Finally! Someone who understands me. I used to burn them but since the ones I buy are made of nylon for durabilty and it got to be to messy. So now I use my big ass bowie knife and cut them to shreds. I got your flag fetish right here, PAL! 
Yeah, I just don’t see how you can hold something sacred when you just know that somewhere there’s an old fat lady wearing it as a t-shirt and dripping spicy mustard on it from her hot dog.
So that’s you and me that know the right way up for the Union Flag, but I think we can both be confident that the average Joe in the street has maybe a 50-50 chance. 
Old Glory’s harder to mistake in that department, I’d say.
I’m I missing something? Which way is up? Aren’t both ways the same?
Ahhhh… the OP didn’t say that.
-FrL-
No.
No. The diagonal crosses - the red cross (St. Patrick’s) on top of the white cross (St. Andrew’s) is not centered in the white cross - so one part of the white showing is narrower than the other. The wider part of the St, Andrew’s cross should be on top beside the flag pole (top left quadrant).
This is the exact second when I realized that the Union Jack is not symmetrical.
Ditto.
As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly.
Yes, because you have offered nothing to change my mind.
Dishonest? I am telling you exactly how I feel which is something you have stated you will NOT do.
Ditto. Because I fucking hate lying pieces of shit such as yourself.
Then again, since you take the “polite lies” position I suspect in real life you’d actually be polite to me - you have been anything BUT that to me here. Even so, I’d rather have your honest hostility than your lying pleasantries.
Do you think I CARE if you respond? If you post again I’ll respond again. If you don’t post again I won’t. Your move, liar.
I never said I remembered which way up it is, I just remember being told.
I think it had something to do with the lines of the cross not being evenly spaced.
I remember it was a grave sin to lower the flag until it touched the floor. Our scout leader nearly had an aneurism whenever it happened (he was very old). We used to try to get the flag as low as possible wihtout it touching to try to get a reaction
Nice one Loach . Not surprised to see you skulking about here.
Oh, really? Tell you what, maybe you’re right, so here’s how we’ll settle it: I’ll show you where she did say it, and you show me where she didn’t say it. Ready? Go.
Ok, your turn.
Interesting how you can accuse Broomstick of misrepresenting your posts, Cisco, but then you turn around and to the same thing. The OP didn’t “accuse the whole country of having any kind of a fetish” but said:
I don’t see any accusation of a country-wide fetish there, but a statement that the existence of such a fetish made her “vaguely uncomfortable”. You might want to work a bit on your reading comprehension, as well as your tendency to read things that aren’t there into what people say.
“She doesn’t say there’s a flag fetish but the existence of a flag fetish makes her uncomfortable.” Give me a break.
She doesn’t say that it’s “country-wide”, just that it exists.
Think of it this way: “The presence of racism in this country makes me uncomfortable” is not the same as “Racism is country-wide and that makes me uncomfortable.”
Anyone else hearing Eddie Izzard in their head about now?
[Eddie Izzard] Do you have a flag?[/EI]
So, this thread was good for that. Nothing else, but good for that.
I do believe we have reached the pulsing heart of the matter. One quick prick and the deed will have been done.