Time to ditch the Union Jack?

Dr Zoidberg wrote:
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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In uk.legal on Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Lord Turkey Cough
wrote :

Britain is now a multi-cultural society and flying the Union Jack
is basically saying "your excluded" to many ethnic groups.

Isn't it time in this day and age, in the 21st century, to ditch
this piece of racist gabage?

Despite this being an obvious troll, I'm going to comment anyway.

If immigrants are against the Union flag, surely that undermines
their claimed desire to be British. IMO you assimilate, or you leave!


It's not as black and white as that.

There should be a good amount of willingness to accept the customs
and way of life of the country you move to , but equally there's no
necessity to abandon everything relating to where you lived before.

Agreed but the customs and rules of the host country should ne
paramount, the rest is just personal choice, not that of the nation in
which one finds oneself.

On 23 Nov, 03:38, Fevric J Glandules wrote:
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:34:52 +0000, Richard Tobin wrote:
In article ,
judith wrote:

Union Jack : a small British union flag flown as the jack of a ship

That is not the complete OED entry. Your deliberate removal of the
rest of the definition is dishonest.

"later extended to any size or adaptation of the union flag, whether used
as a jack or not, and regarded as the national ensign".

It sez here.

[fx: waves SOED around, lets go by accident, breaks fishtank]

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Using the OED to reinforce facts like this is a bad idea; the OED is
solely concerned with documenting current and historical English usage
and etymology, not whether its application is correct or not.

BTW the union jack / flag was solely commissioned to enable ships from
the new union to be identified at sea and whether it is a jack or a
flag only refers to its shape (for any flag, not just this one). The
most common mistake is actually displaying it in the wrong colours;
the blue should be the same sky-blue as the Scottish saltire. BTW
there is no reference to Wales in it as Wales was formally annexed
into England at the time.

See, you don't the monopoly on being boring....

"®i©ardo" wrote in message
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Lord Turkey Cough wrote:
"mentalguy2004" wrote in message
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"Lord Turkey Cough" wrote in message
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Britain is now a multi-cultural society and flying the Union Jack
is basically saying "your excluded" to many ethnic groups.

Isn't it time in this day and age, in the 21st century, to ditch
this piece of racist gabage?

You're aware of the difference between the Union Jack and the Union
flag? I'm sure someone will point it out.

Trolling score = 1.5/10. Must try harder.

Idiot factor 9.5/10 - see me.





Well, don't be modest, I give you 10/10 for the idiot factor.

And I wil give you 11/10 na na na na nanah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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On 22 Nov, 20:33, "mentalguy2004" wrote:


the UJ

What with?

May I suggest the UJ be replaced with the Skull and Crossbones?

It alway has 4 crosses on it.

In article ,
®i©ardo wrote:

A bit like the Labour scum stealing England's red rose symbol.

Yeah, and the French and Spanish Socialist parties.

-- Richard
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in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

In message ,
Lord Turkey Cough Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

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On 22 Nov, 20:33, "mentalguy2004" wrote:


the UJ

What with?

May I suggest the UJ be replaced with the Skull and Crossbones?

It alway has 4 crosses on it.

What does?

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Wilf wrote:
On 23/11/2007 12:07 pm, ®i©ardo wrote:

Tommo wrote:
On 22 Nov, 19:16, Jonathan Bryce
wrote:
Lord Turkey Cough wrote:
Britain is now a multi-cultural society and flying the Union Jack
is basically saying "your excluded" to many ethnic groups.
Isn't it time in this day and age, in the 21st century, to ditch
this piece of racist gabage?
Flying the Union Jack or indeed the Union Flag is basically saying
either "I
support Nick Griffin", "I support Ian Paisley", or "I'm Gordon Brown".
Everyone else flies the Scottish, English or Welsh flags, or the Irish
tricolour.
Round here the flag of choice for Nick Griffin supporters is the
English flag. Don't think I've ever seen a Union Flag being flown in
that context.

A bit like the Labour scum stealing England's red rose symbol.


or the Conservatives a poor old tree which was minding its own business.

But that didn't cause the embarrassment of having to explain on St
George's Day that you were English, NOT a member of the labour party!

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Richard Tobin wrote:
In article ,
®i©ardo wrote:

A bit like the Labour scum stealing England's red rose symbol.

Yeah, and the French and Spanish Socialist parties.

-- Richard

If nothing else, the Labour Party lacked originality when it came to
symbolism.

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In article
s.com, writes
Whats the Yorkshire flag?


A padlocked wallet on a gold background with a ferret at each corner
eating a dripping and black pudding sandwich.

You forgot the bath cresset and coal sable.

Mike

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Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange

"JAF" wrote
"Lord Turkey Cough" wrote:

"your excluded"

"you're"

Now **** off.
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Seconded. The illiterate ****!

Martin
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