The whole of one road round the corner looks like the fucking Mall. Every lamppost.
Bit of a delay putting them up so can only guess they were on order from Temu.
Same Bunch of cycle twats who made a huge mess of my local are up to their old tricks again. I hate to sound like an old fart but they’re all horrible little bastards, the amount of times they’ve nearly run people / children / dogs over and when people have tried to have a friendly chat to them about cleaning up after themselves they’ve gone gone on the offensive and before you know it you’ve 20odd teenagers some of them pushing 6ft intimidating or squaring up to someone, and then they complain that the council don’t want to build them a pump track / jumps, They live in the fucking Lake District there’s a thousand places in a 5mile radius they could get away with building some jumps.
They always bring picks shovels and spades but never a fucking brush.
Quick flag question probably for the foreign dwellers @Mark @franc @MaxFacePalmer are national flags flying in Estonia/France/Belgium(?) seen with the same nationalist gammon criticiques as a st georges flag flown over here?
i was in France for 3 weeks and saw the tricolour everywhere but never thought “oh its antiimmigration and pronationalism” just “its the french being french”
But Id be curious to get alternative perspectives.
Wife took stepladder this morning and put out 3 flagpoles with Estonian flag this morning. 1st September is start of school year and incredibly important and subject of national pride. Most houses have flags out, it’s really quite impressive.
Below: immediate view from our apartment
It’s really not seen as a signal or anything anti immigration it’s absolutely national pride and not aggressive in any way
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hows the flag portrayed in germany?
can’t remember seeing them apart from ‘official’ ones.
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There’s a German comic I see on Instagram reels and he did a thing the other day about how flags aren’t really flown in Germany becuase they’re not allowed to have national pride, as at one point in the past they had too much of it…
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When that frog eyed bastard gets voted in I’m sure a few more historic German flags will be proudly flapping around the place.
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No flags flying here. 21/9 is national day in Belgium. Only thing that comes out without fail that day is the rain.
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Stoked for first day in new job but not stoked for feeling like the bad cold my wife has had (and daughter-ish) is starting to rear its ugly head with me. Nothing worse that feeling sick on thr first day of school.
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Well you see a lot of Swiss flags in front of chalets here but it’s just the Swiss being Swiss, I don’t feel like I’ve seen more of those recently than say last spring or something.
Lots of nationalist Michael Fabricants here these days but they’re everywhere really, as sad as it is.
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There was an article in the local shitrag covering a protest in Hanley over the weekend. Must have been 20 of them at most. The media seem to just want to amplify this nonsense as it gets clicks and views which then generates (I guess) ad revenue and is a nice distraction to whatever is really going on.
The Irish flag/tri-colour is starting to be used in a simlar way to the English flag, but it’s not as pronounced or idiotic like painting the St George cross on a zebra crossing or painted roundabout.
The housing crisis here is absolutely crippling the country and the usual far right, unemployable, willfully aggro and desperately useless fuckwits use that as an excuse to be as racist as possible.
2 relevant stories - they’re not necessarily about Irish flags per se, but
Nov 2024, an Algerian immigrant slashed and stabbed a bunch of primary school age kids at the top of O’Connell St. Bystanders waded in, disarmed him and then hospitalised him before being arrested. Unfortunately, one girl suffered life changing injuries and only recently was able to return home. Details are generally scarce, but I think she was paralyzed in the attack.
The far right (the usual North Face clad roadmen who wouldn’t wear face masks during Covid, but now are welded to their balaclavas) took to the streets “to protect our wimmin & childers”, attacked and burnt out cop cars, buses and even torched a light rail tram in the middle of the city. They rampaged and smashed up all the usual sports and clothing stores in and around O Connell St, skillfully avoiding the bookstores next to them - all this on the pretext of saving Ireland from the invading hordes.
Last spring, an abandoned paint factory in Coolock, Dublin, was going to be repurposed into a hostel and processing point for refugees, but was firebombed by the local gougers. Turned out this group of Concerned Residents known as Coolock Says No had gone up to Ballymena and made friends with the same gang of fuckwits who were behind the racist civil unrest a few months ago and participated with them in an anti-immigration rally/parade/protest in Belfast.
The crazy thing is that Ballymena gang are headed up by a fella known as Suspect 4, a member of the UDA, who was arrested in connection with the murder of 5 Catholics in a bookies in NI in 1992 - basically, for the UDA, anybody who’s from the RoI would’ve been a fair target.
The rest of the time, you’ll see the same uber-nationalist clowns spitting on the ground any time Linfield, Larne, Rangers or England are mentioned around football, but yet it’s convenient and ok to make peace with the same group of paramilitaries when you want to burn brown people.
Not to mention that Irish people have integrated all over the world, far and wide, so yeah, we’re immigrants too.
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Australia is in the grip of lots of anti immigration bullshit at the moment.
There was some Australian pride march in Melbourne on the weekend full of the worst of the worst. Amusingly there was a picture doing the rounds of some attendees enjoying some Chinese food after the march draped in flags etc.
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A succulent Chinese meal?
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Wisdom tooth has been killing me this past week and my gum swelled up overnight. Getting it removed tomorrow but I feel like I’ve got a ticking time bomb of gross goo inside my gum that could burst at any minute. Hope I don’t die of infection before tomorrow.
I have stereotypically terrible British teeth too. I hate them, I’m gonna be a bit embarrassed showing them to the dentist lol. Might ask about getting a proper treatment plan etc.
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Have you tried washing your mouth out with salty water? It kind of feels like it does some good.
Then get some of these…
Good news, I showed up at the dentist and the useless moron drone at the front desk told me she’d booked me on the wrong day so the fucking thing is still stuck in my head. Been psyching myself up all morning for a horrible time and now I’m calling every dentist in the world trying to get an appointment for this afternoon.
I have to be up on a stage doing a presentation tomorrow and my face will probably still be half paralysed.
lmao where I want to come watch.
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‘If it bleeds, it leads’ is firmly back in place and with the strength of the individual influencer at an all time high the hysterical headlines are getting pushed at exactly the people incapable of critical thought that lap it up.
The state of current media is daily mail on super steroids.
As has been revealed that Tim Pool was payed by the Russian government to promote certain views and topics, I wonder if we’ll ever find out how many far right influencers are paid by the Tommy Robinsons of the world, and who in turn are they being paid by
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