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!
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.
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"
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.
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
'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”.
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.
'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”.
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.
'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”.
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.
'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”.
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.
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and a series of little arrows pointed to where the pole should be labelled 'flagpole this way'.
Could happen.
Indonesian Flag
Red Duster
Jolly Roger
If you flew the Polish flag upside down people would think you were from Indonesia.
North Korea
"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/
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
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ICS_India.svg