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The Union Flag

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  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    Henry Irving said:

    image

    Life could be made a darn sight lest complicated if they just bunged the red stripes in the middle of the white ones, then everybody (apart form flag pedants) would be happy. If they also dollopped the word Forwards on the front it would reduce errors and also be a positive motivational statement!
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    smudge7946 said:

    Do other nations name there flags.
    Stars and stripes-usa
    Tricolour- France.

    Are there others?

    Lots of countries have tricolour. Just means three colours doesn't it ? Certainly the ROI call theirs a tricolour.

  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Wide Stripe
    Bottom Right
  • Daddy_Pig
    Daddy_Pig Posts: 496
    HarryLime said:

    CAFCsayer said:

    UNION JACK.

    Only at sea.Stratford is on land
    In all fairness I've never heard of the Union Stratford either



  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    The flag should be overprinted with 'this way up' and 'this way round'
    and a series of little arrows pointed to where the pole should be labelled 'flagpole this way'.
    Could happen.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598
    Valiantphil said:

    I had one flying (upside down) outside my house for the London Olympics and a guy knocked and asked if I was in distress or had a dead body on board !

    Top Man.

    You should have said, "yes, I am I distress because I murdered the last person who knocked on my door to tell me my flag was upsidown and his blood is making a mess on my carpet"
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Polish Flag

    image

    Indonesian Flag

    image

    :wink:
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    smudge7946 said:

    Do other nations name there flags.
    Stars and stripes-usa
    Tricolour- France.

    Are there others?

    White duster
    Red Duster
    Jolly Roger
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Without looking it up which US state has a union flag as part of its state flag?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,620
    :smile:
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  • Valley Ant
    Valley Ant Posts: 467
    I will nail my colours to the mast (right way up of course) and say that I am with Addickted.
    If you flew the Polish flag upside down people would think you were from Indonesia.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    guinnessaddick said:

    :smile:

    My son was calling the Ivory Coast woman the Irish lady the other night when we went to the athletics !!
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,641
    smudge7946 said:

    Do other nations name there flags.
    Stars and stripes-usa
    Tricolour- France.

    Are there others?

    We don't give a fuck about anyone.

    North Korea
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    I get narked here when people call me a Brit.......Im English ffs.

    :)
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Dannebrog - Denmark.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    edited August 2017
    smudge7946 said:

    Do other nations name there flags.
    Stars and stripes-usa
    Tricolour- France.

    Are there others?

    Good question. I believe that the Italian and Belgian flags are also called tricolours. The Stars and Stripes is also called Old Glory. The Chinese flag goes by the less than catchy name Five-Star Red Flag... aha, I found a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flag_names



  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    HarryLime said:

    CAFCsayer said:

    UNION JACK.

    Only at sea.Stratford is on land
    Henry Irving said:

    CAFCsayer said:

    UNION JACK.

    No, Union Flag is correct.

    As Harry Lime says, Stratford is on land
    'Jack' is absolutely fine. This 'Union Flag' business is actually quite new and is presumably another case self-important people re-writing history to serve their own ends:

    "It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

    https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    Henry Irving said:

    Without looking it up which US state has a union flag as part of its state flag?

    Henry Irving said:

    Without looking it up which US state has a union flag as part of its state flag?

    Hawaii
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    edited August 2017
    Henry Irving said:

    Without looking it up which US state has a union flag as part of its state flag?

    One of the original/New England ones

    Maine
    Connecticut
    New Hampshire
    Pennsylvania

    Also flying the flag upside down is the international sign of distress. Robert Redford taught me that in The Last Castle
  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    edited August 2017
    Valley Ant said:

    I will nail my colours to the mast (right way up of course) and say that I am with Addickted.
    If you flew the Polish flag upside down people would think you were from Indonesia.

    Well Indonesia IS in the southern hemisphere so they do hang their flag upside down.
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  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Henry Irving said:

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    Aesthetically, to me, the incorrect way looks better.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    edited August 2017
    Stig said:

    HarryLime said:

    CAFCsayer said:

    UNION JACK.

    Only at sea.Stratford is on land
    Henry Irving said:

    CAFCsayer said:

    UNION JACK.

    No, Union Flag is correct.

    As Harry Lime says, Stratford is on land
    'Jack' is absolutely fine. This 'Union Flag' business is actually quite new and is presumably another case self-important people re-writing history to serve their own ends:

    "It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

    https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/
    My nephew once corrected me for calling the Union Jack when we weren't at sea because his teacher had fed him this nonsense that you can't call it a Jack at land. The thick cow.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Fiiish said:

    Stig said:

    HarryLime said:

    CAFCsayer said:

    UNION JACK.

    Only at sea.Stratford is on land
    Henry Irving said:

    CAFCsayer said:

    UNION JACK.

    No, Union Flag is correct.

    As Harry Lime says, Stratford is on land
    'Jack' is absolutely fine. This 'Union Flag' business is actually quite new and is presumably another case self-important people re-writing history to serve their own ends:

    "It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

    https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/
    My nephew once corrected me for calling the Union Jack when we weren't at sea because his teacher had fed him this nonsense that you can't call it a Jack at land. The thick cow.
    Turns out she's no thicker than some of our very own pedants.
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,223
    Learn something new every day... Always thought it was changed to union flag for some kind of political correctness reason
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Uboat said:

    Fiiish said:

    Stig said:

    HarryLime said:

    CAFCsayer said:

    UNION JACK.

    Only at sea.Stratford is on land
    Henry Irving said:

    CAFCsayer said:

    UNION JACK.

    No, Union Flag is correct.

    As Harry Lime says, Stratford is on land
    'Jack' is absolutely fine. This 'Union Flag' business is actually quite new and is presumably another case self-important people re-writing history to serve their own ends:

    "It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

    https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/
    My nephew once corrected me for calling the Union Jack when we weren't at sea because his teacher had fed him this nonsense that you can't call it a Jack at land. The thick cow.
    Turns out she's no thicker than some of our very own pedants.
    There are loads of common misconceptions that everyone has, doesn't necessarily make you thick but it does if you are teaching people rubbish.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,965
    edited August 2017
    I think the international maritime flag that represents the letter I (India) is, or used to be, known as The Chinaman's Arsehole.


    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ICS_India.svg
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    Be easy when the Scots and Northern Irish are off it in a few years.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,620
    Rothko said:

    Be easy when the Scots and Northern Irish are off it in a few years.

    One for the orange men.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    se9addick said:

    Henry Irving said:

    Without looking it up which US state has a union flag as part of its state flag?

    Henry Irving said:

    Without looking it up which US state has a union flag as part of its state flag?

    Hawaii
    Very well thanks, you?
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    smudge7946 said:

    Do other nations name there flags.
    Stars and stripes-usa
    Tricolour- France.

    Are there others?

    The Portuguese one is called Brian...

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