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Why does ferris have the British flag on his door?

posted 15 years ago by joestone99uk
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Why would an American do this? Seems a little odd to me...

[–] 12 years ago

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[–] Krustallos 11 years ago

Most of the band posters in his room are British (Cabaret Voltaire!) and the music in the film is mostly British also. Just a shorthand way of showing he has good taste, I guess ;-)

I used to want to change the world. Now I just want to leave the room with a little dignity.

[–] ebright99 9 years ago

Also, for what it's worth, there's is an equally large America flag on the wall to the right of the door.

[–] BingoFlip20943 9 years ago

There's also a big nice set of naked boobs on his dresser drawer that they don't even blur out on tv because they're hard to see. I never noticed until I started seeing it on bigger screens in HD.

[–] wielderofspoons 8 years ago

there's is an equally large America flag on the wall to the right of the door.

It looks quite a lot smaller to me.

[–] Haggis-From-Yorkshire 9 years ago

Because 'Great Britain' is great. ...The clue's in the title. 

[–] raf-33 9 years ago

If you are going to be a clueless bellend on the internet please remove the 'uk' from the end of your nickname joe, don't make the other 60 million of us look like idiots.

Led Zepplin, The Who, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, T Rex, Queen, Pink Floyd, etc etc yada yada were not punk, and the UK has a lot more to be proud of than that. It's not uncommon for Americans or Brits to wear the others' flag or symbols.

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[–] kaskait 9 years ago

Because Ferris is an annoying dweeb who could only be thought cool in a John Hughes film.

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[–] TeenGangDeb 9 years ago

COMMUNISM!

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[–] foxmulder1993 8 years ago

I had a Union Jack hanging in my room in the 80's too and it had everything to do with it looking cool. Back in the mid 80's Def Leppard had made Union Jack shirts popular with teens and I never attached any sort of nationalism to it or ever considered myself less of an American for liking the colors and design. I leave symbols to the symbol minded.