JamesGoblin [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months ago"Independent British Politics",from an old USSR papertopwar.ruimagemessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1111arrow-down1image"Independent British Politics",from an old USSR papertopwar.ruJamesGoblin [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square16fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareWheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·11 months agoYou shouldn’t be allowed to pick an animal outside your hemisphere for a national symbol.
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·11 months agoLook man the Scottish have a unicorn and the Welsh have a dragon. Clearly the UK doesn’t agree with that rule
minus-squareWheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 months agoImaginary creatures are fine and actually cooler. Just don’t pick a lion if there’s no lions on your island . and a premptive ‘fuck you’ to anyone who points at a zoo
minus-squareAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-211 months agoDoes the Tower of London count as a zoo? It technically wasn’t. They kept Barbary Lions (and a bunch of other exotic animals) in the Tower of London and it’s how it ended up as the symbol of England, practice started in the 1200s.
minus-squareWheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 months agooh fuck the ankh-morpork hippos were real
minus-squareJustice@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·11 months agonervous American googles if bald eagle is indigenous “Whew. I think we’re safe, boys.”
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 months agoyour whole country isn’t indigenous
minus-squareGriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 months agoBenjamin Franklin wanted to go with the turkey because he thought eagles were assholes
minus-squareAlaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 months agoHe ain’t wrong. But dude should’ve gone with ravens because those madlads are bigger assholes than eagles and will bully them for the lols.
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoTurkey was and still is much more important for the country. French have chicken and no fucks given about it, so that wouldn’t be even that strange.
minus-squareSaeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 months agoCounterpoint: lions are cool
You shouldn’t be allowed to pick an animal outside your hemisphere for a national symbol.
Look man the Scottish have a unicorn and the Welsh have a dragon. Clearly the UK doesn’t agree with that rule
Imaginary creatures are fine and actually cooler. Just don’t pick a lion if there’s no lions on your island
.
and a premptive ‘fuck you’ to anyone who points at a zoo
Does the Tower of London count as a zoo? It technically wasn’t.
They kept Barbary Lions (and a bunch of other exotic animals) in the Tower of London and it’s how it ended up as the symbol of England, practice started in the 1200s.
oh fuck the ankh-morpork hippos were real
lmao yes
nervous American googles if bald eagle is indigenous
“Whew. I think we’re safe, boys.”
your whole country isn’t indigenous
Benjamin Franklin wanted to go with the turkey because he thought eagles were assholes
He ain’t wrong. But dude should’ve gone with ravens because those madlads are bigger assholes than eagles and will bully them for the lols.
Turkey was and still is much more important for the country. French have chicken and no fucks given about it, so that wouldn’t be even that strange.
Counterpoint: lions are cool