General Chat

Eldrick's hit the nail on the head.

When drink fuelled 'supporters' see an excuse to exercise their patriotic fervour, all hell breaks loose.

dont ban the flag, ban alcohol on match day other than wihin your own 4 walls

OMG is foot smelling now against the law? Whatever next! tsk

**coughs* It was one of THEM sort of clubs....**nods head knowlingly**

I'm still wondering what the "Asian community" has to do with it, nannie. There doesn't seem to have been any mention of that community as objecting to flying the team's national flag.

What has been mentioned is a concern about, er, heated discussions between people who are native to various parts of the UK about the flying of the English flag in connection with football.

The concern is about *football* generated heat, not some imaginary offence taken by some non-native ethnic group.


I sure wish my council were as interventionist as the ones you folks have.

I thought the activities of the pimps and drug dealers living on the corner of my street for two years were kinda antisocial. The council didn't seem to think there was much it could do. Maybe if the pimps and drug dealers had decided to fly the Jolly Roger ...

I do expect to see a lot of Italian flags in my neighbourhood. It happened last world cup -- cars wtih Italian flags all over the place. I don't think the Italian-Canadians would care what I put on my car, as long as I wasn't using it to make a statement about how all the Italians should convert to Protestantism and stop eating pasta, or go home ...

lol
Do you think this could be carried across to the Bulldog symbol, so if you own one you can't walk it for the duration incase you offend anyone?

Hmm, do the Welsh have a national dog?

Could make for some nasty dust-ups on the paths and pavements of the nation ...


Oh duh. Do the Welsh have a national dog ...

Ha! Ha! said Brenda, as she threw a corgi at him.

lol Janey,can't see the Queen being overly pleased !!

Ah, Eeyore, but would she be amused? ;)

Would depend if it was a "Pembroke" or a "Cardigan" !

My dog would be representing Canada for you.....unfortunately it not be a good omen lol.
For a start she'd eat the ball :(

The problem is, some *jobsworth's* in petty positions of paeudo power, try to think for others.

Years ago, when I worked in Leicestershire, a colleague was furious, as a neighbour and mother of a friend of hers had been asked by someone from City Hall to remove her display of pigs, as it might offend the neighbours. The pigs in question were actually the neighbour's grandchildren's piggy banks, liberated from the loft in a clear out from when her own children were young. The neighbours, including my colleague, were of mixed ethnicity, but some were Muslim, including her. But the crux was, no-one had actually asked if they were offended. It died a death of course, and common sense came back out to play.

But.... the media, and petty beuracracy do soooo love to make out a case for causing tensions... through mis-reporting, twisting of words and truth.

One of those misrepresentations is that it is our Asian/mainly Muslim neighbours/friends who will be offended by flag waving and national hoo ha at times such as this. That is a load of bunkum, of course. The majority of people who move to this country are proud to identify themselves with their adoptive country. They still like to maintain their own sense of identity within that, too... and so they should. It is who they are, and I am happy to be British/Welsh.... why shouldn't they be allowed to be happy to call themselves British/(insert whatever country they might have been born in) in exactly the same way.

I think that Nannie may have been pointing this out by mentioning a family who may not have been born in this country, but are proud to be here, and proud that their children/grandchildren will be born here and happily waving their flag to show it..... what gives people the right to voice concerns about offending, if they haven't found out first whether communities would be offended?

Love

Daff xxx

ps.... I have already said.... I am Welsh, and quite happy to support another British team in the world cup.... or anywhere for that matter... against the rest of the world... I have lived there, and have ancestors from England as well, so feel perfectly justified! ;¬))

Damn....I've got frogs looking out of my window!

El,

trust you ,,,,,,vollyball where here do they play vollyball ???}}}}}

There is absolutely NO excuse for having frogs!!!!!!

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Well done for posting this Lee. Its got me so mad reading all the rubbish on facebook and all the groups set up. People get wound up by the papers without even looking to see if something is true or not!

Janey I think the asian community was mentioned by Nannie because a lot of the silly stuff about flags has been unfairly directed against them.

I like volleyball.... used to watch it all the time. Hubby played. I never did. I just liked to watch all those tanned, fit young men. *sighs at memory* Also, we lived right next door to the court in one place, couldn't avoid watching it.

Love

Daff xxxx

Ah, Frankie, if that's the case, I get it -- and you too , nannie, that would make sense! Nobody mentioned the Asian community here -- just all over the rest of the internet. ;)

I say Ban the England Mars Bar

....or maybe not LOL !

My flag goes up tomorrow in support of our national football team. I like to see houses decked out in the flags & bunting. Its a bit of fun for the majority of people, thats the way i see it.
Not all of us get sloshed & use the flag as an excuse to be racist

Even our primary school has a section on the hall wall with the fixtures & england bunting & flags. & I'm fully prepared to wear the daft head bopper flags to make the kids laugh.

Anyhow Ghana (100-1) is going to win this year, its £40 for the winner of the sweep we are having amongst staff at school, and £25 for the runner ups.

If my friend or I win, the money will be going to our local hospice who cared for our workmate who recently passed away.

So for one year only...come on England (and Ghana) LOL !

We already have the England flag also as the grandson lives with us the Manchester City flag even though we live in the Midlands