national flags

23.04.06, 02:22
I have just bought and displayed on my balcony the Canadian flag. The old one
has ragged badly during the Montreal winter.

I won't deny that displaying the maple leaf in Quebec often amounts to a
political declaration -if not an outright provocation.

Do you ever display any national flags, be it Polish or of your old/home country?
    • usenetposts Re: national flags 23.04.06, 13:10
      I've got an England flag (red cross on a white background) but I don't have a
      Union Flag. You might also notice that I use the England flag and not the Union
      Flag on my website.
    • ianek70 Re: national flags 23.04.06, 16:35
      I haven't got any flags.
      The Albanian flag is cool, but I'd never display it because people would ask me
      difficult questions about two-headed eagles and Albania in general, and I've
      never been there so I wouldn't be able to answer them satisfactorily.
      An interesting fact about the Scottish flag (well, as interesting as heraldry
      can be, and probably as factual as patriotic myths tend to be) is that it's the
      only national flag in the world whose colours aren't clearly defined.
      It can be dark blue and white, sky blue and white, the blue of any sea you care
      to name and white. Or white-ish.
      All other national colours are defined by laws, constitutions, conventions,
      etc. So they proudly display the green of the grass in the capital in mid-June,
      the red of the nation's second king's blood when he was martyred by a foreigner
      or the yellow of the burning sun that the citizens laboured under before the
      revolution. But the blue of our flag is just any kind of blue.
      And for those that can't decide there's always the red and yellow one.
      • sobieski010 Re: national flags 23.04.06, 17:52
        When we married in Stara Pomaraczarnia a few years smile ago, we had the Polish and
        Flemish flag on display, and just before the ring ceremony the saxofonist played
        the Flemish national anthem, and I was moved beyond recognition...
        • usenetposts Re: national flags 23.04.06, 20:49
          sobieski010 napisał:

          > When we married in Stara Pomaraczarnia a few years smile ago, we had the Polish
          an
          > d
          > Flemish flag on display, and just before the ring ceremony the saxofonist
          playe
          > d
          > the Flemish national anthem, and I was moved beyond recognition...

          We had Tchaikowsky playing at that point, as is traditional in Russia, although
          we maried in Warsaw. That was a request by my wife, and she still gets teary
          about it on the video.
          • sobieski010 Re: national flags 23.04.06, 21:08
            For the rest I am not such a big flag-waver. I am proud to be Flemish but I do
            not feel the need to express that every moment of my life.
            But if you hear such tunes far away from home on such an important moment in
            your life - well that does something to a person smile
    • sobieski010 Re: national flags 24.04.06, 21:22
      I wonder how important Poles find this - I mean the flag-waving thing.
      I know the Americans are big on that subject... But what about the Poles?
      My wife would never think of waving a flag from our balcony (despite having a
      sound patriotic background - grandfather in AK, WIN etc)...
      I an afraid that these days I associate Polish flag-waving with the Kaczory-
      aberration, but I could be wrong of course...
      • usenetposts Re: national flags 26.04.06, 22:34
        The only time I wave my English flag around is when we win an important match.
        • brookie Re: national flags 27.04.06, 06:18
          Once there was a harmony day at my son's school, all the kids wore traditional
          outfits and waved their national flags. That was so cute,proud little patriots.
          • kylie1 Re: national flags 27.04.06, 06:43
            where are you from, brookie?
            • kovala Re: national flags 27.04.06, 06:47
              Let me guess: Australia?
              • kylie1 Re: national flags 27.04.06, 06:55
                are you an Oz too? smile
                • kylie1 Re: national flags 27.04.06, 07:06
                  I guess not....
                  • kovala Re: national flags 27.04.06, 07:18
                    guessed right, I aint no Aussie.
                    • kylie1 Re: national flags 27.04.06, 07:30
                      I am not into guessing. You don't want to reveal the big secret, I won't lose
                      any sleep.
                      • kovala Re: national flags 27.04.06, 07:36
                        Ma'am there is no big secret. It was about brookie, remember? You asked where
                        she/he is from.
                        We are wait for them to get up.
                        • kylie1 Re: national flags 27.04.06, 07:43
                          you are weird.
                          • kovala Re: national flags 27.04.06, 07:56
                            why would you say so?
                          • brookie Re: national flags 27.04.06, 07:57
                            Western Australia, how about you Kylie?
                            • kovala Re: national flags 27.04.06, 08:01
                              I knowed it, girl. I just knowed.
                              • brookie Re: national flags 27.04.06, 08:04
                                Not hard to guess, I think. Beeing such a lazy bum must be from Oz.
                                • kovala Re: national flags 27.04.06, 08:08
                                  Must be kiddin me. Why lazy?

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