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[-] Lommy@lemmy.world 200 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Having your country's flag on your property

Oh wild guess... USA?

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Denmark too. You’re not a success in Denmark until you have a flagpole, two kids (no more, no less), an electric car, a robot mower, a robot hoover and a sunken trampoline.

[-] sibannac@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is sinking a tampoline a Danish nautical tradition?

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I moved to Denmark recently. The Danish love to fly their flag. Half of the houses have a flagpole. It's weird for me because no one in Poland does this.

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[-] parande@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

I've seen this more in Norway than in the US, people love their flags here

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[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 164 points 10 months ago

Isn’t putting up flags an American thing too? Don’t really see this kind of nationalism in other coutnries.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 137 points 10 months ago

In England we only really put them up for football and racism.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 74 points 10 months ago

In the US, we have our own special flag just for racism.

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 46 points 10 months ago
[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago
[-] Zorsith 20 points 10 months ago

And the yellow one with the snake on it, I think it's called the bootlicker flag or something idk

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Then there's the thin blue line flag, not to mention the regular flag, and more and more these the straight up nazi flag.

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Don't forget the Confederate rag. Especially in Kansas and Ohio and Wisconsin.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Trump flags too

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[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

Hey it's for hockey and racism in Canada, too!

[-] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

If you see a truck in Canada with our flag on it, high probability it's also got an 'F Trudeau' sticker and an asshole driver.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Signs of overcompensating for a small dick IMHO. I've never seen a woman driving a vehicle with either a flag or FucK Trudeau on it

[-] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Lol, yup generally true. Though I'll say I've seen one or two driven by women out west here.

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[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

can you explain the racism part of it to a non brit? like I'm five /stupid american pls

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago

The EDL often used the England St George Cross flag. The National Front used the British Union Jack flag.

I think the only other time you see our flags apart from sport, is for royal family related days off work, which about all they're good for.

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not OP, but British, seems you only really see them on house for football as previously stated and on the houses of people that tend to be ignorant and/or racist so they fly the ~~Union Jack~~ St George Cross Flag as a means to be patriotic to this shit hole.

Edit: Put the wrong flag, as evidently I’m a moron today.

[-] foofiepie@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Worse if it’s the St George Cross imo. I’ve never understood the “away with immigrants” argument from a nation of immigrants. Do they think life evolved in the UK?

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[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 33 points 10 months ago

I've seen it in just about every country I have visited physically and in Geoguessr. Maybe not quite as prevalent as the US but I wouldn't actually say the difference is as big as people probably think.

What's funny is that beyond knowing you're in America, the flag doesn't help a lot with location guessing. USA is one of the tougher countries to pinpoint within in GeoGuesser. It's probably harder to distinguish Vermont from Ohio from Oregon (depending on the photo) than it is to tell Albania from Austria even with no flags or signs.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Complete opposite of my experience. While you do see flags in other countries they are usually only at governme t buildings, it's rare to see people flying flags themselves. Whereas in America they are everywhere and also buildins will often have multiple. Like I went to a mall and the outside had at least a dozen flags on sides.

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

they are usually only at governme t buildings

Unless there's a football match on, then they're literally fucking everywhere

And there's always a football match on...

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 6 points 10 months ago

Turkey also has lots of flags everywhere.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

It probably only happens in some types of countries... Turkey, Russia, Hungary... USA...

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

DPRK also geta their dick super hard from their flag.

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

american geography is also aggressively diverse as well, it varies from ice in alaska, to the literal desert

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[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

I went to a hardware store in the states during a trip. Turns out they had a patriotic corner there, full of flags and banners. I've never seen anything like that before in any country. In a lot of countries you have to search for even a tiny souvenir flag.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

I live in Taiwan and plenty of people put flags up.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

In Europe, mostly during soccer championships because you get them with a crate of beer during that time.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

It seems like it's common in places that have an independence movement (Quebec, Ireland and Taiwan as others have mentioned), the USA is an exception to that.

[-] png@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago

Catalonia. Catalan flags are everywhere.

[-] rainynight65@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago

A fair few Australians fly the flag in front of their house all year round.

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[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Common in Canada.

Where do you get the notion that it’s an American thing from?

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Where is this common? I have family in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC, and we rarely see flags on people's lawns/whatever. I'm in Vancouver and there is ONE flag within a 20 minute walk in any direction. In fact, my kids refer to it as 'the flag house' it's so out of place.

Hell our Prime Minister had to ask us to be more patriotic for the olympics in 2010.

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[-] capital@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’d put mine out in the garden. Mate. Cheers.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Bonzer craic, y'all guv'ner.

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 18 points 10 months ago

He's not saying lawn in geoguessr though, so a moot point.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Good thing the lawn wouldn't be visible

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

it would be to cows, which makes it a moo point.

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Visible in plenty of countries outside of US.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

He’s the Usain Phelps Real Madrid of Geoguessing

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I’ve only seen him in one video and he picked Hawaii when it was Idaho

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is it one of the videos where the picture only shows for a second?

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[-] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

United States

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