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Do you have a flag? - Eddie Izzard

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Comedy
YouTube
Cited on HN 3 times, 2017–2023, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Invoked as a joke in threads about ownership and entitlement.

A clip from Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill about having a flag as justification for claiming a land.

3 jokes · Comedy

3 Hacker News comments

From the HN archive; up to 20 kept per video, favoring different commenters. Recommendations first.

@sangnoir May 2017 Makes a joke
on HN thread The Right to Read (1997)
Step 1. Get the biggest, baddest gun Step 2. Plant a flag[0] Step 3. Declare the land now belongs to you and a descendants. 0. [this video]
@david927 Jul 2018 Makes a joke
on HN thread In 5 states, richest Americans live in a “new Gilded Age”
Absolutely. Remember: technology will make everything move to fewer and fewer sources. If you wanted a book 20 years ago, you went to your local bookstore; now you go to one company. And so the people that get to this place first put their flag on it and claim it as their own. ( [this video] ) I'm glad Jeff was there first (essentially) but we can still decide the future we want.
@dylan604 Dec 2023 Makes a joke
on HN thread The right to use adblockers
Right, because the Do-Not-Track flag was respected oh so well. The only people that seem to care about flags are an invading colonizing system: [this video]

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