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[Misc] Make Sure Your Union Flag is Correctly Displayed!
- Thread starter Jack Straw
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Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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But unless it's double-layered, if you look at it from the other side, it's going to be the 'wrong' way around, no?
Why don't they just put the red lines in the middle, so they're all the same?
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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Unfortunately that flag screams racism for many.
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jakarta
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Indeed, there are many twats in the world...
Baldseagull
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UK racists do love waving it, so it is good to see it being waved to celebrate the Jubilee of the Queen of Jamaica
Jack Straw
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I believe it's all to do with the pole. With the pole on the left, fly the flag to the right. When you look at it from the other side, it would be wrong, but the pole would be on the right, so that would be right!
The flags aren't double-sided.
See this image below of looking at them on both sides of the Mall, all hung correctly of course.
The flags aren't double-sided.
See this image below of looking at them on both sides of the Mall, all hung correctly of course.
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The aloof gatekeeper
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- Oct 11, 2011
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A lot of people thought it very amusing that they put the flag on upside-down when they unveiled the design on the Prime Ministerial plane.
But it was pointed out that when a flag is displayed on a plane the 'flagpole' is at the cockpit end:
Hence this:
But it was pointed out that when a flag is displayed on a plane the 'flagpole' is at the cockpit end:
Hence this:
It does sadly. Hijacked, the George Cross is even worse.
I have a really nice proper large linen UJ, was my grandmothers, probably last properly used at the end of the war and/or 1953. I'ts been repaired by hand a few times, but still really good.
I won't be waving it in a hurry.
nickbrighton
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- Feb 19, 2016
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The thick white line is always at the top by the pole-it maters not whether its flying to the left or the right of the pole that wont change just because the wind does!
A flag flown upside down is an international sign of distress,
Jack Straw
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That's exactly what I was taught when in the Cubs, hundreds of years' ago!
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We learnt that at scouts too . . . Unintentionally ironic?
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Why are the white lines different thicknesses? What's the point/meaning of that?
It's so people can complain about them being hung incorrectly, of course.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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It's so people can complain about them being hung incorrectly, of course.
Ha, I should have thought of that. The perfect flag for the perfect British passtime!
Originally it was so other ships can recognise when it’s being flown upside down, the signal for distress. A lot of maritime nations’ flags are designed similarly.
That’s what I’ve always been taught anyway.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Couldn't they have just written 'help' upside down? Much easier to work out that way.
Japan will need to rethink their flag...
Japs would never admit to being in distress.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Good point. Would have thought I'd realise that.
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It's all to do with fimbriation.
And not upsetting the Scots or Irish.