Saltire Sporran

[Andrew Breecher]

Understand that if there is an official reason for Tenerife to be someplace, you will see the Cross of St. Andrew. Scotland would have to use the Union Jack.

Why? Why couldn't two countries possibly have the same flag? Each flag is an individual piece of heraldry representing the country it belongs to. There are reasons for each flag's colours and patterns. Just because Tenerife wants to have a white cross on a blue field doesn't mean that hundreds of years of Scottish history in using a similar flag are negated. If Scotland ever had the opportunity to be represented as a sovereign country it would certainly use the Saltire, and people could just deal with the fact that there are two flags of the same design.

Andrew.

[macwilkin]

Why? Why couldn't two countries possibly have the same flag? Each flag is an individual piece of heraldry representing the country it belongs to. There are reasons for each flag's colours and patterns. Just because Tenerife wants to have a white cross on a blue field doesn't mean that hundreds of years of Scottish history in using a similar flag are negated. If Scotland ever had the opportunity to be represented as a sovereign country it would certainly use the Saltire, and people could just deal with the fact that there are two flags of the same design.

Andrew.

Poland & Monaco, for instance, both share a similar design.

Where exactly IS this "Tenerife"? I can't say I've ever heard of it? Is it a micro-nation?

Cheers,

Todd

[Archangel]

Poland & Monaco, for instance, both share a similar design.

Where exactly IS this "Tenerife"? I can't say I've ever heard of it? Is it a micro-nation?

Cheers,

Todd

it's a martial thing, in war one has to be able to identify friend or foe, so flags have to be distinctly different, e.g., in WW1 British ground troops shot down planes flying the Union Jack since, from the ground, it resembled the German cross. The tricolour roundel was distinct.

Tenerife is in the Canary Islands, you might remember it from a horrendous disaster involving two jumbo jets in the '80's, I think.

[Andrew Breecher]

it's a martial thing, in war one has to be able to identify friend or foe, so flags have to be distinctly different, e.g., in WW1 British ground troops shot down planes flying the Union Jack since, from the ground, it resembled the German cross. The tricolour roundel was distinct.

So when Tenerife and Scotland go to war, Scotland will have to adopt a thistle insignia on its fighter jets to keep from shooting down it's own planes. You know, the next time Scotland goes to war against the Canary Islands.

Andrew.

[Manu]

Poland & Monaco, for instance, both share a similar design.

Where exactly IS this "Tenerife"? I can't say I've ever heard of it? Is it a micro-nation?

Cheers,

Todd

Tenerife is one of the Canary Islands. They are part of Spain but float off the north western coast of Africa.