Well It's Been A 'Different Start' To My Day :-0 )

[Bobbisox1]

Put out necessary announcement on my local residents page regarding next saturdays street party that I'm organising like Please be sure to put all rubbish in bags provided and to see me for your flags to wave, stuff like that, when a young lady came on telling me how i had to be sure of hanging the flags the right way and I shouldn't be reffering to them as the union jack, I carefully explained I knew it was the flag that was the union and the jack was the pole and till such times that Scotland and Wales gain full independence , it's the union jack for me, she then went on to tell me how if I didnt hang the flags correctly I was signally I was in trouble,That's correct at sea said I but I can't see a ship coming to my aid on the grassy landthat cover the pedestrian street of ours, she's still banging her gums when I left , a clear case of teaching ya granny how to suck eggs, Bless her

[choux]

Whippersnapper!

[Bobbisox1]

haha, I had to laugh Choux, Blimey I thoght AB was bad haha

[Arksided]

Keep bouncing Bobbi, I’ve only just realised what planet I live on… it’s a bit scary :-/

[douglas9401]

She may have just been to confession and this was her penants. :-)

[TantP]

How can you hang the Union Jack upside down?

[tiggerblue10]

There's always one! Ha!

[Bobbisox1]

the thick white border goes against the pole (allegedly )
personally I don't care which way they go up on the day anyway

[TantP]

tiggerblue seems there is more than one Ha!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/more-half-brits-dont-know-9771296

[tiggerblue10]

We've got flags on poles, street lights etc., all up my road. I only noticed them yesterday flapping outside the bedroom window.

Might get some bunting to go across the windows as we've got a street party next Sunday.

[Bobbisox1]

I'm doing ours (with help) next Friday as my son in law is working all weekend although I have volanteers too

[ichkeria]

Not sure anyone knows where the term “Union Jack” cones from.
Don’t let anyone tell you it’s incorrect though :-)

[Prudie]

To minimise hassle bobbi I would make sure the Union Jack is the right way up. Many people do in fact get agitated if it's flown upside down., probably rightly so. It's about the wide white diagonal being top left but check online.

[THECORBYLOON]

Unless the flag is on a stick/pole or could be flown from a pole, there is no upside-down for the Union Flag.

If it can be on a stick or pole, the St Andrew's Cross should be above the St Patrick's Cross on the side nearest the stick or pole.

[maggiebee]

My understanding is that the "butcher's apron" can be hung upside down. Remember this from when I was a Guide and at camp the flag had to be taken down and put up again the correct way. First I had ever heard of it.

[aelmpvw]

thought jack was a synonym for flag . . .

[Arksided]

She’s from the north east bless her…

[Bobbisox1]

Butchers Apron? care to elaborate Maggiebee?

[aelmpvw]

butcher's aprons are blue and white stripes, i suppose the red is the blood . . .

[Bobbisox1]

Christ Maggie the hatred seeps through this but to be honest I’ve not heard the term before ,just goes to show what entrenched hate can do past through generations

The Butcher's Apron is a pejorative term for the flag, common among Irish republicans, citing the blood-streaked appearance of the flag and referring to atrocities committed in Ireland and other countries under British colonial rule.

[sandyRoe]

Remind me, how does one suck eggs? :-))