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Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by mike-Ju
(Post 5161119)
Never forget your Welsh.
Anyway, the big flagpole in the garden will definitely rub the neighbours up the wrong way. Remember the Welsh family on the New Life Downunder show? they did exactly that and got in to trouble with the neighbours. |
Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by jond
(Post 5161116)
I have a bit more of a problem with the people who have just landed and become instant Aussies, you know the type, UK stinks, AFL is the best game on Earth etc, etc.
Still, I'd certainly never feel the urge wherever I lived and no matter how proud I was, to display a flag in my garden. It's a bit in your face, we have an Aussie one down the road from us and I find it a bit odd. But each to their own, makes life more interesting :thumbup: |
Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by Bunna_Wabbit
(Post 5158508)
I was driving to work in Brisbane today and I passed one of those half pint 4WDs -I think it was a Mazda Tribune or whatever. Anyway, I could not help noticing that it had a little England flag dangling from the front mirror and another England (flag) sticker in the back. Worse than that though, it had a sign in the side window that read “Leeds†in big letters!!! Now although I don’t have any flags on display in my car I often see the odd car with an English or Scottish flag on the back and given that there aren’t any big sports events on at the moment I assume it's just a little national pride? So, if one is so patriotic (or loves Leeds so much) then what are they doing here ? The only flag I am likely to get will be an Aussie one. :)
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Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by mike-Ju
(Post 5161119)
When I get to Oz I'll be bringing my huge Welsh flag, erecting a flagpole in my front garden and flying it with pride
Never forget your Welsh. (Although I hear a lot of Welsh feel at home in NZ for some reason?) Bah! :) |
Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by Bunna_Wabbit
(Post 5161697)
I assume then that you already have this in your front garden in Wales (if you have a front garden) ? If you are that patriotic then maybe you really should stay where you are.
(Although I hear a lot of Welsh feel at home in NZ for some reason?) Bah! :) This smacks slightly of the perennial BE retort of "If you don't like it then you can leave"... |
Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
correct me if im wrong,wasnt there a thread on here a few months back about seeing someone wearing a England footie shirt?Most of the replies came back as seeing it as being naff.Whats the difference,whether it be a flag or a footie shirt???
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Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
I'm proud to be English, but to show the world and his dog by wearing a footie shirt or a little flag in the car is just so plebby. Makes you look like a Sun reader.
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Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
plebby,haveny heard that in ages ,great word.:)
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Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by Vim Fuego
(Post 5161378)
Australia is not effectively 'English' or 'England' (by implication) ... it is Australia.
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Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by renth
(Post 5161764)
I'm proud to be English, but to show the world and his dog by wearing a footie shirt or a little flag in the car is just so plebby. Makes you look like a Sun reader.
Wearing footie shirts of any description when not actually attending a match is sadder than a sad thing. Those people seriously need to get a life or at the very least some clothes in their wardrobe :D |
Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by Dom the Pom
(Post 5161992)
Not yet. Maybe in another 175 years.
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Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by Dom the Pom
(Post 5161992)
Not yet. Maybe in another 175 years.
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Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by northerner
(Post 5162023)
By that time England will be a part of the USA so it will be irrelevant anyway. ;)
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Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Originally Posted by moneypen20
(Post 5162015)
Ditto. I don't need a flag to remind me of what I am. It's inside me. Saying that if others want to that's up to them surely. Something to do with living in a democracy I believe.
Wearing footie shirts of any description when not actually attending a match is sadder than a sad thing. Those people seriously need to get a life or at the very least some clothes in their wardrobe :D Or trainers when not actually running? Or wife-beaters when not actually beating your wife? I obviously disagree with your view on the football shirt thing and think to make that kind of judgement is worse than any kind of 'sin' the guy/gal in the shirt is committing. I shall take my Gillingham shirt (which has spawned many a happy conversation here ... some people must have been non-sad by the laws of probability) and move on :p On the wider subject of displaying 'place of birth' flags, I used to wear stuff that differentiated me when I first came over but I sort of 'grew out of it' and now I kind of don't think about it. Just like becoming 'accent blind' I guess. |
Re: UK Flags on display in Aus !
Most people though (huge generalisation here) don't look total pillocks when wearing baseball caps or trainers. I'm sure you look stunning in your Gillingham shirt ;) I still think it's sad:D
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