Does the flag of Elbonia feature the words FUCK YOU, NEIGHBOUR prominently? I can’t remember. If not, then I’m not that bothered.
Nah. It’s perfectly OK to make fun of Brenda, Phil the Greek et al. It’s not like the authorities monitor your inter…
Wait, there’s somebody at the door.
I don’t get the flag thing either.
“I’ve never met a nice Elbonian
and that’s not bloody suprising, man
cos they’re a bunch of flag-waving bastards
and I don’t like them!”
Let’s put it this way, my father didn’t lose an arm and three legs in the two Elbonian wars for them to fly a flag next door to me.
Honestly, it would bug me a little bit with my flag being lower and smaller. Flying only his flag or flying same size flags with mine on top or side by side somehow wouldn’t bother me at all.
My mother was a vexologist, so all kinds of bad flag etiquette bothers me, but it bothers me regardless of the national flags flown. National flags flown at the same time should be flown at the same height and be of the same size. If they are flown at night, they should be lit up.
The question is not whether or not it’s disrespectful. It is according to our standards of how the flag is to be flown. The question is whether it bothers one if someone from another country is disrespectful.
I would explain to the neighbor how to properly fly both flags and if he doesn’t correct it then I would be forced to disassemble the family ox-cart and re-assemble it on top of their house.
Most people wouldn’t care. I can’t think of any symbol that would bother most people. A few morons would probably get upset if you defiled an England football shirt, but they would be an idiotic minority.
I wouldn’t give two shits.
It would be a non-issue.
Couldn’t give a flying fuck.
He can take a big fat dump on his flag, my flag, or both flags. Doesn’t mean a thing to me.
What really pisses me off is when I go into an Elbonian market and they’re all talking Elbonian to each other.:mad::mad:
Do not care. Seeing the flag worn by “real” Australians during the Cronulla riots or having it adorn a bumper sticker that says “FUCK OFF WE’RE FULL” is a million times more disrespectful than an immigrant hanging the flag alongside the flag of his or her home country (regardless of position or size).
Things I do not care about include who won the football game last night, how manly you think my drink at the bar is and what flags you fly and how you choose to fly them.
Nice to hear. My parents have gotten yelled at and received nasty notes for when they hung a small Indian flag over their door - along with a big American flag on the balcony.
This was in the eighties, of course - hopefully things may have changed.
Strictly speaking, I agree.
But strictly speaking, violations of flag protocol are committed left and right, including contexts like parades and major sports events, never mind in countless private displays.
I rather like the spirit I see in dual displays of the American flag with flags of other lands, and that would be my main attitude about it, regardless of the specific way in which the two are flown.
I guess if a foreigner said to me ‘fuck your Queen, she’s a whore’ I may be a little piqued, if only because it seems unnecessarily provocative and crass. The rest of the family are fair game, however.
Well, if you hung the Queen and Prince Philip below the flag of Elbonia, the Brits might find that disrespectful.
If the hypothetical Elbonian flew the flags as described in the OP, I probably wouldn’t even consider it disrespectful - I would think that he was attempting to show loyalty to both countries, and in doing so inadvertently committed a minor breach of flag etiquette. Most people who want to disrespect a flag do so by desecrating it rather than by displaying it incorrectly.