roberta Rowat holding a sign saying 'please slow down' :rolleyes:

Yep, I notice that the Irish versions of the Sun, Mirror and Star are quite different from their UK counterparts. They're the same in layout and a few features, but they've got different people working on them and so, you get Irish news in them. The articles can be better written, too. An Irish journalist will get their info on local and national news the old fashioned way, whereas over here, they just go to Reuters or the 'net, and reword somebody else's story most of the time.

project_radio

Please don't buy the Sun - ever.

Heineken Helen

codedbrandedlabelled wrote:

I have first hand of the nasty extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, they have a large following in Luton (where i unfortunately lived for 5 years) after 9/11 they put up sick posters of the twin towers burning with pictures "glorifying" the sick bastards that flew those planes, they also chant Bin laden's name in large groups through the town, christmas lights are no longer put up by the counsel at christmas they have a festival of illuminati (they put up lights but non with any meaning linked to xmas)

fucking stupid if you ask me

Yeh, I heard about that... that's fucking ridiculous. If I move to a country, I have to adapt myself to their ways... not insist that they adapt to mine

FinsburyParkCarrots

Back to the main topic though, this isn't news. This is just the sort of "My my, it's political correctness gone mad"- type diatribe that you hear TalkSPORT presenters rambling about. I doubt this kind of jingoistic nonsense sells papers. These tabloids should stick to tits and cokehead soap stars.