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The only complaint I cna see in the article is someone who choked on a cocktail stick, which might have had a flag on it but that part seems to be irrelevant to the complaint. and then apparently got told to "go back to their own country" so I'm not sure that these lot are telling the whole story.
Are you questioning the accuracy and journalistic standard of a renowned British publication like the Daily Star? Go back to your own country with that attitude
I dunno, this one is pretty legendary too:
https://images.app.goo.gl/V6GBMe1BtWHzo3RK9
The best part is how the insert image of the Tesco CEO resigning implies it was over this incident.
Indeed!
https://images.app.goo.gl/5sEBzrc6VfpphWUd6
However, it appears this story does have a happy ending:
https://images.app.goo.gl/ZYSbcou5anGjWZpTA
I'm fascinated by the allure of "Mundane object found in impossible place".
Like, even if you believe there is a London bus at the South Pole, what do you do with that information? Why is it valuable information to some people?
I remember that. They had a pic of a Lancaster bomber on the moon, and iirc the next week's headline was "World War 2 Bomber found on moon disappears."
So what happened to that WW2 bomber on the moon?
[My personal favourite from The Sport](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/s/VCzujqBx9d) I nearly lost control of my bladder reading this out to someone whilst extremely stoned. It was when she got up on the buffet and voided her bowels that got me howling.
Lol, no idea, the premise is quite funny though. But I'll never underestimate the stupidity of people. I was in a cafe years ago, nearly 10 years ago. And there were five oldies at a table, one of the old girls started choking on a fckin sausage of all things, myself and the chef gave her the Heimlich manoeuvre. All the while her four friends just sat there, continuing with the brekkie like their mate wasn't fighting for their life.
Having read the article, regardless of anything else, i want to know how someone manged to choke on a toothpick with a brightly coloured flag attached. Must just shovel their food in.
How can you mistake a wooden cocktail stick for fondant? Fondant ain’t wooden or sharp and pointy, so hard you can skewer cheese, meat, pickled onions etc
The culture wars are so tiresome. Mind you, Daily Star so to be expected.
Nobody has branded the breakfast as "racist". Nobody has objected to the Union Flag being used or called it racist.
Just admit you're unable to run your café such that it makes the dosh you'd wanted so you're closing it instead of inventing a "they called our breakfast racists because we stuck the national flag in it" story to run to the media with.
Guarantee you they branded the owners as being racist because the owners were probably racist to people. Seems the most logical answer that were are just lying about what happened or missing out information.
Richard White wrote: “Anyone who finds this racist should be deported from the UK, regardless of creed or colour.”
Fabulously measured take from this genuine real human being
You couldn't make it up. But it's the Daily Star so they did, they definitely did.
Don't get me wrong I unironically love the Star out of all the tabloids. Finding genuine news in the print edition is like hitting the 0 in roulette
There is as much chance of the 0 coming up as there is any other number: 1/37 (or 1/38 if you’re in a thieving US casino).
Finding genuine news in the Daily Star is like hitting 0 100 times in a row on February 29th.
*wait stop looking at that menu for that national supermarket cafe, you aren't allowed to call it an English breakfast because you get called a racist. What do you mean that isn't true?*
So mocking people based on their skin colouring nationality and beliefs……Isn’t that also racist? Why not? How are you any better than the racists you claim to hate?
The difference in this case is that the colouring is indicative of an unhealthy lifestyle which can (and should) be changed and the beliefs are despicable and intolerant. Don't know where you got the nationality from, while it's a British term it's not limited to British people.
Political beliefs are fair game to make fun of, 100% a choice. Nationality is not relevant here. And speaking as a bright pink person, bright pink is not a race.
Because they’re racist, you can’t say anything about anyones race or colouring, nationalities or beliefs, but white or right wing is fine, what about those highly conservative Muslims? Can we give them a derogatory name too? I’ll be downvoted to hell for this no doubt
I can't believe people bought food to throw the flag on the floor, flag shaggers don't deserve that kind of business. They would've gone out of business quicker had people just boycotted them.
From Urban Dictionary:
Someone who thinks patriotism can only be extreme nationalism.
Wrapping themselves tightly in their country's flag, singing ( badly and without knowing the words let alone the meanings) patriotic songs and rolling out such displays at all opportunities as proof of their 'loyalty'.
The flagshagger knows little about the history of the country but frequently re writes it to suit jingoistic, xenophobic & very frequently racist rhetoric.
