# Most unusual flag you've seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925 "2017-06-26T17:21:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/21 "2017-06-27T17:14:11Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > A house around the corner from us has proudly flown an Arsenal Football Club flag for years, periodically replacing it when it shows signs of wear. If you see them a you walk by, yell, “SPURS!!” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/22 "2017-06-27T18:56:11Z")
I saw a store with five different flags hanging in the window today. One was American, one was Israeli, and according to Google, one was Jamaican; I can’t remember the other two. American is obvious, and the town has a large Jewish population, but why Jamaica? ---
**Author:** ![PAjoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pajoe/32/58_2.png) [@PAjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PAjoe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/23 "2017-06-27T19:19:16Z")
I always flew the Gadsden Flag when we were camping. It was our official campsite flag until it was appropriated by the Tea Party. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/24 "2017-06-28T12:08:19Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I saw a store with five different flags hanging in the window today. One was American, one was Israeli, and according to Google, one was Jamaican; I can’t remember the other two. American is obvious, and the town has a large Jewish population, but why Jamaica? Well, probably a stupid question, but do you have _any_ people “from the islands” where you live? I doubt the population of my city is more than a few percent Jamaican, but those who are here are proud and enthusiastic about their roots: many of them put Jamaican flag stickers on their cars, and some of them open Jamaican restaurants. No better way to capture that demographic than by posting a flag. But of course if you really don’t have any Jamaicans at all, that explanation doesn’t make any sense. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/25 "2017-06-28T21:14:26Z")
No idea, I live in the city next door. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/26 "2017-06-28T21:58:54Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > This weekend, while walking in Tacoma, I noticed a house flying an Israeli flag. That it in inself is unusual; it clearly wasn’t a synagogue or cultural center, and Tacoma has a very tiny Jewish population. But in the same neighborhood, I saw about a year earlier the most unusual flag I’ve ever seen on a private house–a Turkish flag! Where and why they got the flag I don’t know. What flags have you seen on private houses or other unlikely places have you seen? I’ve noticed some evangelical Christians fly the Israeli flag to show their support for Israel. I’ve always thought it was odd because frequently these same people believe Jews have to be converted to Christianity in order to be “complete.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/27 "2017-06-29T00:36:41Z")
There’s a store in my city that sells flags and banners for all countries and occasions. If they don’t have it they’ll order it. I love to go in there. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/28 "2017-06-29T05:36:13Z")
Warning: Flag joke coming up. A tourist (presumably American) visits Canada and wants a souvenir. He goes into a shop that sells Canadian flags and wants to buy one, but asks if they are available in any other color besides red. Thank the North American Vexillological Society for that one. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/29 "2017-06-29T07:38:36Z")
There’s a house in my street that flies the [Venetian Republic St Mark’s flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Veneto) (tails and all) occasionally. OK, it’s _my_ house, but I bought the damn thing, I’m going to fly it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/30 "2017-06-29T07:53:36Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > Warning: Flag joke coming up. > > A tourist (presumably American) visits Canada and wants a souvenir. He goes into a shop that sells Canadian flags and wants to buy one, but asks if they are available in any other color besides red. I don’t get it. Why wouldn’t they come in any colors besides red??? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/31 "2017-06-29T10:23:46Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > There’s a house in my street that flies the [Venetian Republic St Mark’s flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Veneto) (tails and all) occasionally. > > OK, it’s _my_ house, but I bought the damn thing, I’m going to fly it. Cool flag. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/32 "2017-06-29T11:34:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Cool flag. Second-best Venetian souvenir I own, after my Plague Doctor mask. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/33 "2017-06-29T12:42:47Z")
I don’t fly it, but I have a flag of Mozambique. I got it when my daughter was there for the Peace Corps. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/34 "2017-06-29T14:52:06Z")
There is a set of flags that have a special place in my heart. I haven’t seen them in person, but ever since I discovered them, I have been fascinated by their bizarre hideousness. Here I present, for your consideration… The **county flags of Liberia**. “Lasciate ogni speranza voi che intrate…” [https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG\_flags\_of\_counties\_of\_Liberia](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_flags_of_counties_of_Liberia) Here they are in their natural habitat: [![](https://www.emansion.gov.lr/images/front/flagsDSC_0456.jpg) ](https://www.emansion.gov.lr/images/front/flagsDSC_0456.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/35 "2017-06-29T16:05:36Z")
While living in OK as a teen, my family went to a guys house out in the country to do something horse related and he was flying an American flag with either a Baptist or a Protestant flag underneath it, can’t remember which. That’s the only private residence I’ve ever seen with that kind of flag. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/36 "2017-07-01T01:49:11Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > ETA: my mom was a vexillologist and we had stacks of books about flags in my house. Wow that’s one of the cooler occupations you can have. Was she an amateur vexillogist, and if she was a professional one where did she work at? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/37 "2017-07-01T16:27:36Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > ETA: my mom was a vexillologist and we had stacks of books about flags in my house. They should give her a guest spot on Sheldon’s _Fun with Flags_ podcast. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/38 "2017-07-01T21:30:37Z")
My junior-year college roommate had a [flag of Bhutan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bhutan) hanging over his bed. He’s a WASP from suburban Atlanta. (In response, I took an index card, colored it with highlighter, cut eight stars out of it, and taped them onto a navy bedsheet. Voilà – [flag of Alaska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Alaska) for my bed!) [Nashville’s flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Nashville,_Tennessee) (visible every time I leave my suburb) has a Native American holding a human skull as its centerpiece. That’s somewhat unusual. I’ve seen the Vietnamese Buddhist temple/Pokéstop a few miles away fly the [Buddhist flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_flag), which is made up of five vertical stripes of different colors and a sixth stripe of the same size made of five horizontal stripes using the same colors as the vertical ones. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/39 "2017-07-01T22:36:39Z")
My favorite flag is the [flag of Greenland](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Flag_of_Greenland.svg). Simple, but it stands out, and I think it’s beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925/40 "2017-07-02T00:53:42Z")
> [@Brodi](#): > > While living in OK as a teen, my family went to a guys house out in the country to do something horse related and he was flying an American flag with either a Baptist or a Protestant flag underneath it, can’t remember which. That’s the only private residence I’ve ever seen with that kind of flag. Was it this one? The link also has the flags of many other Christian sects. > **[Christian Flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Flag)** > > The Christian Flag is an ecumenical flag designed in the late 19th century to represent much of Christianity and Christendom. Since its adoption by the United States Federal Council of Churches in 1942, it has had varied usage by congregations of many Christian traditions, including Anglican, Baptist, Congregationalist, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Moravian, Presbyterian, and Reformed, among others. > The flag has a white field, with a red Latin cross inside a blue canton. The shade of red on ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-flag-youve-seen/789925.md?page=3)