Sunday, February 12, 2006

slow burning flags

who would have thought that the Danish flag would have been in such demand this year. it's quite a shame actually because i have been to denmark but didnt manage to buy a flag and now hundreds are being burnt. as some of you will no doubt know i am an avid collector of flags. well i have about 20-odd but thats casue i try to buy them from the countries i visit and i only started after my first inter-railing trip so i missed some out. but i do plan to get every flag in the world. so actually i'm probably a good person to know if you are planning to start a protest against the basque country or sicily for instance.

actually many of you will aso be aware of the plans i had to set up a flag business in the trouble spots of the world, selling slow burning flags of a variety of countries, maybe even double sided ones - say the U.S. flag on one side and the Israeli flag on the other. Most importantly the slow burning flags would be accurate. obviously a lot of the danish flags that have been burnt these last few weeks have been homemade- quite a simple flag you would think. but many muslims seem to want to pick a fight with Switzerland or even the french province of Savoy.
Protesters with the savoy flag

I'll finish this post with a warning from the premier spokeperson on flag matters Charles Ashburner of flagwire.

"Charles Ashburner warns Muslim protesters they risk horrific burns if they torch his Danish flags at a mass rally in London today.
    "If the bits of burning material land on anyone's skin or eye, they will stick and cause serious injury or blindness."

1 comment:

Rainey said...

i saw a picture of a protester standing on a swiss flag. I was thinking that she probably thought it was Danish, or that it was close enough. I imagined her going into a shop to by the Danish flag, but they have none left so she points at the Swiss flag (the only difference is the smaller cross) and says 'That'll do'. Let's just admit it, the swiss flag is just a low quality Danish one.

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