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From: Ret. on 28 May 2010 06:31 ChelseaTractorMan wrote: > Am I being a snob in thinking having a flag on your car makes you look > like a knob? Personally I always think that most football supporters look like knobs... -- Kev
From: Silk on 28 May 2010 06:32 On 28/05/2010 10:14, bod wrote: > Oh dear, you see every England football supporter who proudly displays > his own country's flag as being typical of a BNP supporter or a > brainless knobhead. I would say it's statistically correct. You only have to look at a news report showing football outside a stadium to see that this particular stereotype has more than a passing resemblance to the truth. Every Saturday afternoon, there are hundreds of thousands of bull-terrier type dogs straining at the length of blue tow-rop tied to a washing line post, pining for their masters.
From: Ret. on 28 May 2010 06:34 bod wrote: > Adrian wrote: >> bod <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like >> they were saying: >> >>>>>> Am I being a snob in thinking having a flag on your car makes you >>>>>> look like a knob? >> >>>>> Yes. >> >>>> So how many flags are attached to your Vectra, bod? >> >>> 2 >> >> <unsurprised> >> >>>> What about your neighbours in your residential mobile home park on >>>> the outskirts of Slough? >> >>> There are too many St George flags around here to count. >> >> <unsurprised> >> >>> What has, where I live in England, got to do with whether I >>> display my country's flag, got to do with it Adrian? >> >> Demographics. >> >> > > This is my country and I'll fly our flag wherever and whenever I > want. > I see some other nations flags flying from their cars, are they > included in your 'numpty' stereotype tag, or is it just the St George > flag that upsets you? When I was touring the Deep South - the majority of cars were flying not the Stars and Stripes - but the Confederate Flag! The red-neck mentality is still alive and kicking down there. -- Kev
From: Adrian on 28 May 2010 06:44 Mike P <mikewpearson1(a)gmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> When I was touring the Deep South - the majority of cars were flying >> not the Stars and Stripes - but the Confederate Flag! The red-neck >> mentality is still alive and kicking down there. > The difference being that many of the St.George's flag lot are just > xenophobic or a bit thick/intolerant. > > Many people in the Deep South are dangerously deranged.. The only real difference is that one lot are usually heavily armed.
From: Adrian on 28 May 2010 06:57
Silk <me(a)privacy.net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > The St. Georges flag is the flag of one of the constituents nations of a > union. A nation that stands for, amongst other things, racial equality. FFS, don't tell that to the people who wave it about. |