Flapping & Flashing

It's not a sign of virility or dumbing down. If it's a waste of time it's their time to spend as they wish. 

I watched someone at the weekend take over an hour setting up a seven tier bird feeder. That's about 10 times longer than it takes to put up our flag. Personally I'm not keen about folk attracting vermin near me but it's a shared space so we have to recognise that other folk do things differently. 

We had someone pitch next to us at Daleacres last year who put up his flagpole in very strong winds. We were leaving the following day, so we ignored him and his stupid kite on a pole. As we had taken our awning down, I moved my car to the opposite side of the van, glad I did as the pole came down during the night and was within inches of our van and if I hadn't moved the car it would have hit it. The moron with the flag, wouldn't come out of his van in the morning until we had left. At the risk of starting an argument, I would now challenge anyone putting up a pole next to me.

Anyone is welcome to challenge me if I decide to put my flagpole up on a club site but it wouldn't stop me. 

I'd enjoy the laugh 

So much for live and let live then !!!!, there are a lot of things that I wonder why people do that  ,but then there are a lot of things I do that people probably wonder about

As has been explained on the forum before the rebrand lost threads, I have a pole and flag so that my girl-friend can find her way back to the caravan. 

Not all sites are flat and open (New England Bay anyone?), and all caravans are identical white boxes when one has low spacial awareness.  It saves her much embarrasment when returning (or not) from the toilet block.  Pre-flag, she was once brought back by a four year old!

They never remember the reasons. It interferes with the opinions. 

I use mine because I want to 

Asked someone on site why they had one, just out of curiosity and they said it was to keep the ruddy Pigeons away. Following day I saw him cleaning the bird s*** off his awning. 

He said the only possible use for it now would be if he could catch the Pigeon and.....

It sounds rather jolly. But I'm afraid I have never seen it because we are invariably the only Brits on site and the dour continentals don't seem to do it. 

That seems a good idea in this circumstance and is underpinned by a very real need. I guess many used at festivals & shows are deployed for much the same reason but I would think there is a very much reduced need for such on the 'run of the mill' ordinary site. 

For me there are lots of individual behaviours which have a very low if any impact on the rest but a few which do. Often these flags and alike do dominate pitches and often sites and are clearly visible and audible when breezy to the many.

I tend to make decisions about my behaviours based on the impact on others, not my self, but I am willing to accept without question that for some this means of identification and positioning of pitch is a requirement.

When our grand sprogs came with us we would fly a county flag and smiley flag so they knew where we were, when on big sites,so they could go with site met holiday friends,as long as we knew where they were going