On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:44:59 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> On 19/04/2011 05:01 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 4/19/2011 8:31, Invisible wrote:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Confederate_Rebel_Flag.svg
>>
>> Being in the USA, it boggles my mind that anyone wouldn't know what
>> this flag is. But then, thinking on it, there's no reason anyone
>> outside the USA should really know what this is.
> 
> More to the point, what the heck is an American flag doing on the wall
> of a pub somewhere in a village just outside Northampton?

The same thing that, for example, you might find a Guinness sign in a bar 
in the middle of New York state:  Nostalgia, decoration, or something 
like that.

>>> This still leaves the question "WTF is this flag doing on dance
>>> fliers?", but you really can't Google that...
>>
>> Some people are still proud of the fact that their ancestors fought to
>> the last breath to keep slaves, and many feel they never should have
>> lost in the first place.
> 
> I suspect if people thought that's what it really stands for, they
> wouldn't have put it on that wall...

Well, you *do* have the BNP over there - which perhaps demonstrates there 
are likely people who believe that crap there just as much as here.

Jim

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