Burning Flags

[USFREEDOM911]

The American obsession with a piece of cloth has long been a source of wonder for non-Americans. I guess you hold it in such fervent, almost religious esteem because you basically have no history and everyone has to have something to cling to. So your flag is like a piece of flotsam after a ship wreck whereas other nations have lifeboats. Well, anything is better than nothing, I guess. If someone burned a Union Flag would I get upset? No, I really dont think any Brit would. We would probably just shrug our shoulders and say: I wonder what his problem is. Oh, sorry, I mean THE Union Flag, not one of yours.

But we do have history.
Part of your history is kicking the British out of the US, which seemed to catch on in guite a few other countries; which has resulted in Great Britian becoming the Once Great Britian.

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

Here is a question for all you patriotic flag wavers out there, can you name what organisation burns the most American flags?

the british crown? or is it the US government? i just don't know tom.

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

The flag is a symbol of this nation. Burning it symbolizes a hatred for us. Whether it bother you or not depends on whether you feel guilty for past actions.

i disagree that most people who burn the flag do so out of hatred. it has shock value and that is what political speech is usually about, especially when you need to make a point and get it disseminated to the masses.

 

[Damocles]

The American obsession with a piece of cloth has long been a source of wonder for non-Americans. I guess you hold it in such fervent, almost religious esteem because you basically have no history and everyone has to have something to cling to. So your flag is like a piece of flotsam after a ship wreck whereas other nations have lifeboats. Well, anything is better than nothing, I guess. If someone burned a Union Flag would I get upset? No, I really dont think any Brit would. We would probably just shrug our shoulders and say: I wonder what his problem is. Oh, sorry, I mean THE Union Flag, not one of yours.

What if they used a pic of the Queen to wipe their butt?

 

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What if they used a pic of the Queen to wipe their butt?

Low like to think that America is somehow worlds away from everyone else and that personal attachment to physical representations of a nation/culture don't exist in any other 'civilized' portion of society, because as an Ex-Pat, he doesn't know the value of loyalty, home, or culture.

 

[Lowaicue]

What if they used a pic of the Queen to wipe their butt?

Probably a loony. Andrex would be a lot cheaper. This post illustrates just how far apart we are. We Brits KNOW who we are. We KNOW where we come from. We don't need a flag to tell us. It is the same reason that our stamps are the ONLY stamps that do not, and never did, have the name of our country on them. You wanna burn our flag, wipe your fat yank arse with it? I honestly couldn't care less.

 

[Lowaicue]

Low like to think that America is somehow worlds away from everyone else and that personal attachment to physical representations of a nation/culture don't exist in any other 'civilized' portion of society, because as an Ex-Pat, he doesn't know the value of loyalty, home, or culture.

Ex-pats, Brit, yank pr Chinese work to keep factories open in their home country. They are the people who keep you working and dont ever forget it. Thousands of American ex pats work tirelessly to make your country better.
Arsehole.

 

[Minister of Truth]

Low should take up burning PRC flags, and see how much the Chinese don't give a shit. Or fly to France and publicly show disrespect whenever the La Marseillaise is playing.

 

[Lowaicue]

Low should take up burning PRC flags, and see how much the Chinese don't give a shit. Or fly to France and publicly show disrespect whenever the La Marseillaise is playing.

Why?

 

[Minister of Truth]

So you really didn't believe a word of what you wrote about the US flag? Surprise, surprise...

 

[USFREEDOM911]

So you really didn't believe a word of what you wrote about the US flag? Surprise, surprise...

Nothing but a chickenshit, isn't he.
Did he just admit that the Chinese don't know who they are and that he would get into trouble publically burning one of their flags?

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

lowiq is the only person on this board i have on ignore

 

[Lowaicue]

So you really didn't believe a word of what you wrote about the US flag? Surprise, surprise...

And what, precisely, did I say that has caused you so much faux anger?

 

[Lowaicue]

I will repeat what I said for those of you who are clearly totally clueless.

Ex-pats, Brit, yank pr Chinese work to keep factories open in their home country. They are the people who keep you working and dont ever forget it. Thousands of American ex pats work tirelessly to make your country better.
Arsehole.

I think you owe them an apology.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Here is a question for all you patriotic flag wavers out there, can you name what organisation burns the most American flags?

I would say the Boy Scouts of America.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

It's either the Boy Scouts, or the VFW.

Yup.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I thought somebody was going to say Hamas or Hezbollah, it is actually the Boy Scouts.

I guessed right...but then again I was a Boy Scout.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Only if they are wrapped around the body of a liberal! Then we BBQ their ass on fire.

You good damned barbarian. Every civilized person knows that to BBQ them you'd have to slow roast them over smoking hard wood. Moron!

Personally I think a liberal would taste much better wrapped in bacon.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I wish people burn the flag in protest should wrap themselves in it first. Or burn something that actually matters to them, so it becomes a sacrifice of sorts.

Like ganja?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I think, those who burn our flag know full well what it means. That is why they burn it.

True but Damo's right. In America you have the right to be an asshole and an idiot. If we outlaw that then we degrade what our flag stands for. Freedom.