Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Flag disgrace!

C

cwilk

New member
I went over to knock on the door of the offending house and was going to ask if they would like me to put their flag in order. They were either not home ot not answering their door. There are a lot of people living in the house so I have to assume somebody was home. I dropped a letter in the mail with a copy of a flag etiquette pamphlet for them to read. Next step is a letter to the paper. Step after that probably lands me in jail.

Chris
 
This is in the good ole US of A? :usaflag:

Best of luck Chris and don't do anything too crazy. Would hate to see you get into trouble.
 
I'm pretty adamant about flag usage but it isn't worth 5 to life to change people. Be careful.
 
I thought any immigrants had to swear an oath of allegiance and to honour the flag etc.
Surely there must be somwhere you can report this to.
Make it hot for them.
 
Get me one veteran on the jury and they'll never convict. I'm hoping they are just ignorant of the etiquette. The local mortician used to hang his flag improperly and when I called him on it he said he had been doing it that way for a long time. He is a veteran and an officer at my Legion Post. We had a laugh about it, he corrected it and now displays it properly. His error was when hanging the flag over the door of his building not on a pole. Had the field of stars on the wrong side FYI. My point is, most people who bother to fly the fag want to do it properly. Hopefully that is the cas in this instance.

Chris
 
Ian or Eileen

There really are no laws about flying the Flag over here. There is etiquette but no penalty for not observing it. Congress passed a law banning flag burning which was overturned by our court system immediately. It would require an amendment to our constitution even to ban that most deplorable act. One more story. During the first Gulf War there was a local teacher who hung her American Flag upside down in a picture window of her home facing the street. Hanging a flag like this is a sign of distress in most cases. It made headlines in our little weekly paper for months. It was her opinion that she was exercising her rights to free speech. It was a lot of peoples opinion that the folks who were breaking her windows a few times a week were also exercising that same right.

I love Scotland!!!! Spent many months in Dunoon, Gourock, Glascow area. Don't hate me because I can't spell their names. I was in the Navy and got over there twice in four years and one time we were lucky enough to break down for about 10 weeks. Had a blast exploring around (beautiful country!) and if my memory is good drinking something called "Younger's Tartan Special." I still have a ton of Scottish bills that I hope are still legal tender when I make it back. I loved those 5 pound notes with the rat on the back. You would call it a field mouse. Man if I had a nice comfy place to stay and a guide to metal detecting over there ....................... never mind.

Chris
 
Thanks for the compliments Chris,
Yep you got it right with the Younger's Tartan special although I prefer whisky, but the good stuff is pricing itself out of the market. Your spelling was faultless as well.
If some of the pics I've seen on this forum are any indication, you have a very beautiful country yourselves. We watch an animal rescue program (u.s.a.spelling) programme (U.K. spelling) and we get to see a bit of the States on that, keep getting glimpses of the beaches in Miami Florida.
Wow them beaches are really long.
Lucky awhitster, tee shirts all the way even at this time of year.
Nice to see all them bikini's and of course the Garrett girls. John- Edmonton looks after them.:beers:
 
[quote draaiorgel]

Lucky awhitster, tee shirts all the way even at this time of year.
:beers:[/quote]Kinda. Today it didn't get over 50F. Although we don't get the sever weather like the mid west and east, we still have times of cold. Jan- March we will see some freezing at night but not enough to freeze pipes. All in all it is a rather nice climate here.
 
Lot of places in the US remind me of the UK. Most of New England in fact. Go figure! Upstate NY and Pennsylvania too. Probably parts or the Pacific NW but I only visited there when I was a kid so I don't remember.

Have you been to Dunoon? We tried on more than a few occasions to have one drink in every pub on one side of the main drag down to the ferry station and then back up the other side of the road. Never even came close. In out defense there had to be at least 40 pubs on that walk. I'm full of stories today. Here's one of those UK English versus US English anecdotes. A shortie. All the pubs had signs that advertised fruit machines. We all thought this was a bit strange as no self respecting bar in the US offers fruit. The other strange thing was that we could never seem to find these fruit machines. Not near the bar, or the restrooms, or in the dining rooms, or even by the slot machines. I figured it out eventually long after I left Scotland. I hit this one fruit machine for almost 40 pounds one night and drank it up with all my pals and many locals. Back in 1985 40 pounds bought a mess of alcohol too as long as you weren't drinking it mixed with Coca-Cola which was really expensive for some reason.

