blood, cum and the ocean. it's why barbershops still have the red-white spiral. the red is for bloodletting, the white represents the backdoor services. sweeney todd, the story of a barber who cuts his customer's throat so the love of his life can get meat to make pastries? true story. many such cases. as for the blue being ocean, that's to do with maritime law, the legal foundation for every nation state. being established as private corporations at sea means they're not subject to the pope, who has sovereign rule over everything on land (including landed gentry) through the golden bull of 1356 and several other bulls. including the blue represents the fact they're vessels at sea, which makes it "legal" for them to do shit even a satanic pope would execute them for. thus blood, cum and seas. now you know why the french and the british use the same colours. no the scot's and english's flags weren't originally the flags of today.
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