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Originally Posted by Plechazunga
No, as I said I think it makes perfect sense, I even admire it. I'm just probing cos I'm interested.
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I'm quite interested in it as well. I cannot relate at all to what people are feeling when they go out and wave union jacks when Ellen Macarthur returns from a little sail. Sure go and support her, it's an achievement, but the "go on, do it for Britain" attitude leaves me totally cold. Similarly people who get to the top of a mountain and stick up a flag of their country, I have no idea why they do that.
Put it this way, I feel much more proud of the achievement of getting to the moon and back, even though it's not my country's achievement, than I do of anything British I can think of.