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Those following the news in the UK will no doubt be aware of a sudden outpouring of national pride, some might even say national stubbornness, across England during this past week, and I do specifically mean England here, with English flags, the Cross of St. George, going up everywhere, by the thousands, on lampposts and all other available places. In some areas, including Birmingham, the local council has been taking them down (though it can't collect rubbish), but like the hydra, for every one taken down, dozens go up in its place. Essentially, the English have now had enough, and they're showing it. As Kipling said, the English are a people who, collectively, are very, very slow to anger, but those who have confused this fact with weakness have made a very serious miscalculation.

In the main shopping area near me loads have apparently appeared this very morning. I walk through it every day, and I must confess to being a little bit sad that I can't see them, a twinge of regret that I almost never feel, if I'm being honest, but just occasionally, something sets it off. Not that it matters, as I can fully appreciate and be part of what it represents. What it represents, of course, is hope.

There is a silver lining though--at least you can't see the 'transflag' abomination which is everywhere these days, usually paid for out of the public pocket. I mean, is it REALLY necessary to let gross men in frocks know that they will be treated for their heart attacks and prostate cancers regardless of their lipstick and awful wigs? Is that something that even needs to be said? Have they EVER been turned away from public hospitals and told to go home and get changed into something else? The world's gone completely insane.

She also has the benefit of not seeing Birmingham.

She can enjoy that when the far right parties she promotes eventually seize power, cut finding for her council subsidised DEI job, and take away her free healthcare.

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:20 pm She also has the benefit of not seeing Birmingham.

She can enjoy that when the far right parties she promotes eventually seize power, cut finding for her council subsidised DEI job, and take away her free healthcare.

Another 'be kind' wokie showing his kindness--and sneering at someone allegedly having (according to his royal wokeness) a 'DEI' job to boot. The hypocrisy knows no bounds. Of course blind people couldn't possibly be capable of doing any job without it being a forced DEI one.
I worked with a lovely girl who had been blind from birth long before there was any such thing as 'DEI' or an equivalent. She operated the switchboard and did it extremely efficiently and pleasantly.

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:28 pm

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:20 pm She also has the benefit of not seeing Birmingham.

She can enjoy that when the far right parties she promotes eventually seize power, cut finding for her council subsidised DEI job, and take away her free healthcare.

Another 'be kind' wokie showing his kindness. And sneering at someone allegedly having a 'DEI' job to boot. The hypocrisy knows no bounds. Of course blind people couldn't possibly be capable of doing any job without it being a forced DEI one.
I worked with a lovely girl who had been blind from birth long before there was any such thing as 'DEI' or an equivalent. She operated the switchboard and did it extremely efficiently and pleasantly.

Maia spaffs the tedious details of daily life all over the place, she writes to tell you every sandwich she eats. She recently microwaved some fish with cheese which she bought from Lidl, I know that because she blogs the most trivial shit.

She works at a leisure centre, she's told you that more than once. Those are all council subsidised, with a top up from central government funds if I am not mistaken.

It's you that I have difficulty imagining retaining a job though, with your personality that must be a significant challenge.

Genuine question--why is it only in England that it's considered full-blown nazism when the people love and feel connected to their own country? How could they not? You can't have roots that deep and history which goes that far back without it having a profound effect on your sense of self and place in the world. It's called 'being human'.
Americans love flying the American flag from their homes. They are everywhere. Do they get branded as 'nazis' for doing this?
Personally I think it's ridiculous and have no time for patriotism but it's the massive double standard that pisses me off.

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:37 pm

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:28 pm

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:20 pm She also has the benefit of not seeing Birmingham.

She can enjoy that when the far right parties she promotes eventually seize power, cut finding for her council subsidised DEI job, and take away her free healthcare.

Another 'be kind' wokie showing his kindness. And sneering at someone allegedly having a 'DEI' job to boot. The hypocrisy knows no bounds. Of course blind people couldn't possibly be capable of doing any job without it being a forced DEI one.
I worked with a lovely girl who had been blind from birth long before there was any such thing as 'DEI' or an equivalent. She operated the switchboard and did it extremely efficiently and pleasantly.

Maia spaffs the tedious details of daily life all over the place, she writes to tell you every sandwich she eats. She recently microwaved some fish with cheese which she bought from Lidl, I know that because she blogs the most trivial shit.

She works at a leisure centre, she's told you that more than once. Those are all council subsidised, with a top up from central government funds if I am not mistaken.

It's you that I have difficulty imagining retaining a job though, with your personality that must be a significant challenge.

