Or just fly a t-shirt sideways.
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Maybe. It depends on who you ask. Unionists and the Northern Irish football team prefer to use the Ulster Banner.
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Yeah. Most seals have no business being on flags. You can make it work if the rest of the flag is distinctive and or the seal reads easily at a distance without being ambiguous. That’s why I think something like the flag of Pittsburgh can get away with being charged with the City arms:
The black and gold tricolor is so unmistakable that it’s no wonder the colors have been adopted by all of the city’s major sports teams.
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You can’t travel a mile in Maryland without seeing our flag. People put it on stickers, shorts, hoodies, t-shirts, bumpers, flag poles. It’s everywhere here because the people of Maryland love it. It’s ugly and loud and no one will mistake it for any other flag. No words, no seal, but fairly hard to draw. And to fly it properly, the flagpole must be sporting a cross finial. 
It’s MUCH better than my home state of Massachusetts, which has the state seal on a white flag [yawn].
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If you just make it a giant ear of corn it won’t matter which side is up.
You do get this though:
Which I love and hate in equal measure.
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I think that is a great flag. Everyone recognizes Washington’s face, so there is no question who’s flag it is.
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Sounds like an evil terrorist flag.
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I dunno.
I like BC’s “setting sun”, NB’s longship, and PEI’s treed island as well.
But yeah, any of the provinces that include their coat of arms on the flag (Alberta, Manitoba, NWT, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Yukon) don’t feel like they put much thought at all into their design.
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See? No words on flags! I was right!
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It’s a Prairie Lilly, not a palm tree.
Edit to add something less pedantic: I always though PEI’s lion was a cut & paste error; someone forgot to correct the aspect ratio.
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Also, Mauritania’s flag looks like the Water Buffalos Grand Poobah’s hat on The Flintstones.
So there.
Missouri’s flag is kind of meh, but I like the St. Louis flag.
Theoretically it’s the official flag of St. Louis City, but it’s sort of universally used in the metro area.
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Please tell me that St. Louis City is famous for its waterslides.
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It’s the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. But we do have a ten-story tall (dry) slide at City Museum…
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That is so clear and evocative and striking!
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NJ. NY. I’m guessing you might know the Hibernia Diner in Rockaway?
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I like its use of the fleur de lis!
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Oh no, I don’t ever get out that far on 80, I’m by EWR. I’ll only go so far for a diner, especially in Jersey, they’re all over the place.
I did once make a road trip to Hot Dog Johnny’s when we were camping at Jenny Jump, but I didn’t know that the Hibernia would have been worth the trip. I like the Clinton diner, but only because I like sitting in old train cars.
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