New "British Flag"

[Cian]

This is the flag of the 9 counties Province of Ulster:-

And I have a 15 square foot one of these somewhere in the house from the 1999 Heineken Cup.

 

[Rogero]

Is there any need for this comnent? You come across as pompous twat! Really, the most ignorant thing you have ever read on NSC?

Agreed. The comment that Brovion made is the most shockingly ignorant thing I've ever read on NSC. Please don't take offence that most people think that you are not in the real world.

 

[Brovion]

Not really. The thing with History is we have shitloads of it and over a 1000 years of not having any other fucker try to re-write it for us. This creates a sense of ease in which the national flag gets worn as underwear, duvets or table cloths. which would horrify more insecure nations if their flag was treated in that way. Hence although you have a valid point it is very unbritish to get worked up about it.

True enough. The thing is I was genuinely shocked that some people didn't know what all the lines and colours meant as if it were little more than a logo dreamt up by a marketing department. I had assumed (obviously wrongly) that the make-up of the Union flag was the sort of thing that everyone learned almost by osmosis as you were growing up. And in trying to be as polite as possible I get labelled a pompous twat! Ah well, such is life.

 

[dingodan]

Good luck Scotland. I hope you get your republic and escape the hereditary monarchy and media-ocracy that we call the United King-Dom.

 

[pigbite]

I don't know but Wales is clearly a proud nation with its own language and customs.

The river Severn is the border of two different nations as far as I'm concerned.

erm - what about the bits of Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire etc. on the west side of the Severn? I was born in Worcester, spent a good portion of my youth in Malvern and Welsh I certainly am not!

 

[Boys 9d]

The boundary between England and Wales is approximately along the line of Offa's Dyke which was established as the frontier in the 8th Century by the Mercian King of that name.

 

[fleet]

This is the nearest i can find but on The Politic Show the Dragon was in the bottom left corner.

Reduced printing costs, just one colour on white

 

[Seagull on the wing]

I thought everyone knew. We always sing "there ain't no dragon on the union jack, do da, do da" when we play Cardiff, Swansea or Wrexham. At least we used to.

It's the Union flag,it's only the Union Jack on the flagstaff on the bow of a naval ship in harbour.

 

[looney]

True enough. The thing is I was genuinely shocked that some people didn't know what all the lines and colours meant as if it were little more than a logo dreamt up by a marketing department. I had assumed (obviously wrongly) that the make-up of the Union flag was the sort of thing that everyone learned almost by osmosis as you were growing up. And in trying to be as polite as possible I get labelled a pompous twat! Ah well, such is life.

TBH up till 15 years ago I thought the diagonal red was for wales. I did know which way up to fly it which is of more practacle importance however unlikely. Many do not know this.

 

[Notters]

It's the Union flag,it's only the Union Jack on the flagstaff on the bow of a naval ship in harbour.

Hence my use of quotation marks, I always say union flag, but it's what we sing. HOWEVER, the use of "jack" instead of "flag" has in fact been correct for a hundred years...