General News Thread

[CosbehFox]

4 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Burst of many things including pride, nationalism and a very small percentage doing it purely for the wrong reasons. 

People are free to do what they want but that they volunteer their time for free disappoints me of all the other causes what have missed out 

[Tommy Fresh]

5 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Rishi yes, the other two are worse than 2TK 

The correct answer is actually all 3 would be worse

[Sly]

Just now, Tommy Fresh said:

Nothing speaks of pride in a flag then it being painted on the road for people to drive over 

Yes, I’m not quite sure why people are defacing roundabouts either. 
 

Has anyone gone around painting them back white yet? 
 

I did see someone had painted the colours the wrong way around, so basically the Danish Flag, which made me laugh. 

[Tommy G]

Just now, CosbehFox said:

People are free to do what they want but that they volunteer their time for free disappoints me of all the other causes what have missed out 

I can’t see many of the flag boys doing a shift at Christian aid tbh 

[Tommy G]

Just now, Tommy Fresh said:

The correct answer is actually all 3 would be worse

Yawn

[Tommy Fresh]

Just now, Tommy G said:

Yawn

Almost as boring as the term 2TK 

[SemperEadem]

42 minutes ago, CWC1983 said:

Saw my first flag raisers tonight on the way home from work. 

 

Four  30 to 40 aged lads, one bedecked with a George Cross round his neck and down his back, and the other 3 on step ladders putting flags up at the birch tree roundabout, Coalville. 

 

They must be popular lads because most cars going past were beeping their horn and getting a thumbs up in return from the flaggers.

 

 I've seen it on the news, it just took me a bit by surprise to see it in action relatively close to home. 

 

  

Saw a fundraiser earlier, blokes wanting £2,000 for flags to go up in Coalville.

[Muzzy_no7]

5 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

People are free to do what they want but that they volunteer their time for free disappoints me of all the other causes what have missed out 

What would you like them to be doing? 
 

Rattling pots and pans outside of Leicester Train station? 

[Sly]

I thought it was generally accepted that Starmer had current labour more centre right in terms of politics, 

 

Rishi was maybe closer than Liz and Boris. 

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

What would you like them to be doing? 
 

Rattling pots and pans outside of Leicester Train station? 

If you’ve got time to stick a flag up in a village, youve got time to paint a fence at the various community facilities within said village or raise money for such facilities. Make a direct impact to the rather than the virtue signalling they claim to hate. 

Edited 2 September 2025 by CosbehFox

[Tommy Fresh]

Just now, Muzzy_no7 said:

What would you like them to be doing? 
 

Rattling pots and pans outside of Leicester Train station? 

I imagine he means they could be doing something charitable? 

[Tommy G]

1 minute ago, Sly said:

I thought it was generally accepted that Starmer had current labour more centre right in terms of politics, 

 

Rishi was maybe closer than Liz and Boris. 

Even being more “centre right” he’s managed to aggravate the centre, right and some left - and become more unpopular than an Asian PM - many of which some far right activists would of hated because of his skin colour, wealth and background - some going that.

[Muzzy_no7]

1 minute ago, CosbehFox said:

If you’ve got time to stick a flag up in a village, youve got time to paint a fence at the various community facilities within said village 

Ain’t gonna happen though is it. The average person would prefer to do something trendy than beneficial. (Although on a personal note I do like seeing more Union flags and St George’s cross’).

 

2 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

I imagine he means they could be doing something charitable? 

I knowwww I was being silly 

[Fosse93]

Why does seeing the English flag up everywhere (I live in Coalville) make me feel uneasy? We should be proud to be English shouldn’t we?

 

Just feels like this is being done for the wrong reasons.

[Tommy G]

Hinckley looks like we’re in the World Cup final at the min. 
 

They’ve even whacked a few right outside the Turkish barbers. 

[Muzzy_no7]

6 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Hinckley looks like we’re in the World Cup final at the min. 
 

They’ve even whacked a few right outside the Turkish barbers. 

Someone did go round tearing every single flag down with real gusto and anger the other week, even doing the bridges too. 

[Foxdiamond]

11 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

I imagine he means they could be doing something charitable? 

How do we know what else they do or is this all assumptions 

[Tommy Fresh]

Just now, Foxdiamond said:

How do we know what else they do or is this all assumptions 

Well they are spending time doing this, which could be better spent elsewhere couldn't it?

[Parafox]

Storyville  bbc2 now. 

[Vacamion]

 

You wouldn't have expected it, but there are a few bits of Glasgow with Saltires having gone up on lamp posts, seemingly imitating what's going on down there. 

 

Given what goes on with other "flegs" and marches every Summer, you would think Scotland would be a bit wary of that kind of thing.

 

[leicsmac]

It's like every eighty to a hundred years for the last few hundred our species likes to stand on the precipice of becoming... well, the same or worse than other animals, in terms of treating other members of the same species as things. 

[Foxdiamond]

Just now, Tommy Fresh said:

Well they are spending time doing this, which could be better spent elsewhere couldn't it?

Are they doing it 24 hours a day seven days a week. You could accuse people spending time on going to football etc as a waste of good time that could be spent elsewhere 

[filbertway]

8 minutes ago, Fosse93 said:

Why does seeing the English flag up everywhere (I live in Coalville) make me feel uneasy? We should be proud to be English shouldn’t we?

 

Just feels like this is being done for the wrong reasons.

Haha I know what you mean.

 

Someone's stuck a union jack flag on the phone pole outside our house.

 

I'm feeling the pressure to shave my head, start drinking Stella outside the house and rambling about how Starmer's letting the country go to the dogs

 

I can't decide if this is worse than when everyone used to stand outside their house banging pans during lockdown.

 

I've no objection to flags and think it looks decent during events, but there's clearly more at play than patriotism. Otherwise these flags would have been out for years and not when social media told them to do it.

[CosbehFox]

14 minutes ago, Fosse93 said:

Why does seeing the English flag up everywhere (I live in Coalville) make me feel uneasy? We should be proud to be English shouldn’t we?

 

Just feels like this is being done for the wrong reasons.

Because it has a living memory connotation for a whole set of people who lived in the 1970s and 1980s, that can’t not be disputed 

[CWC1983]

29 minutes ago, Sly said:

What does it all mean though? 

I'm going to take the 5th.......

 

I'd potentially get a ban otherwise 😀. 

 

I can understand why its happening, I just don't agree with it.

As someone else said,  it makes me feel uneasy.