This pisses me off

[c9]

Take a look at the pathetic attempt at a Canadian Flag. It's hideously incorrect in its proportions, despite the US flag being roughly correct. I get annoyed when tourist trinket stores sell incorrect flags, so to hear that Pier 21 in Halifax hosted the Prime Minister and the US President and used horrible flags REALLY annoys me. But I doubt anybody else will even blink.

For the Americans: how would you feel if we had displayed a flag with only 40 stars? Or 12 stripes? Grrr.

The correct proportions and sizing of the Canadian Flag

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[ratonil.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I remember that during a soccer match in Lima (Perú) three years ago, the peruvians didn't put the star on the blue square and the proportions made look the chilean flag so small. Our neighbours don't like Chile at all.

However, which always surprise me is how Canadians are so proud of their flag, considering it was adopted only back in the sixties and with some oposition coming from the conservative sectors. Our flag has been with us since 1821!

[c9.livejournal.com]

We're so proud (or at least, many of us are) because it's *our* flag. Yes, it's young,but before that the Red Ensign didn't say Canada, it just said "piece of the British Empire." So this one really, to me, says something for us alone.

When Canada first reached the "World" Series of baseball, the Americans raised our flag upside down at one point, and it was on the news for a week.

[ratonil.livejournal.com]

This is fun, but this "flag-talk" made me think about a myth in Chilean history which said that the Chilean flag was elected the second most beautiful in an international contest held in Europe back in 1900.

The funny thing is in Colombia they also say the same.

[sisyphus238.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think ours looks better upside down considering the present situation. (I live in the US, btw).

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

dude, the US flag is wrong in that picture too.

no matter how you rotate it, the "field of blue" isn't where it's supposed to be: upper-left.

they have it in the upper-right.

:: shudder ::

[c9.livejournal.com]

In Canada, there are only suggestions, no laws around the display of the flag. In the US, you guys are freakin' serious!

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

I now know too much about flag protocol. For this, I thank you.

[c9.livejournal.com]

c9: breeding the next Ken Jennings since December 2, 2004.

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

OMG, I was going to mention Ken Jennings in my comment!

We are like Ken Jennings brothers now.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Is that an obscure monastery?

[c9.livejournal.com]

Umm, that's the upper left sweetie. They have it correct. :-)

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

sorry. i was imagining a 2-D universe, where they would only be able to rotate, not flip-over.

if you picture that flag flat like it is, and turn it 'round like a steering wheel, it will never show properly.

at least, in my book.

:-)

re: link above, i used to know a lot of those rules.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Actually, he's right -- no matter how you rotate that flag, it's always wrong. You need to rotate it 90 degrees and invert it horizontally for it to look right. Unless we're meant to be looking at the back of the flag, that is.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

SNAP! :)