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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 01:34 PM
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Look, I don't usually side with the Flag Desecration Amendment crowd, but ...
this is really too much.

Flagbags.com


Of course, the irony is that it's supposed to appeal to uber-jingoistic flag-suckers, but ... seriously? You're gonna stuff an American flag full of garbage? I mean ... that's just wrong.
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 01:36 PM
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1. A business based on shock value
I'm with you on this.
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KonaKane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 01:40 PM
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2. When I was a teen, they were wearing flags on everything - even underwear.
Even the part of the underwear that gets...you know....the most soiled. I always thought that was strange, but it was part of the whole Patriot Quiche of the time (mid 70s).

Today its like all sense has gone out the window. I see "patriotic" businesses in town flying flags that are so tattered and filthy they look like they have been through both world wars. You'd think such "patriots" would know about the flag etiquette, taking it down and folding it at sunset, stuff like that, but apparently that's all gone out the window as well.
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BeeBee Donating Member (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 01:43 PM
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3. The irony is that the people who buy these bags...
probably think they are being patriotic.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 01:44 PM
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4. That's just 50 gallons of good, old fashioned, Red Stater patriotism
Edited on Thu Jun-24-10 01:56 PM by kenny blankenship
stuffed in a 30 gallon bag.

Seriously, if they stopped doing tacky, stupid shit like this, I'd get scared the world was changing too fast for me.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 01:47 PM
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5. Yessiree, nothing says 'patriotic' like stuffing the flag with garbage.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 01:48 PM
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6. Wrong, but laughably so. Can we point and laugh at the Teabaggers YET? nt
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mikelgb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 01:58 PM
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7. I thought you were going to post this:
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 02:09 PM
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8. Not a flag, but here's a "patriotic" novelty:
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 03:00 PM
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9. Flags don't mean a god damned thing
In my 50-year experience, I've met people who love the flag and people who love the Bill of Rights.

I've never met anyone who was in both camps.
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 03:12 PM
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11. Well said,
+1
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 03:06 PM
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10. I'm not aware of any other country that makes such a big deal about flags.
Most of the world thinks we're silly.
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-10 03:13 PM
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12. Indeed they do.
A French friend of mine says: Why so many flags? Have you forgotten who you are?
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