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Tim Hall

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Flag watch
« on: 08 March, 2021, 07:16:50 pm »
Following on from this post I caught a trailer for The Great British Menu. There's a dessert of some kind with a tiny Union Flag stuck in it. The flag is upside down. <Twitch>.

I'd get out more, but everywhere is closed.

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #1 on: 08 March, 2021, 08:10:50 pm »
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rogerzilla

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #2 on: 08 March, 2021, 08:41:30 pm »
Always amusing to see a Brexitty type flying it upside-down from a flagpole in his back garden.
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ian

Re: Flag watch
« Reply #3 on: 08 March, 2021, 09:22:30 pm »
I've no idea which way is the correct way. It's really just this fact that's stopping me becoming a racist. The uncertainty of the matter. I get out, espouse the cause for white supremacy, and then I find out that my flag is upside down and what the fuck. I'm suddenly woke and even Lozzer won't retweet me.

Re: Flag watch
« Reply #4 on: 09 March, 2021, 01:27:14 pm »
Following on from this post I caught a trailer for The Great British Menu. There's a dessert of some kind with a tiny Union Flag stuck in it. The flag is upside down. <Twitch>.

I'd get out more, but everywhere is closed.

Recently folk have started objecting to the historical term 'jack'.  I just looked up which is the right way up.  I do this when prompted by someone complaining about an inverted jack, and forget within an hour. 

rogerzilla

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #5 on: 09 March, 2021, 01:49:54 pm »
It's a pretty stupid design: it might as well be symmetrical.  It's not as if it's one of those banana republic flags with little AK-47s on it.

https://worldflagsgraded.com/ratings.html

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #6 on: 09 March, 2021, 02:01:57 pm »
Haha! Needs updating – several flags have changed – but I like the comments about St Lucia and the Marshall Islands.
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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #7 on: 09 March, 2021, 02:08:47 pm »
Following on from this post I caught a trailer for The Great British Menu. There's a dessert of some kind with a tiny Union Flag stuck in it. The flag is upside down. <Twitch>.

I'd get out more, but everywhere is closed.

Recently folk have started objecting to the historical term 'jack'.  I just looked up which is the right way up.  I do this when prompted by someone complaining about an inverted jack, and forget within an hour.

Bozo's expensively re-liveried plane has the Union Flag upside down on the starboard side of the tail.  Looking at the flag the top right quadrant should have a thin white bar above the red bar, a thicker white bar below.  It is the opposite on the top left.  The bottom quadrant of the flag on either side is in the same format as the top quadrant above them.

AIUI, jack is the term used for maritime purposes, flag for land lubbing is my understanding.  I think the slang Jack Tar refers to reserve seafarers.

Re: Flag watch
« Reply #8 on: 09 March, 2021, 02:17:21 pm »
It's only a 'jack' when it's flown from the jackstaff of a warship (Jackstaff is the little pole up at the sharp end). It can be flown as a courtesy flag by foreigeners but that should be from the starboard yardarm or spreader on the foremast - then it's the Union flag.

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rogerzilla

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #9 on: 09 March, 2021, 02:31:03 pm »
Bozo's expensively re-liveried plane has the Union Flag upside down on the starboard side of the tail.  Looking at the flag the top right quadrant should have a thin white bar above the red bar, a thicker white bar below.  It is the opposite on the top left.  The bottom quadrant of the flag on either side is in the same format as the top quadrant above them.

There's a precedent for reversed logos on large vessels with the old Sealink ferries; the British Rail double arrow was, uniquely, reversed on one side of the funnel.

Excellent photo here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealink#/media/File%3ASealink_ferries_Horsa_and_Maid_of_Orleans%2C_Dover%2C_1973.jpg
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Karla

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #10 on: 09 March, 2021, 02:41:41 pm »
It's only a 'jack' when it's flown from the jackstaff of a warship (Jackstaff is the little pole up at the sharp end). It can be flown as a courtesy flag by foreigeners but that should be from the starboard yardarm or spreader on the foremast - then it's the Union flag.

HTH

Everyone knows what 'Union Jack' means, and the use of the term has the added advantage of annoying pendants  :thumbsup:

rogerzilla

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #11 on: 09 March, 2021, 02:46:57 pm »
has the added advantage of annoying pendants  :thumbsup:

I see what you did there.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #12 on: 09 March, 2021, 03:26:05 pm »
ITYM "annoying pennants".
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Karla

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #13 on: 09 March, 2021, 04:41:36 pm »
Having looked at Roger's link, the Greenland flag is a pretty annoying pennant.


Re: Flag watch
« Reply #14 on: 09 March, 2021, 04:55:15 pm »
It's only a 'jack' when it's flown from the jackstaff of a warship (Jackstaff is the little pole up at the sharp end). It can be flown as a courtesy flag by foreigeners but that should be from the starboard yardarm or spreader on the foremast - then it's the Union flag.

HTH

There is a merchant navy Union Jack; it's a square Union Flag with a white border.

