Pet Hates

[spotweld]

My main pet hate is that my skint mate won't give me my Xbox back.

 

[NuttySquirrel]

Came home from a weekend away to find that my village has been taken over by the St George's flag warriors. Every village gateway sign, every lamp-post down my road, even the zebra crossing and the mini roundabout now bear a symbol of xenophobia and division. Just fantastic.

 

[Slugjc]

Came home from a weekend away to find that my village has been taken over by the St George's flag warriors. Every village gateway sign, every lamp-post down my road, even the zebra crossing and the mini roundabout now bear a symbol of xenophobia and division. Just fantastic.

Luckily it's not happened around here just yet. But we do have our own version.

The local parish put flags up around the village to mark different occasions. Pride, Yorkshire day, national flags of other nations during international tournaments and so on. One local chap, has taken umbridge and decided, as a favour to local village. He bought enough St George's to hang on the village flag poles and donate to village.

I am actually sick of this over the top patriotism.

 

[rob666]

Not patriotism, just straightforward racism.

I thought we had seen a gentle re-acceptance of national pride in our flags...but here we go again.

 

[Jonathan]

Saw someone had painted an England flag onto a mini-roundabout near my house the other day. As Mike will be able to tell you, I was not happy.

 

[Slugjc]

I've just done my run around the Barnsley/Rotherham area.

Mini roundabouts
Flags on lamppost (all at way up, I assume someone has died)
The white bits of the zebra crossing.
Signs

I'm all for a flag. As @rob666 has said. It's not being used for the right intention.

 

[Leigh]

Hasn’t made it down here yet…

Thankfully, I think spray painting the St Piran’s Flag on a mini roundabout might require more effort and thought than these xenophobes are willing to put in.

 

[Jonathan]

There's been a chunk in Biddulph, including only one part of a zebra crossing, and also a stop line. These idiots really aren't thinking this through at all, are they?

 

[rob666]

Sadly, a large flag on the garden trellis of a local pub on the boundary between very mixed Blackburn and the very non mixed Ribble Valley, right on my beloved Devil's Highway, the A666.
I don't think it will do much for trade, not with the local white flight and dodgy economy.

 

[Slugjc]

I've seen someone point out.

Having all the flags up, on roundabouts, paths etc. is actually disrespectful. They will become tatty, traffic and feet will trampling all over it. Not sure if it's same over here. If the flag is disrespected In that way in America, they burn the flag. Can't wait for some lamppost to be up in smoke.