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[–] Lommy 205 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Having your country's flag on your property

Oh wild guess... USA?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Denmark too. You’re not a success in Denmark until you have a flagpole, two kids (no more, no less), an electric car, a robot mower, a robot hoover and a sunken trampoline.

[–] sibannac 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Is sinking a tampoline a Danish nautical tradition?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] idiomaddict 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I get that falling is less dangerous if it’s sunken, but holy hell I don’t want to imagine what animals would live underneath it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] Visstix 2 points 3 months ago
[–] ClamDrinker 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] sibannac 2 points 3 months ago
[–] hOrni 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I moved to Denmark recently. The Danish love to fly their flag. Half of the houses have a flagpole. It's weird for me because no one in Poland does this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s a long story of course, but goes back to a wave of nationalism that arose after the 1864 wars against Prussia. The Danes often said “what is lost externally must be gained internally” and it lead to a break with Pan-Scandinavism so Danes really had nothing but flags and flagpoles left. And boy did they use them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

They also tried breeding a pig with the Dannish flag on it. Also its the oldest continuously used falg, coloration and minor size differences not withstanding.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I've seen this more in Norway than in the US, people love their flags here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] debil 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pennants are a very common thing on summer cabins

[–] debil 1 points 3 months ago

That might be true, yes.