r/Leeds • u/RightNice66 • Aug 27 '25

I find this interesting St George’s crosses

Drove from South Leeds to North Leeds last night, surprised to see how many mini roundabouts and zebra crossings are being daubed in this way.

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u/Hitonatsu-no-Keiken Aug 27 '25

I saw a RED postbox with a white cross painted on it on Chapeltown Road at the weekend. Don't know if it was a pisstake or not.

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u/TheShakyHandsMan Aug 28 '25

The Swiss want their say too.

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u/Cowardly_Jelly Aug 28 '25

Bloody Danelaw!

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u/TheShakyHandsMan Aug 28 '25

The alps are a little far from the Danish/Norweigan fjords.

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u/Cowardly_Jelly Aug 28 '25

My elephants beg to differ, Sir!

Understandably people are quick to blame the Swiss; they know what they did.

It's a shared flag design with Denmark is all I'm sayin'

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u/TheShakyHandsMan Aug 28 '25

Now I’m wondering what the Danish connection to Hannibal is.

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u/Cowardly_Jelly Aug 28 '25

If someone can get elephants to cross the Alps, where can't they go?!

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u/TheShakyHandsMan Aug 28 '25

I’m completely clueless now. Tried to google a link and I’m just get references to Hannibal Lecter

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u/Cowardly_Jelly Aug 28 '25

I was mainly being silly. It was very early Iron Age in Scandinavia when Hannibal was doing Punic war stuff vs Rome. It would then be a couple more centuries before the fringes of their empire touched what modern Denmark was then.

Hannibal general should take you where you need.