Random Thoughts... I wanna hear 'em!

I know full well that humanity will always be able to technologically surpass any other race or form of life that is ever to exist in the field conventional warfare and total destruction.

A piece of multi-coloured cloth can make a man's entrails fall to floor and make entire nations quiver in fear.

It can strike fear in the hearts of armies, invoke hatred among society, a be symbol of all damnation.

And we've been using flags for millennia yet no one ever considered the total amount of obliteration, hatred and annihilation they have caused.

LeOkAsPEr wrote:I know full well that humanity will always be able to technologically surpass any other race or form of life that is ever to exist in the field conventional warfare and total destruction.

A piece of multi-coloured cloth can make a man's entrails fall to floor and make entire nations quiver in fear.

It can strike fear in the hearts of armies, invoke hatred among society, a be symbol of all damnation.

And we've been using flags for millennia yet no one ever considered the total amount of obliteration, hatred and annihilation they have caused.

Here in the US, in the months following 9-11, everyone became an armchair patriot. People started buying "car flags"-- US flags one could attach to their car so they could show everyone what a great big big bloated American they were. They were cheaply made and had a tendency to break off. People would buy numerous replacements every time this happened. As a result, it wasn't uncommon to see dirty, tattered American flags all along the sides of roads, clogging up storm drains, even hanging from bushes or trees along the road. I don't recall ever seeing anyone cleaning them up.

Were they Made in China?

probably…by an American company.. or maybe Afghanistan, purposefully made to fly off with the slightest breeze.

Marcus555 wrote:

LeOkAsPEr wrote:I know full well that humanity will always be able to technologically surpass any other race or form of life that is ever to exist in the field conventional warfare and total destruction.

A piece of multi-coloured cloth can make a man's entrails fall to floor and make entire nations quiver in fear.

It can strike fear in the hearts of armies, invoke hatred among society, a be symbol of all damnation.

And we've been using flags for millennia yet no one ever considered the total amount of obliteration, hatred and annihilation they have caused.

Here in the US, in the months following 9-11, everyone became an armchair patriot. People started buying "car flags"-- US flags one could attach to their car so they could show everyone what a great big big bloated American they were. They were cheaply made and had a tendency to break off. People would buy numerous replacements every time this happened. As a result, it wasn't uncommon to see dirty, tattered American flags all along the sides of roads, clogging up storm drains, even hanging from bushes or trees along the road. I don't recall ever seeing anyone cleaning them up.

I got a response?

And in a way I was just repeating what the famous poem was saying.

Nice anecdote though, got to love the yanks! Not a better way of stopping Al-Qaeda than buying a sh*tty flag that's been made in a third-world country. That'll really scare the terrorists.

LeOkAsPEr wrote: got to love the yanks!

Not necessarily.

Marcus555 wrote:

LeOkAsPEr wrote: got to love the yanks!

Not necessarily.

Oh I would never love the yanks. It was sarcasm.

Webster butchered a great language.

He changed the re in theatre to an er making it theater.

I hate that.

yes but do we really need a "u" in "color" and the like? Seems a bit pretentious. Spelling aside, I've always kind of liked how crassly America has perverted english.

Marcus555 wrote:yes but do we really need a "u" in "color" and the like? Seems a bit pretentious.

that sounds like something a yank would say.

I prefer, something a bit older:

ðīn brōðor, hī ēac swȳþe druncene