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i mean it not as a slight against my homeland, but as a simple statement of aesthetics. the american flag is ugly. it is too busy, with 50 stars covering less than 1/4 of the total area of the design. i suppose it has the benefit of being instantly recognizable, but that doesn't make it good design. not that we should switch to three stripes of red, white, and blue. it would look too much like an existing national flag. but even if we insisted on using a star shape, there are many designs that would be easier on the eyes than the one we use now. it didn't start out so bad as it is now. it's just gotten worse every time states have been added to the union. maybe the US will make states of some of its territories some day and we'll have an opportunity to make the design a little better.

who says other countries don't profit from america's overdeveloped sense of nationalism? this weekend when we were at the grocery store, my wife noticed that the american flags they had for sale were all made in china. i just think it's funny, but i suppose there are people who would be outraged to discover this information.

saw they might be giants on friday. they put on a good show (as always). i'm really looking forward to the new album coming out in less than a week. the concert was outdoors. it was cool because we could see columbus' big fireworks display after the concert from the venue. the uncool part was that the venue's PA played the music from WNCI 97.9 that was supposed to go along with the show. i don't understand why some people think it isn't a celebration until you actually play "celebrate" by kool and the gang and "y'all ready for this?" by 2unlimited. i can party without those songs. oh, and even though "fortunate son" contains the phrase, "wave the flag, ooh the red, white, and blue," CCR did not write it as a song of patriotism. of course, you'd know this if you ever listened to the song.

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  • my great-to-the n'th aunt designed that flag! I actually rather like it. Not to be patriotic, or anything, but still... ;-)
    • i used to think i liked the flag, but then i realized it was more conditioning than an appreciation of the design. we're taught the things the flag should represent (superman's fight for truth, justice, and the american way) and it's easy to like those concepts. i realized i do like the ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ni a society where all people are considered equal, but that doesn't mean i have to like the design.

      like i said, it was better when there were only 13 stars in a circle
  • the uncool part was that the venue's PA played the music from WNCI 97.9 that was supposed to go along with the show

    heh, i generally tune out the music that's played over the PA between sets... but this one time, while in detroit seeing Samiam... the sound guy put on Morphine and man, that just sounded so amazing. Most of the kids there had no idea who it was, but me and a few of my local friends there knew all about it, and even complimented the sound guy on his choice of music. He was most surprised in
    • the music between sets was decent. they played rare remixes of TMBG stuff and various other things that were mostly inoffensive. that was another obnoxious thing about it, they interupted a song i was quite enjoying in order to play the "fireworks music."

      morphine is (was) great. one of those bands that has a broad appeal to people with different musical backgrounds because they're just so damn good.
  • If you buy it at Wal-Mart, then chances are it was made in China any way. Almost everything that store sells was made there, or somewhere else in Asia.

    It is getting hard to find consumer goods that are made on our continent.

    jason
    • Wal-Mart in 1996 was promoting "Buy American". My mother owned and operated a small printing business. Then olymipics came to our neck of the woods and she asked Wal-Mart if they would like to purchase a bulk of her cards (She even offered to leave them on consignment.) that were US made of the local venue (they didn't contain the rings because of the trademark, etc.), rather than the ones that were made in other countries. Her's were even less expensive than the ones they had. They refused. They said
    • Pure Evil.

      My company sells a whole department full of stuff to them. It's all made in the U.S. They're still evil though.

      Sell it to them cheap, take unreturnable merch back just because.

      RFID tags. Radio Frequencies don't travel through metal and liquid very well.
  • This one [50states.com]? It's red, white, and blue, very recognizable, and continues with the "star" theme... :-D

  • Stars'n'Bars (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Ethelred Unraed ( 32954 ) * on Tuesday July 06, 2004 @04:24PM (#9625307) Journal
    not that we should switch to three stripes of red, white, and blue.

    Well, how about this flag? [wikipedia.org]

    *ducks*

    Though actually there are some historical American flags that I think are even attractive. Like the so-called Betsy Ross flag [fotw.net], for example.

    I also would actually favor going back to six-pointed stars, [fotw.net] but then again the ZOG conspiracy theorists would have a field day. Maybe eight-pointed stars would be better.

    Great Star flags [fotw.net] play around a bit with the star arrangement -- maybe that would help some. But that still doesn't help the stripes.

    This one [fotw.net] is strangely appealing, if unusual historically.

    Or if we wanted to go medieval [fotw.net] and resurrect the Bedford flag... ;-)

    And if you wanted to really piss off the anti-French types these days [fotw.net]...

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

  • And follow in Georgia's footsteps [onion.com]!
  • it from a purely aesthetic perspective. I don't know that I ever could. There is just too much history, too many images that connect my memories to my mind to my emotions. It is to me a provacative thing about which I cannot be un-patriotic.

    I remember seeing it draped from the Bay Bridge upon my first return from an extended cruise. I never look at it anywhere without at least a small part of my mind picturing it neatly folded into a triangle, being handed to someone with tears in their eyes. I am pr
  • My advice would be chuck out the stripes and enlarge the quarter with the stars to fill the whole thing.

    Advantages:
    -No commie red
    -Won't look like a cheap tablecloth
    -Less German [www.emhc.de]:)

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