Be afraid...
First sign that there may be a "Red Neck" living next door!
=P
A man was reportedly asked if he was an Islamic State sympathiser after his neighbours mistook a Jack Daniel's flag for the black-and-white terrorist insignia. The unnamed Italian hung the whiskey distillery flag outside his home in Regensdorf, Zürich, only to receive an anonymous letter from "concerned neighbours". "Should …
If there is a redneck involved, it would be the one flying the flag. Jack Daniel's is produced in Tennessee, proud red-neck country. BTW, the term red-neck comes from the sunburn southern farmers would get tending their crops, a derogatory term created by cily-slickers who have no clue how to survive without them.
It seems that the best similarity is if you invert the JD flag, then reverse L to R, and then simply invert the Daeshbag flag. On that basis, fluttering in the wind the JD flag might have seemed a bit scary, if the observer were VERY drunk.
So, here's another beer for the Swiss AC:
Medieval death-coulter? Kind of a ploughshare-into-a-sword thing, then?
(A coulter is the lead blade that cuts through the top layer of turf, making it easier for the bottom to turn the soil. My coulters are almost all discs, but I have a couple early examples that are knife-like. Now that I've permanently wasted about five brain cells in each and every one of you, we return you to your regular ElReg commentardery, already in progress. No doubt starting with "plough" v.s. "plow" ... followed immediately by the proper use of the ellipsis.)
@Jake
An interesting new outlook on death-cults (a pleasant and erudite chang from the usual 'change-one-letter')
And a useful history lesson. But surely you'd plough a very short furrow with a lead (Pb) blade? Wouldn't iron or steel be better for your for'ard blade?
"But surely you'd plough a very short furrow with a lead (Pb) blade?"
It occurs to me to suggest a confusion between lead and lead. That is between a metal in the same group as carbon, and a verb and its associated words meaning to be in front or in charge, with other things or people following. I suspect the latter is meant. It's the blade that "leads" the actual ploughshare.
My guess is that the anonymous complainer could read neither Arabic nor English, and is so ignorant of the two languages that they cannot distinguish the two when compared side by side. Since neither is the official language of Switzerland it isn't that far out of the realm of possibility.
Bollocks - German is written in the same phonetic alphabet as english, and given that Daniel is a very common name in the German part of Switzerland it’s more than likely to be a “hobby Polizist/in” otherwise known as a curtain twitcher trying to stir something up - something certain Swiss take pride in doing.
Also it’s not like the JD brand is unknown here - it’s one of the most popular american whiskeys with most bars and supermarkets having stock.
Nah - this is just a typical example of the Swiss passive aggresisve notes they like to leave around, which are generally met with guffaws of laughter by me whenever I receive one, ‘cause I know the note writer will be within earshot.
@ Slap
"Also it’s not like the JD brand is unknown here - it’s one of the most popular american whiskeys with most bars and supermarkets having stock."
I am genuinely sorry to hear that.
JD is the "Budweiser", or the "MacDonalds" of American whiskeys. It is frequently mixed with Coca-Cola, many times with Diet Coke!
"Gimme a Jack 'n Coke" is a common cry heard in saloons across the land.
With so many fine whiskeys, not to mention whiskys, available to the American consumer, it's popularity is a testament to mass marketing techniques.
Couldn't agree more. I used to drink JD until I wondered through the haze how it could possibly be that every sip ...uhh... yeah ..... tastes exactly the same. How do they get round Hisen...Heizen..that unshertainty thing.
Then realised it must come from a chemical factory.
Which is why, natch, their ads just HAVE to show a good ole boy in work pants and rough hewn barrels.
Haven't touched a drop since.
JB about the same.
Take my advice and the no brainer is JW. Rotate the labels and take your time to decide which one is behind the bar in heaven.
