"Patriot Day"

[zahryn]

Today is Patriot Day and I am confused. I have ended up choosing my "Patriotism" according to the clothing in my wardrobe, but it's a bit of a mess (to be honest).
I have blue trousers, a white tube top which I am wearing as a skirt over the trousers and a red shirt (red, white & blue, very clever eh?) however, I have two Welsh flags for my hair and a Dragon pin as well as a pair of St Andrews socks which I have cut the toe and heel out of to make long fingerless glove-type things. So, I'm a bit of a mish-mash, not helped by the American side of things by a sunshade all done out in the stars and stripes.

I have covered a lot of my heritage there I think.

I can't wait to see Charlottes face since she has to walk into work with me.... :)

Comments

[nutter4.livejournal.com]

Why are you supporting 'Patriot Day' when you're not an American?

And what makes you think you were 'friend dumped' purely for the reasons you gave in your last post?

[zahryn.livejournal.com]

Ahh, well we had a "patriot day" in Direct on Friday at the end of "patriot week" (celebrating St Georges day, mis-named but not the American version) and we were supposed to be dressing in "patriotic" colours, but due to my Heinz 57 heritage I was a blaze of colour. :) I also won a prize for "best dressed."

Re: the friend-dumping. One of my Chris friends (not darling-darling) has started going out with the "brainless one" who has decided that he can't have any female friends (feels threatened I suspect) so he texted that he's not allowed to play with me anymore. I'm over it though. If he's dumb enough to have his friendships dictated by her, then they deserve each other.

[nutter4.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's sad when even building societies can't use English properly.

The friend thing - he didn't actually dump you for a friend, he dumped you for a girl-friend; the sexualisation makes the two quite different. In a patriarchal sense, it's the norm; I've had a number of non-feminist female 'friends' who've dumped me as soon they got a man in their life, not because they're forbidden friends but because men are just so much more interesting and important, don't you know? </sarcasm>

[zahryn.livejournal.com]

Agreed, I meant it as in "dumped as a friend" rather than "dumped for a friend" but if I used all the words it would help :(

I have been dumped in a similar way before, I'm not sure if I should be pleased and proud to be seen as a threat, or frustrated that my friends end up with people who are so stupid as to think I'm anything more than a buddy. Either way, another friend has gone the way of the 'terminally attached' and no doubt I'll hear from him again when she leaves him for someone with more backbone.