What's annoying me today

Hasn’t Trump declared war on you?

He loves the smell of deportation in the morning

That’s very Coalville.

Barely any in Harborough area but three houses in the cul de sac in my village have declared themselves racist with flags.

I wasn’t surprised by one, she had paid role in the Tory party at some point. She’s a bit of a cunt, our kids are friends with her neighbours kids and she didn’t like them extending their house so managed to get some sort of stop notice issued on the day the builders turned up as she hadn’t been given notice or something. All it was ever going to do was delay for a few weeks and cost people money.

I drove past some of the knuckle draggers putting them up today. They looked just as you would think.

There are probably more non-AoNZ flags flown than AoNZ ones. Pacific Islanders are especially celebratory of their original countries.

It's not helped by the rubbish national flag which absolutely should have been replaced by Laser Kiwi some years back.

I think other countries fly flags without the same far right racist connection that always goes with the George cross.

That's optimistic. Here it's a pretty strong correlation.

It’s ok, when the powerful get their way and Reform are running the country in 4 years, Lee Anderson will be making sure our kids are singing the national anthem every morning. Jesus fucking Christ.

The Scouse nation I presume are strong Reformers so they are going to have issues!

It may come as no surprise to report that heavily Brexit voting areas such as Ashfield, Mansfield, Bolsover and Amber Valley have a preponderance of Temu crap zip tied to lampposts at half mast.

Where the Union flag is ‘flown’ it is sometimes upside down which is a distress signal at sea. If we are going to fly the flag, can we treat it with respect and use good quality materials on proper flagpoles?

Instead we get this half arsed attempt which at best looks like the directions for a pub crawl by Dave's mates on the stag do for his third wedding and at worst a dystopian pastiche of the KKK, North Korea and Nazi Germany.

Power still not back on.

Openreach chap has arrived. Currently charging his drill at a neighbour with power's house.

Power back in and fibre installed (could be in the pleasing thread now, how things change quickly).

As a Dave in Bolsover I can say that I haven't seen many flags at all round here. Even the cab driver (not Iqbal) who drove Mrs Rave and I to Chesterfield on Saturday for her 50th birthday meal commented that he was surprised at the lack of flags in Bozza, unlike Staveley where he counted 132 on his way to pick us up.
I also don't have any mates round here and I'm not sure I'd want to crawl Bozza's pubs...

Sitting in a harbourside bar on a Greek island, I overheard a Brit telling his woman in a broad Midlands accent that the only people who speak English in London these days are the tourists. What annoyed me is that I didn't interrupt and have an argument. I don't expect it would have gone well but I feel I should have done it.

You should have just scythed him down...

Chicago: Afraid of Death.

I can just picture the scene, while turning to the waiter and saying: "Gerrus another pint of John Smiths, will you? None of that Mythos shit. Yammas, duckeh..."