Flag Mistake at UK-China Ceremony

[therealpigdog]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7866938.stm

Basically the Union Jack was flown upside down at the ceremony. Cue BBC uproar at this "Upside-Down Flag Event Situation Crunch".

Its ironic that flying the Union flag upsode down used to be a signal that the flag-flyer was in distress. Maybe Brown and Mandelson are trying to tell us something?

[Pickled Piper]

I'm sorry I keep looking at the pictures but I can't se the difference. Perhaps we should just make the flag doubly symmetric to avoid any such issues in the future.

pp

[spitfire-ian]

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/geography/...

[Simpo Two]

Regrettably nobody knows or cares anymore. Were we one of those 'less tolerant' societies we'd doubtless be out in the streets firing AK47s and burning things by now.

[Xenocide]

Pickled Piper said:

I'm sorry I keep looking at the pictures but I can't se the difference. Perhaps we should just make the flag doubly symmetric to avoid any such issues in the future.

pp

Top-left quadrent of the flag, the thicker white bit should be at the top of the red bit!

[fatboy b]

Surely that'll cause no-end of chaos!

[G'kar]

Article said:

Mr Kearsley added: "I'm surprised that people of the calibre of Mandelson and the prime minister could allow such as mistake.

[jeff m]

I assumed this would be a mistake by the Chinese.

It was at Downing Street.
That's a little worrying, what calibre of people do we have there.
Answers on a postcard no later than Thursday.

[M3CHA-MONK3Y]

OMFG! Well thats completely destroyed all hope of peaceful relations with China, we should definetly kill ourselves for such an obviouse blunder. Bloody BBC idiots, i'm pretty sure the Chinese don't give a toss.

[tinman0]

M3CHA-MONK3Y said:

i'm pretty sure the Chinese don't give a toss.

Apparently, nor do we. Which is worrying really.

Think about it, your job is to put the flag up on 10 Downing Street, and you get it wrong. I mean, how clueless do you have to be?

However, I'm assuming it was done in a hurry and they didn't double check rather than piss poor educational standards that we are alluding to.

[The Moose]

Tbh, I find it fairly destressing...





... That there is a 'Flag Institute'

:-S

[The Black Flash]

Why am I not surprised. A lacky of the EU showing his true contempt for our country.

C'mon Your Maj, it's about time you rode into number 10 and stuck these fkwits in the Tower.

[gmk666]

Too busy making extra sure the Chinese flag was the right way up probably.
That and kissing Mandelson's arse.

[Randy Winkman]

Hasn't the flag been manufactured incorrectly? (Probably in China, ironically) Though obviously someone at No 10 should've checked it in advance and done a quick bit of DIY to correct it.

[Pesty]

Pickled Piper said:

I'm sorry I keep looking at the pictures but I can't se the difference. Perhaps we should just make the flag doubly symmetric to avoid any such issues in the future.

pp

Perhaps you should take pride in the country you live in enough to know a little bit more about the flag and the history of these Isles.

Just a thought.

Edited by Pesty on Tuesday 3rd February 18:56