Please rise and remove your caps

unsung said:

I take my hat off because I am not an A-hole.

Gentlemen also take their hats off while indoors, especially while dining.  I always take it off when I am seated at the table.

I open the door and hand it off to anyone but I hold it open to allow ladies to enter first.

All of those make much more sense than removing a hat. 
Except holding a door for a woman, that one's off.  You should hold a door for a human, regardless of what type of human.  

The same people defending the taking off the hat, are probably the ones who don't hold doors for people. Just saying. 
If you're going to call someone an asshole over a hat, man you better be a perfect person. 

mcgruff10 said:

I don't understand why this is even a big deal; take your hat for 90 seconds.

Some people don't understand why this is even a big deal, who cares if your hat is on or not?

rgambs said:

mcgruff10 said:

I don't understand why this is even a big deal; take your hat for 90 seconds.

Some people don't understand why this is even a big deal, who cares if your hat is on or not?

I always thought you take off your hat to show respect to the flag and our country. 

What about Cerrano? Did he take the hats off his bats during the anthem?

I find this stuff interesting....ingrained, antiquated traditions that everyone partakes in without a clue as to why.  The hat thing has always bothered me.  I take mine off at dinner cause even at 43, my dad rags on me about it if I forget.  I would never wear one out for a nice dinner only because I associate the looks of a ball cap with lazy days and rednecks...if I'm out for a nice dinner, I will try not to look like a redneck.  If I'm at a fast food joint, who cares? 
I have never had anyone bitch at me for wearing it indoors. 
I take it off for anthems, but honestly it bugs the shit out of me.  I don't like standing for anthems, pretending to sing along, none of that nationalist bullshit....and hearing people make 'fought for our freedoms' comments reinforces why it bugs me.  There are very few recent instances in which our military has been involved in anything resembling fighting for our freedom.  Military indoctrination has no place in sporting events.  
So ya....antiquated, ingrained, rooted in false pretense....kinda like marriage

josevolution said:

drakeheuer14 said:

Nevermind

Regurgitated info that was already mentioned. But happy one year to this thread anyways lol.

Maybe I will run a social experiment and see how many people actually address me if I choose to keep my hat on during the anthem. 

Go to a ball game plenty of people keep their hats on during the anthem , go ahead ask someone at Yankees stadium to take their hat off ...

well if they are a Yankees fan there is at least a 90% chance they are already a dick so keeping hat on or taking it off in Yankee stadium isn't going to change what they are

rgambs said:

mcgruff10 said:

rgambs said:

mcgruff10 said:

rgambs said:

mcgruff10 said:

I don't understand why this is even a big deal; take your hat for 90 seconds.

Some people don't understand why this is even a big deal, who cares if your hat is on or not?

I always thought you take off your hat to show respect to the flag and our country. 

So you've been told and you listened, and it ties in with the funny "hat rules" that were imparted by your religion so it made sense.
Not everyone thinks like that.

Some people see these sorts of rules and rituals as relics of a past which needs let go, or they are just very resistant to examples of groupthink like this where people follow blindly in footsteps they don't understand.  

My religion?  
My grandfather (ww2 vet) and dad (vietnam vet) instilled this thinking, and i'll do the same to my kids.  I really don't see the harm in it.  It is all of 90 seconds.

Aren't you Catholic?
They have rules about hats so it would make sense that you wouldn't be inclined to question it.

Nationalism is ugly and many people want no part of it.

Yeah I am catholic but I don’t Associate the two together. I see nothing wrong with nationalism, I am proud to live in the United States. 

mcgruff10 said:

rgambs said:

mcgruff10 said:

rgambs said:

mcgruff10 said:

rgambs said:

mcgruff10 said:

I don't understand why this is even a big deal; take your hat for 90 seconds.

Some people don't understand why this is even a big deal, who cares if your hat is on or not?

I always thought you take off your hat to show respect to the flag and our country. 

So you've been told and you listened, and it ties in with the funny "hat rules" that were imparted by your religion so it made sense.
Not everyone thinks like that.

Some people see these sorts of rules and rituals as relics of a past which needs let go, or they are just very resistant to examples of groupthink like this where people follow blindly in footsteps they don't understand.  

My religion?  
My grandfather (ww2 vet) and dad (vietnam vet) instilled this thinking, and i'll do the same to my kids.  I really don't see the harm in it.  It is all of 90 seconds.

Aren't you Catholic?
They have rules about hats so it would make sense that you wouldn't be inclined to question it.

Nationalism is ugly and many people want no part of it.

Yeah I am catholic but I don’t Associate the two together. I see nothing wrong with nationalism, I am proud to live in the United States. 

Nationalism is the reason your ancestors had to go fight wars in the first place, and the cycle continues as it's passed down the generations.
That 1950 halcyon view of history is so outdated it is laughable.  It was always a myth, expertly crafted to continue the status quo, but thank Yahweh that the hippies came along and created a cycle of counter culture to combat it, or who knows what war we would have been drafted into in our generation.