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I can’t express how stunned I was to discover that not only was there a correct way to care and store for an American flag, but that people who didn’t do it for a living (soldiers with ceremonial duties, etc.) actually knew what that way was.
“This living room has been graped by the grapist!”
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Finally! Someone who understands me. I used to burn them but since the ones I buy are made of nylon for durabilty and it got to be to messy. So now I use my big ass bowie knife and cut them to shreds. I got your flag fetish right here, PAL!
[QUOTE=Omegaman]
Finally! Someone who understands me. I used to burn them but since the ones I buy are made of nylon for durabilty and it got to be to messy. So now I use my big ass bowie knife and cut them to shreds. I got your flag fetish right here, PAL!
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Yeah, I just don’t see how you can hold something sacred when you just know that somewhere there’s an old fat lady wearing it as a t-shirt and dripping spicy mustard on it from her hot dog.
[QUOTE=DCTrekkie]
We had a flag in my scout group. “Flown” indoors, put up at the start of each meeting and taken down at the end. No proper flag care or anything like that. I do vaguely remember being told how to tell which way up it was, but thats it.
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So that’s you and me that know the right way up for the Union Flag, but I think we can both be confident that the average Joe in the street has maybe a 50-50 chance.
Old Glory’s harder to mistake in that department, I’d say.
[QUOTE=DCTrekkie]
We had a flag in my scout group. “Flown” indoors, put up at the start of each meeting and taken down at the end. No proper flag care or anything like that. I do vaguely remember being told how to tell which way up it was, but thats it.
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I’m I missing something? Which way is up? Aren’t both ways the same?
[QUOTE=Cisco]
In my opinion, it can be, especially in public. It depends on exactly what you say and how you say it. Accusing the whole country of having any kind of fetish is definitely going down the wrong road. Your opinion may be different. We’re allowed to disagree, you know.
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[QUOTE=Loach]
I’m I missing something? Which way is up? Aren’t both ways the same?
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No. The diagonal crosses - the red cross (St. Patrick’s) on top of the white cross (St. Andrew’s) is not centered in the white cross - so one part of the white showing is narrower than the other. The wider part of the St, Andrew’s cross should be on top beside the flag pole (top left quadrant).
[QUOTE=Cisco]
You’re really still whistling this tune?
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Yes, because you have offered nothing to change my mind.
Dishonest? I am telling you exactly how I feel which is something you have stated you will NOT do.
Ditto. Because I fucking hate lying pieces of shit such as yourself.
Then again, since you take the “polite lies” position I suspect in real life you’d actually be polite to me - you have been anything BUT that to me here. Even so, I’d rather have your honest hostility than your lying pleasantries.
Do you think I CARE if you respond? If you post again I’ll respond again. If you don’t post again I won’t. Your move, liar.
[QUOTE=Malacandra]
So that’s you and me that know the right way up for the Union Flag, but I think we can both be confident that the average Joe in the street has maybe a 50-50 chance.
Old Glory’s harder to mistake in that department, I’d say.
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I never said I remembered which way up it is, I just remember being told.
I think it had something to do with the lines of the cross not being evenly spaced.
[QUOTE=DCTrekkie]
We had a flag in my scout group. “Flown” indoors, put up at the start of each meeting and taken down at the end. No proper flag care or anything like that. I do vaguely remember being told how to tell which way up it was, but thats it.
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I remember it was a grave sin to lower the flag until it touched the floor. Our scout leader nearly had an aneurism whenever it happened (he was very old). We used to try to get the flag as low as possible wihtout it touching to try to get a reaction
Oh, really? Tell you what, maybe you’re right, so here’s how we’ll settle it: I’ll show you where she did say it, and you show me where she didn’t say it. Ready? Go.
Interesting how you can accuse Broomstick of misrepresenting your posts, Cisco, but then you turn around and to the same thing. The OP didn’t “accuse the whole country of having any kind of a fetish” but said:
I don’t see any accusation of a country-wide fetish there, but a statement that the existence of such a fetish made her “vaguely uncomfortable”. You might want to work a bit on your reading comprehension, as well as your tendency to read things that aren’t there into what people say.
[QUOTE=LurkMeister]
I don’t see any accusation of a country-wide fetish there, but a statement that the existence of such a fetish made her “vaguely uncomfortable”.
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“She doesn’t say there’s a flag fetish but the existence of a flag fetish makes her uncomfortable.” Give me a break.
She doesn’t say that it’s “country-wide”, just that it exists.
Think of it this way: “The presence of racism in this country makes me uncomfortable” is not the same as “Racism is country-wide and that makes me uncomfortable.”