P.S. When drinking in China don't kid yourself it is the real thing. I have ordered bottles of Chivas Regal to get my business associates drunk (welcome to China) and it was the right shape, the right label, but one sniff and it was definitely certifiably not Chivas Regal. At least, up till now, in China they don't know the difference so you still get whatever brownie points there are to be got for ordering a (moderately) expensive hooch.
actually can disagree with that, JD just make so much of the damn stuff that they can mix it to get the consistent taste, JD single barrel is just from barrels that when they do the tasting they decide have something a bit unique or really good about them so put them to one side instead of mixing them up with the rest, always worth a punt on a bottle of JD single barrel cos you never know quite what you'll get but you know it'll be good.
Not just Switzerland.
my daughter got a note from the buildi
Complainee is now under threat of eviction after it turned out that the flat was not occupied during the 'huge noise' and has been found to be a snooty serial complainer. (worse than that, they rent and my daughet's flat is owned)
Did that flag win first prize in a kids drawing contest?
"Hey kids, are you good at drawing Can you draw? Then take part in our contest to draw a flag for the Islamic State that will need to strike terror in the hearts of the infidels. First prize is a goat (hardly used)."
Come on, it's not even a proper circle in the middle, was it designed using Paint?
Either some fundamentalist in cave probably didn’t have a flat surface to write on and that’s the best he could do, or it was that blind bloke with a hook for a hand and that’s the best he could do.
Either way, don’t know why people would want to support and cause so much harm and mayhem for a cause that can’t even produce a proper flag, if that’s the best they can do then there is no hope of them doing anything remotely competently if they got what they wished for.
Surely their flag must be enough of a clue for their potential supporters to see there is something seriously missing with that lot.
Either some fundamentalist in cave probably didn’t have a flat surface to write on and that’s the best he could do, or it was that blind bloke with a hook for a hand and that’s the best he could do.
Think about it. A band of thugs that kill artists as heretics and satanists because they're artists.
How good a flag would you do for them?
I quite agree - you really need a proper flag to get anywhere.
Not sure about the text at the top but the circle and text inside is old. I liked it when I first saw it, which was at least 10-15 years ago and I am fairly sure it's much older than that. So probably was made in a a cave but not in this century.
As for Paint, it went downhill when it got ribbonised and features were dropped.
> First prize is a goat (hardly used).
Define "hardly used". Are you Sudanese?
>many bottles of JD
You jest [1] but this joke is older than you think. During the middle '80s, when the actual *definition* of war was a conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact (anything else was a military operation), I worked with a translator of military journals, including some publication from the Red Army, the name of which I have forgotten, but aimed at a readership within the ranks of that army. It was always full of articles warning of the dangers of drinking moonshine, rubbing alcohol, varnish thinners, brake fluid... You get the picture. Apparently this was a major problem - Russian squaddies would drink anything. My colleague came up with the best strategy I ever heard for defeating the WP rolling into Germany [2]: a strategic withdrawal leaving cases of Johnny Walker (Scotch being the preferred weapon) beside the roads. He reckoned the advance would be halted in two days.
[1] That is, I suppose you jest!
[2] One of the options at the time was the so-called Enhanced Radiation Weapon, commonly called the neutron bomb. It kills people by radiation poisoning, but limits actual blast damage [icon]. We reckoned the only thing worse than an advancing WP tank division was an advancing WP tank division driven by crews who knew they only had a day or two to live.
I clicked through to the original article, and saw that he's flying the JD flag above the Italian one. I'm pretty sure that Italy will take that as an insult. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Italian law forbids flying any flag higher than the Italian one except possibly the EU one.
"This could be because the unnamed Italian man plans to sue whoever wrote the letter for damaging his reputation – libel, in English."
Seriously? You cannot sue people into not doing/saying something stupid. it should be cause of laughter not threats of court action.
"He has refused to remove the flag on the basis that this would just prove his idiotic neighbours right."
Damn right. You cannot sanitise the world enough to stop stupidity.
I can see how you could mistake a Jack Daniels flag for a Daesh one, if you'd never seen the JD logo and also you couldn't tell Arabic writing from English and also you had a very tiny brain.
That said, I'm not sure I'd want to live next to someone so proud of drinking the stuff. I used to drink that brand too, but then I turned 16.