it'd be all black if you burnt it....;)
What daft acts of grand symbolism have emanated from Australia?
Well, there's the Easter Bilby for one, and most of the fenian wing of the Republican Movement's symbolic iconoclasm. And then there's the usual background chatter from tenured pundits and committee time-servers about "defining the unique Australian character" or whatever (granted, that was more prevalent in the Keating era, but one still hears it around).
Ah, they mean Miracle Ingredient A: http://eidolon.net/?section=old_site&visiting_section=old_site&page=/old_site/issue_17/17_egan.htm
Heh. How appropriate. Good stuff.
One must admit, though, the UJ with black looks pretty dang cool.
Can't imagine it ever being used as the British flag, though...
It will become the Union Jack-Boot!!!
Hmmm, I seem to recall you getting some profound wisdom from an immortal sage some years ago that the Union Jack was 6,000 years old? Obviously anyone trying to tamper with it (particularly by including the color black) is some sort of 'Black Magician' (Negromancer).
Remember that episode of The Goodies where they ran a publicity campaign and got all the white people to emigrate to South Africa, and then all the Black people emigrated to Britain after hearing about how good it was there? And when the goodies got back everyone was black, including newsreaders and The Queen?
Yep. Like the piano with the black and white keys segregated...
Yes; I hope that one gets released on DVD sooner rather than later.
That and the pirate radio one, and the one where their HQ is buried underground.
Btw, the Union Flag is only a few hundred years old (dating back to the Stuart monarchy in its earliest incarnation, and the union of England and Scotland in its present form; not surprisingly, few people fly it north of the border).
See also Graham's explanation of why the Union Flag is technically a fascist symbol, somewhere in his blog comments.
http://grudnuk.com/vm/arch/2002_10_26.html
Though I had my tongue in cheek about that.
LaRoushe is right, ,even if he is a nut.
I seem to remember that there's an old skinhead song, along the lines of "There's no black in the union jack..."