Change the icon on Facebook for Burns Supper from the Flag of the UK to the Flag of Scotland
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Kevin ODonnell
10 years ago
It's our flag so please let us fly it!
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James Millar
10 years ago
Show some Respect
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Alastair Clark
10 years ago
Agree wholeheartedly with the statements above
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Helen Wilson
10 years ago
This is our Nations flag. the flag of Scotland.
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Patricia Reynolds
10 years ago
Fitting and proper. ..Burns would roll in his grave over this representation!
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Heather dickson
10 years ago
Should be saltire flag
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Andrew Clarke
10 years ago
To Facebook and its administrators, We, the undersigned, respectfully request that Facebook change the flag icon for celebrating Burns Supper from the flag of the United Kingdom (the “Union Jack”) to the flag of Scotland (“The Saltire”) for the following reasons:
1) Robert Burns is considered the National Bard of Scotland, not the United Kingdom.
2) Burns Supper is the second most important holiday in Scotland after Saint Andrew’s Day. It has little meaning to most non-Scots in the rest of the United Kingdom, but is celebrated throughout the world by people of Scottish descent and Scottish expatriates as well as those who love and respect Burns’s works.
3) One of Robert Burns’s works is “Parcel o’ Rogues” which castigated the Scottish men who sold the freedom of Scotland for gold and created the United Kingdom.
For these reasons we find it improper to have the flag of the United Kingdom as an icon when celebrating Burns Supper. We ask that you respect the memory of Robert Burns and the request of the undersigned and change the icon to the flag of Scotland.
Thank you.
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Brendan
10 years ago
Burns is a scottish institution.
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kayleigh davidson
10 years ago
Total outrage.
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Andrew Mcintyre
10 years ago
This the flag of my Country not the UJ and it will always be on.my time line
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wilma mcewan
10 years ago
why have they used another icon and not the Saltire Burns and all he stood for is uniquily Scottish,of that there is no doubt
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James Livingstone
10 years ago
Scottish until I die
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Anonymous
10 years ago
THE UNION JACK IS AN INSULT TO ROBERT BURNS! GET YOUR FACTS CORRECT FACEBOOK!
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Anne Campbell
10 years ago
He's Scottish and NOTHING to do with the rest of the UK!
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Jim hobbit mcleavy
10 years ago
The union jack is the Butchers apron which symbolises everything I hate about the UK, including the royal family,the tory government,racial and religious bigotry
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sheila mckenzie
10 years ago
A disgrace I can't have Scottish flag.
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Tom Murphy
10 years ago
It makes sense.
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Phil Corbett
10 years ago
Burns is Scotland's National Bard, he was a Scottish patriot against the Union of our country to another. Show him, and patriotic Scots everywhere, some respect and recognise our national identity and symbols.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame,
Fareweel our ancient glory;
Fareweel ev'n to the Scottish name,
Sae fam'd in martial story.
Now Sark rins over Solway sands,
An' Tweed rins to the ocean,
To mark where England's province stands-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
It's our flag so please let us fly it!
Show some Respect
Agree wholeheartedly with the statements above
This is our Nations flag. the flag of Scotland.
Fitting and proper. ..Burns would roll in his grave over this representation!
Should be saltire flag
To Facebook and its administrators, We, the undersigned, respectfully request that Facebook change the flag icon for celebrating Burns Supper from the flag of the United Kingdom (the “Union Jack”) to the flag of Scotland (“The Saltire”) for the following reasons: 1) Robert Burns is considered the National Bard of Scotland, not the United Kingdom. 2) Burns Supper is the second most important holiday in Scotland after Saint Andrew’s Day. It has little meaning to most non-Scots in the rest of the United Kingdom, but is celebrated throughout the world by people of Scottish descent and Scottish expatriates as well as those who love and respect Burns’s works. 3) One of Robert Burns’s works is “Parcel o’ Rogues” which castigated the Scottish men who sold the freedom of Scotland for gold and created the United Kingdom. For these reasons we find it improper to have the flag of the United Kingdom as an icon when celebrating Burns Supper. We ask that you respect the memory of Robert Burns and the request of the undersigned and change the icon to the flag of Scotland. Thank you.
Burns is a scottish institution.
Total outrage.
This the flag of my Country not the UJ and it will always be on.my time line
why have they used another icon and not the Saltire Burns and all he stood for is uniquily Scottish,of that there is no doubt
Scottish until I die
THE UNION JACK IS AN INSULT TO ROBERT BURNS! GET YOUR FACTS CORRECT FACEBOOK!
He's Scottish and NOTHING to do with the rest of the UK!
The union jack is the Butchers apron which symbolises everything I hate about the UK, including the royal family,the tory government,racial and religious bigotry
A disgrace I can't have Scottish flag.
It makes sense.
Burns is Scotland's National Bard, he was a Scottish patriot against the Union of our country to another. Show him, and patriotic Scots everywhere, some respect and recognise our national identity and symbols.
Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame, Fareweel our ancient glory; Fareweel ev'n to the Scottish name, Sae fam'd in martial story. Now Sark rins over Solway sands, An' Tweed rins to the ocean, To mark where England's province stands- Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
Burns supper is Scottish we want our flag back