Freebasser
06-10-2006, 08:31 PM
Here goes - My mate's missus is Polish, and she was dragging him out with a load of her Polish friends last night and he'd asked me to come along so that he had someone to talk to. At one point some Polish guy who's completely off his tits pokes me in the arm and utters something in his mother tongue about the Dutch flag on the shoulder of my army jacket. He seems upset so I ask my mate's girlfriend what he's saying and she says that I should be ashamed because it is the World Cup and I should have an English flag on my shoulder.
Her boyfriend and I tell her to convey to him the fact that over here people wear foreign army gear all the time because it's cheap and we don't really give a toss about what flag is on my sleeve because we're just in it for the jacket. The Pole doesn't buy this and gets all agitated before stumbling off to the bar.
My mate goes to the toilet and leaves me to talk to his missus whereupon she tells me that her Polish friend assumes that all English people should be waving the St. George's flag and that I mustn't love my country. I explain that I don't really give a toss about international football because I find all the media shit and flag buying bollocks to be offputting amongst over reasons. I say that I see myself as belonging to the UK and not just England and that I don't care what flag I'm wearing. I mean, just because it's the World Cup I'm expected to stop wearing my favourite jacket?
She asks me why I'm not ashamed to be wearing a flag of another country and when I say it's because I'm not racist she says I'm bullshitting because (in her own words) she assumes that everybody is racist and anybody who says they aren't is lying. Suffice to say that I gritted my teeth for the rest of the evening. I love close-minded people.
Her boyfriend and I tell her to convey to him the fact that over here people wear foreign army gear all the time because it's cheap and we don't really give a toss about what flag is on my sleeve because we're just in it for the jacket. The Pole doesn't buy this and gets all agitated before stumbling off to the bar.
My mate goes to the toilet and leaves me to talk to his missus whereupon she tells me that her Polish friend assumes that all English people should be waving the St. George's flag and that I mustn't love my country. I explain that I don't really give a toss about international football because I find all the media shit and flag buying bollocks to be offputting amongst over reasons. I say that I see myself as belonging to the UK and not just England and that I don't care what flag I'm wearing. I mean, just because it's the World Cup I'm expected to stop wearing my favourite jacket?
She asks me why I'm not ashamed to be wearing a flag of another country and when I say it's because I'm not racist she says I'm bullshitting because (in her own words) she assumes that everybody is racist and anybody who says they aren't is lying. Suffice to say that I gritted my teeth for the rest of the evening. I love close-minded people.