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by Costa Fierro » Fri May 30, 2014 5:38 pm
by DesAnges » Fri May 30, 2014 5:38 pm
by Krjder » Fri May 30, 2014 5:38 pm
Nation Type: Direct Democratic Federal Monarchy
Capital: Aastejk
Population: 480,670,500
Current Leadership:
-Emperor Anton IV
-Realm Chancellor Atsūjiri Gyēzashiri
Military:
-1,560,000 Active
-4,750,000 Reserves
by Ashmoria » Fri May 30, 2014 5:40 pm
DesAnges wrote:Ashmoria wrote:imagine it instead on a ...yellow slicker with a white flag-shaped rectangle with a red cross inside it. THAT looks like a flag.+
Does it really matter, though? It's not like a huge amount of design effort has gone into this. It's something for football fans to wear. Being one myself, I happen to know that football fans in England are really not arsed about what they or others are wearing, unless it happens to be the opposition's kit in the wrong end.
by Breadknife » Fri May 30, 2014 5:45 pm
For a long time, the English (or British) flag was very much a BNP/National Front staple, and us normal Brits (and English in particular) were quite scared of flying such flags when they weren't trying to make such statements but thought that they might have been.DesAnges wrote:Funny thing is, you can usually tell who the racists are by looking for the English flag flying outside of major sporting tournaments.
by Benuty » Fri May 30, 2014 5:46 pm
by Wind in the Willows » Fri May 30, 2014 5:47 pm
by Benuty » Fri May 30, 2014 5:48 pm
Wind in the Willows wrote:It's a case of overly-politically correct morons getting offended over almost everything.
by Australian rePublic » Fri May 30, 2014 5:49 pm
Benuty wrote:Daily mail much?
by DesAnges » Fri May 30, 2014 5:52 pm
Breadknife wrote:For a long time, the English (or British) flag was very much a BNP/National Front staple, and us normal Brits (and English in particular) were quite scared of flying such flags when they weren't trying to make such statements but thought that they might have been.DesAnges wrote:Funny thing is, you can usually tell who the racists are by looking for the English flag flying outside of major sporting tournaments.
by The Serbian Empire » Fri May 30, 2014 5:57 pm
Merizoc wrote:Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the KKK was active in the UK, so it doesn't have anywhere near the same cultural significant there.
by Wind in the Willows » Fri May 30, 2014 5:58 pm
by The Serbian Empire » Fri May 30, 2014 6:03 pm
Wind in the Willows wrote:Oh wow, it has a hood, so it must be the KKK! EVERYONE WEARING A JACKET WITH A HOOD IS RACIST!!
by Breadknife » Fri May 30, 2014 6:05 pm
Perhaps, I'm just going on both what I've seen, on trips through various places (not exactly Tower Hamlets1, IYSWIM) and from a half-remembered analysis of the situation that I recall, that was broadcast after a couple of World Cups had gone by and maybe around the time of the Golden Jubilee, that discussed the "new mood" for both the St George's flag and the Union-whotsit.DesAnges wrote:Breadknife wrote:For a long time, the English (or British) flag was very much a BNP/National Front staple, and us normal Brits (and English in particular) were quite scared of flying such flags when they weren't trying to make such statements but thought that they might have been.
Perhaps it's become a more localised issue. Certainly around by me the only people that fly England flags are racists.
by Aushanit » Fri May 30, 2014 6:09 pm
by Izandai » Fri May 30, 2014 6:09 pm
by Giovenith » Fri May 30, 2014 6:11 pm
by The Serbian Empire » Fri May 30, 2014 6:12 pm
Izandai wrote:The Serbian Empire wrote:Look at the pointed tip of it... it's the Klan!
That is really the only reason people are talking about this. If the makers of the poncho had just given it a rounded hood, like, oh, I don't know, EVERY OTHER HOOD THAT WASN'T A KKK HOOD IN EXISTENCE (at least that I've seen).
Actually, now that I think about it, maybe the poncho intentionally looks like a KKK uniform. It's the only explanation for such an idiotic design choice that by rights shouldn't even occur as a possibility to most people.
by Gauthier » Fri May 30, 2014 6:13 pm
The Serbian Empire wrote:Izandai wrote:That is really the only reason people are talking about this. If the makers of the poncho had just given it a rounded hood, like, oh, I don't know, EVERY OTHER HOOD THAT WASN'T A KKK HOOD IN EXISTENCE (at least that I've seen).
Actually, now that I think about it, maybe the poncho intentionally looks like a KKK uniform. It's the only explanation for such an idiotic design choice that by rights shouldn't even occur as a possibility to most people.
I bet it's to get Americans talking no less. Free publicity just from the shape of the hood.
by Izandai » Fri May 30, 2014 6:13 pm
The Serbian Empire wrote:Izandai wrote:That is really the only reason people are talking about this. If the makers of the poncho had just given it a rounded hood, like, oh, I don't know, EVERY OTHER HOOD THAT WASN'T A KKK HOOD IN EXISTENCE (at least that I've seen).
Actually, now that I think about it, maybe the poncho intentionally looks like a KKK uniform. It's the only explanation for such an idiotic design choice that by rights shouldn't even occur as a possibility to most people.
I bet it's to get Americans talking no less. Free publicity just from the shape of the hood.
by Nord Amour » Fri May 30, 2014 6:20 pm
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