Plastic Flags On Cars Am I Un-AUSTRALIAN?

[dogfish]

I have been labelled Un-Australian by a few people including my MUM for not wanting to don the increasingly popular plastic flag on my car.
I know it's great to be Australian proud but I refuse to buy a flag that says in small print down the spine "Designed In Australia made in Thailand" or "made in China" so us being Australian by purchasing one of these flags is effectively undoing some of what we are trying to promote.
I mean lucky the Flag of Australia is designed in Australia that nade ne laugh my bollocks off.
I think I am as Australian as they come.
Born in Darwin before Tracey (Your Not A local up there unless you went through it apparently)
I'm not a hair straightening, blow drying metro sexual ( I was Shocked guys own hair dryers that blew me away now I found out they own hair straighteners and can't go out in the rain or it wrecks the do).
Don't eat hungary Jacks anymore as their potatoes come from Yank Farmers now.
I know heaps of Kiwi Jokes.:voldar02:
Drive a 68 Falcon wagon factory V8 of course.
I even go food shopping with my Girlfriend and I am the one who wants to buy Australian made and owned not bloody Mckeins you've done it again frozen Broccoli from China or tinned food from Denmark.
I don't buy Blundstones anymore as they are made in thailand or something now and sacked the local guys to reap more profits (Redback Steelcaps are Aussie owned and made it says so on the box oh and they are comfortable)
But if you don't don the Chinese made Australian flag on your car for Australia Day and a month afterwards whoa look out.
Thanks for reading from one Un-Australian to Another.

[AC]

Originally Posted by dogfish

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I know it's great to be Australian proud but I refuse to buy a flag that says in small print down the spine "Designed In Australia made in Thailand" or "made in China" so us being Australian by purchasing one of these flags is effectively undoing some of what we are trying to promote.

There ya go, LOL
That came off one of those flag packages.

[reece1]

well put bud, hungary jacks was ******** before the potatoe saga. you should start athread on aussie products. that are truly aussie so we can keep our money here.

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by dogfish

Thanks for reading from one Un-Australian to Another.

So you’re being labelled un-Australian for that?

I couldn’t give a flying **** about Australia day, so what does that make me?

[PDIDDY]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

So you’re being labelled un-Australian for that?

I couldn’t give a flying **** about Australia day, so what does that make me?

Strange...

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

I couldn’t give a flying **** about Australia day, so what does that make me?

Yeah me either, mates where having BBQs and drinking and I watched TV and helped Mum and Dad with painting a room in the house.

I laugh when people shout "Un Australian blah blah" but every Aussie flag they buy comes from China because they refuse to buy the more expensive one.

[03wrx]

My receptionists son is soooo Aussie, he had the southern cross tatooed on one arm, which is not unique. Then he goes and gets the harbour bridge tatooed on the other forearm :

Everytime I see him I take the ********. Initially he would call me a wog or some other term for an ethnic, as my parents aren't orginally aussie, or have a go at my religion, until I told him the charities I support and community events I participate in.

So my line to all who regard that putting a tatoo on themselves or a flag up their tailpipe, that this achieves stuff all for the aussie community, and they should wake up and do something constructive than relying on symbols.

Good on you by the way in being so careful on what you buy.

[SSD-85]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

I couldn’t give a flying **** about Australia day, so what does that make me?

One of many mate. Id have to say that sense of apathy is Australian in itself. Besides, all the day seems to have degenerated into is an excuse for people to get violently drunk and promote discrimination against various ethnic groups.

As for the those friggin flags, I think they look daggy and prove nothing to me that could be positively thought of.

But thats all part and parcel of living in this great free country, the ability to do and think what they and we are doing right now.

[BFZ Wagon]

You're not alone dogfish. I don't understand why people would want to fly an Aussie flag on their car that was made in China. You'll also notice that the majority of the cars that have these flags on them are imported themselves.

I'm another person who is very fussy about where a product comes from. 99.9% of the time I always buy Aussie made products unless it's a product that is not made here by any company (kitchen tidy bags for instance)
I've even gone out of my way to get Aussie made cling wrap & aluminium foil. (It's VERY hard to find!) What does annoy me is when food products are imported & it's something that we produce here. Next time you buy peanuts or peanut butter, have a look at where it's made. There is a lot of stuff coming in from China now (especially generic products)

More people need to stand up for themselves & support Aussie made goods. It helps our economy & most importantly, it keeps Aussies in jobs.

Apologies if I strayed too far off topic. :O

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by Scotty85

One of many mate. Id have to say that sense of apathy is Australian in itself. Besides, all the day seems to have degenerated into is an excuse for people to get violently drunk and promote discrimination against various ethnic groups.

As for the those friggin flags, I think they look daggy and prove nothing to me that could be positively thought of.

But thats all part and parcel of living in this great free country, the ability to do and think what they and we are doing right now.

Yeah, but that’s me. I don’t drink, never have so I don’t get the idea of getting blind drunk or watching a bunch of elitist friends of the PM parade around like muster of bloody peacocks with their Australia day honours.

I probably spent more time thinking about the money I lost from a day’s work.

[Spudz27]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

So you’re being labelled un-Australian for that?

I couldn’t give a flying **** about Australia day, so what does that make me?

Same feelings here. I love this country but don't feel the need to celebrate it, I hated being asked "what you doin for Australia day mate" I was always unsure how to answer without offending, so I just say "having a quiet one" I am all for our country and australian made, but I just don't feel the need to celebrate or cover my car once a year in silly plastic flags, that seem to be more "the rage" than actual celebrating.