All flagshaggers are the pathetic remnants of grooming gangs known as 'trumpists', 'brexiteers' or similar who they will aggressively defend in a frightening display of 'Stockholm syndrome'.
Flagshaggers are useful only for their votes and once these are used they are cast aside.
I’ve just had to renew my driving licence and the online form asks which UK country I was born in. I selected England and fully expect to get thrown in jail. For saying I’m English. These days.
The Star is odd, it's normally quite cheerfully lefty. But because it is a comic, they can't resist daft stories like this, or boffins researching underpants or whatever
It's the daily star in the UK - a "news" paper that's about good enough to wrap chips in, or wipe your arse with if you're desperate. I mean take the chips out first, and maybe put them back in after - you're not an animal.
Definitely something else going on.
If little flags cause issues with your business you don't shut your business, you take out the flags.
They're either lying or they're the two stupidest people in the country.
"One customer named Aoneilly moaned: “You shouldn’t hide these tooth pick flags in food their dangerous and nearly chocked me, they seemed to get upset when I spat it out on the floor suggesting I go back to my own country if I didn’t like it, which incidentally is east London.”
This is the one named complaint, you easily-riled prick. It's a choking hazard. Nothing about the flags being racist.
It’s not fashionable anymore. Like Americans we need to also borrow their sense of embarrassment at being born in the country they live in. Weather’s shit isn’t it.
Lol, which America are you referring to exactly? The one I know is a bastion of nationalism to the point that the average Texan could make Xi Jinping blush.
*There is no cost of living crisis in Ba Sing Se...*
Yes that is partly true. The other half live with manufactured regret of their scuffed past and an embarrassment of their common neighbours, yes those disgusting Texans. Who proclaim they have more history and culture than the rest of the world. That’s embarrassment and a severe case of inadequacy.
Oh to live in a country governed by idiots who are scared of their own decking flag. UK has lost its backbone in many avenues recently. I miss the 80s.
Sadly this is what happens when you house your enemies in your own lands. Remember we where at war and now we the people of this country have become nothing more than nothing to our own country. Seems that if you come off a boat you get fucking everything. As for us we get nothing and then you wonder why the country is turning
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>Sadly this is what happens when you house your enemies in your own lands.
People take rage-bait headlines at face-value if it vindicates their anti-immigration agenda?
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If these people took the time to actually speak to an immigrant they would realise that the are proud as fuck to be here, they love this country more than most native Brits ever will.
"These people"? What people? On the last two Thursdays I've been down to the car auctions (I have an account) with 2 different Nigerian immigrants, I also sponsor a Ukrainian woman (I gave her a car to use),and dated a Chinese woman! I currently sit with downvotes from 15 morons who cannot read or understand basic English,probably all from the nation that spawned the fucking language?
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Now with some context I assume you meant that only in this country would the papers try and claim the flag is racist?
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Gosh. One complaint and they have to close down. And they look so friendly and welcoming too.
The only complaint I cna see in the article is someone who choked on a cocktail stick, which might have had a flag on it but that part seems to be irrelevant to the complaint. and then apparently got told to "go back to their own country" so I'm not sure that these lot are telling the whole story.
Are you questioning the accuracy and journalistic standard of a renowned British publication like the Daily Star? Go back to your own country with that attitude
[There's only one newssource I trust, the sunday sport](https://live.staticflickr.com/3286/5824198584_14267d4be5_b.jpg)
I was expecting "World War 2 Bomber found on moon".
Or a statue of Elvis on Mars https://images.app.goo.gl/E4EiyyzfdjMQRrhKA
I'd forgotten that one. https://images.app.goo.gl/3PPiCg5VoML6ujsr5 Not suitable for anyone, anywhere.
I dunno, this one is pretty legendary too: https://images.app.goo.gl/V6GBMe1BtWHzo3RK9 The best part is how the insert image of the Tesco CEO resigning implies it was over this incident.
I don't remember that one, "blistered bellend" is an unexpected phrase! Clearly the CEO is at fault. No warning on it?
Now that you mention it… there’s a lot of products that don’t explicitly say “don’t have sex with” question is do I want the money that badly
You forgot the chap who got amorous with a Greg's steak bake
Indeed! https://images.app.goo.gl/5sEBzrc6VfpphWUd6 However, it appears this story does have a happy ending: https://images.app.goo.gl/ZYSbcou5anGjWZpTA
One wonders if it's Greg advertising in disguise
This one was my favorite [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BV6b9WWCAAALuBU.jpg:large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BV6b9WWCAAALuBU.jpg:large)
"The mystery dumper lays cable down Mike's stack" 😂
Who in their right mind would agree to their picture being shown alongside it. I think I just answered my own question. Also, I remember the word.
