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I feel tarnished and picked on :o I didn't mean to punch ken, honest :rolleyes:

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She's never been violent towards me at a football match.

(Just in a pub.):D

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and outside the pub :D

no at football we were too busy getting confused over the score to get violent :p

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Didn't suggest that owning a flag was racist.

Didn't call anyone a nazi- find the suggestion that I did offensive.

Asked the question if the venue was a BNP haunt because the BNP frequently adourn their favoured establishments in this manner.

No its not fair that the flag has been used in this way.

No I dont feel that a pub displaying the tricolor is an IRA venue- Why? because the IRA was a terrorist organisation opearting in a covert manner. The BNP, National Front are incomparable.

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We only went to the Stag because the beer was cheap...and the Nuremberg Bierkeller is booked up on Saturday nights.

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Its a shame the Stag closed just before they planned to install the showers :rolleyes:

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Very good.

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There's a definite flaw in your logic here - as I've said, I don't know if the BNP adourn(sic) their establishments with the Union Flag. However, assuming they do, does it, therefore, follow that every place that displays the Union Flag is a haunt of fascists?

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Not very good- offensive, misjudged and inappropriate.

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No it doesnt BUT an establishment which chooses to display the union flag extensively within and without its premises may be perceived as subscribing to this belief system.
If the pub/club was actually trying to reclaim the flag from these arseholes then I would commend their actions as brave. However the motivation behind their decison would not be known and therefore COULD be perceived (albeit possibly unfairly) in this manner.

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It is something that has always made me wonder, why is it that in England we are scared to show our support for our country by flying the flag when I go in to shops, schools and bars in the USA and see them every where. I am sure that no one would ask if it was a white supremist classroom I was teaching in!!

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It's the same in Scotland. You see their the St. Andrew's saltaire displayed everywhere, and that's not seen as being racist.

I think Rosehip is a little out of date anyway. The far right gave up the Union flag as a symbol of extreme nationalism, thirty years ago. The flag of choice is now Burberry.

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Because the Stars and Stripes has not been bastardised by the far right in the states. Its got absloutely nothing to do with patriotism. I have simply asked the question in the context of how the Union flag has been adopted for a number of years in this country by extremist groups which have tainted its image.

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Thats not true though is it.

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Err....yes it is actually.

Not all American racist wear pointed hats, and not all British nationalist are skinheads with bulldogs and tattoos of the Union flag on their arse.;)