Re: Flying the flag?
 

I'm a woman - nobody needs to have peed in my cornflakes to make me irrational....:)

Re: Flying the flag?
 

Just my opinion but I play in an British/Canadian Hockey league where we play both National Anthems and despite being British I get more pumped up by the Canadian one.

Re: Flying the flag?
 

Then maybe you should have written the above as:

Our point being IOO Wiki is often technically incorrect. As far as One is concerned if HM calls it the Union Flag, which she does, then it's the Union Flag.

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I could be wrong but.....The Union Jack is only call the Union Jack when it is flown at sea.....all other times the Union Jack is in fact the Union Flag...:rofl:

A bit of useless information non the less....:thumbsup:

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That's what I meant by someone being anal. :p

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ooops....:rofl:

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Oh really, well there you go then. I just dont feel its got any oomph to it myself but maybe i will in the future.:unsure: On a different note i quite like some of the words to the American one :rofl:

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Sometimes I wonder why I bother posting links to pertinant offsite info....:confused:

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i must have missed it........sorry..:rofl:

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I think it's more convention than a rule.

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But some believe that the Wiki is incorrect.:sneaky:

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Just looked - no other facing except brick, stone or shingle, no wooden fences, no chain link fences, houses must have 2 garages minimum, no house smaller than 3,500sq ft (hah, we have a written exemption there!), two storey and ranch only - no raised ranch allowed. That's it, nothing about flags. It must be a personal taste thing around here. I don't like them either, so it suits me.

And the whole union flag/union jack thing is only since that Dr Who episode, I bet half of the UK didn't know that until then.

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Often? No, I dont think so.

Sometimes its abused, and for a short time misleading info is present, but its largely self regulating.

If you dont agree with something and can back up your view, then go ahead and change it, but what you tend to get is a consensus view of the facts as agreed by the majority, often with a lot more detail and "evidence" than you would think possible. You can always go back through the history and see how the info has evolved.

Personally Im not going to argue with the Merchant Shipping act of 1995, and I'm not quite paranoid enough to think anyone hacked into the government website to change the text of it in order to triumph in a discussion on Wikipedia about what the British Flag should be called.

Re: Flying the flag?
 

Since you can't have wooden fences, what sort of fence is commonly used?

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Wasn't there a study that showed Wikipedia's scientific articles were as accurate/inaccurate as Encyclopaedia Britannica's?

Edit: link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm

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I am not going to bite to this post....................Damm too late!:mad:

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Ours are - no chain link fencing, no ga'rage doors facing the road, no RV's on the drive, no pitbulls, no washing lines unless umbrellas variety, no exposed concrete etc

Of interest my mums in England states she cannot land a helicopter in the garden :blink::blink: and i think it was somethin along the lines of a house of ill repute being a big no no :blink::blink:
We were restricted from opening/running a liquor store on ours :( damn :rofl:

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Coiled razor wire sounds allowable.

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I'll leave the flag flying to those with waterfront property and private moorage. If I was going to fly one it'd be the BC flag:

http://www.canadaflagmart.com/catalog/bc150.gif

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If you're going to try and get all technically correct, then perhaps none of us should fly the Union flag (which has been known colloquially and in Parliament as the Union Jack for over 100 years so there's long precedent for the term "jack" being used outside the naval context) at all. It is, after all, a flag of the Monarch rather than of the Nation.

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Sounds like the gulag. Is there anything you are allowed to do?

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Oh, there you are! I just want to tell you that your Heinlein trivia answer yesterday was correct. Well done and thanks. The French Nation is grateful.

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Oakvillian, nothing to do wiv the post but just seen ur signature :rofl: classic, made me chuckle,thanks :rofl:

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Wouldnt either this
http://flagspot.net/images/g/gb-royal.gif

or, more accurately this;

http://flagspot.net/images/g/gb_qper2.gif

be more the flag of the monarch?
http://flagspot.net/flags/gb-royal.html#qe2

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A rather pretentious gulag at that. ;):rofl::rofl::rofl:

Certainly not for the likes of me. :p

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Hi. I wondered about this. Not flying any flags but if we did would have to add a 'canadian' one also so wondered if it should be the maple leaf or province one.

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I can understand some restrictions. For example, the last place I had in the UK was sort of listed. I could only have windows in the original Victorian sash style. Telling people how many garages they must have is ludicrous.

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Most are open. A neighbour enquired how we were going to comply with the pool code and was relieved that we weren't fencing the whole yard, it doesn't seem a popular thing around here. No idea why, what's my yard to anyone else?

Pool owners all have aluminium/steel/whatever it is that looks like wrought iron. There is a huge wooden fence 2 gardens away though, it does look awful, done by the homeowner himself last summer and already falling down. No-one seems to have dobbed him in, if it was on my boundary I may have, or helped it fall over in the next storm.

Wasn't there some Ontario thing about these convenants being unenforceable anyway? Or was that just wrt washing lines?

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In our old house we were only supposed to have a certain style and colour of fence and the type and colour of house siding was supposed to be restricted.

The restrictive covenants proved to be unenforcible and it's a right dogs breakfast nowadays.:eek::eek:

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It keeps the po' people with 1 car out. There's no upper limit, most I've seen is 4 though. 2 and 3 is usual.

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One flag is one too many, certainly two would be over the top. Hence my choice would be the provincial flag as it has union jack emblem on it.

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But don't most people use their garages for storage and park the vehicles out on the driveway or street?

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and prior to it being referred to as the UJ it was called the Union Flag, so your point counts for zip in the grand scheme of things. One more thing, HM The Queen Mother (God bless her) referred to the Union Flag as the 'People's Flag', so I think we can.

HH

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Agreed - thats nuts.

Do you also have to have certian window fittings and the right shade of green for the lawn?!?

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Doesn't everyone do that?

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Net curtains presumably, so that you can twitch them:sneaky:

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I put the tractor in the garage.

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I don't. :p

Always swore that when got a house with a garage it would be used for its intended purpose so far I've managed to stick with it. :thumbup:

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Where do you keep the power tools and beer?

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I don't drink beer (I know it's sacrilege) and I'm no longer allowed power tools other than a drill (something about being left handed and using a circular saw).:eek::eek: