http://www.voxpolis.com/2006/world-cup-externalities-or-why-i-miss-learn-to-love-football-or-hide-in-a-hole-for-3-months/ Politics, culture, surrealism... Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.voxpolis.com/2006/world-cup-externalities-or-why-i-miss-learn-to-love-football-or-hide-in-a-hole-for-3-months/#comment-76 Vox Polis » Blog Archive » Flagging it up! Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:45:32 +0000 http://www.voxpolis.com/?p=107#comment-76 [...] There’s only one thing equally as annoying as having to see all this incessant flag waving on TV and cars that seems to be occuring recently, and that’s seeing lots of articles written about flag waving. For some absurd reason i’ve even taken the trouble to read some of them. There’s been a huge amount of coverage in the MSM on why its good to wave flags, is it chav to fly the flag, why the rich dont wave flags, and why ethnic minorities are forced to fly the flag. All this is really no gage of patriotism or nationalistic feelings. Ive always believed that only those who are insecure about their nationalism feel the need to engage in flag waving. [...] [...] There’s only one thing equally as annoying as having to see all this incessant flag waving on TV and cars that seems to be occuring recently, and that’s seeing lots of articles written about flag waving. For some absurd reason i’ve even taken the trouble to read some of them. There’s been a huge amount of coverage in the MSM on why its good to wave flags, is it chav to fly the flag, why the rich dont wave flags, and why ethnic minorities are forced to fly the flag. All this is really no gage of patriotism or nationalistic feelings. Ive always believed that only those who are insecure about their nationalism feel the need to engage in flag waving. [...]

]]> http://www.voxpolis.com/2006/world-cup-externalities-or-why-i-miss-learn-to-love-football-or-hide-in-a-hole-for-3-months/#comment-36 Vox Polis » Blog Archive » World Cup Externalities part 2 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:00:25 +0000 http://www.voxpolis.com/?p=107#comment-36 [...] Vox Polis Politics, culture, surrealism… « World Cup externalities or why I must learn to love football or hide in a hole for 3 months [...] [...] Vox Polis Politics, culture, surrealism… « World Cup externalities or why I must learn to love football or hide in a hole for 3 months [...]

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