What does the "dicing" mean?

[Panache]

...Before that, most gay people had probably never heard of Teletubbies. Afterward, you saw stuffed Teletubbies everywhere, hanging from rear view mirrors, in shop windows, etc. Tinky Winky was adopted as a gay symbol.

But Tinky Winky is not really in the same league as say the pink triangle symbol for Gay Identity, where something has been adopted from it's original context to become a universal symbol of a particular group. Seeing a Tinky Winky doll is just as likely (if not more so) to mean that one's children are fond of Teletubbies.

If one sports a White Cockade on your hat, that is a widely recognized emblem with very specific meaning.

The hat dicing issue seems very murky in terms of historical meaning and even modern adopted meaning (sort of like school children talking about the deep underlying meaning of the green M & M's).

Cheers

Jamie