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[-] Lommy@lemmy.world 203 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Having your country's flag on your property

Oh wild guess... USA?

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is sinking a tampoline a Danish nautical tradition?

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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 month ago

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

[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago
[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago
[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

Turkey also has lots of flags everywhere.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am proud of my country and most of the ideals we stand for: that’s why I do what I can to help it live up to those ideals, to be even better. It is our patriotic duty to constructively criticize, to correct its mistakes, to rebel against the status quo, to invest in all citizens and a better tomorrow.

For example, look at all those immigrants fleeing into our country looking for a better life: it’s our duty to make this country work like the ideal they are coming for.

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Catalonia. Catalan flags are everywhere.

[-] rainynight65@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 87 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 32 points 1 month ago

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

Sign my damn petition

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[-] capital@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Bonzer craic, y'all guv'ner.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

He’s the Usain Phelps Real Madrid of Geoguessing

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Good thing the lawn wouldn't be visible

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Visible in plenty of countries outside of US.

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