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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - mtread - 11-06-21
I think there's a difference between having flags (EU or UK) behind you at an official function on government premises, and having whopping Union Jacks behind you during a Zoom interview in your converted loft space :lol
Yes the flag shaggers rightly deserve the piss taken
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - Grahamm - 11-06-21
(10-06-21, 07:18 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: I assume you apply the same set of principles to the EU flag then?.
Oh dear.
There's a difference between someone appearing at a government/ EU press conference and sticking a bloody great flag behind them in their home just to show how "patriotic" they are.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - YamFazFan - 11-06-21
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - YamFazFan - 11-06-21
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - fazersharp - 11-06-21
(11-06-21, 12:23 AM)mtread link Wrote: Yes the flag shaggersI find this trope perticually offensive. And find it perticually odd thing to say by someone who was paid by and continues to be paid by the crown.
The left seems to hate this country. If you fly the English flag at best you are sneered at by the likes of lady Nugent at worst called a racist, if you fly the union flag you are called a flag shagger.I want to see it on every government building.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - YamFazFan - 11-06-21
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - mtread - 11-06-21
Quote: I find this trope perticually offensive. And find it perticually odd thing to say by someone who was paid by and continues to be paid by the crown.I find lots of things offensive, and who I'm paid by is none of your business :finger
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - Grahamm - 11-06-21
(11-06-21, 04:11 AM)YamFazFan link Wrote: Hang on, you said 'having flags behind you any time you're on TV' earlier.
Yes, *any* time, not simply when it's appropriate, but ANY TIME!
I trust that's clear now, but please enjoy some more pedantic nit-picking if it makes you feel better.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - Grahamm - 11-06-21
(11-06-21, 09:22 AM)fazersharp link Wrote: The left seems to hate this country. If you fly the English flag at best you are sneered at by the likes of lady Nugent at worst called a racist, if you fly the union flag you are called a flag shagger.I want to see it on every government building.
"Patriotism is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - fazersharp - 11-06-21
(11-06-21, 12:20 PM)Grahamm link Wrote: [quote author=fazersharp link=topic=17546.msg325938#msg325938 date=1623399735]
The left seems to hate this country. If you fly the English flag at best you are sneered at by the likes of lady Nugent at worst called a racist, if you fly the union flag you are called a flag shagger.I want to see it on every government building.
"Patriotism is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson.
[/quote]Samuel Johnson ---himself a politically committed Tory. So you now agree with the Right.
Left leg in :guitar left leg out :guitar
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - mtread - 11-06-21
'Patriotism' is nothing to do with being left or right. The highest levels exist in communist North Korea.
It's the pathetic wing of the far right who think that every judge who rules against the government, every lawyer who brings them to court, in fact all of the 48% who voted against Brexit, is an '' enemy of the people ''.
That's not patriotism, that's tyranny.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - YamFazFan - 11-06-21
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - YamFazFan - 11-06-21
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - Grahamm - 11-06-21
(11-06-21, 12:59 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: Samuel Johnson ---himself a politically committed Tory. So you now agree with the Right.
"Johnson was a devout, conservative Anglican and a compassionate man who supported a number of poor friends under his own roof, even when unable to fully provide for himself." Bate 1955
If more right wingers behaved like Johnson by giving a damn about others poorer than themselves, I might be more amenable to agreeing with them.
Oh and, PS, since this is getting political, I'll leave you to get the last word in (again).
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - YamFazFan - 11-06-21
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - mtread - 11-06-21
Quote: Ordinary working class folk who enjoy getting out the Union Jack bunting on The Queen's Jubilee and having a good old knees-up with their neighbours whilst singing God Save The Queen don't want to hear all that student union debating society bollox though do they?
You lot really have lost touch with base haven't you.
You've insulted one half of your electorate by branding them a load of racist bigots, and then sit there all puzzled and het-up because they've gone over to the other side.
It's not about the 'flag'. It's about how it's used. I've got several on my Triumphs, and are quite proud of them
I'd find it very difficult to insult half of the electorate. That's all in your imagination. Or more likely, the usual ultra right baiting trap
So like Graham, I'll duck out of this 'political' shitstorm, and leave the last word to you....... again
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - fazersharp - 11-06-21
What gets my goat is when people say "re double our efforts" when they were not doubled in the first place so how can they be re doubled.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - YamFazFan - 11-06-21
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - YamFazFan - 11-06-21
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS! - YamFazFan - 11-06-21
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