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"Steven P. McNicoll" ) writes:
An upside down flag is a distress signal. I knew that, but I always wondered what a Japanese ship would do flag wise? |
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In article , Richard Brooks
writes AFAIK it also goes for the Union Jack so nowadays lots of people seem to be in distress. Small nit-pick, it's only a Union Jack if flown from the jack-staff of a vessel, otherwise it's a Union Flag. If you look at a proper Union Jack, you'll see the diagonal bars Presumably the red bars and not the white? are vertically offset (one pair lower than the horizontally opposite pair) and if hung against a wall, it's "left hand down" with the diagonal pair slightly lower on the left hand side or the pair nearest the flag pole lowest if hung properly from a pole. I always worked off the broader white diagonal band goes top-left on the flag pole, but that falls down if it's seen from the other side. Some countries print the flag with the diagonals balanced so it might be a factor of "well, we might be in trouble but who knows ?" Yes, the Union Flags I have (printed in the US, Belgium and Taiwan by the way) all have the correct format, although a recent holiday in Mallorca showed an awful lot of very dodgy representations of the flag on beach towels, shorts and the like. -- John |
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In article , Richard Brooks
writes The nicer ones being stretched across female t-shirt fronts! Well yes, but I prefer them crumpled up on the floor... -- John |
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