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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Awesome Welles
(Post 9385571)
I'm also a little sensitive to indiscriminate slagging of law enforcement. My daughter is a LEO and i have many, many cop friends. They are not all pigs. |
Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Bob
(Post 9385897)
You can't take that stance, because more than most people with those stickers are yanks.
Seriously, they're showing they're English, Scottish, where ever else in the world. It's only a complete moron who would take offence to it and think that everyone that had a sticker was a foreigner and not a US citizen. |
Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Awesome Welles
(Post 9385571)
....and there's the rub, perhaps, because I suspect it was speeding - action.
I think the flag is a diversion to deflect the real issue that the OP got busted for speeding and felt the need for some mitigating circumstance. So I'd ask again, why the flag in the first place? My position is the antethesis of racism and segregrtion - I'm touting (badly, it would seem) integration - all as one, in one nation (that has a perfectly good flag, if you are so heraldically inclined). I'm also a little sensitive to indiscriminate slagging of law enforcement. My daughter is a LEO and i have many, many cop friends. They are not all pigs. The flag is a show of pride, one which my American friends support, and my family too. I guess you have no pride in the nation that fed you, educated you, and gave you security, this says a lot about you. I feel sorry for you. |
Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 9385501)
I now feel the need to get a British car sticker just for the hell of it.
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
So I arrived at court this morning, ready to face my accuser. I was told by the court clark that my ticket has been 'vacated', because the DPS had not filed the complaint with the court. No further action will be taken.
So decide for yourself, why didn't the DPS officer file the complaint with the court? |
Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 9385241)
By that logic, someone with a fish on their car should be treated as a mindless idiot.
Originally Posted by dakota44
(Post 9385463)
There are plenty of Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Brazilian Americans etc. who were born and raised in the U.S. but still proudly display their heritage with bumper stickers or whatever. Numerous cities have cultural parades of numerous ethnicities. We have China towns, Little Italy's, German town just to name a few of the many many ethnic enclaves of born in America people who are proud of their historic roots and they even have clubs dedicated to those cultures. We are a nation of immigrants and the children of immigrants and it is time to remember it. ...
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 9385752)
I think it's great to have people from different backgrounds around. If you start saying everyone has to conform to what an 'American' should be, how do you define that?
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ :sneaky:
Originally Posted by Steerpike
(Post 9386269)
Er, isn't that an appropriate reaction? Are we talking about the same 'fish' ... the symbol of Christian Fundamentalism? Perhaps my favorite car decoration is one of those fish with legs and the word 'darwin' inside ... :)
Preach tolerance to those of other races but woe betide someone who wants to believe in God. How many actual, real life fundies have you run in to on a daily basis in order to hate Christianity so much? Were you buggered by a vicar, maybe?? Look - I'm not having a jab at you, and I'm agnostic, but I get kind of tired of this 'oh aren't we so enlightened and lets all have a go at the Christians' when in reality it is only a small percentage of them that are nutters. Your view of that fish is just as bad as what Awesome Wells' American chums are saying about the Puerto Ricans IMO. |
Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Rockstar08
(Post 9385988)
Troll... enough said... the OP (me) has just come back from court, and he has not been "busted" for speeding, get over yourself..
The flag is a show of pride, one which my American friends support, and my family too. I guess you have no pride in the nation that fed you, educated you, and gave you security, this says a lot about you. I feel sorry for you. So, the flag is a show of pride - for the nation you walked-out on. You also seem to be making an assumption that in order to have pride, it must be publicly demonstrated. I disagree with that. Why anyone would choose to live in a new country and then make it clear to anyone who might give a shit that you are somehow different, foreign (superior maybe?) is objectionable and disrespectful to the hosts, in my view. I think the phrase, "Attention Whore" may be appropriate in some cases too. I'm humbled and grateful that you feel sorry for me, your pity will help me struggle through the day. Now, where's my union jack underpants? |
Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 9385518)
Anchor Baby on Board :lol:
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Ray
(Post 9385584)
Little story for you..back around 1990 the London evening news paper ran a small story about how a police unit had smashed this guys door down with axes to enter
The truth about how a little old lady from next door came out and opened the door with the key never came out .... the axe story was far more impressive |
Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Bob
(Post 9385890)
Baseball and cigars...
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Rockstar08
(Post 9386000)
So I arrived at court this morning, ready to face my accuser. I was told by the court clark that my ticket has been 'vacated', because the DPS had not filed the complaint with the court. No further action will be taken.
So decide for yourself, why didn't the DPS officer file the complaint with the court? |
Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 9387183)
Umm:
Have a shufty - hardly a symbol of fundamentalism is it? If you saw a crescent moon on a car would you assume the person inside was a terrorist? Preach tolerance to those of other races but woe betide someone who wants to believe in God. How many actual, real life fundies have you run in to on a daily basis in order to hate Christianity so much? Were you buggered by a vicar, maybe?? Look - I'm not having a jab at you, and I'm agnostic, but I get kind of tired of this 'oh aren't we so enlightened and lets all have a go at the Christians' when in reality it is only a small percentage of them that are nutters. Your view of that fish is just as bad as what Awesome Wells' American chums are saying about the Puerto Ricans IMO.
Originally Posted by Awesome Welles
(Post 9387200)
Racist
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Awesome Welles
(Post 9387210)
Ray, I don't understand the relevance of this, in the context of this thread. Have I missed something, or have you been at the Jack Daniels again?
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Re: Anyone having problems in Arizona?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 9387352)
I think we're all getting a bit mixed-up with our irony here.
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