are you patriotic for your country?

by **brooksieb** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:23 pm

i'm patriotic in england (and used to be for the UK) but i'd only fly a flag if nessecary eg if england are playing in the world cup though if they ever wernt in it like 1994 for example i'd be supporting som1 like ireland or wales or scotland

im for choice 3!

by **ignotus** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:27 pm

brooksieb wrote:i'm patriotic in england (and used to be for the UK) but i'd only fly a flag if nessecary eg if england are playing in the world cup though if they ever wernt in it like 1994 for example i'd be supporting som1 like ireland or wales or scotland

im for choice 3!

I'm a liberal, but I like my nation. So I'm choice number three too. :wink:

by **brooksieb** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:29 pm

ignotus wrote:
brooksieb wrote:i'm patriotic in england (and used to be for the UK) but i'd only fly a flag if nessecary eg if england are playing in the world cup though if they ever wernt in it like 1994 for example i'd be supporting som1 like ireland or wales or scotland

im for choice 3!

I'm a liberal, but I like my nation. So I'm choice number three too.

well thats something we can agree on...shame you can fly ur flag at summer and i cant :wink:

by **ignotus** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:36 pm

brooksieb wrote:
ignotus wrote:
brooksieb wrote:i'm patriotic in england (and used to be for the UK) but i'd only fly a flag if nessecary eg if england are playing in the world cup though if they ever wernt in it like 1994 for example i'd be supporting som1 like ireland or wales or scotland

im for choice 3!

I'm a liberal, but I like my nation. So I'm choice number three too.

well thats something we can agree on...shame you can fly ur flag at summer and i cant

I think I will take my(our) flag to Austria/Switzerland. So your flag can stay home and cook for the winners. :lol:

$\:D/$

by **brooksieb** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:38 pm

ignotus wrote:
brooksieb wrote:
ignotus wrote:
brooksieb wrote:i'm patriotic in england (and used to be for the UK) but i'd only fly a flag if nessecary eg if england are playing in the world cup though if they ever wernt in it like 1994 for example i'd be supporting som1 like ireland or wales or scotland

im for choice 3!

I'm a liberal, but I like my nation. So I'm choice number three too.

well thats something we can agree on...shame you can fly ur flag at summer and i cant

I think I will take my(our) flag to Austria/Switzerland. So your flag can stay home and cook for the winners. $\:D/$

meh im gonna gate crash the party singing "10 german bombers in the air" on my big boombox while bashing a few germans that happen to be there, common holland!

by **btownmeggy** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:57 pm

Though in general I consider "patriotism" a psychopathy, I answer "hardly/rarely", because there are some things about my country that I like.

I love Jimmy Carter, fast food, Canada & Mexico, our national parks, shooting off fireworks on the 4th of July, PBS, and the song "Grand Old Flag".

by **sam_levi_11** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:06 pm

what about my flag u two....

i also choose 3

by **Snorri1234** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:08 pm

I don't have to be a patriot to like my country.

by **brooksieb** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:11 pm

so whats ya choice snorri?

by **Snorri1234** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:20 pm

brooksieb wrote:so whats ya choice snorri?

I think 3 or 4, though I answered 5 because I like voting for whatever I want.

by **jnd94** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:22 pm

The "silence I kill you" thing you keep saying: Is that from a ventriloquist?

by **HayesA** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:37 pm

No, not really. Don't really like my country, and i would leave if i had the financial means.

by **brooksieb** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:38 pm

HayesA wrote:No, not really. Don't really like my country, and i would leave if i had the financial means.

america is a great country i been there and its amazing! why wud u want to leave?

by **Napoleon Ier** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:29 pm

Snorri1234 wrote:I don't have to be a patriot to like my country.

Really? And how exactly do you define patriotism then?

by **muy_thaiguy** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:39 pm

I'd have to say 2 or 3 for me.

by **The1exile** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:47 pm

Ish. There's a difference between patriotism and jingoism that's too often overlooked. I'm proud to come from a nation which has produced such great people as Winston Churchill, Nelson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and so on, but I doubt that would affect my judgement much if I had to choose something on basis of my nationality (because it's the present that controls the decisions of the moment ultimately, not the past).

by **Napoleon Ier** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:03 pm

Oh dear me! Patriotism! After all the evil that has been bred by the inherent racism and patriarchal structuring of this base sentiment. How can people possibly feel pride in their roots when everyone elese's are equal!

by **Snorri1234** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:45 pm

Napoleon Ier wrote:
Snorri1234 wrote:I don't have to be a patriot to like my country.

Really? And how exactly do you define patriotism then?

Blind love for the country. Ofcourse, that isn't neccesarily the actual definition, but to me patriots are often way too chauvinistic. I like parts of my country, and many of the people in it, but a) I don't act like my country is the greatest and b) I don't turn a blind eye to the evil things my country did and still does.

by **HayesA** on Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:02 pm

brooksieb wrote:
HayesA wrote:No, not really. Don't really like my country, and i would leave if i had the financial means.

america is a great country i been there and its amazing! why wud u want to leave?

Because we have a shit president, a Congress and House that don't have a back bone, a vice president who is a monster, an economy that it's in the crapper, and a foreign policy that tends to like to use force instead of diplomacy. I want nothing to do with it. I don't want my hard earned taxes funding this war, and funding this government that doesn't listen to its' people. I believe the rebels that separated from Brittan all those years ago called it Taxation without Representation.