How does your avatar look today ?

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[Madelaine McMasters 20,945]

[Talligurl 29,733]

So I had this dress in my favorites a while now, In memory of the Manchester terror attack, I had to get it.

and I also cut my hair.

[Claireschen Hesten 4,608]

Today i am mostly wearing clothing layers 

Location: my favourite Linden roadside build a Greenhouse in Dokkaebi

[TatianaNikolay 16,122]

I love playing with the light at Cutting Butterfly.

[Zennessa 3,684]

Sappho and i this morning sharing some one on one time. 

[Skell Dagger 14,662]

16 hours ago, Talligurl said:

So I had this dress in my favorites a while now, In memory of the Manchester terror attack, I had to get it.

and I also cut my hair.

While, as a Brit, I appreciate the sentiment of this post and your intention in wearing the dress, I do wish that creators would pay closer attention to their texturing when using a country's flag as part of the work.

No matter which way you turn it, the Union Jack on that dress is upside down. Unlike many similar flags, the Union Jack is not symmetrical in reflection. The white saltire of Scotland (the diagonal white cross) is slightly offset. When viewed horizontally, the upper-left portion of the saltire should be thicker than the lower in that quadrant. Here's your dress, turned both ways, with the correct flag beneath (albeit cut off slightly at top and bottom by the limitations of the editing software I used for the image) -

Only a Brit would notice this instinctively (and even then, only a pedantic Brit like me, who pays attention to that kind of thing! ) but - as most people are aware - flying a flag upside down is usually regarded as either a distress signal or an insult. It would be the equivalent of that dress being the Stars and Stripes, with the stars section on the lower right (or, actually, anywhere on the dress but the lower left so that - if turned 90° clockwise - it was in the right place).

You would normally only see the flag flying in reverse if it was hoist on the right (ie: the flagpole is to the right of the flag) and the wind was blowing it to the left (as you view it). If the Union Jack is hoist left and blowing to the right and the upper left portion of the Scottish saltire isn't the thick part, the flag is upside down.

Not to worry, though. Even the UK Government has got it wrong in the past 

ETA: Side-note: From that BBC article, a quote by the director general of the Flag Institute:

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"Having the flag upside down historically was a sign of distress. You might have put it up on a fort to warn those in the know - other British forces - that there was trouble from the enemy. Forces from other nations wouldn't have noticed. It was like a sort of code."

So I understand why it's so often used incorrectly, but a moment of looking more closely at the flag would tell you there was something asymmetrical about it, and I wish more SL creators would do that "looking closely" thing.

Edited May 25, 2017 by Skell Dagger

[Love Zhaoying 10,189]

9 minutes ago, Skell Dagger said:

No matter which way you turn it, the Union Jack on that dress is upside down.

Perhaps she has the dress on inside-out!

[Talligurl 29,733]

Oh wow, I am aware that the Union Jack is not symmetrical and there is an upside down, I can never remember which way is right though and didn't even think about it with the flag in a vertical position. I suppose with a picture it would be easy enough to fix, by flipping it. I will have to keep that in mind for the future.

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[Talligurl 29,733]

Look it is a two for one shot

 

[Nostoll 4,999]

1 minute ago, Talligurl said:

Look it is a two for one shot

 

[Talligurl 29,733]

He left before i could get a picture with the both of us.

[Talligurl 29,733]

My SL son came online so I changed into something more Mommy appropriate (OK so it isn't totally appropriate but I tried)

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Hmm, today she looks like this, but it changes all the time depending on what I'm blogging about.

[MoondustMaia 169]

Taking a little break for coffee to warm up with while out window shopping at Flux Sur Mer.  I would have worn my boots if I had known it wasn't going to be sunny out here
 

 

[Talligurl 29,733]

So I looking at the pictures I posted to Flickr today and look what I found

[Kristen Beornssen 1,339]

Out and about doing one of my favorite things in SL - shopping!

[Aislin Ceawlin 1,448]

Enjoying the sunshine in my yard

[Clover Jinx 12,358]

6 hours ago, Aislin Ceawlin said:

Enjoying the sunshine in my yard

I need that chair in real life. You look very serene.

[Madelaine McMasters 20,945]

[Aislin Ceawlin 1,448]

33 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

Omg, lmfaoooooooooo, I just almost blew hot tea out of my nose

[Aislin Ceawlin 1,448]

1 hour ago, Clover Jinx said:

I need that chair in real life. You look very serene.

Me too!!! I got it in a subscription box that includes home decorations, it's probably one of my favorite things! (Until Madelaine got her clippers on it! lmao)

[Ivanova Shostakovich 3,969]

On 5/24/2017 at 1:24 PM, Madelaine McMasters said:

"....Five points have been removed from your Karve license."

Edited May 26, 2017 by Ivanova Shostakovich

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