# Liverpool Fans Burning An American Flag **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 4, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950 "2010-06-04T16:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/41 "2010-06-08T18:13:09Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Look, I don’t usually get all worked up about flag burning, but this is fucking idiotic. I understand this is just a handful of people, so I do not wish to condemn and of the following groups: 1) Liverpool fans in general; 2) Football fans in general; 3) Britons in general. > > So this is really a minor rant, but one of “your” companies is vomiting filth into the Gulf of Mexico and onto our shores and YOU are upset about the fact that some American owners have messed up your precious. So you condemn America by burning an American Flag > > Fuck those “fans”. I may be wrong but no one over here is buring the Union Jack because we know a company is not representative of a country. > > So again, fukc those fans. > > [Link](http://www.empireofthekop.com/anfield/?p=15961) Shoot, for a second I thought the US might have beaten England in some world cup match or something. Oh well, it was nice to think about for the ten seconds it took to open the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/42 "2010-06-08T19:35:04Z")
Here is an article about liverpudlians: [iGreen Home Page](http://www.igreens.org.uk/boris_johnson_on_bigley.htm) Here is another article that the author was then forced to write: [http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/12703/what-i-should-say-sorry-for.thtml](http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/12703/what-i-should-say-sorry-for.thtml) Which ironically with the latter confirming the former. This is just more of the same. Ignore em. P.S. It was Haliburton’s fault as much as it was BP’s. Stop bloody winging, it’s pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/43 "2010-06-08T20:25:47Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Not [just](http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2007/01/victory-sausages.html) [France](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut#Cultural_references). I do seem to have the vaguest of memories that the US invaded Germany too. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/44 "2010-06-09T09:38:14Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > So I get annoyed because I really enjoy the Premkiership and International football and just hate being even indirectly linked to the Hicks of the world. It’s people like you that ruin football. Making gross and insulting generalisations is all part of the fun. Football is supposed to be for the hicks of the world. The thugs & hooligans, the drunks and yobs, the dregs of society, the uncouth working class with racist, xenophobic, misogynist, violent and what not tendencies. Not for cafe-latte sipping middle classes with refined taste and cultured sentiments. It’s like with that sort of girls that want to hang out with and be one of the boys, but when the going gets ugly they still can’t stand up and piss. Fuck off. We don’t want you. Go back to cricket or that silly girly game with the bat and ball you play in America. [Btw. It seems the concerted effort to have the yanks believe the WC is in Peru is finally paying off.](http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7445/usax.png) Hopefully we’ll see most of the US fans wandering around Lima, wondering where the match is at. Off to Peru with you to enjoy the World Cup. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/45 "2010-06-09T14:48:17Z")
> [@villa](#): > > Except for the three important times. As the chant goes: ‘One World Cup and Two World Wars, do-da, do-da’ ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/46 "2010-06-09T14:53:28Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I’m not sure why you’re taking a piss on me here. Am I not stating anything that isn’t fucking obvious? World Cup confrontations always raise the ire among the ardent. Only among vague equals. I absolutely guarantee you nobody is getting anti-american about football. And won’t, not even if we lose. We’ll be too busy beating on our own team for losing to a team not in two leagues of them. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/47 "2010-06-09T15:06:50Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > [Btw. It seems the concerted effort to have the yanks believe the WC is in Peru is finally paying off.](http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7445/usax.png) Hopefully we’ll see most of the US fans wandering around Lima, wondering where the match is at. Off to Peru with you to enjoy the World Cup. That is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Malinche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@Malinche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malinche)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/48 "2010-06-10T03:03:29Z")
[QUOTE] > [@Rune](#): > > It’s people like you that ruin football. Making gross and insulting generalisations is all part of the fun. Football is supposed to be for the hicks of the world. The thugs & hooligans, the drunks and yobs, the dregs of society, the uncouth working class with racist, xenophobic, misogynist, violent and what not tendencies. Not for cafe-latte sipping middle classes with refined taste and cultured sentiments. It’s like with that sort of girls that want to hang out with and be one of the boys, but when the going gets ugly they still can’t stand up and piss. Fuck off. We don’t want you. Go back to cricket or that silly girly game with the bat and ball you play in America. I’m confused. Is this some kind of cleverness, sarcasm, dark humor or play on words on your part? Or do you seriously not realize that Gangster Octopus was talking about the owner Hicks and not “hicks?” Or are you actually saying that football is for people like Tom Hicks? Regardless, your post was extremely uncalled for, someone expresses solidarity and empathy with Liverpool and you tell them to fuck off? Then proceed to insult all Americans? Congratulations, you have certainly proved your point … ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/49 "2010-06-10T03:09:14Z")
Well, **Rune** is neither English nor a Liverpool fan, so I don’t see how it matters. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/50 "2010-06-10T10:30:14Z")
If he’d mentioned prawn sandwiches, I’d have swore it was Roy Keane. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/51 "2010-06-10T13:37:05Z")
[quote=“Malinche, post:48, topic:541950”] > [@](#): > > Then proceed to insult all Americans? Don’t worry, when it comes to soccer, we’re used to it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/52 "2010-06-10T13:42:27Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > If he’d mentioned prawn sandwiches, I’d have swore it was Roy Keane. Roy Keane can’t read or write. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/53 "2010-06-10T13:46:19Z")
> [@Malinche](#): > > Then proceed to insult all Americans? Don’t worry, when it comes to soccer, we’re used to it. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/54 "2010-06-10T20:48:00Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Roy Keane can’t read or write. > [@](#): > > I don’t think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it. > > — Roy Keane He’s got a cheek then, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950/55 "2010-06-10T20:52:33Z")
That was the prawn sandwiches talking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liverpool-fans-burning-an-american-flag/541950.md?page=2)