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You only had one job. One ‘patriot’ painted their St George’s Cross spectacularly wrong, inverting the colours, leaving their decorative roundabout with a more Scandinavian feel. In the excitement of national pride that has reached fever pitch in recent days, one Englishman accidentally pledged their allegiance to Denmark. Drivers near the Newton Farm roundabout in Hereford may have been a bit confused while passing the Danish flag (Picture: SWNS)

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

It's always the nationalists that know nothing about the nation they pretend to protect

Idiots

[–] florge@feddit.uk 109 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

About average for a flag shagger I suppose.

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Flag shagger sounds very good. I’m keeping this one in mind.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll be honest. It looks more swiss to me.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

swiss cross doesnt touch the edges

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know, but the danish cross feels less centered. It feels like a bad one of both.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so... an inverted english flag

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but it's also a thick butt cross. It could be on one of those thicc moe communities here. It's got some chonk.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Arioxel@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i can tell from your french exclamation mark that you are an expert on the region

[–] Arioxel@jlai.lu 1 points 6 days ago

And I feel that it reads better with this added space, but my auto-correct does not comply

The French use a space before exclamation marks? Huh. TIL!

[–] WilhelmStroker@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The patriots are not sending their best.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Half the Union Jack's tied to lampposts round here are upside down... That's how patriotic they are.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Pumafred9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's to do with the thicker white band on the x outline. The Union Jack has white outlines on the red X. The thicker of the white lines (which represents Scotland) needs to be in the top left of the x, if it's not, then the flag is upside down, or backwards.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

No, I think they are.

[–] visc@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Balaclava and exposed tattoos. Bunch of geniuses.

[–] Pumafred9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Also running off to their distinctive German car...

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the excitement of national pride that has reached fever pitch in recent days, one Englishman accidentally pledged their allegiance to Denmark

Speaking as a Dane, you guys can have the racist idiot back if he's anything like most nationalists..

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or perhaps you should show up and demand gold from them.

Good point! Got a longboat and crew I can borrow?

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Same vibes:

CW: Attempted Nazi symbolism

Source: Hale Hortler - Know Your Meme

[–] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 2 points 6 days ago

Exactly what I thought of, too

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Rarely do you see something more fitting for this comm 😅

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Flag shaggers aren't known for their high intelligence...

[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago

In the excitement of national pride

Read that as excrement at first. Then realised that it's probably quite fitting.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Wait till they find out that St George was born in what is now Turkey

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Probably in solidarity with Denmark against Trump aggression.

[–] Naich 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

It looks more like a Savoy cross than Danish.