I Just Want All the Non-US Opponauts to Know

"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind) 11/22/2016 at 01:30 • Filed to: Trucks

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In addition to the horsepower wars, payload wars, torque wars, and towing wars, we seem to be fighting over who can pull the biggest flag around. But it’s this quote from Ford Truck Group Marketing Manager Doug Scott that cracked me up:

[To GM,]

“At Ford and with Ford trucks in particular we are used to being number one. Towing the largest banner here today and setting the Guinness World Record in the category certainly fits with our DNA and what we are all about when we talk about Ford trucks and their towing power. This is a great accomplishment, another to add to the list of distinctions. Earlier this week we received the 2017 Motor Trend Truck of the Year award so we will add this to the list.”

Sincerely, from all at Ford Truck Group,

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Wobbles the Mind 11/22/2016 at 01:40

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I’m curious to know how much that flag weighs

Wobbles the Mind > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 11/22/2016 at 01:49

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No clue. I think it’s the drag that makes it difficult. Then add in the logistics for doing the record with the US banner which isn’t allowed to ever touch the ground.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Wobbles the Mind 11/22/2016 at 01:54

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Isn’t that flag upside down?

Frenchlicker > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 11/22/2016 at 01:58

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Let’s look at it this way, if you fly a standard 5x8 flag behind a Harley without it being specially set up for it it is a violation of warranty. I guess they view it as taxing to the transmission.

Alfalfa > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/22/2016 at 02:12

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It certainly is. I wonder if the image was flipped.

Birddog > Wobbles the Mind 11/22/2016 at 02:35

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Let’s see if GM steps up. This does seem like a sore spot for the General. Heck, maybe Ram will step in to the ring too. The Ram guys seem too comfortable always being an also ran. The last time they made anyone really stand at attention was, wow, 1993?!

Tapas > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 11/22/2016 at 02:51

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Its not just the flag, but also the fluctuating weight in the form of uneven drag that makes it difficult - if dragging a flag is considered difficult at all.

I don’t know why this is more impressive, if anything that makes roughly 400 ft.lb of torque can pull a fucking 292000 lb space shuttle.

http://jalopnik.com/5951454/how-a-5600-pound-toyota-towed-a-292000-pound-space-shuttle

Tldr; Dumb ass truck manufacturers doing victory laps and one-upping each other in pointless tasks because people can’t science.

duurtlang > Wobbles the Mind 11/22/2016 at 05:25

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I’m always rather astonished by how Americans love waving their flag. It’s as if they’re compensating for an insecurity. That’s probably not it, but it’s the message it sends.

Cé hé sin > duurtlang 11/22/2016 at 07:08

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I have a theory.

It’s that many Americans are recent immigrants (as in one or two generations ago) and they need to remind themselves of their new country.

Having so said, I was in Norway a couple of years ago. Every second house, at least in the countryside, was showing the flag, usually as a long pennant rather than the usual rectangle.

Comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/22/2016 at 07:57

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If the stands are full, that would be the appropriate way to fly it, so it appears correctly to the majority of people present. If not, I’m not sure whether there are conventions on this type of thing.

fintail > duurtlang 11/22/2016 at 08:32

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That’s probably part of it, along with any nationalistic style chant.

Also reminds me of this paraphrase to the wise:

Hateful Mate > Cé hé sin 11/22/2016 at 09:20

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That’s because of our flag rules. We’re only allowed a full size flag in daylight hours. The smal triangular one however, can be left up at night. Hence many choose to fly that one permanently, rather than getting up early to hoist the regular flag, and rememering to take it back down in the evening. We do run fullsize flags for celebrations like birthdays, National hollidays, etc.

duurtlang > fintail 11/22/2016 at 12:00

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That’s a universal truth. Fascism tends to be covered by nationalism and usually a shared religious identity. Us versus them.

Not implying in any way nationalists or religious folks are fascist.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer 11/22/2016 at 13:04

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Good point. I think the whole stunt is in questionable taste. I mean, this is the USA, and you are free to do whatever you want with the flag, so who am I to judge?

fintail > duurtlang 11/22/2016 at 14:32

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Maybe not all of them, but there’s too often a correlation.