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- I stole both of these flags when I worked at McDonald's. ;-) Amerika! Fuck yeah! - Lord_of_the_Flies
McAmerica
Made it to #11 (Jan 11th 2006) on flickr explore... hah!
This photo was taken on January 8, 2006 in Oberg, using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT.
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qthrul, joe babel, Slava Baranskyi, kiampa, and 28 other people added this photo to their favorites.
3nOna (75 months ago | reply)
cool hehe ^_^
Bailey_Blue_Photography [deleted] (74 months ago | reply)
haha yep =)
Cass D. (ARCHIVE) (74 months ago | reply)
The United States of McDonald. Very funny! Although it's when they start replacing the little white stars with little yellow Ms that your gonna have to start worrying... :)
GoodGriefSS (74 months ago | reply)
I want a burger.
wanderlustr (73 months ago | reply)
The McDonalds flag should be on top.
Kyle Slattery (73 months ago | reply)
haha--very funny
C.P.Storm (73 months ago | reply)
Good capture!
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eva8* (73 months ago | reply)
how can anyone be offended? what is more american than mcdonalds?
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kktp_ (73 months ago | reply)
mcdonalds nation !
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isolatediguana (73 months ago | reply)
It is more offensive to see it on your monitor than to see it on every street corner maybe. McDonalds is truly American. If you can't see it in our fat content then surely you are blind. Thanks for the post...
CAZASCO / Benoît Ferradini (73 months ago | reply)
There is not many people offended here...
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Simon Harb (73 months ago | reply)
Can't see all the people you speak of that are offended did you post this before somewhere else and get thousands of offended comments. Far as I see, you posted to dozens of groups and barely elicited pffft.
Yeah the two flags are seen together, yeah, taken out of context there is a certain irony and symbolism that can be attributed, but "so many people offended" ,hardly.
Sidereal (73 months ago | reply)
Great shot. What's your PhotoJojo project?
Firefalcon (73 months ago | reply)
Welcome to the United States of mcAmerica...
Canis Major (73 months ago | reply)
It's not just USA and McDonald's, try this story..
football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/story/0, ,1800885,00....
guildhall kirky (73 months ago | reply)
Good one
I'll fight you for that sandwich (73 months ago | reply)
great pic
a moment in time (72 months ago | reply)
This is scary...
I can't remember which German city they were taking about in a documentary I recently saw while visiting Paris...
in any case, there were mentioning that in a city of about 1 million habitants there were only about 48 Gestapo officers. Of course, being so few, the Gestapo officers could not keep an eye on everyone so they relied on the population to report strange behavior or anything that looked suspicious...
Oh do you see how this incident with you posting a simple picture with two flags... has made you "un-American", a "threat" to the American way and susceptible to the criticism of the ones who think YOU are a menace for THEIR country and by pointing you out they are the correct ones and will gain some strange benefit from the American Gestapo...
People are really sinking into the OLD ways without any clues on how THEY are being used to empower the new dictatorship which at any time CAN and is turning against them too!
China forgot Mao's way to destroy the intellectuals, teachers, etc...
America is forgetting is recent past (torture at the hands of CIA by previous administrations... not just THIS one)
The world is forgetting how past dictators got what they want... and this way HISTORY repeats itself because the leaders use what worked in the past and add new TECHNOLOGY, new psychology discoveries to manipulate the innocents.
Just Back (72 months ago | reply)
Citron, you don't need to apologize for anything.
Lyle Beaudoin (71 months ago | reply)
Haha! One thousand words wouldn't begin to describe this photo. Someone may want it for the cover of a book one day.
Should you flag it 'may offend'?
joe babel (69 months ago | reply)
The United Nations!
CountryDreaming (69 months ago | reply)
Cool pic. As for offending anybody, hey the American flag is higher up than the McDonald's flag, right? And McDonald's is every bit as patriotic as baseball and apple pie ... Why not a McDonald's hot apple pie, eh? :-)
VolaVale (63 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called INSOPPORTABILE!.......I CAN'T TOLERATE!, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
dpstevenson2 (63 months ago | reply)
This picture says so much.
michalCZ (55 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called I'm lovin' it, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Frank Synopsis (51 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Patriotic Food, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Will S. (51 months ago | reply)
I'm not American; for my part, I find this placement of flags not offensive, but just mildly irritating; not, however, from any feelings about patriotism, nationalism or what have you (since that's not relevant to me as a foreigner with no stake in such debates), but from a vexillological POV - these flags represent two different kinds of, and distinct, separate entities - a nation, and a corporation; a flag above another usually denotes control of what is symbolized in the lower flag, by what is symbolized in the upper flag. Thus, this placement could be misunderstood to mean that the government of the U.S. controls the McDonald's Corporation, which of course it doesn't.
I'm a flag geek; what can I say? ;) They should be on separate flagpoles, side by side!
But I thank you, citron_smurf, for taking this pic, and posting it. It's certainly interesting, and no-one should be offended by someone capturing an image of something that exists! I certainly am not offended by your taking it.
j.twist (41 months ago | reply)
Quite the opposite Will S. The corporations control the government!
Will S. (41 months ago | reply)
Well then; in that case, j.twist, the McDonald's flag should be above the American flag.
Kidding! :)
citron_smurf (41 months ago | reply)
Yea j.twist. WIll is right. If corporations controlled the government then they'd be forcing the government to fork over 100's of billions of taxpayer dollars!
Oops! Oh wait....
Will S. (41 months ago | reply)
Can anyone spell, "auto bailout"? :)
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