Flying the flag?
 

In light of a recent comment about how you cant fly the flag in the UK without being labelled a racist, I was wondering how many of the expat canadian resident contingent here have taken the opportunity to fly the flag of their choice here, safe from any negative connotations...

A "british" flag in this context could be the union flag, or one of the constituent national flags, or the lion rampant, etc.

Re: Flying the flag?
 

I fly the St Georges Cross alongside a bigger Maple Leaf!

Re: Flying the flag?
 

My OH wants to get a Union Jack to fly alongside a Maple Leaf

Re: Flying the flag?
 

Maybe when I move back to Northern Ireland I'll put up a Canadian flag just to confuse the locals.

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Union Jack? where is he originally from?

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I think they must be banned around here, I haven't seen a single flag anywhere. Or can you not ban people flying flags? I know they don't like wooden fences, vinyl siding and a whole lot of other silly stuff... must dig out the restrictive covenant and see if flagpoles are in there too.

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A ship, presumably.

Re: Flying the flag?
 

Huh? :confused:

Is it called something else now?

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Here's what's outside my house - I think the colours go so prettily with my Maple Leaf flag.

I wouldn't fly the Union flag though, as apparently that's just racist.

Re: Flying the flag?
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Flag


I must say I am shocked by the level of flag flying apathy...

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Tell me you googled that and didnt just happen to have it handy...

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Please, it is the Union flag not the Union Jack!

Sorry but this one of my biggest pet hates.

HH

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Never heard of restrictive covenants on wooden fences before...chain link fences I've heard of in some subdivisions. Is the fence restriction a height limit thing?

I've seen flags that are two sided with one side being the Canadian flag and the other being a number of df't ones (including Italian, German, Quebec, England, UK, Scotland, USA) that would be suitable for many df't situations.

Re: Flying the flag?
 

I don't have a pole.

Re: Flying the flag?
 

When we bought our house, there was a Canadian flag flying over the porch. We left it up for about a year after moving in so as not to be seen as disrepectful.

After the year, we knew our neighbours well enough to discover that they all found the flag (and the previous owners) to be obnoxiously ostentatious.