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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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[-] florge@feddit.uk 109 points 1 year ago
[-] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 year ago

About average for a flag shagger I suppose.

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lime@feddit.nu 20 points 1 year ago

swiss cross doesnt touch the edges

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago

so... an inverted english flag

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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 year ago
[-] Arioxel@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago
[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Arioxel@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 30 points 1 year ago

I especially like that they're wearing masks with the correct configuration. They could have just looked at eachother and realised something wasn't right.

[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago
[-] seejur@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

For that one I think it's a little bit more than "something". More likely it's "everything"

[-] WilhelmStroker@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

The patriots are not sending their best.

[-] Palerider@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

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 year ago
[-] Pumafred9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 year ago

No, I think they are.

[-] visc@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Balaclava and exposed tattoos. Bunch of geniuses.

[-] Pumafred9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Also running off to their distinctive German car...

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same vibes:

CW: Attempted Nazi symbolism

Source: Hale Hortler - Know Your Meme

[-] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly what I thought of, too

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

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 year ago

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

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Rarely do you see something more fitting for this comm 😅

[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year 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 year ago

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

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Probably in solidarity with Denmark against Trump aggression.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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

Idiots

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

It looks more like a Savoy cross than Danish.

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