No patriotic, war-loving home is complete without this!

[Shakespeare]

http://www.abcdistributing.com/store/1005U4/212984.cfm?

[Initech]

1. Goes great right next to the plastic flamingo!

*plays dueling banjos*

[MN ChimpH8R]

8. Prop it up between the two pickups up on blocks....

just sayin' :evilgrin:

[Initech]

12. .

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

OR... you could just put that on the back of a big-ass RV!

[KitchenWitch]

2. Get out the putty knife

My head just exploded.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. I'm not quite sure what to say about that. Amazing.

Sort of makes me want to get up and bake a soft pretzel.

[LynzM]

4. This says it all:

"Display your patriotism for everyone to see, including your local troops and reservists"

Yup, support your troops by showing them you care enough to spend $15 on inflatable carp that you put up on your porch. Hoo-boy, I bet they'll just perk right up over that one :eyes:

[ucmike]

6. inflatable carp...sweet

typo, i know. but i'd rather have the carp than the crap on that website.

[LynzM]

14. LOL

Actually, there's another board I'm on that routinely uses 'carp' in place of 'crap'... it's a holdover from that :)

But I have to say, inflatable carp would be pretty cool too :rofl:

[CanuckAmok]

23. yeah, you know all the troops and reservists...

...wandering around Main Street USA just looking for hollow displays of patriotism.

Aren't the troops and reservists we're allegely expected to support with that carp thousands of miles away, precicely NOT thinking about what Archie Bunker has on his front porch?

Fuckin' bloody hell... support the troops? Donate that $15 to the USO, or to a movement to bring them home.

on edit: and shut the fuck up.

[MadHound]

5. Cool, a target for blowgun practice! n/t

[ragin_acadian]

7. one thing is for sure

anyone dumb enough to buy that is probably full of enough hot air to inflate it.

[WeRQ4U]

9. Support your troops by buying this foreign made piece of shit pool noodle.

Show your patriotism, outsource and lounge in the water with a drink... all at the same time!!!!

[Orsino]

10. There should be no shortage of hot air...

...to fill these things.

[flamingyouth]

11. Great for tubing on the river too, I bet

:wtf:

[DainBramaged]

13. NOTHING pisses me off more than Chinese crap celebrating patriotism

maybe the corrupt Conservatives love cheap crap, but our freedom and this country isn't owned (yet) by the Chinese.



Pass me those cheap patriot flags to wave.:sarcasm:

[TimeChaser]

15. ... I think I just felt my IQ drop a little lower....

[DS1]

16. I'm buying two - one for each arm for when I go swimming

:D

[the_spectator]

17. lol

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Holy shit!

I want one!

[lpbk2713]

19. Once Smirky finds out they're available

expect to see em on the lawn at the White House.

:eyes:

[NMMNG]

20. No doubt the next thing you'll see at Freeper barbeques everywhere

:puke:

[XemaSab]

21. There's a house in Kathy's Valley that has a blower

and they ALWAYS have something up, be it a giant pumpkin, a turkey, santa, whatever, and that just smacks to me of freeperdom, but one day near the 4th of july I was going by and they had a GIANT HAND IN STARS-AND-STRIPES making a peace sign. :D

[Fridays Child]

22. So biomorphic. So sexy.

:puke:

[Shine]

24. Gosh, I wonder if it glows in the dark.

:eyes:

[DS1]

25. U.S. Flag code states that the flag shall never touch the ground

:shrug:

[jane_pippin]

26. It's gonna be real respectful when that thing deflates after a day too.

:eyes:

You know, those blow-up things deflate ALL the time.
I see blow-up pumpkins, turkeys, santas and snowmen deflated all over the neighborhood all winter long.

It's disgusting how cheap this "support" is.

[paul_fromatlanta]

27. You don't have to love war to support the troops

They are Americans in harm's way and they weren't consulted about whether or not to invade Iraq.

I'm old enough to remember how unfairly troops coming back from Vietnam were treated - a bad war doesn't make our troops bad.

[Shakespeare]

29. Of course not, but that's not support--it's jingoism.

Big, big difference.

[paul_fromatlanta]

30. I dont think putting up a big support the troops ribbon is jingoism

Tacky..but not jingoism,IMO.

[Shakespeare]

31. Well, I DO think it's jingoism.

It's also, I would argue, a mostly empty sentiment by those who think slapping a sticker on the back of their SUV somehow makes them more patriotic.

[paul_fromatlanta]

32. And I respect your right to disagree

Seeing things like this helps keep the atmosphere supportive for the families...But this poarticular one looks tacky. Again my opinions are colored by seeing the guys a few years older than me come back from Vietnam... I didn't see anybody spit on but I saw a lot of guys who deserved better than they got by being sent over there but also deserved better than they got coming home.

[Shakespeare]

33. I'm still trying to figure out....

...how buying a made-in-China piece of jingoistic crap has anything at all to do with actually supporting the troops. Throwing in the Vietnam bit is a complete non sequitur in what was otherwise intended to be a humorous thread.

[paul_fromatlanta]

34. Then I don't want to take your thread further off track.

[underpants]

28. No! please GOD NO!! Not the ABC catalog oh God help us all

Run....(in rags crawling taking last breaths but must warn others) GOD save yourselves run away!!!!

Needless to say that I have worked in offices were that THING is like the freakin' Bible "You know if you order together....." :yoiks:

[mosin]

35. You guys broke it...

I can't get the link to open now!