Do You Find This Offensive?

[Saddle Bronc 124]

It's an assault on the eyes is what it is...

How about this?

Careful on that FD, as I could easily alter your precious Unionjack for such protest.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

1. no, but I don't understand the point of having the "TV check pattern sideways"
2. No (see #1 for what it reminds me of)
3. No--flag-pledge of any country should only, IMO, be done with that country's actual flag

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Careful on that FD, as I could easily alter your precious Unionjack for such protest.

Do what you like, I don't care.

I'm not obsessed with a rag on a pole.

[_Simpson_ 250]

Do what you like, I don't care.

I'm not obsessed with a rag on a pole.

Many people have died for that "rag on a pole". This isnt the first time you've addressed the flag like this and I know you do it just to try and piss people off.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Many people have died for that "rag on a pole". This isnt the first time you've addressed the flag like this and I know you do it just to try and piss people off.

It is just a rag on a pole. Get over it. No sane individual puts their life on the line for a symbol. They do it to protect the people keeping them alive.

Edited May 27, 2011 by Some Old Guy

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It is just a rag on a pole. Get over it. No sane individual puts their life on the line for a symbol. They do it to protect the people keeping them alive.

Yep.

[_Simpson_ 250]

It is just a rag on a pole. Get over it. No sane individual puts their life on the line for a symbol. They do it to protect the people keeping them alive.

Get over it...yeah not going to happen. They put their life on the line because of what the flag stands for and to call it just a rag on the pole is insulting and ridiculous. fishdude words it that way to get a rise out of people, why are you feeding into this sort of childish behavior?

[Captain Oates 910]

Do what you like, I don't care.

I'm not obsessed with a rag on a pole.

You would be if it was a Polish lap dancer

[Vi-Jay 218]

RAGGED OLD FLAG

I walked through a county courthouse square,

On a park bench an old man was sitting there.

I said, "Your old courthouse is kinda run down."

He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town."

I said, "Your flagpole has leaned a little bit,

And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it.

He said, "Have a seat", and I sat down.

"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"

I said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like to brag,

But we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag."

"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there

When Washington took it across the Delaware.

And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key

Sat watching it writing _Oh Say Can You See_.

And it got a bad rip in New Orleans

With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams."

"And it almost fell at the Alamo

Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on through.

She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville

And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.

There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,

And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag."

"On Flanders Field in World War I

She got a big hole from a Bertha gun.

She turned blood red in World War II

She hung limp and low by the time it was through.

She was in Korea and Vietnam.

She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam."

"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,

And now they've about quit waving her back here at home.

In her own good land she's been abused --

She's been burned, dishonored, denied and refused."

"And the government for which she stands

Is scandalized throughout the land.

And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin,

But she's in good shape for the shape she's in.

'Cause she's been through the fire before

And I believe she can take a whole lot more."

"So we raise her up every morning,

Take her down every night.

We don't let her touch the ground

And we fold her up right.

On second thought I DO like to brag,

'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."

Written by Johnny Cash

[Captain Oates 910]

The old flag hasn't seen anything yet

My last house was built in 1725

Like the Chinese say of the US " It's too soon to say"

[Vi-Jay 218]

I Am Old Glory

I Am Old Glory: For more than ten score years I have been the banner of hope and freedom for generation after generation of Americans.

Born amid the first flames of America's fight for freedom, I am the symbol of a country that has grown from a little group of thirteen colonies to a united nation of fifty sovereign states.

Planted firmly on the high pinnacle of American Faith my gently fluttering folds have proved an inspiration to untold millions.

Men have followed me into battle with unwavering courage.

They have looked upon me as a symbol of national unity.

They have prayed that they and their fellow citizens might continue to enjoy the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, which have been granted to every American as the heritage of free men.

So long as men love liberty more than life itself; so long as they treasure the priceless privileges bought with the blood of our forefathers; so long as the principles of truth, justice and charity for all remain deeply rooted in human hearts, I shall continue to be the enduring banner of the United States of America.

Originally written by Master Sergeant Percy Webb, USMC.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Get over it...yeah not going to happen. They put their life on the line because of what the flag stands for and to call it just a rag on the pole is insulting and ridiculous. fishdude words it that way to get a rise out of people, why are you feeding into this sort of childish behavior?

You only find it insulting because you're oversensitive.

[Captain Oates 910]

And did those feet in ancient time.

Walk upon England's mountains green:

And was the holy Lamb of God,

On Englands pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,

Shine forth upon our clouded hills?

And was Jerusalem builded here,

Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold;

Bring me my Arrows of desire:

Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!

Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,

Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:

Till we have built Jerusalem,

In Englands green & pleasant Land

[_Simpson_ 250]

You only find it insulting because you're oversensitive.

Just admit it, you word it that way to get a rise out of people.

[Captain Oates 910]

skews me but it's 'The country for which it stands' and not the flag

The flag itself is not the object of worship otherwise it would be like the saints finger bones that the Catholics bow to