Aaand, the personal attacks continue. How very unwokelike
So everyone who works at 'leisure centres' is 'DEI'? What business is it of yours anyway? I would much rather read a blog about what 'your intellectual wokeness' considers 'trivial' than any of the dreary, poorly-written crap that you come up with--and always with a nasty little mean-spirited snipe. Self awareness not your strong point then?

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:49 pm mean-spirited

Fine praise indeed coming from such a sour old bucket of piss as you.

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:53 pm

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:49 pm mean-spirited

Fine praise indeed coming from such a sour old bucket of piss as you.

Thank you dear. I'm sure that male charm of yours has taken you far in life

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:16 pm There is a silver lining though--at least you can't see the 'transflag' abomination which is everywhere these days, usually paid for out of the public pocket. I mean, is it REALLY necessary to let gross men in frocks know that they will be treated for their heart attacks and prostate cancers regardless of their lipstick and awful wigs? Is that something that even needs to be said? Have they EVER been turned away from public hospitals and told to go home and get changed into something else? The world's gone completely insane.

The current movement to raise the English flag everywhere is very much a response, I think, to exactly that. The trans flag, the Hamas/Palestine flag, this, that and the other flag, shoved in people's faces wherever they go, along with shouting and demonstrations, was bound to provoke a reaction, just not the one they were hoping for.

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:20 pm She also has the benefit of not seeing Birmingham.

She can enjoy that when the far right parties she promotes eventually seize power, cut finding for her council subsidised DEI job, and take away her free healthcare.

My job is not a DEI job. I got it on my own merits, thank you very much. Do you think that being blind makes me mentally subnormal in some way?

As for free healthcare, none of the right wing parties that you presumably have in mind plan to scrap the NHS. They have made that very clear. I don't even think that Reform, for example, is particularly right wing at all.

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:28 pm

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:20 pm She also has the benefit of not seeing Birmingham.

She can enjoy that when the far right parties she promotes eventually seize power, cut finding for her council subsidised DEI job, and take away her free healthcare.

Another 'be kind' wokie showing his kindness--and sneering at someone allegedly having (according to his royal wokeness) a 'DEI' job to boot. The hypocrisy knows no bounds. Of course blind people couldn't possibly be capable of doing any job without it being a forced DEI one.
I worked with a lovely girl who had been blind from birth long before there was any such thing as 'DEI' or an equivalent. She operated the switchboard and did it extremely efficiently and pleasantly.

Interesting to hear about your blind colleague. There are, indeed, many jobs that blind people have a greater aptitude for.

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:37 pm

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:28 pm

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:20 pm She also has the benefit of not seeing Birmingham.

She can enjoy that when the far right parties she promotes eventually seize power, cut finding for her council subsidised DEI job, and take away her free healthcare.

Another 'be kind' wokie showing his kindness. And sneering at someone allegedly having a 'DEI' job to boot. The hypocrisy knows no bounds. Of course blind people couldn't possibly be capable of doing any job without it being a forced DEI one.
I worked with a lovely girl who had been blind from birth long before there was any such thing as 'DEI' or an equivalent. She operated the switchboard and did it extremely efficiently and pleasantly.

Maia spaffs the tedious details of daily life all over the place, she writes to tell you every sandwich she eats. She recently microwaved some fish with cheese which she bought from Lidl, I know that because she blogs the most trivial shit.

She works at a leisure centre, she's told you that more than once. Those are all council subsidised, with a top up from central government funds if I am not mistaken.

It's you that I have difficulty imagining retaining a job though, with your personality that must be a significant challenge.

If you find my life so tedious then may I suggest that you stop reading about it? Or is your own so crushingly boring that you have nothing better to do?

So what if leisure centres are run by the council? When was this ever in dispute?

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:42 pm Genuine question--why is it only in England that it's considered full-blown nazism when the people love and feel connected to their own country? How could they not? You can't have roots that deep and history which goes that far back without it having a profound effect on your sense of self and place in the world. It's called 'being human'.
Americans love flying the American flag from their homes. They are everywhere. Do they get branded as 'nazis' for doing this?
Personally I think it's ridiculous and have no time for patriotism but it's the massive double standard that pisses me off.

It's because the political elite that run the UK have, for decades, regarded the existence of the English as an embarrassment.

Hmm. Apparently the flags were taken down almost instantly by the council in Birmingham, yet the 'plasticinian' flags stayed up for months or even years.
Just looked at the demographics of Birmingham. JFC. What a dump it must be. I bet flasherwithoutundpants lives well away from there, probably in some safe, leafy, civilised corner of England. It's always like that with wokists