Did you notice anything wrong with that flag? No, me neither, which puts me in the majority of Brits who don't know which way up the Union Jack should go. Well, that's embarrassing.
Fifty-five percent of British people couldn't tell which way up the flag show go, according to new research from YouGov.
People were shown two images, one with the flag upside down and one with it the right way around, and only 45 percent of people could spot which one was being flown incorrectly.
A third of people (33 percent) chose the wrong answer and an additional 22 percent admitted that they didn't know.
Check out this handy advice from the Flag Institute about how to hang your Union Flag: "in the half of the flag nearest the flagpole, the wider diagonal white stripe must be above the red diagonal stripe, as Scotland's St Andrew's Cross takes precedence over Ireland's St. Patrick's Cross. It is most improper to fly the flag upside down."
So, upside down:
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Right way:
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Try not to feel too bad if you're one of the 55 percent, back at the Rio Olympics one eagle-eyed Team GB fan noticed that the flag was wrong.
So, all 67 medals they picked up - including an impressive 27 golds - were collected under the wrong flag. Bloody typical.
Graham Bartram, who's the chief vexillologist at The Flag Institute spotted that the white stripes, which are there to represent St Andrew's Cross weren't thick enough.
He then made this to help us:
The flag should have looked like it does on the left. Credit: Graham Bartram
I know it's not a massive difference, but FFS you'd think someone would have checked? The mistake also meant that the Australian, Fijian and Tuvaluan flags were wrong, although New Zealand's was fine for some reason.
Now, I don't know if you've ever heard this, but I was once told you could only call it the Union Jack when it was at sea and when it was on land it was called the Union Flag.
If you have been told that, then allow me to tell you that it's bollocks. According to a publication from Parliament's Flags & Heraldry Committee in conjunction with the Flag Institute, which says that both names are allowed.
It states: "The national flag of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories is the Union Flag, which may also be called the Union Jack."
Interestingly the research found that only 16 percent of British people knew that both names were correct; 49 percent thought it was the Union Jack and 27 thought Union Flag was the correct name.
The more you know.
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