Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’

• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The ok sign is " just" a common hand sign

  14 and 88 are just numbers

  You realise most of this is very local, and will vary greatly depending on which part of the world you’re in?

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  • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, and if I saw a st George’s cross hanging in Thailand it would mean something different too

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Was referring to the hand sign and numbers. But yeah, the flag would probably get you mistaken for the Red Cross

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• bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In Spanish, “café” if just that, coffee. But it was also used as “Camaradas Arriba Falage Española”.
  The Spanish flag is just the official flag… except when it has an Osborne bull in it or the dictatorship eagle.

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  • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I didn’t know that, thank you

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is the national flag of England. It’s also been co-optes by the right as a dog whistle

  Then take it back.

  The ok sign is " just" a common hand sign

  This one? 👌 I see people use it all the time, especially Asians

  14 and 88 are just numbers

  I know, I passed primary school.

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  • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks for proving my point? The whole point is so you can say shit like this

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What point? I don’t know what you’re on about in regards to hand gestures and numbers. You made some pretty obvious statements.

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      • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The point is that you are either a useful idiot, or actively involved in spreading these dogwhistles

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You argue like an antisemite. What’s that about?

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s the thing with shit people.

    You throw a million gallons of clean water into a sewer and you’ve got a sewer.

    You throw 20 gallons of sewage into a swimming pool and you’ve got to drain and refill the pool.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not necessarily. People use the internet for bad but it’s not a sewer. More good happens than bad.

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      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Still playing ignorant?

        Not a good look

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• tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The ok sign is " just" a common hand sign

  You fell for a joke here, pal.

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  • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No I didn’t?

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    • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You obviously did. “OK means White Power” was a practical joke established at 4chan (well, where else could it be?). Unsurprisingly, many people can’t tell the difference between troll jokes and reality these days.

      But please continue spreading the joke.

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      • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m not sure if this is serious or not. Yes. It started as a joke. What’s your point? Its since been adopted as a dog whistle precisely so dumbasses like you will do the work of right-wingers for them

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      • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The people who can’t tell the difference are the ones who use it without intending it to be a joke. 4chan “jokes” leak into the real world now, without being jokes.

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      • TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You think pretty highly of yourself eh lol.

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