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Absolutely huge influence on language and culture not only here but across the world and has the feature of actually being English.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Celebrating Englishness is probably the absolute antithesis of Englishness.
I do agree, Happy St George's Day.
A quick Google search of 'British War Crimes' might help answer that one
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It just seems a bit too far reaching for me. "I love England...well, yeah but not the rapists, the paedophiles, the thieves, the corrupt politicians", etc, etc.
Maybe to be proud of a particular person or group, but a whole country?
It's not even like pride in a team that took hard work to get into, and could get dropped at any point. Pride in anything that is outside of the control or even small influence of the individual is a very strange concept. I personally don't feel guilty about horrible things Englishmen did 500 years ago so I don't feel any pride for the good things they did either. I can be appalled at the horrible things and pleased about the good things, but being pleased is not the same as pride.
Still - I take this view:
But with a very healthy pinch of the incomparable Mr Pratchett:
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
shoddy journalism and people’s views
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
I can't stand these oafs who drape themselvs in the FOSG and pretend it makes them the very essence of what it is to be English. By the same token, I can't stand other people in this country who decry and belittle any outward signs of pride or allegiance to our nation. Other countries revel in their nationality - we should be able to as well, but unfortunately the aforementioned oafs seem to have appropriated an admirable sentiment.
Wankers.
I read it on the Britain First website!
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
This is a real tweet by Paul Golding of Britain First, and it does nothing but open up anyone waving or wearing the English Flag outside of a sporting event to absolute ridicule:
It's this sort of crap that ruins it for anyone who wants to use it in an appropriate way. Flags are an indication of togetherness / loyalty etc etc and when absolute melts like Golding do this sort of thing it lumps together all people flying it and causes suspicion as there is no way of telling which type of flag waver a person is.
That flag has a serious image problem and I can't see that being fixed any time soon.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
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