Flying the flag

Lorns · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 13.57

So Gordy is allowing us to be patriotic and fly the union flag in act of defiance in the face of terrorists.Whooo! That'll scare the buggers!

One good thing though is that i can now open the boot of my car without people thinking i'm a memer of the BNP. I get a very strange looks from people when i open my boot to see a huge union flag stuck to the inside of my boot lid. I used to have the Esso tiger eyes but i changed that to go all patriotic.

The best flag i ever owned was a Kent County Constabulary flag stolen from their mast right outside their nick. A pal got it for me. Word got out though and our boys in blue got a warrant to search my house for stolen goods and retrieved their flag from above my bed. I wasn't charged. Just inconvenienced for a few hours. I think they have a cheek to call their cells a suite though.

Stuart* · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 18.24

miss hellfire wrote:The best flag i ever owned was a Kent County Constabulary flag stolen from their mast right outside their nick. A pal got it for me. Word got out though and our boys in blue got a warrant to search my house for stolen goods and retrieved their flag from above my bed.

Lorna, you plank! Fancy pinching their flag!

miss hellfire wrote:I wasn't charged. Just inconvenienced for a few hours.

Shouldn't you have put that bit in the "Ever been locked in a .... public place thread"

miss hellfire wrote:I think they have a cheek to call their cells a suite though.

I think that refers to the number of rooms in Custody rather than the quality or luxury of the individual accommodation! No doubt it was "semi" en-suite though!

jrothwell97 · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 19.17

StuartPlymouth wrote:
miss hellfire wrote:I wasn't charged. Just inconvenienced for a few hours.
Shouldn't you have put that bit in the "Ever been locked in a .... public place thread"

How exactly does a prison cell constitute a public place?

Stuart* · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 21.28

jrothwell97 wrote:How exactly does a prison cell constitute a public place?

Well a shopping centre is normally owned by the company that built it, but seems to be referred to as a "public place". I would imagine that since a Police Station property belongs to the state it is also public property.

Pedantic I know, but the orignal post was a joke to Lorna!

Col · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 21.44

I wonder how many people will put the front cover of today's copy of the Sun in their front windows.

There were the only paper who went to the liberty of providing their ever-so-patriotic readers with a Union Jack. Well, with tabloidy words on it, not very respectful, is it?

Lorns · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 22.26

Col wrote:I wonder how many people will put the front cover of today's copy of the Sun in their front windows.

There were the only paper who went to the liberty of providing their ever-so-patriotic readers with a Union Jack. Well, with tabloidy words on it, not very respectful, is it?

So thats it secrets out. I read the Sun ( sometimes). Not putting their front page in the window though. The colours will fade really quickly. When we get some sunshine.

Stuart* · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 22.33

miss hellfire wrote:The colours will fade really quickly. When we get some sunshine.

That will be in 2033 on latest doom-laden suggestions from HM Treasury - that's after they've finished squeezing all the green taxes out of us and realised we're entering an Ice Age! D'Oh!

Lorns · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 22.35

StuartPlymouth wrote:
miss hellfire wrote:The best flag i ever owned was a Kent County Constabulary flag stolen from their mast right outside their nick. A pal got it for me. Word got out though and our boys in blue got a warrant to search my house for stolen goods and retrieved their flag from above my bed.
Lorna, you plank! Fancy pinching their flag!

miss hellfire wrote:I wasn't charged. Just inconvenienced for a few hours.
Shouldn't you have put that bit in the "Ever been locked in a .... public place thread"

miss hellfire wrote:I think they have a cheek to call their cells a suite though.
I think that refers to the number of rooms in Custody rather than the quality or luxury of the individual accommodation! No doubt it was "semi" en-suite though!

I didn't pinch their flag. Someone else did several years ago when Kent police were having a crack down on burglaries ( operation castle i believe) . Talk about humiliation. It had to go in the local rag the week after announcing they were gonna send Xmas cards out to known burglars.
Think the headlines were.. Folkestone Police station had their flag stolen. Wasn't good for morale.
Also for your information i was in a suite/cell of my own for 7 sodding hours until i told them where i got it from Apparently they didn't find " from outside the main door" very funny. So another 2 hours till my solicitor arrived. That was a bit of a headache! I had to tell tales to get home for a decent cuppa.

Stuart* · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 22.43

miss hellfire wrote:I had to tell tales to get home for a decent cuppa.

Awww!

I bet you not done it since, or have they greased the flagpole - hehe!

Anonymous · Wed 04 Jul, 2007 23.39

Ah but when I think of "Flying The Flag"...

I think more of "Flying The Fag".

Lorns · Thu 05 Jul, 2007 00.20

StuartPlymouth wrote:
miss hellfire wrote:I had to tell tales to get home for a decent cuppa.
Awww! I bet you not done it since, or have they greased the flagpole - hehe!

What part of, i didn't do it do you not understand? It was just a gift from a friend or should i say acquaintance. It was a pretty cool gift though. Wish i still had it. Never mind at least it had just been feshly washed and ironed when they retrieved it from my property.