Google: What country is...
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The US. This forum doesn't give a shit about flags, except the report abuse kind.
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Oh, good point. At the very least, they have ones featuring damaged flags, which is pretty much the same. Ooh, I wonder if that means you can legally go around setting fire to peoples' clothes. C'mere, blakey, let's find out.
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It's got me wondering: do the laws apply to imagery of flags as well as the actual flags?
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Apparently: (also in the same programme) This individual consistently breaks the rule about using the Flag as clothing, and it cause issues for some people, especially when she wears similar whilst singing the "stars and Stripes".
P.S. Yes I am providing adequate time for other people to share, you pop up toasting shag nasty Dicsointervention.
pps who are the other 3 27%ers?
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I'm not sure, though I suspect that one about how to use it in DC itself does apply to anything remotely resembling any portion of the flag.
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I'd say that clothing is inspired by the flag rather than the flag itself, so doesn't count
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There are a lot of folks who wear American flag styled apparel. Hell, there was some flag underwear for sale at Target a couple months ago.
P.S. I am one of them. Begone, popup!
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"The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general."
While that particular outfit might not be properly considered as "the flag", as it does not have the particular arrangement of patterns that the flag itself does, I know several outfits, bedding, and drapery which do have the exact pattern could be found just by searching google.
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Just to throw a spanner into works: How many people know how to tell if Union Flag is upside down?
EDIT WITHOUT Googling it, I hasten to add...
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I know it has something to do with which color is on top of the X shape, but I don't know which is which off the top of my head.
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Ironically, I also found this, "Fourth of July: How to Decorate with the United States Flag," which acknowledges that very same rule, and then proceeds to show several examples of how to break it.
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Ahah, so I was sort of right.
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Hold it up and wait for someone to call me a wanker?
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Like I said, contraditions.
NB. Discoslug is incredibly slow right now. Is there a connection between concurrent Users and "server cooties"??? paging @RaceProUK
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But you might get that anyway...
But then, one of the nice things about the UK is that we can call our State / Institution a pile of shit. And there are even those who are the State / Institution that would be the first to agree.
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Is there a connection between concurrent Users and "server cooties"??? paging @RaceProUK
Cooties strikes every time there's a day in the month, soโฆ
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Cooties strikes every time there's a day in the month, soโฆ
I would have gone with this:
Cooties strike only on days beginning with T: Tuesday, Thursday, and Today.
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I think that would be because you were holding the Union Flag, and not the Flag of St George, Andrew, David or Patrick (depending). Or that just you are hold up a Flag. Or just because you are there, Or not :)
Afterthought Edit: Think of someone in the UK randomly shouting WANKER! as a sort of verbal fart. Some use it as an echo location thingy, or a mating call, or a mate greeting etc etc Or just an affirmation that they are still alive (goes back to the calling the State a pile of shit thing)
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Ahh, Yes. But. No. But. There isn't a day in the month when...., but there are days or daze or something.......
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Cooties strike only on days ending with y.
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So you don't get it on Christmas or New Year's.
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Just how long did it take you to discover that little gem?
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It took my friend like one minute, and he's in the middle of a Dota game.
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No, because that in the standard shut down for service time.
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There is but a single miraculous place where Discourse is free of cooties. To quote Richard Kadrey,
It has many names but its real name translates roughly as 'the Dayward.' It doesn't exist in any one location. It exists in time. It's said that in 1582, when Pope Gregory switched from the old Julian to the Christian calendar, fifteen days were lost. Those fifteen days, existing outside of our space and time, are the Dayward. Blue Heaven.
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I do not understand your gibberish. I think you're missing at least one word?
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I think it's actually a typo.
No, because that
inis the standard shut down for service time.
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Yeah, you're right. I wasn't happy with it even after I posted, but I thought "fuck it, it not as if somebody is going to bother to read it"
In my experience of servicing high volume data systems, the only day they would allow the system to be shut down for maintenance would be Christmas or New Year.
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"fuck it, it not as if somebody is going to bother to read it"
Here at WTDWTF, that only applies to things you expect people to read.
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Try "what country is mountain". (using google instant)
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While I was typing that, "what country is middle earth in" was one of the autocomplete options.
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Pretty sure that's New Zealand.
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That's where it was filmed, sure.
Also, New Zealand didn't pop up.
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Turns out the books are based on rural England, but it was filmed in NZ.
As I suspected.
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"Stop resisting!"
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TIL descriptively
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1) Only applies to DC (the only territory the Federal Government has direct control over)
Not only that, but the first person with a craving for publicity to come along and get charged with that's going to win a pile of money (eventually) with his First Amendment lawsuit.
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"RESISTANCE IS USELESS!"
Filed Under: Dum-Dum-Dum-DAH! I mean, doesn't that stir anything in you?
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@Vogon said:
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles,
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and slipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't.
Filed under: Post can't be empty. But it isn't!
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My cub scout pack has disposed of several flags at our camp fires. It's a common ceremony and can be be very moving when done correctly.
Supposedly there's an executive order starting that, like, only scouts and some veteran groups are authorized to dispose of flags. I've never looked into or verified that, but all the scout literature talks about it.
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if the only bit of cloth available to wipe our hands after clearing the blockage is a Union Flag, we would have clean hands.
You would also have a rather expensive dirty towel.
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Turns out the books are based on rural England,
Except for Mordor, which was based on the area around Dudley and West Bromwich?
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You would also have a rather expensive dirty towel.
So get another. Bangladesh churns out cloth products at a huge rate.
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Eh? My Rap translation matrix gave up about three stanzas in. What is this about exactly?
It almost sounds like a love song, but as if someone processed it with Urban Dictionary...
Filed under: I'm hungry for some reason...
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I had heard the theory (a TV documentary for the details of which escape me)that it was a response to ever increasing industrialisation of Victorian Birmingham. Tolkien lived to south, in what is very idyllic countryside (the Shires) at the time.
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Vogon poetry: See The Hitchhickers Guide to the Gallexey by Douglas Adams.
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not if there's an easterly