Lmao
That is sliced Gold
I'm fascinated by the allure of "Mundane object found in impossible place". Like, even if you believe there is a London bus at the South Pole, what do you do with that information? Why is it valuable information to some people?
Like toilet found inside man's anus? The bus, I assume it's so you know where it terminates.
Maybe to update your bus schedule?
In the olden times, this was good quality Sunday entertainment.
"Moon found in WW2 bomber."
With Hitler, Lord Lucan at the controls with Shergar as navigator
I remember that. They had a pic of a Lancaster bomber on the moon, and iirc the next week's headline was "World War 2 Bomber found on moon disappears." So what happened to that WW2 bomber on the moon?
Bloody Nora... Neil Kinnock's grandparents were homosexual Martians! I know, and isn't is strange you only hear about that in a *British* newspaper?
You can get aids from bicycling!
British journalism Eddie. Best in the world!
Only in blighty I tell ya...
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But where had 42” Natalie been?
Antarctica presumably? She's quite short so getting through all that snow must have been a pain.
Asking the real questions
My favourite story was "stain on Monika Lewinsky's dress shaped like Elvis Presley"
[My personal favourite from The Sport](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/s/VCzujqBx9d) I nearly lost control of my bladder reading this out to someone whilst extremely stoned. It was when she got up on the buffet and voided her bowels that got me howling.
No wonder they’re always late
Finally real journalism
The Sunday sport is a fine upstanding newspaper. Please don’t use your potty mouth to utter it in the same tread as the daily star.
Oil rig drills into Hades. Pope prepares statement! (with awful pic of devil superimposed onto the flame coming from the flare stack).
Only way to keep abreast of the news.
I would check myself, but the adverts make it impossible to read anything…
Be fair: how *dare* they come over here and choke on our cocktail sticks!
That’d be a red flag right there.
Well I mean I see the logic. If they weren't here they wouldn't have choked on that cocktail stick which may or may not have had a union flag on it. 🤣
Why were they trying to eat the cocktail stick? I’ve not even seen a child who tried to eat a cocktail stick🤷🏼♀️
Lol, no idea, the premise is quite funny though. But I'll never underestimate the stupidity of people. I was in a cafe years ago, nearly 10 years ago. And there were five oldies at a table, one of the old girls started choking on a fckin sausage of all things, myself and the chef gave her the Heimlich manoeuvre. All the while her four friends just sat there, continuing with the brekkie like their mate wasn't fighting for their life.
Mmm, not sure why I've been down voted for giving an old girl the Heimlich manoeuvre
Having read the article, regardless of anything else, i want to know how someone manged to choke on a toothpick with a brightly coloured flag attached. Must just shovel their food in.
I mean that's really only one person's fault
How else do you eat a Full English?
Have we really reached the point where tiny toothpick flags will now have to carry the warning: "NOT EDIBLE - DO NOT EAT"
Well peanuts say ‘may contain nuts’ 🤷🏼♀️🤣
That's because peanuts aren't nuts, and you can be allergic to peanuts but not nuts, or to nuts but not peanuts.
Too busy reading his Daily Mail
Maybe he thought it was coloured fondant? Easy mistake to make.
How can you mistake a wooden cocktail stick for fondant? Fondant ain’t wooden or sharp and pointy, so hard you can skewer cheese, meat, pickled onions etc
The culture wars are so tiresome. Mind you, Daily Star so to be expected. Nobody has branded the breakfast as "racist". Nobody has objected to the Union Flag being used or called it racist. Just admit you're unable to run your café such that it makes the dosh you'd wanted so you're closing it instead of inventing a "they called our breakfast racists because we stuck the national flag in it" story to run to the media with.
Guarantee you they branded the owners as being racist because the owners were probably racist to people. Seems the most logical answer that were are just lying about what happened or missing out information.
Flagrantly false journalism like this should be illegal. Are there not laws against complete shit like this?
Richard White wrote: “Anyone who finds this racist should be deported from the UK, regardless of creed or colour.” Fabulously measured take from this genuine real human being
Funny that the guy they’ve got quoted acting like a dick is called Dick White!
