If you see them a you walk by, yell, “SPURS!!”
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?
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:
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.
No idea, I live in the city next door.
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.”
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.
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.
There’s a house in my street that flies the Venetian Republic St Mark’s flag (tails and all) occasionally.
OK, it’s my house, but I bought the damn thing, I’m going to fly it.
I don’t get it. Why wouldn’t they come in any colors besides red???
Cool flag.
Second-best Venetian souvenir I own, after my Plague Doctor mask.
I don’t fly it, but I have a flag of Mozambique. I got it when my daughter was there for the Peace Corps.
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
Here they are in their natural habitat:
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.
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?
They should give her a guest spot on Sheldon’s Fun with Flags podcast.
My junior-year college roommate had a 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 for my bed!)
Nashville’s flag (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, 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.
My favorite flag is the flag of Greenland. Simple, but it stands out, and I think it’s beautiful.
Was it this one? The link also has the flags of many other Christian sects.