I hadn’t seen this comic before, and I did check it out a bit and it makes much more sense now.

Not being a sports person, I haven’t seen the English flag in that context. I’m much more used to seeing the Union Jack, with bands, in movies, etc.

Like you and the other reply said, people can make flags represent a number of things. I always read other countries think the US is very flag crazy, but even here people wearing the flag is pretty over the top, and with how things are going around these parts, I’d assume sooner negative things about those people outside of an Independence Day festival.

That’s why I initially got very confused, since it had me prepared for a negative American stereotype, then I see the England-only flag, but the comic itself was harmless and also cross-posted to Non-Political Cartoons, but the US flag is pretty polarized now with MAGA trying to claim it, some people avoiding it because of MAGA, and then another group trying to reclaim it from the nationalists. It gets so confusing anymore. 😵‍💫

I appreciate you both taking the time to explain it. I’m glad a flag is still just a flag in most other countries. Again, apologies for my ignorance.

Ooo good call! 😁

I was going to say owls didn’t have much of a consumer culture, but most of their time awake is dedicated towards consumption! 🦉🐁😁

Lol, I’d been sitting on this one for a bit, so when you said it was good that made me think I forgot to put quotes on it! It was me though. 😆

Original post did have this sleepy Barred Owl attached too, but I left it off because it didn’t fit the caption, but I’ll include it now as a bonus.

Lol someone cross-posted this and I said I felt targeted! 😁

I don’t have an england shirt though, but that’s probably just to avoid having to pay me royalties.

Coincidentally, I pirated the Super Bowl and watched it on a stream from Sky Sports (UK) so there were no commercials. It was such a surreal experience, as in the US I feel the event is near as much about the ads as the game itself.

Thank you! I tried to Google it, but I figured there would be nuances that would just be easier to get straight from someone here. I saw the sports association, which didn’t rule out the twats, but thinking about it more makes sense now as it’s more specific than the Union Jack when UK countries are playing each other.

Fear not, there will be many a derp fish owl in the future! 🤪

I feel targeted. 😁

Thought I was missing something with the flag outfits, but it seems the artist does all their characters with different flags.

Ignorant question: that’s the St George flag, yes? Without getting too political, is that flag still used? I think my only exposure to that was from This is England, which didn’t put it in the best light in a modern context.

Nice! It’s good to see something like this that isn’t AI. It’s depressing to have to check so often anymore.

This last week or so, I’ve seen a ton of rescues and bigger wildlife photographers doing AI caricatures of themselves with wildlife and having fun with it. I don’t begrudge them a good time, but I’m also subbed to them because I trust them to not be using AI and misrepresenting wildlife. Once they start to promote it, now I have to be on the lookout for it all over again.

I’ve played with AI image generation a bit, and for me as a newb, all my results looked fairly random, but these all seem to have a particular style, so perhaps it is a single person “gifting” these images to the people, but at least a few have made it seem like it was their experiment. Sigh…

I do try to entertain you guys, but I also want to share education in wildlife, but since I just do this as a hobby, it becomes a lot of work to have to scrutinize things so much. I really miss a (relatively) honest Internet. 😮‍💨

Owls may not be the smartest, but they can still be wise! Most days I’d be happier if I just stayed in bed. 😁

A little too on the beak? 🤥

Some great pics in there!

They got our Owl of the Year in there

And they called this a Eurasian Eagle, but I’d call it a Pharaoh Eagle. Either way, beautiful! 😍

I think it was Gaga.

It seemed pretty good, but his Spanish is at a higher level than mine. The choreography was really good, and the music was fun and energetic. I liked all the countries getting represented at the end.

We’ve seen that already. Here’s something fresh: boots in boots!

I’m watching it on a Canadian stream, so the commercials feel strange. I get the Canadian propaganda instead of the American stuff, people are saying “zed” instead of “zee”, etc.

No owls in the game, so go hawks.

I looked for pics of owls playing with footballs today, but there were just a few videos, which are a pain to convert, and different people’s own Superb Owl events, which are too specific to share here. They’ll probably all come in tomorrow 😔

The Green Day opener was fine, but looking at them reminds me I’m old.

While it is a boreal owl, it is not a Boreal Owl.

It is a good one! SEOs are so fun.

Sky-cats and land-owls share a lot of personality traits 😊