I'll be glad when the Jubilee is over

Now, don't misunderstand me, there's nothing wrong with the Jubilee itself, people having picnics, red white and blue food of every description, bunting, people dressing up, having fun, if the weather holds, it'll be great - but .... if the Jubilee is proving one thing, it's that at ⅔ least of the population have absolutely no idea of the correct way to hang the union flag and I'm not just talking about flags draped from bedroom windows, I'm talking 6' x 4' or even 8' x 5' things in shop windows, outside hotels and pubs, in fact just about anywhere.

Do these people not realise that for a pedant such as I, this is almost more than flesh and blood can stand? Or how hard it is to stop myself rushing into offending premises to scream 'Your flag is upside down and it's a union flag not a union jack - unless you're all at sea, which, considering your flag is the wrong way up, could very well be the case.'

I'll be glad when it's all over and I can stop taking the pills

 

Think I'll play my original copy whilst my daughter's away helping out at the local Jubilee Picnic - don't think young people understand this stuff nowadays.

 

I have moved this to Non-Gardening Discussion JWK which is as close as I could get...

cheer up you lot!

 

I can never work this flag hanging thing out Isn't it more the wrong way round??

Val

 

Ahh, yes I've GOT it now!!!!! Thank you Ziggy Now I finally know which way is the right way up, where would I be without "The Zig"!!!!!!!!!

Val

 

Didn't have you down as a punk fan, Scrungee. Don't miss 'Punk Britannia':-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00s81jw/episodes/guide

 

I think flying the Union Flag upside down is a sign of distress.

 

Wales?

 

You would have thought that, with the Jubilee and all that, there might be the odd TV prog. about it.
Has anybody noticed one?

 

If getting the flag the right way around is a priority, then in my opinion there's a bit of a design flaw. It should say 'this way up' or something across the top. Better still, it should incorporate the Welsh dragon. Wales should be in there somewhere - can't understand why it isn't - and even Medway folk would probably be able the get a dragon the right way up.