Patriotism

[daveparry]

We should be more patriotic we live in a fantastic country only fooked up by politics. I would fly the Union Flag but!!!

Unfortunately the very symbol of Englishness has been forever hijacked by tatooed feckwit football chanting moronic hordes and halfwit mongoloid holidaymakers putting our country to shame.



MOST PATRIOTIC COUNTRIES IN EUROPE (level of patriotism marked out of 10)
Netherlands 7.18
Scotland 7.1
Wales 7.06
Italy 7.01
Ireland 6.72
Spain 6.57
France 6.44
Germany 5.81
England 5.80

[Speed addicted]

Surely the Union flag would be for the UK, not just England?

There's the problem, you don't even know what it stands for!

[ZesPak]

We're (Belgium) not even on the list?

[DangerousMike]

i said this a while ago in another thread, but I am very proud of who I am, not where I'm from. I don't understand why patriotism is a desirable quality.

[grumbledoak]

ZesPak said:

We're (Belgium) not even on the list?

Isn't one half of your country basically not on speaking terms with the other half? I could see that affecting a patriotism test...

[daveparry]

I said the Union flag by default i'm afraid. sorry

[ZesPak]

The Crack Fox said:

ZesPak said:

We're (Belgium) not even on the list?

Von Rompuy made you all want to be Dutch/French instead, admit it

Haha Van Rompuy had nothing to do with THAT, the Wallons did that all by themselves

Oh and we dont want to be Dutch/French, we want to be Flemish/French .

But I could forgive France for not wanting our French part.

[gareth.e]

Speed addicted said:

Surely the Union flag would be for the UK, not just England?

There's the problem, you don't even know what it stands for!

this is the first thing that came to my mind lololol

[Dave^]

Fly the Union Jack or the St George's Cross and you'll be branded a racialist...

Probably

[Rothgo Wooft]

DangerousMike said:

i said this a while ago in another thread, but I am very proud of who I am, not where I'm from. I don't understand why patriotism is a desirable quality.

+1 I do catch myself being a little patriotic about certain things at times, but try to suppress it as far as possible. Maybe it stems from the image of chanting hooligans, but the line between patriotism and xenophobic nationalism does get blurred and the two often go hand in hand. Hence I feel the need to not appear patriotic.

[Bill]

Dunno what prompted this thread, but here's one already in progress