Flying the flag!

[YouCallMeNighthawk]

It has been going around that in certain pubs in England you are not even allowed to fly the english flag or wear England football tops to support your team, just so you do not offend anyone of foreign origin!

What i am asking you is, do you think this is right that in our country we can not support our team with flags or tops?

I for one will be wearing my England top high and proud even if they try to kick me out of the pub! why should i be forced to stop wearing my countries top because someone of foreign origin doesn't like it?!?!?!

/Rant over

 

[delet]

Great, but you won't be getting any beer... Just get over it and wear a nice plain shirt.

Still, that's quite the idiotic rule. People get offended by such silly things far too easily.

 

[Irridium]

Well, in its defense, you Europeans can get batshit crazy during football games.

 

[eggy32]

What if the England top is made in China or something? Does it still count?

 

[Naheal]

There was a vet in the US that was prohibited from flying the flag in the window of his rented home.

I think your argument is more of a random rant than an actual complaing.

 

[Brotherofwill]

That's ridiculous. I'd still wear it. Heck I've gone into pubs and wore the opposing teams shirt, no one ever harmed me. It's sport ffs, stupid morons.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

You should probably use a better news article. The Sun isn't a great source of information. What actually happened, is that a police officer advised a pub to be careful about letting large groups of football fans wearing kits in, i.e. so as to avoid conflict.

 

[YouCallMeNighthawk]

You should probably use a better news article. The Sun isn't a great source of information. What actually happened, is that a police officer advised a pub to be careful about letting large groups of football fans wearing kits in, i.e. so as to avoid conflict.

That's at football stadiums it kicks off between teams hardly ever at pubs as well at my local everyone knows and respects each other.

 

[Flames66]

I think people can wear what they damn well please. I wouldn't wear a football top myself because I have no interest in it.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

You should probably use a better news article. The Sun isn't a great source of information. What actually happened, is that a police officer advised a pub to be careful about letting large groups of football fans wearing kits in, i.e. so as to avoid conflict.

That's at football stadiums it kicks off between teams hardly ever at pubs as well at my local everyone knows and respects each other.

Yes, but the Sun got their hands on it and is making out that we can't wear kits. We can wear what we want.

 

[Sikachu]

You should probably use a better news article. The Sun isn't a great source of information. What actually happened, is that a police officer advised a pub to be careful about letting large groups of football fans wearing kits in, i.e. so as to avoid conflict.

That's at football stadiums it kicks off between teams hardly ever at pubs as well at my local everyone knows and respects each other.

Yes, but the Sun got their hands on it and is making out that we can't wear kits. We can wear what we want.

Bang on.

 

[Wadders]

EVERYONE CALM DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


This is bullshit, or 'nonsense' as the article below so quaintly declares. No really, it is. I think it came from police advice (note: advice, not orders) to one or two pubs in areas of high immigrant population (I think) to discourage fights and such.

Then some retard newspaper (probably the Sun or the Mail) published words to the effect that there was going to be a countrywide ban on England shirts and flags, and then the great unwashed seized upon it as a soapbox from which to proclaim their hatred of immigrants.

Here is a source, from the lovely BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8697240.stm

 

[Nickolai77]

You know, i think it's just a myth.

Like how teachers arn't supposed to call black boards black boards...it's just the latest myth that spreads around due to the whole PC paranoia in society. I asked teachers about the black board one and they said they have never been given instruction as to what they should call black boards. It's all lies, your still aloud to wear England shirts in pubs.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Speaking as a foreigner, if I was coming to visit I'd be more confused by the flag's absence then it's presence. I mean when I go visit a foreign country, I expect to see that country's flag all over the place. That reminds me, I need to dig out my flags and put them up somewhere.

 

[Blimey]

That's weird. I mean at a pub here in Canada once, I was wearing a big-ass Canadian flag that was crossed with a Scottish one on my shirt. Some Pakistani dude told me I was offending him, so I told him to either fuck-off, fight me, or sit down and let my buy him a drink. He chose the drink, and we became pretty good friends.

I have no idea what this had to do with the original post.

Fly your flag man, fly it fucking proudly.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Wow... if something like this happened here in the U.S of A everyone would go batshit crazy. Seriously, no state south of Oregon and east of Cali would be safe due to everything turning Road Warrior-esque.

EDIT: I've thought of 2 options:
1) walk into said pub with the english flag on a pole, wearing your english football top, and have your face painted with the english flag. Refuse to leave the bar until the police arrive.

2) Go Guy Fawkes on they asses and blow up parliment or whoever made the stupid rule.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

Well, I don't live in England, but if this was in America, I'd say that it was alright to wave the flag.

I mean, it's America, and most people here don't care. That's why our foreign affairs policy ain't none to good.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

THIS IS NOT TRUE!

I'm sorry to rant but this is based solely on one man calling up the Sun newspaper, hardly the most official and fact-loving paper to begin with, and claiming that the police have informed them they are not to fly the flag, and the Sun printed it as true.

The truth of the matter is that there was a single pub, which received a letter from the village council, informing the pub that the flag was potentially a hazard depending on where it was hung, so they should either consider moving it or simply taking it down, and the pub decided to take it down while they decided on a new location.

There is a Facebook group currently devoted to debunking this claim across Britain. The leader of the group has called up many of the pubs supposedly following this 'law' and has confirmed that while some of them have chosen not to fly the flag for other reasons, they haven't even heard of such a ruling, which would of course have been given straight to them first.

THIS IS A FABRICATION!

 

[Billion Backs]

Ridiculous, but not for some kind of bullshit patriotic reasons.

People who are offended shouldn't get shit. You're offended? Too bad, get lost. There's nothing uber-harmful about flying a flag. I could understand if you were offended at someone beating the shit out of their kid, or their mate, that would be rather violent and nasty behavior that shouldn't be tolerated for various reasons...

But when it comes to anything else, whiners should go kill themselves. You're free to be offended, but you sure shouldn't be free to limit others expression. Don't like it, don't bloody look.

 

[Hollock]

really I wore one just yesterday. Couse that wasn't england it was NEW england, which is in