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SOA Question
« on: December 31, 2011, 12:03:52 PM »
Watching Season 3 of Sons of Anarchy.

SAMCRO is in Ireland, and they left their leather cuts behind, wearing these black jackets with the reaper on it but no specific club affiliation.

However, at least a couple of the guys have blue stripes on the jacket, around the bicep.  Jax has 2 blue stripes around the left bicep.  Clay has 3.  Bobby doesn't have any.  Opie has 1.  Juice has 1. 

Yes, SOA is a fictitious biker club.

But, what would be the significance of a blue armband around the left bicep?  Evidently the # of stripes on it implies rank, since Clay has 3 as president and Jax has 2 as VP. 

I subconsciously associate armbands primarily with neo-nazi types, and secondarily with old world armies.  Culturally, SOA doesn't strike me as racist.  They are allied with a black biker gang, and alternate between friendship/animosity with Mexican and Chinese factions based upon economics rather than skin politics.  They went to war with some neo-nazis in season 2.

So what would such an arm-band mean?  Blue, horizontal stripe, around left bicep.
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Re: SOA Question
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2011, 01:57:14 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on December 31, 2011, 12:03:52 PM
So what would such an arm-band mean?  Blue, horizontal stripe, around left bicep.

Doesn't care for chartreuse?
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Re: SOA Question
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2011, 01:58:24 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on December 31, 2011, 12:03:52 PM

So what would such an arm-band mean?  Blue, horizontal stripe, around left bicep.

They were all out of hot pink.
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Re: SOA Question
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2011, 02:11:11 PM »
School of the Americas has been renamed something even more innocuous.

Oh, wrong SOA.
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Re: SOA Question
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2011, 04:35:56 PM »
In my circles, "SOA" is the acronym for "spring-over-axle" -- changing the way the rear axle mounts in a leaf-sprung Jeep.
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Re: SOA Question
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2011, 05:12:52 PM »
It's a TV show. I've never seen any actual 1%ers showing "rank" in any way beyond an "officer" patch or pin...
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Re: SOA Question
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2011, 06:18:41 PM »
The blue bands indicate resistance. Cause they resist the system, man!

http://ikalogic.com/beg_1_res_v_c.php#color_code
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