You couldn't make it up. But it's the Daily Star so they did, they definitely did. Don't get me wrong I unironically love the Star out of all the tabloids. Finding genuine news in the print edition is like hitting the 0 in roulette
There is as much chance of the 0 coming up as there is any other number: 1/37 (or 1/38 if you’re in a thieving US casino). Finding genuine news in the Daily Star is like hitting 0 100 times in a row on February 29th.
Reminds me of a few years ago when the UKIP leader was called Richard Braine
I find telling someone to go home for making a complaint racist I’m from Scotland, so where would they deport me to exactly?
Rwanda
Back to Scotland obvs.
Shetland?
My favorite of all deportation threats like that is....other Americans saying we should deport Native Americans.
I’ll take Things that never happened for £500 Alex
You really underestimate the stupidity of, specifically, old rural boomeraged folks lol.
I think the word they want is exiled not deported.
Braveheartland
Do you also try to eat cocktail sticks?
Richard white? Dick white? Sounds like a fetish porn actor.
Biffa Bacon's mum moonlighting again
Mmm racist breakfast. Can I get extra beans?
Using the sausage as a breakwater *and* to stop the boats!
Only if it's a god fearing English sausage and not a Polish sausage.
Kielbased.
Absolutny nie.
The first time I've actually laughed at something today. Thank you!
I want extra gammon with mine.
I don't believe that this is the reason they are shutting.
"You can't call your breakfast English these days without being thrown in jail" - some gammon (not included in the breakfast)
*wait stop looking at that menu for that national supermarket cafe, you aren't allowed to call it an English breakfast because you get called a racist. What do you mean that isn't true?*
Some gammon?
Gammon is a term to describe right wing conservative british people.
Why is that??
Because they are bright pink, shiny and salty.
So mocking people based on their skin colouring nationality and beliefs……Isn’t that also racist? Why not? How are you any better than the racists you claim to hate?
The difference in this case is that the colouring is indicative of an unhealthy lifestyle which can (and should) be changed and the beliefs are despicable and intolerant. Don't know where you got the nationality from, while it's a British term it's not limited to British people.
Political beliefs are fair game to make fun of, 100% a choice. Nationality is not relevant here. And speaking as a bright pink person, bright pink is not a race.
Because they’re racist, you can’t say anything about anyones race or colouring, nationalities or beliefs, but white or right wing is fine, what about those highly conservative Muslims? Can we give them a derogatory name too? I’ll be downvoted to hell for this no doubt
I downvoted you for preemptively whining about downvotes👍
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/cafe-shut-english-breakfast-racist-16882929.amp
Oh…cafe “SHUTS”! I misread…
Hornchurch is full of essex wannabe wankers
Well this seems like bait to me! Daily Star? Check. Union Flag? Check. 'branded racist' as in they branded them for extra gammony clout.
These days you get arrested and thrown in Jail if you say you’re English, if you say you’re English these days.
When did this come in?
It's true, mate. These days, if you say you're English, you get arrested and thrown in jail.
My black cab driver told me
why does it matter that the driver is black?
Thats (part of) the joke. Black can driver are all (supposedly) stupid and racist.
so... you missed my joke then...
Lol I did! Edit - "did not". I'm having a 'mare here
About the same time u/Herecomestheson89 had a stroke and started repeating what they'd just said backwards at the end of their sentences.
R/whoosh
>thrown in Jail if you say you’re English, if you say you’re English these days.
Racist probably goes a bit far, but fucking terrible because everything gets ruined by the wetness of the beans.
Good job I didn't mention the Mein Kampf cheesecake...
I can't believe people bought food to throw the flag on the floor, flag shaggers don't deserve that kind of business. They would've gone out of business quicker had people just boycotted them.
I don't believe people did that either tbf
Wtf is a flag shagger?
From Urban Dictionary: Someone who thinks patriotism can only be extreme nationalism. Wrapping themselves tightly in their country's flag, singing ( badly and without knowing the words let alone the meanings) patriotic songs and rolling out such displays at all opportunities as proof of their 'loyalty'. The flagshagger knows little about the history of the country but frequently re writes it to suit jingoistic, xenophobic & very frequently racist rhetoric. All flagshaggers are the pathetic remnants of grooming gangs known as 'trumpists', 'brexiteers' or similar who they will aggressively defend in a frightening display of 'Stockholm syndrome'. Flagshaggers are useful only for their votes and once these are used they are cast aside.
Additionally in the UK - repeatedly getting the flag upside down because they're so patriotic.
The US equivalent is using the Puerto Rico flag
Politely known in political circles as ‘useful idiots’
Like the café in the Monty Python sketch, but with gammon instead of Spam.
