It's insane so many people don't understand why you might have pride in your country to fly it's colors. Some of you are just too dense.
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I painted my house. Did I go too bright/colorful?
- Thread starter AppleBlade
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Omg your house is beautiful! I love the color you chose OP. It makes the neighborhood so much more welcoming.
OP
OP
Thanks for all the feedback. Seeing that the response is largely positive makes me happy.
The biggest criticism seems to be the flag which caught me by surprise. I usually have a UConn Huskies flag up most of the year but the Memorial Day parade usually goes on my street so I put-up the American Flag in the summer. A lot of houses on my street do that as well (including my immediate neighbors). The town I live in is actually on the liberal progressive side of things so I don't view it quite in the same way as some of you maybe are perceiving it.
The biggest criticism seems to be the flag which caught me by surprise. I usually have a UConn Huskies flag up most of the year but the Memorial Day parade usually goes on my street so I put-up the American Flag in the summer. A lot of houses on my street do that as well (including my immediate neighbors). The town I live in is actually on the liberal progressive side of things so I don't view it quite in the same way as some of you maybe are perceiving it.
Only on Resetera will you find a thread about a house paint color that blows up over hanging a flag on a house.
Some of you people are just fucking embarrassing.
Some of you people are just fucking embarrassing.
Yeah, that caught me by surprise. I had to go back and re-look at the image to see if I missed some controversial flag being hung.
see so what you're saying is that this boils down to what I suspected originally: a misunderstanding across different cultural norms.
In the US it's not abnormal to have a flag up over a national holiday, even if you're extremely liberal/progressive and find stuff like the pledge at school and anthem at sports games straight up Verhoeven-esque fascistic indoctrination.
Meanwhile in the UK it's not abnormal to be a snooty scold judgmental of all outsiders
Looks great, love the colour personally, don't think you went too bright. The only possible reason I can think of to be concerned is if you planned to sell the house soon, since prospective buyers seem to balk at anything that's even a little out of the ordinary. But it's your goddamned house; what's the point of buying one if you can't do whatever you want to it (within reason)?
(also man I hate America as much as anyone but it's just a flag of the country they live in, come on)
(also man I hate America as much as anyone but it's just a flag of the country they live in, come on)
Raul Vargas quick question, are you a large affable bear with an ambiguously Jewish mouse in your wall?
regardless it looks good
regardless it looks good
Don't worry about the flag. All the criticism about it was insane. I'm as critical of the U.S. as anyone and live in a very leftist town and it's fine. As you say there's a community aesthetic going on for the holiday too.
I'm being silly cuz everyone else. Fly proud, American. Fly proud, and fly true.
Found another flag flyer fellas
Again can't tell if a joke with y'all. Fly proud, American, is a stretch. Not much to be proud about currently but imo there are some ideals in there we can still try to aspire to.
It reminds me of cake for some reason but I dig it. Better a bright color than the unsaturated, dull green of yore.
Somewhere... someone is building a giant life-sized cake house and will slice into it with a massive knife
Whoa, is that really necessary? I was civil and politely explained my (reasonable) discomfort with overt patriotism.
Don't worry about it. It's different per country. You probably don't see any bad in it, like many others. In Europe we're a bit sparse with it as we had some bad experience with nationalism in the past.
I remember there was a big discussion in The Netherlands whether or not a Dutch flag was allowed to be in the house of chambers even. There are only a handful of days where we can raise a flag. And even then a lot don't do it. WWII kinda ruined the flag thingy i think.
Don't worry about the flag thing, in America it's seemingly normal but honestly the rest of the world finds that stuff fucking weird. You live in America though so it's fine. I'm sure there are things other countries do that Americans would be like WTF IS THAT MAD SHIT over.
