If you're not on a windupit's the flag of St George, the flag of England, represented on the Union Jack by the big red cross in the middle, the other bits on the Union Jack being a white saltire on blue for Scotland and a red saltire on white for Northern Ireland. Wales have no representation because they're a bunch of Welsh-speaking trolls who the English conquered a millennium back.
Edit: If we're feeling over-sensitive the rest of us can get wound up by the English using the Union Jack at sports events where only England are playing. Same as we can get wound up by England flags being waved at the Olympics. Oddly, we rarely seem to get as wound up when Scottish flags are waved around.
Edit edit: The London Olympics will be fun if we do what seems likely and actually enter the football. We normally don't because at the Olympics we'd be entering a UK team -- and we don't play as the UK, we have four football leagues and four national teams, and FIFA occasionally threaten us with combining to a single national team. I believe we're going to field an English team as a UK team (which is only practical; the only Scot I can think of who'd get into the England team instantly would be Craig Gordon, so a UK team would basically just be England in red, white and blue). Then we can get offended either way. Wave a Union Jack and it's offensive cos it's an English team. Wave the flag of St George and it's offensive since they're playing for the UK. Jolly japes will be had by all.
(Edit: If we're feeling over-sensitive the rest of us can get wound up by the English using the Union Jack at sports events where only England are playing. Same as we can get wound up by England flags being waved at the Olympics. Oddly, we rarely seem to get as wound up when Scottish flags are waved around.
Edit edit: The London Olympics will be fun if we do what seems likely and actually enter the football. We normally don't because at the Olympics we'd be entering a UK team -- and we don't play as the UK, we have four football leagues and four national teams, and FIFA occasionally threaten us with combining to a single national team. I believe we're going to field an English team as a UK team (which is only practical; the only Scot I can think of who'd get into the England team instantly would be Craig Gordon, so a UK team would basically just be England in red, white and blue). Then we can get offended either way. Wave a Union Jack and it's offensive cos it's an English team. Wave the flag of St George and it's offensive since they're playing for the UK. Jolly japes will be had by all.
boris the spider,
Thu 10 Jun 2010, 17:02,
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Nope, I'd actually forgottenLearned that when I was a few weeks in Hastings around age 9-10. The times I visited the following 20-odd years, I was busy drinking and going to concerts. Loud muzak, women and heavy drinking seems to be the route to ignorance.
(,
Thu 10 Jun 2010, 17:05,
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Stop editing man, b3ta is not wikipedia (!)
Barbarossa is not my real name,
Thu 10 Jun 2010, 17:09,
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Hey, I've not added any citationsIt'd probably be very hard to. I'd just invent them, like all the times I've invented citations to back up my claim that Gary Lineker spent time in jail for telling a fake Sheikh that the Queen is a bit of an old slapper.
( boris the spider,
Thu 10 Jun 2010, 17:11,
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Not according to WikipediaOr not yet, anyway.
( boris the spider,
Thu 10 Jun 2010, 17:14,
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Slapped my forehead the moment I'd posted the question and wiki'd it.
Don't tell Boris tho, he was very kind typing all that up - and contributed a few nice points not wikiable.
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Thu 10 Jun 2010, 17:14,
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Don't tell Boris tho, he was very kind typing all that up - and contributed a few nice points not wikiable.
hahahahai type fast and it's better than working out whether i'm out of the limits of an integration or not, which is not the most fascinating thing i've ever done.
plus i called the welsh a bunch of trolls and appeared to get away with it.
now i'm going to go home and eat.
(plus i called the welsh a bunch of trolls and appeared to get away with it.
now i'm going to go home and eat.
boris the spider,
Thu 10 Jun 2010, 17:15,
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