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Post by jonren on Feb 4, 2009 7:22:37 GMT
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Post by jonren on Feb 4, 2009 7:23:31 GMT
Sorry, For Cluni read Clunk.
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Post by peakman on Feb 4, 2009 13:07:06 GMT
Yes I noticed it too.  What a set of plonkers. Defiantly a sign of the times, in more ways than one. ;D |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 4, 2009 13:18:10 GMT
I'm amazed, I had no idea it was meant to be hung a particular way. Never even noticed that some lines are thicker than others.
Even more amazed that anyone gives anything vaguely resembling a toss about it.
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Post by peakman on Feb 4, 2009 13:28:26 GMT
Like I say, "Sign of the times"
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Post by mids on Feb 4, 2009 13:29:23 GMT
I'm amazed, I had no idea it was meant to be hung a particular way. Never even noticed that some lines are thicker than others. Even more amazed that anyone gives anything vaguely resembling a toss about it. You're excused because you're Swedish. |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 4, 2009 13:30:55 GMT
I'm not Swedish, I'm English. Which is why the British flag holds as much interest to me as the EU one.
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Post by Victor Meldrew on Feb 4, 2009 14:08:00 GMT
I did know there was a right way up, but couldn't tell you which way is correct.
That article is brilliant reading though. What the hell is the Flag Institute? Is this a group of people who do nothing all day but check up on how flags are flying? Hopefully it's not another loony quango eating up more taxpayers' donations to the Treasury.
The Flag Institute said it was "concerned" about the mistake
Most people are concerned about the world recession. They're also concerned about how safe their jobs are. But concerned about which way a flag is flying? They're having a laugh, surely.
and Tory MP Andrew Rosindell called it "an unbelievable flaw in protocol".
This guy seriously needs to chill out. I doubt anyone from the Chinese delegation would have even noticed. Except, of course, that the Flag Institute and this MP have now tipped them off.
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Post by KrispyKoala on Feb 4, 2009 14:12:23 GMT
Shouldn't the EU flag be updated? More members these days, yet it still has the original number of stars, I'd be quite pissed off if i wasn't counted.
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Post by KrispyKoala on Feb 4, 2009 14:19:51 GMT
Just as I would be pissed off if I was Welsh, being left off the union flag and all, It'd look rather nice with a little bit of black and yellow of the St Davids flag.
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Post by minge tightly on Feb 4, 2009 14:19:55 GMT
Yeah I wouldn't kinow which is the right way up but I know there IS a right way up
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Post by flatandy on Feb 4, 2009 14:37:10 GMT
The 12 stars on the EU flag don't represent the member states. They represent something else, although I can't remember what. Something like the number of toes on the beast of revelations, or something.
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Post by mids on Feb 4, 2009 15:19:16 GMT
The 12 stars on the EU flag represent piss.
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Post by jonren on Feb 4, 2009 15:39:10 GMT
The Union flag shown be flown with the broad white stripe at the top nearest the flag pole. When flown from the jackstaff on a Royal Navy ship, it becomes the Union Jack.
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Post by puffin on Feb 4, 2009 15:40:55 GMT
The Union flag is a bit like the running of the country. The thick ones go to the top next to the means of support.
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Post by dwad on Feb 4, 2009 15:41:45 GMT
I saw some Tory MP wobbling his seven chins in outrage at this yesterday. He was chairman of a cross party flag group.
Yes, you heard right, the House of Commons has a cross party flag group. People such as this man MUST be sugically castrated.
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Post by jonren on Feb 4, 2009 15:43:48 GMT
Flown upside down it is a distress signal. Perhaps Clunk meant it that way. The country is in distress.
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Post by oldmanofthesea on Feb 4, 2009 15:44:46 GMT
I suppose when the Scots, N.Irish and Welsh get independence we will have the cross of St George as Englands flag. Wont matter then which way up it is.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 4, 2009 15:47:14 GMT
Flown upside down it is a distress signal. Really? What a staggeringly rubbish distress signal. Most of the world's population wouldn't know and the few that do would be trying to measure the thickness of the lines from whatever distance away to work out whether any help was actually needed. |
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Post by puffin on Feb 4, 2009 15:49:27 GMT
That was the idea, Vox. It was a signal that could only be read by those in the know , so if a fort etc was in trouble they could warn those approaching of the danger.
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