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Sandancers

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Having just attended the Cambridge Rock Festival in the MH, we were astounded by how many people had flags raised over their vehicles. The poles supporting said flags would have dwarfed the Empire State Building in many cases.

Not sure why people choose to fly flags ? Is it so you can find you MH when your really drunk ? Or so your mates can find you, "Look Mabel, there's Grenville's MH just under the life size model of the flying Pterosaur" ?

Judging by the flags, many people must have had a previous existence sailing with Blackbeard, there were enough wannabe Pirates to re-crew the entire fleet of English Privateers sailing the Spanish Main. One MH we saw had two flags raised, one was a gruesome skull and crossbones and below was three cutlasses dripping blood. We assumed the owner of the MH would be a cross between Lemme and Hulk Hogan, but no, out steps a guy who made Private Godfrey in Dads Army look menacing !!!

Next to us was a MH which had a pole then a line attached to a replica Hawk (or something similar) which kept dipping into our line of sight as we sat outside, causing us to assuming we were in a re-make of "The Birds", thanks mate !!!

Anyone explain the attraction of flags ?

Oh, and one of the poles lit up at night !!! Which was useful as it was a good warning to aircraft to stay above 1000ft while flying over the barrage balloon field !!!
 
Geordies said:
one was a gruesome skull and crossbones
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There were a couple of those when we were in Dalkeith a few days ago.

Two of the vans were even worse though, they had
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You should see the fun rallies thats why we're called mh fun .
 
Never been to the Cambridge ROCK festival
Will watch out for flags and grumpy people with illuminated flag poles

Went to the Cambridge FOLK festival and found every single person there Loverly
 
GJH said:
There were a couple of those when we were in Dalkeith a few days ago.

Two of the vans were even worse though, they had
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It is when you see this flag

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That you should worry. The mob with pitchforks and flaming torches will be soon on the scene to scare away incomers for fear of widening the gene pool........
 
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We have some, we are obliged to put them up, but i take them down as soon as it gets dark, the things flap round and keep me awake.. annoy the hell out of me.
 
DuxDeluxe said:
It is when you see this flag

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That you should worry. The mob with pitchforks and flaming torches will be soon on the scene to scare away incomers for fear of widening the gene pool........
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In your own words Mr Dux ..... Oi!!!!!

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If motor homers did not fly flags it would make a complete mockery of the stalls sellinget them
Simple when you thonk oot the box
 
Because it's fun.

We've got one that appears for music festivals. Got all sorts to fly from it.
 
OK, while you lot were running your flags up the flagpole to see who salutes them :whistle:

If you like heavy rock look at Voodoo Vegas and if you like Blues look up Rebecca Downes band, both excellent !! :)
 
We have a Dorset flag and a Yamaha one...mainly so we can find the bloody big white van amongst the hundreds of other big white vans.
( especially after a few drops of the falling down water ) :roflmto:
 
Thanks @icantremember - so is that the correct way to hoist the Union Jack? My boy Scout days are a far and distant memory and even then I got it wrong.
 
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I had a couple up on Helen for the Tour de France in Andorra. As I am a sad old f**t I really like them and I had taken sufficient muscle relaxent for sleep to be easy, that was until the advent of the Camion et remorque at 0315 am et Madame Champignon.

Please note, I have no idea who those people are and I had wound the awning in until it was clear I was not obstructing the course. Next year I plan a few more.

At least two Dorset flags were up this year.

:france::france::wine::wine::france::france:
 
Currently on the Brighton site, flags galore, Yorkshire , Cornish , oh as its pride weekend umpteen rainbow flags.
Some vans have gone to town with lights and I must say well done to them. I saw several families walking round taking photos when the lights were on .
I did hear one person say , oooh , it's just like Blackpool.

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icantremember said:
It's funny how everyone knows to fly their pirate flags up the right way but so many don't know which way to hoist their own Union Jack.:rolleyes:

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Quite correct, broad white band at the top next to the flagpole - and none of this flying it sideways if you please.

I once came across the flag being flown upside down at a RAF Memorial site! When I pointed it out they didn't have a clue, obviously not ex-service people.

And, not wishing to appear pedantic (but I am!:LOL:) the correct term is the Union FLAG. It should only be referred to as the Union Jack when being flown by one of HMs warships.
 
TerryL said:
Quite correct, broad white band at the top next to the flagpole - and none of this flying it sideways if you please.

I once came across the flag being flown upside down at a RAF Memorial site! When I pointed it out they didn't have a clue, obviously not ex-service people.

And, not wishing to appear pedantic (but I am!:LOL:) the correct term is the Union FLAG. It should only be referred to as the Union Jack when being flown by one of HMs warships.
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In the 18th century the small mast on the bowsprit was replaced by staysails on the stays between the bowsprit and the foremast. By this time the Ensign had become the principal naval distinguishing flag, so it became the practice to fly the Union Jack only in harbour, on a specially rigged staff in the bows of the ships, the jackstaff. It should thus be noted that the jack flag had existed for over a hundred and fifty years before the jack staff came into being, and its name was related to its size rather than to the position in which it was flown.

It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

Cdr Bruce Nicolls OBE RN (Retd)

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TerryL said:
And, not wishing to appear pedantic (but I am!:LOL:) the correct term is the Union FLAG. It should only be referred to as the Union Jack when being flown by one of HMs warships.
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Being extra pedantic :LOL: may I point out that that is an urban legend. At least according to that august body The Flag Institute :)
 

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