Re: Flag watch
« Reply #15 on: 09 March, 2021, 05:41:34 pm »
It's only a 'jack' when it's flown from the jackstaff of a warship (Jackstaff is the little pole up at the sharp end). It can be flown as a courtesy flag by foreigeners but that should be from the starboard yardarm or spreader on the foremast - then it's the Union flag.

HTH

In the UK 'jack' came to refer to all flags.  It even appeared in official descriptions.  It's only in the last 20-30 years that people have felt the need to 'correct' this usage.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #16 on: 09 March, 2021, 06:40:57 pm »
Except on the 8th of March, when it's a Union Jill.  :facepalm:
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hellymedic

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #17 on: 09 March, 2021, 08:28:11 pm »
Bozo's expensively re-liveried plane has the Union Flag upside down on the starboard side of the tail.  Looking at the flag the top right quadrant should have a thin white bar above the red bar, a thicker white bar below.  It is the opposite on the top left.  The bottom quadrant of the flag on either side is in the same format as the top quadrant above them.

Surely it's inevitable that any design painted on one side of a tail fin, with its mirror image on the other side, will generate a 'wrong' image?

The Union flag is not radially symmetrical and this is the predictable result.

Tim Hall

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #18 on: 09 March, 2021, 08:47:07 pm »
Bozo's expensively re-liveried plane has the Union Flag upside down on the starboard side of the tail.  Looking at the flag the top right quadrant should have a thin white bar above the red bar, a thicker white bar below.  It is the opposite on the top left.  The bottom quadrant of the flag on either side is in the same format as the top quadrant above them.

Surely it's inevitable that any design painted on one side of a tail fin, with its mirror image on the other side, will generate a 'wrong' image?

The Union flag is not radially symmetrical and this is the predictable result.
Upsidedown-ness is wrt to the flag pole/hoist though. The Flag Institute say of painted flags:
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When flags are painted onto a vehicle, or on the tail fin of an aircraft, the flag on the port side should show the obverse of the flag (ie. the flagpole on the left), while that on the starboard side should show the reverse (ie. the flagpole on the right). On surfaces perpendicular to the direction of travel (eg. the back of the vehicle) the obverse of the flag should be shown.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #19 on: 10 March, 2021, 10:29:44 am »
No-one tell the Flag Institute* about Sealink ferries!

*I bet their Christmas party is a right humdinger
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RichForrest

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #20 on: 10 March, 2021, 11:14:46 am »
Was bored while waiting to get into our depot at Stafford a while ago!
https://goo.gl/maps/JZdUZPj6zoid7dks6

Did the same to a local company and the next day it was put up correctly  ;D


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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #21 on: 10 March, 2021, 12:50:10 pm »
No-one tell the Flag Institute* about Sealink ferries!

*I bet their Christmas party is a right humdinger

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #22 on: 10 March, 2021, 01:49:00 pm »
Bozo's expensively re-liveried plane has the Union Flag upside down on the starboard side of the tail.  Looking at the flag the top right quadrant should have a thin white bar above the red bar, a thicker white bar below.  It is the opposite on the top left.  The bottom quadrant of the flag on either side is in the same format as the top quadrant above them.

Surely it's inevitable that any design painted on one side of a tail fin, with its mirror image on the other side, will generate a 'wrong' image?

The Union flag is not radially symmetrical and this is the predictable result.
Upsidedown-ness is wrt to the flag pole/hoist though. The Flag Institute say of painted flags:
Quote
When flags are painted onto a vehicle, or on the tail fin of an aircraft, the flag on the port side should show the obverse of the flag (ie. the flagpole on the left), while that on the starboard side should show the reverse (ie. the flagpole on the right). On surfaces perpendicular to the direction of travel (eg. the back of the vehicle) the obverse of the flag should be shown.
So it should be painted as if the flagpole was at the front and the flag flying behind it in the slipstream of the plane, as if it would do if it were a real flag. Far too sensible!
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #23 on: 10 March, 2021, 01:49:56 pm »
Having looked at Roger's link, the Greenland flag is a pretty annoying pennant.


I rather like it. Plus, it's distinctive and says "sun rising/setting over snowy land".
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SoreTween

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Re: Flag watch
« Reply #24 on: 11 March, 2021, 10:17:02 am »
Sorry I'm late, I was having trouble with my anorak, the zip got stuck in my woggle.

Bozo's expensively re-liveried plane has the Union Flag upside down on the starboard side of the tail.  Looking at the flag the top right quadrant should have a thin white bar above the red bar, a thicker white bar below.  It is the opposite on the top left.  The bottom quadrant of the flag on either side is in the same format as the top quadrant above them.

Left & right have no meaning on a flag, just ask the wind. As Tim says it's the relationship with the flagpole that matters.  The rule about thick white bits vs thin has never stuck for me, there's nothing to base it off, you just have to remember. Instead I remember that the red should connect with flagpole at the top. If the red bit is on skyhooks adjacent the pole it's obviously going to fall off.
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