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# Despite its bloody evolution and subsequent history, I still think the Union flag is one of the coolest on the planet.
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:27, archived)
# it's going to look a bit weird if scotland goes its own way
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:31, archived)
# Maybe we can set up a loan agreement. We leave it on, but pay the Scots an annual usage fee.
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:42, archived)
# the scots should pay us
for advertising their shitty backward province
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 12:18, archived)
# Plus, the joke's on any extremist groups that want to use it in their campaign
as it was named after an immigrant.
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:34, archived)
# Bob Flag?
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:45, archived)
# Vladimir Unionjackski.
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:48, archived)
# nah too abstract. there's a russian state flag somewhere
which has a bloody bear carrying an axe. We should have incorporated the welsh dragon and given him a bazooka
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:40, archived)
# There'll be a big White Space Party just waiting to be filled if Scotland does go it alone.
Dragons with bazookas should definitely go on the list.
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:45, archived)
# It is the Union flag
but the name of that flag is the Union Jack.

Fuck Stephen fucking Fry, that is what it is called, it pre-dates ships' jacks and is to do with the name anyway.

The whole internet is awash with the idea that it is a Union Flag and not the Union Jack, but saying it often does not make it right.

Cunts.
(, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 20:53, archived)
# It's the union flag.
"...popularly called the Union Jack, although, strictly speaking, this applies only when it is flown on the flagstaff of a warship." quoted from a paper, pre-Internet encyclopedia.
(, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 17:27, archived)