How to offend a nation without really trying

By: Olly Wehring - 14 July 2006 16:27

The landlady of a pub in the south-west of England has been the target of hate mail recently for upsetting the Welsh. Angie Sayer, of the New Inn in Wedmore, Somerset, has received letters and answerphone messages accusing her of racism.

Ms Sayer used a Welsh flag in a rather peculiar way when celebrating St George’s Day on 23 April. The English saint, of course, was famous for slaying a dragon, so Ms Sayer used the Welsh flag – which has a dragon on it – for locals to fire arrows at in the pub’s skittle alley.

“The whole incident has been blown out of proportion,” she told trade magazine the Publican. “We needed a dragon to shoot at and happened to use the flag.”

Comments on this blog post

In the States, 'pin the tail on the donkey' is quite popular. Good thing there are no jack asses on any of the world's flags or the Yanks would be in trouble, again.

George Gofnung, United States