What's wrong with this Picture

I was looking thru Yahoo.com's pictures of the week and noticed this one. I wonder just what the significance of the flag placement means. IMHO, there needs to be questions asked when public displays such as this happen...
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070609/480/8bb06f6cb6d942c4bcebb5e93d99058e

 

sedition, plain and simple

 

Sorry guys, no disrespect to the flag here. That is the international sign of distress, "Help!". I wonder how a frenchman would turn his flag upside down?

 

It looks to me like the flag has been hung vertically and it is just the angle of the photo that has caused it to be upside down. I suppose the French flag would be hard to tell but you could turn it so it would run red,white,blue instead of blue,white,red. But what about the Union Jack?

 

John,the St. Patrick's cross must be at the top of the St. Andrew's Cross to be up in the correct position on the Union Jack.It is easy to put the Union Jack in the upside down position.

Aidan.

 

Aidan, we are not talking about moving the elements of the flag but the whole flag itself.

 

The correct way to fly it is with the thick white band above the red band on both diagonals.

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But kiwi, in reference to the French flag, if you hung it in the vertical, then it would be decided by which way the wind was blowing.

Oops, I was wrong about the French flag. It could be hung upside down to show that help was needed. I just wanted to take a pot shot but made myself look stupid.

 

Alwayslost,it doesn't matter which way you fly the French flag,as it will always be the right way up.The same thing applies to the Republic of Ireland's notorious Tricolour (an extremely sectarian symbol of hate!) & the Italian flag.

Aidan.

 

Thanks for that De Orc although that might be too subtle for some people to spot!!

You are right Always, but I suppose the French have had plenty of practice hanging their flag in the help position with the way their last few wars have gone!

 

I know that we Americans have suffered all kinds of tragedy. But actually we live in the garden of eden. And will not be evicted!

By Americans I mean anyone born in the Western Hemisphere. Or at least over the Spanish Main. Check out the Spanish Main.

 

Speaking of OUR flag...

Language, culture and borders...America is under attack and appeasers to this filth are the blame.

Did you see this? And people are against securing our borders with Mexico?

From a high school in California...what respect they have for OUR nation, right??







What is wrong with these pictures too??

 

C'mon, we all know the Irish are dirty peoples, but don't be mad that they broke off from the Empire and thus cut out another country from the B.C. you could collect.

 

The Irish are some of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting, I honestly dont know if Aidan has ever met a Irish person in his life but do doubt it. The folks who live in the south are friendly and generouse to a fault, as are most of those in the north except of course for the hate mongers.


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Sorry, De Orc, my mum is 100% Scotch, so I have no choice but to feel unfriendly towards those potato-eaters...and don't even get me started on the English!

But, honestly, I have no qualms with either group, though Irish-AMERICANS are a whole 'nother deal. Ever live in Boston? Ever live in Boston AND happen to venture outside on St. Patricks Day? I'll let you suss that one out for yourself, ha...

 

up side down means distress, and the Muslim community in America certainly are in distress.

 

Jhonn,I have met very few Irish Catholics who aren't bigoted.A lot of the ones that live over here are bigoted.Being of Scots descent myself,my family have always regarded the Irish Catholics as being a barbarian race of people.I've met Scots & Welsh people who have no time for the Scottish National Party & Plaid Cymru respectively.

I've always been pro-English,& yes,I have a soft spot even for the St. George's Cross flag of England & the St. Patrick's Cross flag of Ireland (a red saltire on a white background).

As for collecting banknotes & coins from Ireland,I do,as Ireland will more than likely one day return to its membership as a British Commonwealth member state.

Aidan.

 

I'm not so sure about that. However, I'm not fond of Catholics as it is (or rather, religious jerks in general), but I have to say that it's ironic that my mum, who's father was a stout atheist, was very weary of Catholics when growing up in Glasgow/Edinburgh, and chose to associate with Protestants even though she had no religious upbringing at all. I think the general attitude in Scotland/England/Wales is still that of Catholics = Bad while Protestants = Good. I don't agree with that only because I don't believe any of that nonsense, but it's still hard for me to understand the mindset, as that sort of tension doesn't really exist here in the States.

 

Nor does it exsist here in the UK Johnn, it is only a very small minority that displys religious hatred about the only two places outside of Ulster theay I can think of that is intolerant is Glasgow & that is based round soccer (Celtic & Rangers) and Liverpool which has a very large Irish Catholic community. Believe it or not there was not even displays of hatred towards the Irish at the hight of the IRA's bombing campaign, towards Individuals such as Adams, Sands or McGuiness and Sinn Fain then yes there was but not towards everyday Irish people, hell they could even vote over here, with no real restrictions in travel between the countries.

 

I had a feeling that the intolerance has died down in recent years. As for football...well, my fam. is Hearts all the way, but I know that THOSE kinds of rivalries can be almost worse than religious ones. :rolling: