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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Don Seer on June 17, 2003, 04:05:16 AM

Title: putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Don Seer on June 17, 2003, 04:05:16 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2981038.stm
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Britain's national flag - the union jack - has been given the makeover treatment, in the hope of reflecting a more modern society.
It's become the marketing executive's remedy for any organisation's ills. From BT to BP, the Labour Party to the Lottery, hardly a business or institution has escaped the rebranding bug.

Now moves are afoot to redesign that most sacred of British hallmarks - the union flag.

A campaign is being launched to modernise the red, white and blue flag by adding a touch of black to reflect multicultural Britain in the 21st Century.
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(http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/uk_enl_1055338922/img/laun.jpg)

/me shudders...

ewwwww



for those that want to learn what the colours mean...

http://www.know-britain.com/general/union_jack.html
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Bigg AG on June 17, 2003, 04:13:49 AM
i liked tha other one better. im out!!!
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: CharlieBrown on June 17, 2003, 04:40:39 AM
Oh dear.
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Jay ay Beee on June 17, 2003, 05:16:31 AM
Oh well... at least we still keep the Welsh away from it
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Don Seer on June 17, 2003, 05:50:47 AM
i dont mind we can have the dragon...

...as long as st george is there slaying it :D
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: TheSheriff on June 17, 2003, 06:20:19 AM
Oh well... at least we still keep the Welsh away from it

Your flag would be far cooler if it had a dragon superimposed.
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Trauma-san on June 17, 2003, 06:27:01 AM
It looks good, but they shouldn't change it, there's way to much history behind it, it should never change.

Ron
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: 7even on June 17, 2003, 06:33:24 AM
WHAT A BULLSHIT....

about 1% ppl in britain are black... WTF??!

sick........
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Don Rizzle on June 17, 2003, 08:27:28 AM
i hope they don't change it!
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: HHH on June 17, 2003, 08:37:21 AM
i dont mind we can have the dragon...

...as long as st george is there slaying it :D

lol  ;D

that flag looks orrible with black lines on it  :P
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Real American on June 17, 2003, 08:43:30 AM
It is complete bullshit. This is another case of western cultures being under attack. Where do these immigrants get off moving to Engand and wanting the English to deny their heritage and culture in order to accomodate them. Political correctness is out of control. Tell these idiots to go back to whereever they came from if they don't like the English flag.
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Reef on June 17, 2003, 01:56:06 PM
It is complete bullshit. This is another case of western cultures being under attack. Where do these immigrants get off moving to Engand and wanting the English to deny their heritage and culture in order to accomodate them. Political correctness is out of control. Tell these idiots to go back to whereever they came from if they don't like the English flag.

i agree 110%
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Jay ay Beee on June 17, 2003, 02:21:52 PM
Tell these idiots to go back to whereever they came from if they don't like the English flag.


You dick - that isn't the English flag
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Don Jacob on June 17, 2003, 08:34:37 PM
don't change the flag man ....that's so rediculous!


i mean the only time something should be added to federal flag is when you have a variable like that in the first place, like stars representing states and stuff.

history shouldn't be made over to make someone happy, keep your flag the way it is!
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: ITW [the irish boy] on June 18, 2003, 06:39:46 AM
At the end of the day...

A union jack is a union jack ..it'll still be hated by half the world no matter how much black is in it lol
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Joachim on June 18, 2003, 11:29:40 AM
history shouldn't be made over to make someone happy, keep your flag the way it is!

Word, the Union Jack represents so much, too change it would be disrespectful too all the British people throughout history that have died too protect it.
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Sub-Z on June 18, 2003, 11:36:16 AM
It is complete bullshit. This is another case of western cultures being under attack. Where do these immigrants get off moving to Engand and wanting the English to deny their heritage and culture in order to accomodate them. Political correctness is out of control. Tell these idiots to go back to whereever they came from if they don't like the English flag.

exactly
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Jay ay Beee on June 18, 2003, 11:37:15 AM
exactly


Even though we gave your hero a vicious beatdown?
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Don Jacob on June 18, 2003, 01:17:36 PM
exactly


Even though we gave your hero a vicious beatdown?

along side Russia and the US too jay, the brits didn't do it all by their mighty selves  ;)
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: HHH on June 19, 2003, 01:29:00 AM
It is complete bullshit. This is another case of western cultures being under attack. Where do these immigrants get off moving to Engand and wanting the English to deny their heritage and culture in order to accomodate them. Political correctness is out of control. Tell these idiots to go back to whereever they came from if they don't like the English flag.

i agree 110%

 8)
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: .:DayGoStyLz:. on June 19, 2003, 02:03:04 AM
gangsta....


like tha sayin goes, "real men wear black".  ;D
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Sub-Z on June 19, 2003, 04:01:41 AM
exactly


Even though we gave your hero a vicious beatdown?

wtf does hitler have to do with anything in this discussion?

and i do believe it was his army that got the "beatdown" ,and whats with this "we" shit,were you there fighting along with them?

and i bring up my first question,what does hitler have to do with it?
Title: Re:putting black on the union jack!?
Post by: Genius on June 19, 2003, 03:17:03 PM
Black on the Union Jack? What the fuck for? It's a fuckin flag, leave it the way it is. There is no reason to change the flag. It doesn't represent the ethnicities living in the country, it represents the nations included. So why the fuck add black? They might as well go and add brown and yellow, to include the hindus and asians.  ::)