Modifying the Flag

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Malpass93
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Not forgetting ones like this:

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Sput
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I particularly like the last one. It's good to know that someone has FINALLY tackled the problem of no-one knowing which country a flag belongs to! If only there were some distinctive marking...
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What's with the Union Flag? I always thought it was the good ol' Union JACK...

I don't like what they've done with the EDF ad, it just doesn't look right, especially when it's being broadcast across the whole of Britain.
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Sput
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As opposed to only being broadcast in the part of britain that it's...correct...in...?
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In some countries it's seen vandalism to deface or alter the flag, but then if you changed the colours of something like the French flag, it'd just look like three coloured stripes and you couldn't really tell it's a flag.
Well you would, but it's more difficult to use different colours on a tricolour - so many colours are out of bounds as another country has them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolour#Examples Change the white to yellow and it's Romania, change the blue to green and it's Italy's etc
As long as they're not burning it, I don't really mind what people do with the flag, although it looks a lot classier in green - the red and blue version looks so trashy, especially when used on TV, like in the BBC's Eurovision selection shows, it just lowers the tone somehow (if that's even possible with Eurovision).
Although the 2012 logo looked better in red white and blue!
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nwtv2003 wrote:What's with the Union Flag? I always thought it was the good ol' Union JACK...
I think it is only meant to be called Jack when it's flying at sea.
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Ben wrote:
nwtv2003 wrote:What's with the Union Flag? I always thought it was the good ol' Union JACK...
I think it is only meant to be called Jack when it's flying at sea.
The Union flag is indeed only referred to as a Union jack when flying from the jack staff of a Royal Navy warship.
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Crikey, thanks Dave. You learn something every day.

I always knew it was sometimes 'flag' and sometimes 'jack', but didn't know exactly when it was what till you explained.
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In other flag-related trivia, a flag flown at half-mast should in fact be at two-thirds the height of the pole.

I think we are proving that us NI folk know our flags. Having been brought up surrounded by them.
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