Yes, it is a band-aid. I think it’s creepy. I can’t get used to seeing flags used as a decoration, I just can’t. When someone does that in Spain everyone assumes that they are at best posh and conservative, and at worst fascist.

Part of the problem comes from the fact that a couple of areas in Spain want to be independent countries, and a display of the national flag is synonym to saying they are wrong. Also, seventy years ago or so Spain was a Republic and we had this flag:



What can you expect of a country that can’t even make up its collective mind about its flag? That using the national flag for anything that’s not official is in bad taste. I know that in other countries it’s not so controversial, but I still think that band-aid is horrible.

Oh, has anyone seen my Irish-flag USB plug?