Why are people talking about flying a flag upside-down?
Today, a bunch of people on my Mastodon feed are making declarations about somebody apparently flying a flag upside down, and this apparently has something to do with the New York Times being terrible....
https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestion[email protected]/t/1038958
Flying the US flag upside down on ship is apparently a distress signal.
(Flying the UK flag upside down just makes people think you’re an idiot.)
Yes.
In the upper corner of the flag nearest the flagpole, the wider diagonal white stripe should be above the red diagonal stripe. If the red is above the wider white stripe the flag is upside-down.
www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/…/union-flag-faqs
Even our own government screws it up though telegraph.co.uk/…/union-flag-has-flying-outside-p…
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