Following a link from another message board, I found this. Seems like a good idea, so I thought I’d share.
Doesn’t that maybe seem like a combative and divisive way to single out “non-patriots” at work?
The linked page (warning: plays annoying MIDI song) notes that “polls show that over 70% of the people of
the United States support this operation”.
Accepting that figure at face value, doesn’t that mean that about 30% of the people, including the people in any given workplace, don’t support it? It seems less like a show of actual support for the war or the troops, and more like a way to stick it to the damn Commie peaceniks and protestors.
That’s the impression I get from the page, anyway (originally a Naval Construction Battalion Center memo, it seems).
What if I just wear a Star of David instead?
Or maybe I can make a red, white and blue outfit out of a French flag? Would that count?
It’s a sucky idea but born of one faction of the patriots with probably good intentions. I belong to another group of patriots. I wear a peace sign.
i think i’d be pretty offended by patriotic fridays. I’m not a big fan of “dress-up” days in general at the office. What about the poor people who don’t want to dress up, but are forced to or they might be considered “unpatriotic”. Save it for halloween.
I think that there are probably much more productive ways to show your support than wearing red white and blue to work. I mean, if you want to show your support, why not do something really meaningful? Also, some people (like me) don’t even own a lot of red white and blue. I have plenty of blue, but I don’t look good in red, and white makes me look even fatter than I really am, so if my workplace was asking this of me, I’d either have to look non-supportive (I’m supportive), or buy a new wardrobe!
I dunno. I’m a very patriotic person – traditionally, almost jingoistically patriotic – I’m even pro-war, but I just hate this kind of thing. I have enough trouble remembering to wear something green on Saint Paddy’s day. Thia year it was 4:00 before I realized what day it was and there I was in Farm Fresh wearing a yellow sweater and blue jeans with some drooling old Irish deev trying to pinch me… And this would be even worse because it’d be every bloody week instead of once a year. What a hassle – how many red-white and blue outfits does any one person have anyway? I’d end up wearing the same thing every live-long Friday. And, think of the laundry! In no time at all I’d be staying up late every Thursday to wash my stupid red-white and blue stuff. No thanks! Can’t people just come to work and work?
You know, aside from the whole agreeing/disagreeing with teh war thing, most “patriotic” clothing is, in my opinion, horribly garish. Red, white, and blue are good colors for a flag, but not really good clothing on a person. Especially if that person is, say, a spring or something.
Or me, as I own approximately one piece of clothing that is A.) white and B.) appropriate to show at the office. Well, okay, two if you count my Nirvana t-shirt. But Nirvana’s probably un-American, so it wouldn’t count :p.
Hear, hear! That, plus all my red-white and blue clothing came already festooned with non-PC Cleveland Indian “Chief Wahoo” logos.
Fuck that, I’m not buying anything red for my wardrobe. I’ll wear my black shirts and jeans.
Lat time the powers that be said we should show our spirit by donning red, white, and blue, I wore green. On St. Pat’s day, I wore red.
If I’m to be judged by my wardrobe, judge me as non-conformist.
I got sent that link by my wife’s uncle. A man who doesn’t seem to realise that I neither live in America or am American.
Although seeing as he keeps sending me anti-immigration spam, maybe he does and is trying to tell me something. I swear if he sends me that “Immigrants not Americans” thing again I may be forced to harm him
This is the wrong forum to discuss such a stupid idea.
In the PURPLEST PLACE ON EARTH, people wear black? 
Color me disappointed.
Hmm, my office is all casual, all the time. I have noticed a lot of Old Navy Flag T’s lately, but it’s not official and certainly not organized.
I don’t mind seeing the t-shirts, and I even made label ribbons for people to wear. I would be irritated at a directive that we had to do such things.