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[-] Lommy@lemmy.world 204 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Having your country's flag on your property

Oh wild guess... USA?

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is sinking a tampoline a Danish nautical tradition?

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 7 points 2 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 10 points 2 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 165 points 2 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 2 months ago

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

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 months ago

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

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 months ago
[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago
[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 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 14 points 2 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 2 months ago

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

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[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 27 points 2 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 7 points 2 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 2 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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[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 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 23 points 2 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 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 2 months ago

Turkey also has lots of flags everywhere.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 28 points 2 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 2 months ago

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

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

In Finland we have plenty of national "flag days" every year. I don't see people putting up flags on their porch or anything but many has flag poles on their yard and flying a Finnish flag has no racist implications to it or anything like that. It's a traditional thing to do and especially the elderly are pretty strict about it.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

That was what the US used to be, but now flying a flag has too many negative connotations. Don’t let your nationalist nut-jobs ruin it for you too

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

If it doesn't have a blue stripe, you can absolutely still fly the flag at your house. It's when you have it on your shirt and car that it gets weird.

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

I make a lot of assumptions about people flying regular US flags in their yard, and I can't really say any of them are positive. Could be a regional thing? I'm in a pretty heavily left-leaning area and the people that are that outwardly patriotic are typically far right. Not universally, but enough for the assumptions.

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 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 2 months ago

Catalonia. Catalan flags are everywhere.

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[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago
[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 88 points 2 months ago

Nope. Storing all of Google street view in one human's brain takes a toll on you.

But seriously, if you haven't seen him before, the guy is nuts. He has to come up with challenges to make geoguesser difficult for himself now:

https://youtube.com/shorts/cCVJtd0ZPHQ

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Grayjay isn't opening this up for me. What's the channel name of this guy?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

If you just search for Rainbolt, you'll find his channel. I think he must have more than one, because this one was from "Rainbolt Two"

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago

if this guy worked for the CIA every russian spy in existence would be dead within two weeks

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 32 points 2 months ago

Holy shit, it's postal dude without his glasses.

Sign my damn petition

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[-] capital@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Bonzer craic, y'all guv'ner.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

He’s the Usain Phelps Real Madrid of Geoguessing

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Good thing the lawn wouldn't be visible

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Visible in plenty of countries outside of US.

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