I just noticed for the first time that a house across the wash from my backyard is flying the flag on a tall flagpole in it's backyard. The house is on a ridge so the flag can be seen from a considerable distance. I tried getting a pic but it's blocked by a tree in the wash which might be the reason that I've never noticed it before or perhaps it's new. There is a house on my block which has one of these:



I'm thinking that this might make for a decent discussion and I'm including a poll. For myself I vote 'I can do w/o it' bec it just seems over-the-top, unnecessary or indicative of a 'USA#1, USA #1!' mentality that the owner wants everyone to know about. FWIW, I live in an HOA community and flying the flag is apparently not against the rules since I had a tiny front lawn sculpture that they made me remove. Bastards.

And, since I really dislike putting 'discuss' at the end of a post I'll go w/ 'opinions?'

Leave the country you commie loving bastard.

Might as well get that one out of the way immediately.

lol...you think it'll only happen once.

OK, but where's a commie to go these days? Cuba? That might not last very much longer.

Curious thread. W/e I guess? Do you feel like it's vulgar or jingoist or something?

Flags are cool in moderation. I've always been more interested in what ideas they symbolize rather than the ascetics of the symbol's themselves. A flag itself isn't jingoistic, until a jingoist arrives on the scene.

Driving through Watertown NY last summer (August/September?), people there were going all-out with not just a flag, but, like, multiple flags per lawn, pinwheels, and bunting. It was really something.

Here it's like ten minutes on the highway between flags.

Neither and esp not vulgar but something about it just rubs me the wrong way, not so much about the flag, but about the owner that puts it there. I mean, ok, you're proud to be an American, that I get, but putting a flag on your house is just like a huge exclamation point and it seems a bit like 'I'm more American than you' type thing. And it's not as if there aren't flags enough in town. City Hall, High School, American Legion, Fire Station and more. There's just something about it that feels 'off' if that's the right word.

I fly a flag because I served my country in a time of war, you sound like someone who should head to the Netherlands with petjax and circle jerk about America not being #1.



Hint: USA#1

I assumed that this is often the reason but what of it? It's obv that not everybody who served flies a flag.

You can be damn sure he's judging you for not having a flag up. I'd just fight the guy.

I'm a Canadian living in the U.S. I was just back up north and was struck by how many Canadian flags and maple leaves there are plastered everywhere and how Canada is mentioned at every opportunity (every third commercial on tv for example).

To me being proud if where you were born is kind of weird. If you think you live in the number one country in the world you should feel lucky, not proud, because it was not an accomplishment that you were squirted out within the invisible boundaries on the map.

Are you ****ing kidding me? In my hometown every other yard there's an eagle carved into a wooden stump. Bathtub jesuses. Merican flags are standard. Jfc pete carrol.

'Bathtub Jesus', very funny, I had to look it up:



Edit: Not Jesus, I leave it anyway.

I have a big aluminum flagpole in the front yard from the previous owner. It's very tall and free-standing. We bought this house in 94 and left it there. Evidently the previous owner was an eccentric who would raise and lower the flag every day. He was also a nudist.

I don't fly the flag but I still have the flag he left stored in a cabinet. I have no plans on flying it in the foreseeable future, but you never know.

I certainly have nothing against a proud American flying the Stars and Stripes.

lol at not making this a public poll.

Most people don't understand the Illuminati symbolism behind the flag. The uninitiated looks at the flag and sees 50 stars representing 50 states and 13 lines representing the original 13 colonies. The illuminated ones know that the stars represents mans universal potential, his vast freedom to act upon the Universe and the red and white represent bars imprisoning that potential. A prison built by Illuminati propaganda. Why should they want to limit man's potential? For the same reason a business wants to crush all competitors.

I fly a flag and power a light bulb that keeps it lit at night.

America is awesome.

Anytime you're in SD the first beers on me.

Flags should be illegal.

Long live phony wars.

String Buddhist prayer flags randomly about your property and home. See what happens.

Flags are cool. Some are more cool than others. You should fly the flag of Bhutan. It is awesome and one of the best IMO. Look it up.

I used to joke about flying the Jolly Roger, but it never came to fruition.