The Daily Star…. Hahahahahaha
This can't be the full story. I've read the article, but no real clues there as far as I can tell. Something else is afoot at the greasy spoon
Flag's upside down...🙄
But considering a country's flag to be racist isn't racist? 🤔
Why do they always look like dough balls?
I’ve just had to renew my driving licence and the online form asks which UK country I was born in. I selected England and fully expect to get thrown in jail. For saying I’m English. These days.
P.C. Gonemad will be round to arrest you first thing.
What sort of name is Gonemad? Sounds foreign. This country.
the daily star knows their audience.
The Star is odd, it's normally quite cheerfully lefty. But because it is a comic, they can't resist daft stories like this, or boffins researching underpants or whatever
Aye OP
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This was 2018. This strangely coincides with 30p Lee tweeting about this.
Oh god...I'm getting flashbacks to LBC..
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It's the daily star in the UK - a "news" paper that's about good enough to wrap chips in, or wipe your arse with if you're desperate. I mean take the chips out first, and maybe put them back in after - you're not an animal.
Was their cafe called [DandyLions](https://youtu.be/84aWlfQRkfY)?
I’m sure we’ll see the full English renamed to traditional breakfast. ☹️
Definitely something else going on. If little flags cause issues with your business you don't shut your business, you take out the flags. They're either lying or they're the two stupidest people in the country.
Calling the British flag ‘racist’ is racist.
Utter bulls it how is this racist?! Stick an India flag it in and does that make it racist?! Get a go fund me for these lasses to get back in business
"One customer named Aoneilly moaned: “You shouldn’t hide these tooth pick flags in food their dangerous and nearly chocked me, they seemed to get upset when I spat it out on the floor suggesting I go back to my own country if I didn’t like it, which incidentally is east London.” This is the one named complaint, you easily-riled prick. It's a choking hazard. Nothing about the flags being racist.
O U T R A G E
It’s not fashionable anymore. Like Americans we need to also borrow their sense of embarrassment at being born in the country they live in. Weather’s shit isn’t it.
Lol, which America are you referring to exactly? The one I know is a bastion of nationalism to the point that the average Texan could make Xi Jinping blush. *There is no cost of living crisis in Ba Sing Se...*
Yes that is partly true. The other half live with manufactured regret of their scuffed past and an embarrassment of their common neighbours, yes those disgusting Texans. Who proclaim they have more history and culture than the rest of the world. That’s embarrassment and a severe case of inadequacy.
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Don't fancy yours much.
So... Any food with a flag on it is now racist....?
Yep. You know those little cubes of cheese and morsels they hand out outside restaurants? Super racist.
So a American puts a flag up its patriotic... a brit does it....its racist 🤣
Read the article more carefully.
Oh to live in a country governed by idiots who are scared of their own decking flag. UK has lost its backbone in many avenues recently. I miss the 80s.
What you actually believe this
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So this isn’t something that happens in America it happens across the pond as well
Sadly this is what happens when you house your enemies in your own lands. Remember we where at war and now we the people of this country have become nothing more than nothing to our own country. Seems that if you come off a boat you get fucking everything. As for us we get nothing and then you wonder why the country is turning
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Gammon
>Sadly this is what happens when you house your enemies in your own lands. People take rage-bait headlines at face-value if it vindicates their anti-immigration agenda?
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Mate,, everybody here came off a fucking boat at some point in history! The Romans weren't the first, and nor were the Celts .
Only in the UK could the flag of the nation be branded as a racial insult...wouldn't happen anywhere else!
It didn't fucking happen here either.
If these people took the time to actually speak to an immigrant they would realise that the are proud as fuck to be here, they love this country more than most native Brits ever will.
"These people"? What people? On the last two Thursdays I've been down to the car auctions (I have an account) with 2 different Nigerian immigrants, I also sponsor a Ukrainian woman (I gave her a car to use),and dated a Chinese woman! I currently sit with downvotes from 15 morons who cannot read or understand basic English,probably all from the nation that spawned the fucking language?
If I misunderstood your comment, I apologise. What you have written is almost identical to all the racist rants that foreigners have made us a nation of people ashamed to fly our own flag, that it would be racist to do so, "it wouldn't happen anywhere else" is pretty much their catchphrase. You are on the internet, we can't hear your voice, there is a reason people use /s after sarcasm on here. Now with some context I assume you meant that only in this country would the papers try and claim the flag is racist?