breweryThe correct way
Sometimes, you just want to fly a flag upside down, knowing which way is up certainly helps with that! Probably very popular as a statement in the UK, though, considering how subtle the visual effect is.
GladaedNot that subtle. Right flag is disturbing.
What’s the punishment for hanging it the wrong way around?
Straight to jail
HossenfefferYou have to house a fighting-age male immigrant in your shed.
When I worked at a historic site that flew the Union Flag, you had to run around the parade square three times if you screwed up while raising or lowering it. That included hanging it upside down or letting it hit the ground.
And then jail?
There was a cell at the site but we mostly just pretended to lock tourists in it for pictures.
You get hanged the wrong way around
From your balls?
Don’t threaten me with a good time
What about hanging it vertically?
According to flaginstitute.org/…/Flying_Flags_in_the_United_Ki…:
Union Flag - If hung horizontally or vertically, the broad white diagonal should be uppermost in the top-left corner.
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
You just gave me a good way of looking at it. The stripes on the right side is the “right” way up. Now I’ll always remember which way it goes.
mannycalaveraI like how it is an interesting flag from an aesthetic point of view. So intricate and detailed. Unlike most tricolours. It even works in black and white pretty well.
I acknowledge, however, the political and historical controversies it carries. Not trying to undo that.
Assian_Candor [comrade/them]Flag flying is cringe, its funny that this is the UKs current culture war
Why is it not symmetrical though?
They did this to themselves.
To illustrate the equal partnership between England and Scotland. England gets the foreground, while Scotland gets the pride of place in top left corner.
It’s because the part representing Scotland is elevated in heraldry over Northern Ireland.
because if it was, the white “X” would look like it’s merely a border to the red, which is not supposed to be the case because it’s a separate symbol.
Because of the way it is! Duh!
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BennyCHill [he/him]It depends on which side the flag poles is on.
Did you read the post, sir?
It seems I did not, no. How embarrassing.
What percentage of Brits would recognize the “distress signal” of hanging flag upside down?
That just means you need to put the kettle on, which as a Brit you will already be doing anyway.
I trust someone named Nigel on this topic.
Good old-fashioned common farmer don’t you know.
Literally thought it was rotationally symmetrical until I saw this post
Why is your flag orientable but difficult to tell‽
“Started at the bottom now we here”. First red stripe in upper left is at the bottom.
Who cares about the idolatry of a flag?
How are you supposed to even tell from a distance? In America hanging the flag upside down is used as a distress signal - how do y’all do it?
If it’s been flown at all it’s a sign of distress. It’s something only racists do, to try and prove they’re better then everyone else.
You think any and all instances of a country’s flag being flown means the person who put it up are racist?
blinfabiandude, that “no racism” flag youre holding is so racist
BlackmistThis is why I scruffily daub England flags onto mini roundabouts.
I’m not sure who told the far right that flying a flag is anti-establishment. The fucking king flies them for fucks sake.
Burning it is the only correct way to handle that nazi flag