Chris

Added the Pic. Dug through my desk and found one 5 pound note. The shillings are sort of interesting. I was trying to get this barkeep to explain British money before decimalization and he dug around and found some obsolete coins and tried to give me a lesson. Too much booze, I never did get it. He let me keep the coins which I still have 22 years later! Was it 20 shillings to the pound and 12 pennies to the shilling or 12 shillings to the pound and 20 pennies to the shilling? Definitely 240 pence to the pound.
 
I'd leave the flag issue alone. If its not a big deal to them, its their right. Thats why this IS the USA.
No need to create a problem. Just watch yourself.
Robert R
 
"It didn't get over 50, my heart bleeds." (for me:puke:)
You jammie jammie jammie luxury MD'ist. (that means you got jam on a piece rather than butter)
We were out on a big christmas job today left at 07:30 and home at 20:30,
it was brass monkey weather but hey that's the luck of the draw.
At least we're not so bad as John-Edmonton with -20+ sometimes.
 
Hey Chris,
Enjoyed the humoruos wee stories.
Well since we've just finished a big christmas job tonight, I'll try and remember our old coinage but,
I have had a few triples so bear with me.
12 pennies = 1 shilling or 1 bob
silver sixpence = 1/2 shilling
2 shillings = 1 florin or a 2 bob bit
1/2 crown = 2/6 or 2 shillings and sixpence
1 crown = 5 shillings
2 crowns = 10 shillings or a 10 bob note (this note lasted a week when I was an apprentice)
2 ten bob notes = ?1:00 equiv to 4 crowns
20 shillings = ?1:00
1 guinea = ?1/1shilling or 21 shillings only used for business purposes.
Don't get fruity on me now.:rofl:
 
[quote draaiorgel]Hey Chris,
Enjoyed the humoruos wee stories.
Well since we've just finished a big christmas job tonight, I'll try and remember our old coinage but,
I have had a few triples so bear with me.
12 pennies = 1 shilling or 1 bob
silver sixpence = 1/2 shilling
2 shillings = 1 florin or a 2 bob bit
1/2 crown = 2/6 or 2 shillings and sixpence
1 crown = 5 shillings
2 crowns = 10 shillings or a 10 bob note (this note lasted a week when I was an apprentice)
2 ten bob notes = ?1:00 equiv to 4 crowns
20 shillings = ?1:00
1 guinea = ?1/1shilling or 21 shillings only used for business purposes.
Don't get fruity on me now.:rofl:[/quote]

I'm more confused than ever.
An apprentice what, Organ grinder?
 
For some reason my pound signs are changing to a ?
Hey Guvner, are you discriminatin' against ukps.:rofl: Or has Bill Gates decided that the $ rules.:biteme:

John I was an auto refinisher that's why I'm an organ grinder now.:nopity:
 
[quote draaiorgel]For some reason my pound signs are changing to a ?
Hey Guvner, are you discriminatin' against ukps.:rofl: Or has Bill Gates decided that the $ rules.:biteme:

John I was an auto refinisher that's why I'm an organ grinder now.:nopity:[/quote]

I was an auto refinisher that's why .......I don't know what I am right now. The group that does the licencing is A.S.E. I was an A.S.E. master auto refinisher. I also was a master auto refinisher through General Motors. The isocyanate's was killing me and I had to get out of the business.
Maybeeee, I could be an organ grinder. I have a parrot!!!
 
[quote Uncle Willy]Does the parrot sing? :rofl:


Bill[/quote]

He whistles," Jesus Loves Me." He does a lot of talking and he likes to do tricks. Most important, he is potty trained.
 
Yeah when I was a kid the parents of the girl that lived across the street, who was part of our bunch, had a 60 year old blind parrot that talked up a storm and cussed like a sailor. We used to have a ball with that bird.

Bill
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top