What exactly is it about an American flag...

[IdiotsOpposite]

That turns your average grocery customer into even more of a ranting, incompetent, insolent and unmannerly idiot than he/she already is?

 

[Bugfatty300]

The same effect that anything viewed as "sacred" has I guess. Seems like most societies have some sort of pointless thing or idea to get bent out of shape over.

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

The moment a symbol of such scale becomes pointless the society it belongs becomes less civilized.

 

[bhsup]

Did something in particular set you off about grocery customers?

 

[azzaman333]

Bad day at work?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Edit: Wrong thread. That's what I get for visiting CFC under multiple tabs.

 

[BvBPL]

American Apparel has a special page for stars and stripes clothes today.

While they may not turn me into a ranting incompetent, some of the models are affective.

 

[warpus]

Don't y'all have a law that says that you can't use an American flag for anything other than flying it on a pole, because it's so revered and sacred or something? Or is it just that you can't burn it, but cutting it up is fine?

 

[Ajidica]

I personally find the American flag a bit ugly, so perhaps the person is a really short-tempered graphic designer who was going grocery shopping?

 

[CivCube]

Stripes are widening. The stereotypical obese redneck-in-scooter finds it validating.

 

[bhsup]

Don't y'all have a law that says that you can't use an American flag for anything other than flying it on a pole, because it's so revered and sacred or something? Or is it just that you can't burn it, but cutting it up is fine?

It's, oh how do I word this. It's unenforceable flag etiquette that Congress passed. There is a prohibition against using it in advertisement in the etiquette, but it's violated on a routine basis.

 

[warpus]

It's, oh how do I word this. It's unenforceable flag etiquette that Congress passed. There is a prohibition against using it in advertisement in the etiquette, but it's violated on a routine basis.

So if I set one on fire in the middle of the closest American city, I wouldn't get arrested, but I might get beaten up?

 

[bhsup]

Well you might be arrested for creating a fire hazard, but they couldn't charge you for it specifically being the American flag. But yeah, pretty much. Unless of course Rick Monday is there to run in and save the flag.

 

[Souron]

There's also the question of constitutionality; If we can't ban people from burning the flag, what special right allows us from banning it from being made into a pair of boxers?

 

[Bugfatty300]

I have American flag boxers. Anyone who wants to take them off me is welcome to try.

 

[plarq]

Because American flag is not a registered trademark?

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

Bad day at work?

Yup. And today's probably gonna be even worse.

Ah well, at least today I get double time.

 

[Leoreth]

It's, oh how do I word this. It's unenforceable flag etiquette that Congress passed. There is a prohibition against using it in advertisement in the etiquette, but it's violated on a routine basis.

Doesn't the flag code also only apply to actual flags, not everything that features the stars and stripes motif?

 

[Perfection]

That turns your average grocery customer into even more of a ranting, incompetent, insolent and unmannerly idiot than he/she already is?

The reaction it has on commies.

 

[Tahuti]

I personally find the American flag a bit ugly, so perhaps the person is a really short-tempered graphic designer who was going grocery shopping?

I think it's one of the nicest flags, but then again, I've a weakness for red-white-blue, which may be a bit of my Dutch-ness.