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 I come from 'Uddersfield, me, pal!

From T' Yorkshire!

England, United Kingdom, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, the Universe.

And so it was.... at stupid o clock this morning, when i inadvertently tried to bend me knee far too far, and it woke me up with searing pain.... that i started to think about flag shagging.

I was born in Huddersfield.... not by choice, not by historical importance, just by sheer luck.

I could have been born anywhere.

My parents were white, British folks, and that's something that wasn't chance.  It was determined and they pretty much organised that much.

What i am getting at.....

Pride in your nation is a weird thing to me.....  

Imagine i was out there waving a flag to celebrate the computers i'd fixed, the mortgage i've nearly paid off, or the flower i'd just grown.... you'd probably think i was a bit mad...... but them things there, they're ACHIEVEMENTS.... things to be proud of.  Pride.

Now imagine i started waving a flag to celebrate which side up my toast landed when i dropped it, or whether i got heads or tails twice in a row, or that i said "now" just as the kettle boiled and switched itself off?  Them things there are chance, pal.... pure speculation.  What do you wanna go and wave flags that celebrate chance for?

I think it's ok to be proud of things you did do, but i don't think pride is the right term for what i feel about things that happen by chance?

So it seems weird that i'd be beating my chest and waving an onion jack to celebrate the chance that i was born over here and not over there.

Anyways.... i am not gonna get in no arguments about that.... what did keep me awake after bloody bending my knee and almost squealing out loud.....

What flag should I be waving then.... is there one that i could wave that would be more appropriate?

I thought about an animated gif of all the flags, cycling through like a different flag every second.... but them's just the same and i've no affiliation with a flag of Myanmar or Peru, so that makes little sense.

The world, or Earth?  Offensive to life forms from other planets.... and still celebrating the chance event that life on earth happened and i happened to be part of that happening.

A clock?  how about a flag of a clock to celebrate that in this moment, in this blink of an eye in the grand scheme of the cosmos, life and everything, we exist(ed)..... but time, as we all know (yawns) is an abstract concept, and that, surely, is not celebration-worthy?

The galaxy.... still too offensive.... what about all the billions of other galaxies?

The universe..... yes.... all i need to do is trademark a flag of the universe, and market it.... wait.... what's the universe look like and how the feck do i get it onto a flag?

It keeps me awake a while......

I get up... start typing, and..... 

I give to you, my flag.....  the one i'll proudly be flying (but not shagging)..... feel free to fly your own....

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