Having your country's flag on your property
Oh wild guess... USA?
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
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Denmark too. You’re not a success in Denmark until you have a flagpole, two kids (no more, no less), an electric car, a robot mower, a robot hoover and a sunken trampoline.
I moved to Denmark recently. The Danish love to fly their flag. Half of the houses have a flagpole. It's weird for me because no one in Poland does this.
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I've seen this more in Norway than in the US, people love their flags here
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Isn’t putting up flags an American thing too? Don’t really see this kind of nationalism in other coutnries.
In England we only really put them up for football and racism.
In the US, we have our own special flag just for racism.
A few, actually.
You mean the white one?
And the yellow one with the snake on it, I think it's called the bootlicker flag or something idk
Then there's the thin blue line flag, not to mention the regular flag, and more and more these the straight up nazi flag.
Don't forget the Confederate rag. Especially in Kansas and Ohio and Wisconsin.
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Hey it's for hockey and racism in Canada, too!
If you see a truck in Canada with our flag on it, high probability it's also got an 'F Trudeau' sticker and an asshole driver.
Signs of overcompensating for a small dick IMHO. I've never seen a woman driving a vehicle with either a flag or FucK Trudeau on it
Lol, yup generally true. Though I'll say I've seen one or two driven by women out west here.
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can you explain the racism part of it to a non brit? like I'm five /stupid american pls
The EDL often used the England St George Cross flag. The National Front used the British Union Jack flag.
I think the only other time you see our flags apart from sport, is for royal family related days off work, which about all they're good for.
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I've seen it in just about every country I have visited physically and in Geoguessr. Maybe not quite as prevalent as the US but I wouldn't actually say the difference is as big as people probably think.
What's funny is that beyond knowing you're in America, the flag doesn't help a lot with location guessing. USA is one of the tougher countries to pinpoint within in GeoGuesser. It's probably harder to distinguish Vermont from Ohio from Oregon (depending on the photo) than it is to tell Albania from Austria even with no flags or signs.
Complete opposite of my experience. While you do see flags in other countries they are usually only at governme t buildings, it's rare to see people flying flags themselves. Whereas in America they are everywhere and also buildins will often have multiple. Like I went to a mall and the outside had at least a dozen flags on sides.
they are usually only at governme t buildings
Unless there's a football match on, then they're literally fucking everywhere
And there's always a football match on...
Turkey also has lots of flags everywhere.
It probably only happens in some types of countries... Turkey, Russia, Hungary... USA...
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I went to a hardware store in the states during a trip. Turns out they had a patriotic corner there, full of flags and banners. I've never seen anything like that before in any country. In a lot of countries you have to search for even a tiny souvenir flag.
I live in Taiwan and plenty of people put flags up.
In Europe, mostly during soccer championships because you get them with a crate of beer during that time.
In Finland we have plenty of national "flag days" every year. I don't see people putting up flags on their porch or anything but many has flag poles on their yard and flying a Finnish flag has no racist implications to it or anything like that. It's a traditional thing to do and especially the elderly are pretty strict about it.
That was what the US used to be, but now flying a flag has too many negative connotations. Don’t let your nationalist nut-jobs ruin it for you too
If it doesn't have a blue stripe, you can absolutely still fly the flag at your house. It's when you have it on your shirt and car that it gets weird.
I make a lot of assumptions about people flying regular US flags in their yard, and I can't really say any of them are positive. Could be a regional thing? I'm in a pretty heavily left-leaning area and the people that are that outwardly patriotic are typically far right. Not universally, but enough for the assumptions.
I am proud of my country and most of the ideals we stand for: that’s why I do what I can to help it live up to those ideals, to be even better. It is our patriotic duty to constructively criticize, to correct its mistakes, to rebel against the status quo, to invest in all citizens and a better tomorrow.
For example, look at all those immigrants fleeing into our country looking for a better life: it’s our duty to make this country work like the ideal they are coming for.
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It seems like it's common in places that have an independence movement (Quebec, Ireland and Taiwan as others have mentioned), the USA is an exception to that.
Catalonia. Catalan flags are everywhere.
A fair few Australians fly the flag in front of their house all year round.
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Is that guy okay?
Nope. Storing all of Google street view in one human's brain takes a toll on you.
But seriously, if you haven't seen him before, the guy is nuts. He has to come up with challenges to make geoguesser difficult for himself now:
Grayjay isn't opening this up for me. What's the channel name of this guy?
If you just search for Rainbolt, you'll find his channel. I think he must have more than one, because this one was from "Rainbolt Two"
if this guy worked for the CIA every russian spy in existence would be dead within two weeks
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Holy shit, it's postal dude without his glasses.
Sign my damn petition
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I’d put mine out in the garden. Mate. Cheers.
Bonzer craic, y'all guv'ner.
He’s the Usain Phelps Real Madrid of Geoguessing
I’ve only seen him in one video and he picked Hawaii when it was Idaho
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