Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks
Posted: 09:34 Wed 13 Nov 2013
An interesting variant on "getting it wrong" on Remembrance Sunday by Manchester Central Library
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My 1 second reaction was "thick white on top, nothing wrong". I then looked closer.jdaw1 wrote:Despite being a shambles, it can be construed as being the correct way up.
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
The BBC wrote:BBC house style on union jack
Union jack, lower case, is the term we use for the UK flag formed by combining the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. (The proper term, "union flag", carries potential for confusion - especially in the context of EU stories). However, where there are local political sensitivities, as in Northern Ireland, union flag is acceptable.
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
And some of them appear to have been adults!jdaw1 wrote:Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Careful - you'll have the artists' guild round with the hammers. Next thing you know, you'll be making derogatory comments about the installation I saw in a modern art museum in Cologne recently comprising a wire stretched half-way across the room - "initially mistakable for a barrier preventing the viewer from reaching an item which has been temporarily removed, the participant then begins to consider the concept of the inaccessible space" - or some-such on the adjoining notice...djewesbury wrote:And some of them appear to have been adults!jdaw1 wrote:Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
There are pretentious artists, and then there strange frustrated people who shouldn't be allowed access to photoshop. The first group makes me mad, the second brings a strange delight.PhilW wrote:Careful - you'll have the artists' guild round with the hammers. Next thing you know, you'll be making derogatory comments about the installation I saw in a modern art museum in Cologne recently comprising a wire stretched half-way across the room - "initially mistakable for a barrier preventing the viewer from reaching an item which has been temporarily removed, the participant then begins to consider the concept of the inaccessible space" - or some-such on the adjoining notice...djewesbury wrote:And some of them appear to have been adults!jdaw1 wrote:Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
well the iron bru one made me laugh!jdaw1 wrote:Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Agreed, but only one pertinent to this thread. I am trying to ignore the others.LGTrotter wrote:A problem? There are many, many layers of problem.
Not upside down, but it seems that the Bulgarians are mangling this country even before arriving.The Daily Mail, in an article entitled [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531440/Sold-Flights-buses-Romanians-Bulgarians-head-UK.html]Sold out! Flights and buses full as Romanians and Bulgarians head for the UK[/url], wrote:
All tickets for seats on buses leaving the Bulgarian capital of Sofia until January 9 have been snapped up
And Ulster in Scotland. Is this a predictive map of the British Isles post referendum?DRT wrote:It is also interesting that Dumfries and Galloway now appears to be in England
The very beautiful Inishowen peninsula. And if the Foyle (river and lough) is the boundary between North and South / Co. Derry and Co. Donegal, then Derry city is on the 'wrong' side of the river.RAYC wrote:I don't think i'd realised before that the northernmost point in Ireland (the island) was in Ireland (the country) rather than Northern Ireland. So the map was not without merit for my education!
That almost looks deliberate, since they alternate.DRT wrote:27 minutes into the first episode of Britain's Great War!