| Tory snowflakes update on 22:18 - Mar 20 with 1460 views | Swansea_Blue |
As relevant as ever :
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| Tory snowflakes update on 22:24 - Mar 20 with 1434 views | TractorWood |
| Tory snowflakes update on 22:07 - Mar 20 by mutters |
It is named after the saint but it's origin is from the Crusades where it was used to identify the English and French troops. They worn the red cross to identify them |
After we nabbed it from Genoa, yeah. |  |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 22:33 - Mar 20 with 1412 views | mutters |
| Tory snowflakes update on 22:24 - Mar 20 by TractorWood |
After we nabbed it from Genoa, yeah. |
Interesting I didn't know that thanks. I knew about the Crusades but not the Genoa link.
Amazing how intertwined our history and 'Englishness' are with other countries and cultures. |  |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 23:10 - Mar 20 with 1401 views | factual_blue |
| Tory snowflakes update on 22:15 - Mar 20 by mutters |
The great biscuit war of 1782. All because they ran out of kit kats |
If you'd said the Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits (1594), I might have believed you. |  |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 08:12 - Mar 21 with 1312 views | Pinewoodblue |
Am I missing something?
I thought to be part of the snowflake generation you needed to be classified as an adult sometime since around 2010. Doubt very much if many Tories qualify.
More likely to be a snowflake if you start a thread like this one.
For what it is worth I think it looks stupid on the kit, but not worth getting hot under the collar about. |  |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 08:49 - Mar 21 with 1278 views | leitrimblue |
| Tory snowflakes update on 23:10 - Mar 20 by factual_blue |
If you'd said the Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits (1594), I might have believed you. |
Hugh Maguires finest hour |  | | |
| Tory snowflakes update on 08:55 - Mar 21 with 1265 views | Herbivore |
| Tory snowflakes update on 08:12 - Mar 21 by Pinewoodblue |
Am I missing something?
I thought to be part of the snowflake generation you needed to be classified as an adult sometime since around 2010. Doubt very much if many Tories qualify.
More likely to be a snowflake if you start a thread like this one.
For what it is worth I think it looks stupid on the kit, but not worth getting hot under the collar about. |
The term snowflake is meant to denote people who are easily offended, overly emotional, and think they are special. Some older folk have tried to use it as a generational insult, but the irony is that the kind of people who get upset by a flag, or by trans rights, or by statues of slavers they'd never previously heard of being torn down, or by the Spectator making them look fat and like they have a big nose, tend to not be from the so called snowflake generation. Indeed, the term snowflake generally applies most aptly to those who use it most as an insult. |  |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 09:04 - Mar 21 with 1224 views | baxterbasics |
Pff. Feel like Nik/FA have been half-hearted with this one. If they really wanted to make a statement it should be the Palestinian flag. With rainbow adornments. Bottled it. |  |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 09:52 - Mar 21 with 1169 views | Blueschev |
| Tory snowflakes update on 07:59 - Mar 21 by GlasgowBlue |
Not sure what the issue is tbh. It’s just a modern design twist on the flag fur sporting purposes. It’s not being flown in public buildings or being carried into war.
Stella McCarting did something similar with the 🇬🇧 on the 2012 Team GB Olympic kits. All the crosses and background were different shades of blue rather than red, white and blue.
I don’t remember anyone getting upset. Although maybe somebody did but nobody gave them the oxygen of publicity. Besides, a small cross of St George was only put on the back of the shirts from 1998 onwards. We managed to win the World Cup without it.
I really like the new shirt. The red and blue trim on the sleeves reminds me of the Admiral shirt from 1974 to 1980. [Post edited 21 Mar 8:00]
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I remember the entirety of the Olympics wound up Lee Anderson types at the time. I recall my mother's idiot partner claiming that the opening ceremony was Marxist propaganda reminiscent of the May Day parades in Red Square! [Post edited 21 Mar 10:06]
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| Tory snowflakes update on 09:55 - Mar 21 with 1151 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Tory snowflakes update on 09:04 - Mar 21 by baxterbasics |
Pff. Feel like Nik/FA have been half-hearted with this one. If they really wanted to make a statement it should be the Palestinian flag. With rainbow adornments. Bottled it. |
Despite living here all of my life I get the English irony of pairing the Palestinian flag with rainbow adornments. |  |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 09:58 - Mar 21 with 1123 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Tory snowflakes update on 09:52 - Mar 21 by Blueschev |
I remember the entirety of the Olympics wound up Lee Anderson types at the time. I recall my mother's idiot partner claiming that the opening ceremony was Marxist propaganda reminiscent of the May Day parades in Red Square! [Post edited 21 Mar 10:06]
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I was referring to Stella McCartney's twist in the Union flag rather than anything else. I can't recall any fuss at the time. | |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 10:00 - Mar 21 with 1114 views | Blueschev |
