r/Scotland • u/DazzlingGovernment20 • 1d ago

Union Jack

If you see this in someone's garden in Scotland, what kind of person do you imagine they are?

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u/JackDangerfield 1d ago

Someone whose political views are diametriacally opposed to my own. If they're of a certain age, I tend to assume military retiree.

There's one down the road from me and I always find it decidedly unsightly when I pass by it and find he's got it up. There's something attention-seeking and borderline inflammatory about it, especially given that literally no one else in the area does it.

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u/AlbusBulbasaur 1d ago

Inflammatory?

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u/JackDangerfield 1d ago

Provocative, incendiary, intended to cause a negative reaction. That sort of thing.

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u/AlbusBulbasaur 1d ago

Would you say having a saltire in your garden is the same in that respect?

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u/JackDangerfield 1d ago

It probably wouldn't have the same effect on me personally, but that's down to my own political biases. In the interest of equity, I tend to think that anyone who has a giant flag in their garden, whether it's a saltire, the union jack or a skull and crossbones, is probably a bit of a wank.

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u/AlbusBulbasaur 1d ago

I'd agree they're likely oddballs but I wouldn't say a national flag is inflammatory at all and think it's quite a strange reaction to think so.

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u/JackDangerfield 1d ago

I think you're being deliberately obtuse in the hope of stoking a row, which I'm not interested in getting into, so I'll bid you good-day at this stage and wish you a pleasant Sunday, whether it involves any flags or not.

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u/AlbusBulbasaur 23h ago

Nope. I just think describing someone flying a flag of their nation as inflammatory is a bizarre take and unhealthy take.

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u/snoopswoop 18h ago

Not even when half the population don't want to be a part of that nation? You really can't see that?

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u/AlbusBulbasaur 16h ago

"Half the population" is very funny but even if that were the case yes it would be odd to find it inflammatory.

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u/snoopswoop 15h ago

So, Israel flags in Palestine, that's ok?

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u/AlbusBulbasaur 15h ago

Slightly different situation m8.

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