[ieatsports_cars]

Well their is a mob in Noosa Queensland that makes these car flags !

http://www.australianflagmakers.com.au/car-flags.htm

http://www.the-flag-makers.com/car-f...n-car-flag.htm

[elvisidal]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

So you’re being labelled un-Australian for that?

I couldn’t give a flying **** about Australia day, so what does that make me?

one of the people who love their country all 365 days of the year?

[SM1DY]

If you pay tax, vote, dump your rubbish in your neighbours bin or don't give a damn about anything Tracy Grimshaw has to say, your Australian enough.

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by elvisidal

one of the people who love their country all 365 days of the year?

Bingo. :

[IngoStang]

I dont need to put a flag on the car or tat on my body to feel Australian, I know Im Aussie, I love my country and thats all that matters.

[BHDOGS]

I thought i was very patriotic and Australian but then i realised im not racist and drive a ford thats owned by an american company and drink beer thats owned by a japanese company so now i know im un australian.

[Gaz]

I don't need a bloody flag, I drive an Australian designed and build Ford!! There's my bloody flag.

[Cheech]

I don't go the aussie flag or southern cross sticker on my car (or any sticker).

But what leaves me scratching my head is the Aussie Pride sticker on a foreign car (eg Mitsi lancer). If you were a proud aussie wouldn't you buy a commodore or falcon ?

[dannyxm]

Originally Posted by Gaz

I don't need a bloody flag, I drive an Australian designed and build Ford!! There's my bloody flag.

Hand that man a beer!!!!

hahahahahaha

[BOSHOG]

i used to love australia day as well as ANZAC day, now i will never go out on those days. people just want to get blind drunk and ruin it for everyone else

[BOSHOG]

Originally Posted by Cheech

I don't go the aussie flag or southern cross sticker on my car (or any sticker).

But what leaves me scratching my head is the Aussie Pride sticker on a foreign car (eg Mitsi lancer). If you were a proud aussie wouldn't you buy a commodore or falcon?

im proud to be an aussie where you are free to buy any car you desire, even an inferior product like a holden and, dare i say it on a ford forum, a ford

[XR6_661]

Originally Posted by dogfish

I'm not a hair straightening, blow drying metro sexual ( I was Shocked guys own hair dryers that blew me away now I found out they own hair straighteners and can't go out in the rain or it wrecks the do).

I own a hair straightener...How does that make me any less Australian than the bloke next to me?? Just means I take some pride in my appearance. Not all 'Australians' have to wear the stereotypical khakis or blue shearers singlet to be Australian ya know? I bet blokes like you would be the first to whinge when a country like America starts labelling us all blue singlet wearing bogans?

Being Australian and being patriotic to your country is what you make it. Isn't that what being in a 'Free Country' is all about?

I have a 2m long Australian Flag above my bed, it's made overseas but owned by an Australian mob...but who gives? I fly it according to standards and I have pride in it.

All in all, I straighten my hair, I wear tight bright shirts and I drink alcopops...Am I un-Australian? No.

[Dave R]

Mate you're no more un-australian than the people who put these flags as well as other aussie pride and southern cross stickers on their Jap/Korean imports I always chuckle when I see a southern cross on some Jap crap import. Want to rep your Aussie pride? Buy an Aussie car.

[Peuty]

What an awesomely judgmental thread.

[fiery]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

I probably spent more time thinking about the money I lost from a day’s work.

You can work my shift for me next Australia Day if you want.. :

The amount of drunken morons that came into work that were abusive and just down right disgusting makes me wonder what on earth this day is all about!!!

Sure I went on an Australia Day cruise with AFF members but the way I see it is I pay enough of my wage to taxes to help those that don't work so that is about as Australian as I need to be. I don't need to buy a plastic flag made in another country that is probably going to scratch my paint anyway to be Australian........

[uranium_death]

Australia Day is seemingly about bogans being louder than usual in their blue singlets, thongs, flags being worn as capes, sheilas dressed provocatively and everybody telling foreigners to go home...

For me, being Australian is about embracing foreign cultures. If we were still little Britain, our choice of culinary delights would be terrible.

Australia has been built on immigrants coming from all over the world and calling each other, 'mate'.

Not acting like a drunken retard in public in the name of being 'Australian', forgetting that your ancestry came from Europe or America or somewhere else...

[|||]

i made my own flag this year. it may not have been as accurate as one pumped out by a chinese robot, but it was 100% aussie made (by me lol) and everyone i showed it to thought it was tops

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by uranium_death

Australia Day is seemingly about bogans being louder than usual in their blue singlets, thongs, flags being worn as capes, sheilas dressed provocatively and everybody telling foreigners to go home...

Possibly, though that's not what it means to me.

I don't know why people are being judged for celebrating Australia Day.

As for everyone who feels the need to point out how bogan or stupid it is to celebrate said day, maybe you should take a look at yourselves first.

[Bucknaked]

Australia day long over, and I'm still seeing cars getting around with the plastic flags on each side. I wouldn't like to use the word "Reck Neck" But that's exactley what it looks like.

And, when you see the violence on TV wiuth Australia day arrests, those being arrested are wearing the Aussiue Falg on some part of their body. Hat, shorts, Tank top or wearing it like a cape. It's those morons that are causing this whole "Australians are Racist" mentality. What they do is un-Australian. We are more Aussie than they ever hope to be.

Don't worry what makes you Australian or not. If your born here, or your a citizen, then your Australian. I don't go for all the BS that people use telling you to do something because it's Australian. Who put them in charge.