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Post by HURLOCK on Nov 28, 2007 12:27:57 GMT -1
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Post by jh1980 on Nov 28, 2007 12:34:03 GMT -1
Indeed, saw this on the morning News.
I agree entirely, it should, nay MUST be included! ;D
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Post by fcredblue on Nov 28, 2007 12:37:24 GMT -1
is the n ireland flag in... iths hard to say...
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Post by Travis on Nov 28, 2007 12:39:00 GMT -1
Disband the UK and let the leek bashing tossers fend for themselves!! ;D  |
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Post by thales on Nov 28, 2007 12:40:41 GMT -1
take the st patricks flag out  |
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Post by jh1980 on Nov 28, 2007 12:45:46 GMT -1
Disband the UK and let the leek bashing tossers fend for themselves!! ;D Yes Trav, I'm all in favour for the English to fend for themselves!  |
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Post by jh1980 on Nov 28, 2007 12:50:26 GMT -1
take the st patricks flag out How's this EOIN?   Finally, a British flag to be proud of! |
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Post by Travis on Nov 28, 2007 12:51:24 GMT -1
take the st patricks flag out How's this EOIN? Finally, a British flag to be proud of! F**k me, even Damien Hirst would consider that to be in bad taste!! ;D |
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Post by HURLOCK on Nov 28, 2007 12:53:21 GMT -1
;D
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Post by jh1980 on Nov 28, 2007 12:55:54 GMT -1
How's this EOIN? Finally, a British flag to be proud of! F**k me, even Damien Hirst would consider that to be in bad taste!! ;D ;D you clearly don't remember my hybrid Welsh-English flag then... I did a thread about it aeons ago on here...  (I liked it, everyone else hated it!!!) |
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Post by Travis on Nov 28, 2007 12:57:47 GMT -1
F**k me, even Damien Hirst would consider that to be in bad taste!! ;D ;D you clearly don't remember my hybrid Welsh-English flag then... I did a thread about it aeons ago on here... (I liked it, everyone else hated it!!!) Well I'd hate to be considered a conformist, but....... BTW, didn't St. George slay the last dragon?  |
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Post by HURLOCK on Nov 28, 2007 12:57:56 GMT -1
So what happened to all this indepence shit, make your minds up
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Post by Neko Bazu on Nov 28, 2007 13:01:33 GMT -1
So what happened to all this indepence shit, make your minds up I was just thinking that - wasn't so long ago the Welsh didn't want anything to do with us! Anyway, there is a dragon in the middle of the flag - not our fault your dragon's the same colour as St George's Cross! ;D Seriously, though, am I the only one who thinks this is a bit of a non-issue?  |
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Post by Teesside White on Nov 28, 2007 13:05:13 GMT -1
is the n ireland flag in... iths hard to say... its the red corner to corner cross |
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Post by jh1980 on Nov 28, 2007 13:05:44 GMT -1
(I liked it, everyone else hated it!!!) Well I'd hate to be considered a conformist, but....... BTW, didn't St. George slay the last dragon? It was when I was still trying to say I was proud to be Welsh and English, but that's not allowed apparently (!) so I ditched my love of England like the vicious Imperialist bitch that it is! Dunno where you got that idea from!  Here's the "real story" ;D "In the Mabinogion story "Lludd and Llefelys," the Red Dragon fights with an invading White Dragon. Lludd, King of Britain, goes to his wise brother Llefelys in France. Llefelys tells him to dig a pit in the centre of Britain, fill it with mead, and cover it with cloth. Lludd does this, and the dragons drink the mead and fall asleep. Lludd imprisons them, still wrapped in their cloth, in Dinas Emrys in Snowdonia. The tale is taken up by Nennius in the Historia Britonum. The dragons remain at Dinas Emrys for centuries until King Vortigern tries to build a castle there. Every night the castle walls and foundations are demolished by unseen forces. Vortigern consults his advisers, who tell him to find a boy with no natural father, and sacrifice him. Vortigern finds such a boy (who is later, in some tellings, to become Merlin) who is supposed to be the wisest wizard to ever live. On hearing that he is to be put to death to solve the demolishing of the walls, the boy dismisses the knowledge of the advisors. The boy tells the king of the two dragons. Vortigern excavates the hill, freeing the dragons. They continue their fight and the red dragon finally defeats the white dragon. The boy tells Vortigern that the white dragon symbolises the Saxons and that the red dragon symbolises the people of Vortigern. If Vortigern is accepted to have lived in the fifth century, then these people are the British whom the Saxons failed to subdue and who became the Welsh. Henry Tudor flew the red dragon of Cadwalader ap Cadwallon as his banner, overlaid on a green and white field representing the Tudor House, when he marched through Wales on his way to Bosworth Field." *ahem* God Save The King! |
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Post by HURLOCK on Nov 28, 2007 13:05:58 GMT -1
Seriously, though, am I the only one who thinks this is a bit of a non-issue? I suppose it's important to the Welsh, personally i would have thought that this would have been the last thing they wanted! |
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Post by Neko Bazu on Nov 28, 2007 13:08:03 GMT -1
Seriously, though, am I the only one who thinks this is a bit of a non-issue? I suppose it's important to the Welsh, personally i would have thought that this would have been the last thing they wanted! Likewise Strikes me that there's slightly more pressing issues too... |
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Post by jh1980 on Nov 28, 2007 13:09:38 GMT -1
Seriously, though, am I the only one who thinks this is a bit of a non-issue? I suppose it's important to the Welsh, personally i would have thought that this would have been the last thing they wanted! The Welsh commentator they interviewed on the morning news had no interest in being included in the British flag. Put simply, his argument was that we know we have a better national flag than any other in the world, so why would we want another flag anyway? But if someone suggests that we're irrelevant (as Neko narrowly avoids doing above) then it gets us worked up a bit. Plus that thing where Wales was left off the EU map. These things are annoying. |
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Post by HURLOCK on Nov 28, 2007 13:09:44 GMT -1
Likewise Strikes me that there's slightly more pressing issues too... Wants to tell a sheep joke, but thinks better of it Well maybe they need their 15 minutes |
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Post by jh1980 on Nov 28, 2007 13:10:58 GMT -1
So what happened to all this indepence shit, make your minds up I was just thinking that - wasn't so long ago the Welsh didn't want anything to do with us! Also that's complete bollocks, the people of Wales have never voted for secession. |
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