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Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 09:34 Wed 13 Nov 2013
by RAYC
An interesting variant on "getting it wrong" on Remembrance Sunday by Manchester Central Library

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link to story

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 11:38 Wed 13 Nov 2013
by jdaw1
Despite being a shambles, it can be construed as being the correct way up.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 00:37 Thu 14 Nov 2013
by DRT
jdaw1 wrote:Despite being a shambles, it can be construed as being the correct way up.
My 1 second reaction was "thick white on top, nothing wrong". I then looked closer.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 22:53 Thu 05 Dec 2013
by jdaw1

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 15:07 Fri 06 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
This strange article includes the following interesting snippet:
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.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 15:58 Fri 06 Dec 2013
by jdaw1
djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 16:01 Fri 06 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.
And some of them appear to have been adults!

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 18:41 Fri 06 Dec 2013
by PhilW
djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.
And some of them appear to have been adults!
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...

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 18:46 Fri 06 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
PhilW wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.
And some of them appear to have been adults!
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...
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.
Only one lot are coining it in though.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 19:07 Fri 06 Dec 2013
by RAYC
jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:This strange article includes the following interesting snippet
Indeed, what a childish dog’s breakfast.
well the iron bru one made me laugh!

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Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 19:44 Wed 11 Dec 2013
by SCP-DFF
Messed up Union Jack. On sale at http://www.achica.com/product/1359240/p ... ack-mirror

£29

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Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 01:56 Fri 27 Dec 2013
by DRT
I think my father-in-law's festive slippers have a problem!

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 02:27 Fri 27 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
A problem? There are many, many layers of problem.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 02:29 Fri 27 Dec 2013
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:A problem? There are many, many layers of problem.
Agreed, but only one pertinent to this thread. I am trying to ignore the others.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 16:56 Tue 31 Dec 2013
by jdaw1
Not upside down, but it seems that the Bulgarians are mangling this country even before arriving.

Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 08:51 Mon 06 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
Hmm. Page 22 of today's Guardian.
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Aside from the obvious problems with the union jacks (plural as they do not connect into a single flag), there is also a worrying discontinuity in the northwest of the Irish Republic, where Donegal and Sligo appear to have become discontiguous (or rather, connected only by a single line).
(I'll let someone else post Melissa Kite's incoherent article about alcohol and health that is alongside it.)

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 12:12 Mon 06 Jan 2014
by DRT
It is also interesting that Dumfries and Galloway now appears to be in England :shock:

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 09:15 Tue 07 Jan 2014
by Alex Bridgeman
DRT wrote:It is also interesting that Dumfries and Galloway now appears to be in England :shock:
And Ulster in Scotland. Is this a predictive map of the British Isles post referendum?

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 12:24 Tue 07 Jan 2014
by RAYC
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!

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 13:46 Tue 07 Jan 2014
by djewesbury
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!
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.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 19:39 Tue 28 Jan 2014
by jdaw1

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 01:40 Fri 31 Jan 2014
by DRT
27 minutes into the first episode of Britain's Great War!
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Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 17:23 Fri 31 Jan 2014
by Glenn E.
DRT wrote:27 minutes into the first episode of Britain's Great War!
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That almost looks deliberate, since they alternate.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 12:43 Mon 23 Jun 2014
by jdaw1
Seen on 9th May 2014:
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The driver wanted to be told why I was photographing his vehicle. After explanation, he shared my disappointment.

But the other side of the lorry was correct.
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Other images are at njbrecycling.co.uk.

Re: Upside-Down Union Jacks

Posted: 14:55 Mon 23 Jun 2014
by flash_uk
I suspect Julian has critiqued more Union Jack hoists than I have, but what is it that is wrong with the top one? If one assumes that it is hoisted on the right (where the vertical exhaust pipe could be construed as a flagpole), then isn't it OK?