# Do you fly the flag in front of your house? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 6, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193 "2016-09-06T16:12:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/41 "2016-09-06T23:18:53Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I wouldn’t even know where to obtain a flag. I suppose if I wanted to buy an American flag I could buy one at Mainely Flags, which oddly enough has its sole store in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/42 "2016-09-06T23:41:40Z")
We fly the IWW banner on May 1. Sometimes I play “The Internationale” on the tuba. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/43 "2016-09-07T00:02:57Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I wouldn’t even know where to obtain a flag. K Mart, for one. That’s where we got ours after the grommets of the old one tore through. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/44 "2016-09-07T00:04:42Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > We fly the IWW banner on May 1. > > Sometimes I play “The Internationale” on the tuba. Could you post a recording of that the next time? Video would be great. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/45 "2016-09-07T00:10:34Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > We fly the IWW banner on May 1. > > Sometimes I play “The Internationale” on the tuba. Now that’s just badass. We don’t do an American flag. We used to when we lived on a little postage stamp lot in an historic home in an historic neighborhood. Just seemed like it added something to the house. After a while, it just became a holiday thing. Now we live in the country, we don’t fly one, although our neighbor does, and it’s close to our property line and looks like it could be ours. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/46 "2016-09-07T01:25:56Z")
I voted “other,” although “No, never” would also be accurate. Our house has a bracket on it for a flag. We don’t own a flag, but I like seeing the neighbors’ flags around holidays, and have been vaguely thinking for the past four years that it might be nice to get a flag. Have as yet been too lazy to do so. If someone gave me a flag, I’d fly it. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/47 "2016-09-07T01:53:13Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > Can’t see polls on Tapatalk. If you click the three little dots in the upper right corner, then select “web view,” you can get to them that way. You just might have to log in a second time though. As for the OP, I have in the past. My husband wanted us to fly one, so I believe we have around July 4th and Memorial / Veteran’s Day. ---
**Author:** ![Oddball\_92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b3f665/32.png) [@Oddball\_92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oddball_92)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/48 "2016-09-07T01:54:23Z")
I used to fly the American flag until the day I saw our nations capitol covered in rainbow flags. I took mine down that very day and put up the Texas flag. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/49 "2016-09-07T02:01:45Z")
Sometimes - and sometimes even the current United States Flag. I’ve also been known to fly the old French Compagnie white, the flag of the Russian-America Company, the Russian tricolor, and the old IBWCP/Westmoreland flag. Depends on the day and my mood. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/50 "2016-09-07T02:09:16Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > If you click the three little dots in the upper right corner, then select “web view,” you can get to them that way. You just might have to log in a second time though. > > As for the OP, I have in the past. My husband wanted us to fly one, so I believe we have around July 4th and Memorial / Veteran’s Day. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/51 "2016-09-07T03:00:23Z")
We have a angled pole holder on one of the columns of our front porch. We usually fly some seasonal flag or other, flowers, a snowman, a turkey, etc. On Memorial Day, The Fourth of July, and Veterans Day, we fly the Stars and Stripes. Like any other flag it may stay for more than a day ---
**Author:** ![appleaday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@appleaday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleaday)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/52 "2016-09-07T03:06:05Z")
Yes, on patriotic holidays. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/53 "2016-09-07T05:34:51Z")
> [@Oddball\_92](#): > > I used to fly the American flag until the day I saw our nations capitol covered in rainbow flags. I took mine down that very day and put up the Texas flag. [This one?](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/u/us-tx_gay.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/54 "2016-09-07T05:45:55Z")
Yes, I fly it on national holidays, and on any other nice days that I feel patriotic. I love my country, even if I distrust my government. ETA: Wow, I am amazed to see that the “No, never” option is winning the poll in a landslide. SMH. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/55 "2016-09-07T06:26:45Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Yes, I fly it on national holidays, and on any other nice days that I feel patriotic. I love my country, even if I distrust my government. > > ETA: Wow, I am amazed to see that the “No, never” option is winning the poll in a landslide. SMH. Well, not everyone on this board lives in the States. At least in Australia, it’s considered a bit…odd, to be flying the Australian flag in front of a residence, or over a business. When on a residence, you can just about bet money that the occupant is pretty far over to the right, over towards the reactionary anti-immigrant side. I work at one of the few businesses in town that flies one - it’s a heritage listed building at which a few historical events took place. I can’t think, offhand, of any other private businesses that do so. Government buildings, yes, and veterans’ memorials and such. Out of curiosity, I hunted up some images of Malcolm Turnbull, the current PM, and I see he doesn’t have a flag lapel pin. :eek: US president shows up in public without one, and s/he’d be impeached within a week. It’s my impression that it’s rare for any first-world country besides the States for such ubiquitous flag displays, though I could be wrong. Myself\*, I’m coming over to the “slightly creepy” point of view. I haven’t fully articulated my thoughts, but it feels like many people making a show to reassure themselves, perhaps. YMMV. \*Born and raised in the States, lived in Australia for the last eleven years. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/56 "2016-09-07T06:44:13Z")
Australian here, I concur with the people who’ve stated that the US flag fetish thing seems pretty far into right-wing nationalist neo-fascist territory to non Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/57 "2016-09-07T06:45:21Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Wow, I am amazed to see that the “No, never” option is winning the poll in a landslide. SMH. Why are you shaking your head? I wouldn’t assume that it’s some ideological statement on the part of most people (not that _I personally_ think that would be a bad thing). Houses actually don’t _come_ with flags as a default option, so people have to make an affirmative choice to spend money to get the flag and the gear to display it. Is it really that shocking that a lot of people haven’t done that? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/58 "2016-09-07T09:42:20Z")
I hang one in my apartment window on Independence Day (May-ish) and take it down when I remember to, between a week and two months later. Once I forgot about it completely until September or so, at which point I just decided to leave it up for the rest of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/59 "2016-09-07T10:40:45Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I wouldn’t even know where to obtain a flag. Try the same kind of place where you can buy cloth by the yard, it’s been some twenty years but I remember seeing them there when I lived in Miami. It’s where my brothers got the huge Navarrese one they got me; I think if I ever hang it off the balcony I might get complaints from my downstairs neighbors but I do carry it faithfully around. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193/60 "2016-09-07T11:28:21Z")
USA flag is always flapping. We will be putting up an ALASKA flag as soon as we find it again, along with the other flagpole. (Suffered through a major home rehab; stuff is all in the wrong place!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-fly-the-flag-in-front-of-your-house/765193.md?page=4)