View Poll Results: Whats hanging outside your home?
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Flying the flag?
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:39 am
#61
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Re: Flying the flag?
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.
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:40 am
#62
Born again atheist
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From: Europe (to be specified).
Re: Flying the flag?
Originally Posted by Oakvillian;
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.
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:40 am
#63
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From: Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island, BC
Re: Flying the flag?
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.
classic, made me chuckle,thanks
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:41 am
#64
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From: Upstate South Carolina
Re: Flying the flag?
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.
or, more accurately this;
be more the flag of the monarch?
http://flagspot.net/flags/gb-royal.html#qe2
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:43 am
#66
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From: Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island, BC
Re: Flying the flag?
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
http://www.canadaflagmart.com/catalog/bc150.gif
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:44 am
#67
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 9,606
Re: Flying the flag?
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.
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:47 am
#68
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From: Windsor, ON; Chicago, IL
Re: Flying the flag?
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?
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?
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:48 am
#69
Joined: Jul 2005
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Re: Flying the flag?
The restrictive covenants proved to be unenforcible and it's a right dogs breakfast nowadays.
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:48 am
#70
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From: Windsor, ON; Chicago, IL
Re: Flying the flag?
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.
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:49 am
#71
Bring on the snow!
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,420
From: Chicago, IL
Re: Flying the flag?
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.
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:51 am
#73
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From: The Bridge
Re: Flying the flag?
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.
HH
Jun 27th 2008 | 4:51 am
#74
Bring on the snow!
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Chicago, IL
Re: Flying the flag?
Do you also have to have certian window fittings and the right shade of green for the lawn?!?
