RE: Pottery Barn Retracts Suggestion to use US Flag As A Tablecloth
June 17, 2013 at 2:48 am
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2013 at 2:50 am by Creed of Heresy.)
(June 16, 2013 at 7:25 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Huffington Post Article
“This was a regrettable use of our flag and it never should have happened. We sincerely apologize and have removed the post from our website. We want to assure our fans that HGTV is proud of the American flag and everything it symbolizes for our people.”
IMO, this is ridiculous. A flag is a piece of cloth. Do we really have to idolize it?
As a True American™, I find this crap to be ridiculous. This is in the same category of stupidity as people who bitch about towelheads burning the American flag in rallies and shit. Protip for anyone who doesn't know; the only accepted way to dispose of the American flag is to light it on fire. Seriously, incineration is the only way you're supposed to dispose of a flag. Throwing it away or burying it or whatever is considered disrespectful. You can technically stomp on it, shit on it, piss on it, and puke on it, but if you light it up afterwards, it's considered properly disposed of, so every single dumb shit ignorant illiterate durkadurka who burns them in rallies? They're actually telling us just how much they love America. Of course when we burn their qurans, it's not the same and they get all butthurt, so...yeah, Troll-America is successful Troll.
Besides which the IMPRINT of the American flag [that is to say that it is not an actual flag meant to be run up a flagpole but is instead just the colors] is not considered the American flag. The American flag is ONLY the American flag WHEN IT'S A FUCKING FLAG. Durrrrrr. It's not like they're taking flags meant to be run up the flagstaff and putting them on a fucking table, and even if they were, who the fuck cares?! The British are known to dine on tableclothes with the Union Jack emblazoned on it and sometimes they even dine on tables covered with an actual Union Jack flag. Why? Well I dun fuckin' know, but I can guess it has something to do with the fact that since food is awesome and eating is awesome and drinking is awesome and flags are supposed to be representations of the nation you nominally have allegiance to, it's taken as a sort of "I'm doing something awesome with my nation's flag" thing. At least that's how I'd view it.
In honesty this is just nationalistic dogma, no better than Stalinist dogma or Catholic dogma. Dogma is dogma. Fuck it. Pottery Barn doesn't wanna sell Stars 'n' Stripes tableclothes? Fuck you, PB, I'll buy my Old Glory tablecloth from a company that DOESN'T have a giant stick-shaped-like-a-southern-baptist-cross-with-an-American-flag-on-the-end-of-it up their ass.
And, you know...that $20...well...it would determine their financial future...yeah...you know it. >.>
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