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

Comments

[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! :)