Putting up flag Degrading our Club Sites
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Why denigrate a countries culture AD. When we had a Royal Yacht, they preformed a ceremony involving a flag every evening, much admired by visiting foreign dignitaries. Do you feel the same way about that. Personally I rather like their respect for the flag. When we went to the states just after 9/11 they were being flown everywhere, including by many on the campsites we stopped on.
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Maybe I'm just a private person and don't feel the need to draw futile attention. Let's face it, raising a flag on a caravan site serves nothing other than to draw attention. Why? I don't need to tell a campsite I'm a wannabe pirate or that I support Manchester United (heaven forbid) or worse still, 'Look at me, I'm WELSH!' <joke> not all Welsh people are daft as a brush.
Try it you say, I'd rather bathe in a bath of wasps
I have plenty of fun, thanks. Tearing down a mountain track at speed knowing that if I make a mistake, one of those big rocks at the side of the trail might just kill me, or at least break my back or neck. That's my idea of fun.
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All military establishments do this, not just the RN. It happens on every military base in the UK and beyond.
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Yes, its a very American thing to do, There's a flag pole with a stars n stripes adorning most American front gardens because Americans as we know, are lacking in self gratification.
I'm with you on avoidance.
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My apologies to those who already understand, but I have apparently not made myself clear enough.
As for flags being a useful guide for children to find their way back to their temporary base, if they can master an iPad in minutes without an instruction book I'm fairly sure they can remember where their family caravan is parked.
It is not primarily about children.There are adults who suffer from a lack of spatial awareness to the extent that they actually cannot find their way back to a specific caravan from the toilet block. Many of them also have difficulty in telling one caravan from another.
They also have great difficulty in understanding maps and diagrams, so that is no help to them in returning. Having a familiar symbol up on a pole that they can see allows them to overcome that restriction on their life.
There is nothing in their external appearance to identify this disability.
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Fantastic logic thete, NA. Telling us all in a fair amount of detail how you hurtle down mountain tracks risking life and limb won't draw futile attention to yourself. Flying a flag, on the other hand, might. Sheesh!
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Loud and clear. Is there a medical term for this ailment and is it common?
From this day forward, I will consider that anyone flying a flag on a caravan site is not an attention seeker, but is disabled. This way, I won't make a mistake by wrongly assuming that persons intention or needs.
Perhaps I lack understanding, but I do know a little about dementia, my father is a sufferer to such an extent, you could prop a naked woman on a flagpole and it still wouldn't be much use to him. Poor soul.
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Yes, but I didn't advertise where and when, did I?
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What difference does that make?
You still effectively drew attention to yourself which is what you're condemning flag fliers for doing.
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No, I was telling you what I consider to be fun. You suggested I try flying a flag from my caravan because it's fun, you say.
If I was attention seeking, I would tell everyone when I'm next going mountain biking and where. I would post numerous selfies with a location and time tag on social media. Never, ever.
I have a different idea of what 'fun' is to you, clearly. I definitely don't need to advertise my nationality, my support for a football team or my desire to be a thief at sea to a set of complete strangers in a public area. But I don't have problem explaining my personal definition of what I consider to be fun.
Mountain Biking it's fun, you should try it. <sorry, that does sound very patronising doesn't it?>
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Flags in one shape or another are almost as old mankind. They still have specific uses today, and there are a lot more around than you think....check out car number plates for a start!
The real issue is when/ if they become a problem to other people in the immediate area. Not particularly how they look, but perhaps noise issues in high winds, possibility of damaging other outfits.
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Yes, very patronising but I'm glad you're starting to think about how your posts read.
You had no need to respond by describing your heroic biking deeds. All it said was "Look at me". The very same thing you accuse flag fliers of doing.
I didn't actually say you should try flag flying, by the way but you launched off the top board.
Sarcasm is coming through loud and clear in many of your posts this morning. Is it not a good day for you?
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I'm having a great day, but there's no need to explain why.
Yes very patronising, as was your suggestion to me, to try flying flags because it's fun. I was not thinking about how my posts read, I was highlighting how your post read.
I'm a massive attention seeker... read all about me here...
https://www.facebook.com/nigel.ash
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Nah, I don't do FB - it's so full of people who think their lives are something special.
You enjoy your day now.
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Neither do I, but its useful to promote a business but unfortunately along with a business page, FB insist you need a personal page too, otherwise I wouldn't bother either. Something we agree on
You enjoy your day now
Is it not a good day for you?
Careful, pot kettle & black as the abbreviated saying goes
Sheeesh
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I guess, AD, you don't put a GB sticker on your outfit when you travel abroad for fear of upsetting others.
Most of the flags I see flying at sites have nothing to do with countries, did see a Welsh spinner this week at an English club site, didn't see a lot of local folk upset and baying for blood. 0 -
The Cornish flag is the flag of St Piran, JV, and I haven't noticed that many flying other than on St Piran's Day.
I seriously doubt that many people could even identify the county flag of Devon without the help of Google.
When were you last here?
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