| Tory snowflakes update on 09:58 - Mar 21 by GlasgowBlue |
I was referring to Stella McCartney's twist in the Union flag rather than anything else. I can't recall any fuss at the time. |
I'm sure there wasn't. These cranks were given far less oxygen back then. | | | |
| Tory snowflakes update on 10:01 - Mar 21 with 1110 views | Blueschev |
| Tory snowflakes update on 09:55 - Mar 21 by GlasgowBlue |
Despite living here all of my life I get the English irony of pairing the Palestinian flag with rainbow adornments. |
What are you saying exactly? | | | |
| Tory snowflakes update on 10:04 - Mar 21 with 1099 views | DanTheMan |
| Tory snowflakes update on 10:01 - Mar 21 by Blueschev |
What are you saying exactly? |
I imagine it's that Hamas probably do not like LGBTQ folks. That conflates Hamas with general support for Palestine / the Palestinian people but there we go. |  |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 10:10 - Mar 21 with 1079 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Tory snowflakes update on 10:01 - Mar 21 by Blueschev |
What are you saying exactly? |
That gay people in Gaza and the West Bank face an high levels of persecution. And in Gaza homnosexuals are regualy executed for their sexuality. | |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 10:13 - Mar 21 with 1077 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Tory snowflakes update on 10:04 - Mar 21 by DanTheMan |
I imagine it's that Hamas probably do not like LGBTQ folks. That conflates Hamas with general support for Palestine / the Palestinian people but there we go. |
Not like? They tend to throw them off the roofs of buildings. Even in the West Bank gay people face persecution. Just 2 years ago a 25 man's severed head was found on the side of the road after he was murdered for being gay.
"Some 90 Palestinians who identify as LGBT currently live as asylum seekers in Israel, the newspaper said, after suffering discrimination in their home communities."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-63174835
A recent poll showed that 93% of the Palestinian population is completely opposed to homosexuality. So no conflation on my post Dan. [Post edited 21 Mar 10:20]
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| Tory snowflakes update on 11:06 - Mar 21 with 1011 views | Blueschev |
| Tory snowflakes update on 10:10 - Mar 21 by GlasgowBlue |
That gay people in Gaza and the West Bank face an high levels of persecution. And in Gaza homnosexuals are regualy executed for their sexuality. |
I'm well aware of that. I still don't see the irony though, English or otherwise. | | | |
| Tory snowflakes update on 11:33 - Mar 21 with 965 views | soupytwist |
| Tory snowflakes update on 09:52 - Mar 21 by Blueschev |
I remember the entirety of the Olympics wound up Lee Anderson types at the time. I recall my mother's idiot partner claiming that the opening ceremony was Marxist propaganda reminiscent of the May Day parades in Red Square! [Post edited 21 Mar 10:06]
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I blame Danny Boyle for Brexit. If he hadn't prodded all those gammon types with the big stick of an inclusive opening ceremony, we wouldn't be where we are today.
Loved it at the time though. |  | | |
| Tory snowflakes update on 12:00 - Mar 21 with 917 views | baxterbasics |
| Tory snowflakes update on 10:10 - Mar 21 by GlasgowBlue |
That gay people in Gaza and the West Bank face an high levels of persecution. And in Gaza homnosexuals are regualy executed for their sexuality. |
Deaths of Palestinians don't tend to bother folks round here very much - not until it is Joos doing the killing, anyway. | |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 12:16 - Mar 21 with 881 views | BLUEBEAT |
How will they react when they find out that the 3 lions are actually leopards? |  |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 12:24 - Mar 21 with 871 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Tory snowflakes update on 12:00 - Mar 21 by baxterbasics |
Deaths of Palestinians don't tend to bother folks round here very much - not until it is Joos doing the killing, anyway. |
Indeed. Swap Palestine for Qatar and I doubt Dan would have been flying off accusations of conflation. | |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 12:34 - Mar 21 with 855 views | baxterbasics |
| Tory snowflakes update on 12:24 - Mar 21 by GlasgowBlue |
Indeed. Swap Palestine for Qatar and I doubt Dan would have been flying off accusations of conflation. |
By 'round here' I really meant 'the west' - but yes it may apply more specifically to TWTD as well! | |
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| Tory snowflakes update on 14:08 - Mar 21 with 790 views | DanTheMan |
| Tory snowflakes update on 10:13 - Mar 21 by GlasgowBlue |
Not like? They tend to throw them off the roofs of buildings. Even in the West Bank gay people face persecution. Just 2 years ago a 25 man's severed head was found on the side of the road after he was murdered for being gay.
"Some 90 Palestinians who identify as LGBT currently live as asylum seekers in Israel, the newspaper said, after suffering discrimination in their home communities."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-63174835
A recent poll showed that 93% of the Palestinian population is completely opposed to homosexuality. So no conflation on my post Dan. [Post edited 21 Mar 10:20]
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That makes sense, I don't know much of Hamas' or Palestinian views on LGTBQ stuff but I would have been doubtful they looked at it positively given the views of most Islamic nations these days, which is unfortunate. The highlighted examples don't surprise me. | |
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