Flag Week: A flag that means you are invited to have a gun with a ships captain

Flag Week: A flag that means you are invited to have a gun with a ships captain

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day day day day. Do do
do do do do do do do do do do
do do do do doo doo doo doo dooo.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Doom Flag week for this weekend next.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, factor that. There's plenty of facts about flags, very
interesting things. Well, today, Hailey, I thought I would target
today's fact of the day you ooh and tell you
about the gin pennant. The gin penance, sometimes known as
the gin flag okay or the drinking pennant, is a
maritime flag for gin. When flowing aboard a ship, it

(00:41):
indicates an open invitation to other ship's officers to come
aboard that ship for a gineral. Even if I had
a little dinghy, i'd have one of those.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
A gin flag, a gin flag, you just have a
nice little bottle of bomby Sapphire or something.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's actually a cool Yes, you've got them by Sapphire energy.
It's actually quite a flag tangular, but it's got the
tip cut off, so it's like a So it's green white,
green and stripes and the middle stripe is white and
it's got a green Martini glass. And you believed to

(01:15):
have originated in the Commonwealth navies. Yeah, the British Navies.
They would fly at aboard to fly at at the end.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Of the day for fives perhaps darling.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
One of these for my backyard.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I was thinking, oh my god, you could order a
gin pennant flag.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's green and white. Yeah, the house is white and
they goes much of it's green. That goes with the
whole esthetic. And you could put up the gin pennant.
You might become one of those people that gets a
flag pole and starts putting up different flags.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, I think serious question. Can I be a flagpole guy?

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yes, you've got the property for it. I think mine's
slightly too small.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I'm looking people.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
The idea of it is that everybody driving past can
see it. Can they see it when they drive past?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, that depends entirely where I put it. I could
put it out in the paddock.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
There's a three meter flagpole on trade Mate seventy. But
I'm a seven meter flagpole guy. What's postage? Because my
post shop's got a low I must pick up from Funkade.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Three minutes. They gonna take a trailer all the way there.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
You find you are seven.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I've seen on trade test that a seven meter flag pole,
but it comes in sections seven, and I'm thinking that's
going to lose a bit of strength in the fact
that it's that'd be great. Yeah, there you go, five
and eighty five dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Okay, I think that's not bad.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
You just order like flags on alex Ressel Temu Yeah,
like and you're like, oh Novembers, you gotta be because
sometimes they leave out a couple of the stars on
the Southern.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Cross, I know, and then people get mad. Yeah, I'll
say they blew off.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
That's also I've been thinking for a while I quite
like to be a flag guy and people is the flag?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Why is he flying that flag today? Old flag guy?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
What if you got people driving down you drive what
one said.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Oh, there's so many the flag shop dot cot on
in z I'm on at the moment. They've got a
gin pennant, just a small one. I just have a
small one in my house. Maybe one of those ones
that the Americans have at the front of the house
isn't angled off the front. Yeah, find the gin flag
and they'll let my neighbors know who.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
We love it's and you could take it down if
you just want to. Of course, that's what they say
here in moderation that this was the one or two hand.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Embroidered on my gin flag brackets and moderation moderation responsibility.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
The Latin is in moderation because Latin always looks good. Obviously,
l Modorato, I think you might.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Be right, Yes, there was actually really Queen I did take.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Latin at high school.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
He didn't you high school didn't have Latin as an option.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Excuse me, rip school thing madise and Latin medi in
medice or just miss madice. Okay, Latin doesn't have a
word for in silly Latin modice. So you could put
that that would actually look really nice and green stitching
under the green yeah for the fantastic loving flagwa Gin pennant.

(04:18):
All right, So today's fact of the day is there
is a green and white striped flag with a little
glass and the white part in the middle. And if
you see that flying on a ship, it's the captain's
way of inviting you aboard for a Gin.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Fact of the day.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Day day, day, day, Do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do
do Doo doo

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Doo doo dooo doo