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Ok, here's what happened. I live in the southern states where we're born and raised very patriotic and thats just how it is. I mean, I may not agree with everything my government leaders do and think that they are total a** holes sometimes but I LOVE my country (USA). Anyway, I was at my boyfriends house (he lives w/ his mom) and he has several generations living in his house. His mom was born and raised here, but his step-dad is a big city slicker from New York but had rather be living in some European country and thinks its completely better over there. Well, at the dinner table he was talking politics and was really putting the US down and I just couldn't help quoting Merle to him.....
"I hear people talkin' bad,
About the way we have to live here in this country,
Harpin' on the wars we fight,
An' gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be.
An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides,
An' standin' up for things they believe in.
When they're runnin' down my country, man,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me."
lol, was that wrong of me? I made his grandpa crack up because he's a country boy through and through and I think he was getting annoyed at his son in law also. I even made my bf's mom laugh, and the only person who didn't was his step-dad. But I couldn't help it. Would you have quoted Merle to? I just wanted to get my point across in a funny way....do you think I did?

2006-08-19 07:37:30 · 6 answers · asked by Danielle 1 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

Sooperman...its from his song 'The Fightin' Side of Me'

2006-08-19 07:47:35 · update #1

6 answers

good job, I don't listen to merle haggard though so I have no idea what that is from

2006-08-19 07:45:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

One can only have one country at a time... and any person who loves the very institutions that are part of that country will always defend THAT country by whatsoever means. For the step-dad, it was not funny. For everyone else, you made your point... and in a very subtle way, you rebuked that step-dad who thinks he'd be better off staying in Sarajevo or Montenegro.

2006-08-19 14:53:33 · answer #2 · answered by Bummerang 5 · 0 0

I don't think it was so bad. I mean, first of all it's not a good idea to talk politics in the country you're dissing and second of all, you just DON'T diss America when you're living in America! He's just a baby. He can dish it out but he can't take it. So I wouldn't even worry about it. If everyone else laughed....there's nothing wrong.

2006-08-19 14:45:37 · answer #3 · answered by Jenn 6 · 0 0

Sounds ok to me Danielle. It might have gone over his head anyway.

I wouldn't make a habit of alienating him though.....it could lead to problems in your relationship with bf if he still lives there. Like making it difficult to see each other, be at his place etc.

2006-08-19 14:47:24 · answer #4 · answered by lou b 6 · 0 0

omg LOL....good for you...i would of done the same dang thing ....and no i dont think it was wrong.....you did the right thing...at the right time...


props for you!!

2006-08-19 14:44:15 · answer #5 · answered by Sugar_Plumzz 3 · 0 0

This question is too long.

2006-08-19 14:48:43 · answer #6 · answered by presidentrichardnixon 3 · 0 0

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