Got a new flag for the house.
We moved here around 8 or 9 years ago and took down the tattered flag in the flag holder then. We figured it was about time we replaced it.
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Then suddenly, the house across the street starts flying this:
Holy shit. Could you imagine that actually happening? If I put up a federation flag and my neighbor put up a Klingon in response, I think I just found my new best friend
I don't think that that would be a good idea, most people would assume them to be a nazi lol
Yes, this happened in Bochum (Germany) a few years ago when a man notified the police because he thought that someone displays a Nazi flag...
I've been out of the Star Trek loop for so long, but I thought the Federation is currently at peace with the Klingon? I think they're still at war with the Romulan, isn't it?
The Federation was always at war with the Romulans.
As long as it's not a Cardassian flag.
Bloody Cardis.
They put a sign in the yard that says "Vote YES on prop C"
(A statue of Gul Dukat in front of a federal building.)
Shouldn't the sign say, "you will vote YES on prop C" if it's a Cardassian sign?
I have stumbled here with no context, but I know these are the
nazisbad guysWe already know what you look like man. Like an albino Klingon.
Can’t believe you blurred out that glorious beard.
Here's hoping next door join in with the flag of the Klingon Empire
And another neighbor with a mysteriously empty flag holding bracket.
Menacingly!
Congratulations!
May I ask if you retired the old flag properly?
If you mean according to flag code, no. But there was like half a flag there. It think the wind retired it a long time ago. It was a rag.
True, understood.
As far as I'm aware, the proper way is to burn the old flag. It should never touch the ground though.
I'm not an expert nor a nitpicker on this matter though, but congrats on the new flag!
It is just a piece of cloth, who cares/how does it matter?
Exactly. It doesn't.
Just figured I'd ask regardless, as I was criticized for putting my late father's flag on the ground, even though it was still sealed in the plastic.
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I wouldn't be concerned about criticism from petty nationalists. It's entirely pointless and unhealthy for your attention span.
Exactly. The flag code in particular is a piece of weird fetishistic civic religion, and the principles supposedly underlying it are more honored in the breach than the observance. Maybe if you're actively employed by the US Government you should follow it, but otherwise it's just a boogeyman bit of thoughtless orthopraxy.
Tradition, and a harmless one at that.
Dad was a Torpedo Man, 3rd Class, in the Pacific. He taught me that. Why should I not pass that down to my kids?
And besides, knowing the Flag Code allows you to bag on all the assholes breaking it.
Not really a harmless one, it is a typical outgrowth of the American hypernationalism and an utterly jingoist tradition in the sense that it glorifies the military that really doesn't deserve any glorification anymore.
It's a worthless piece of cloth. It doesn't matter.
-signed: veteran.
Hmm. It doesn't do good in atmospheric wind. But would it theoretically be fine attached to a space ship traveling at warp speed?
Eh, it cost like $10. Replacing it just means another round of ironing. We're good with that.
I don't want to sound racist but... I don't see neither of you flying or being a squid 🤔
Nice idea though!
Ha! That's awesome
To boldly urbanize, where others have urbanized before /s Sweet flag!
Haha nice!
"Well, give your ID card to the border guard..."
This is super dope!