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There are times when it is useful to be able to indicate a location from a distance without resorting to flares, smoke, or rockets.
A flag on a pole is ideal for this.
However, poles are awkward things to carry round.
Do not despair yet*. BorgCo engineering has developed a simple device to
overcome this problem. Based on a telescoping carbon-fibre fishing pole, which when closed is 15mm in diameter and 400mm long, it can be extended in seconds into a three metre pole carrying either the Cross of St. George** or an appropriate armorial banner***.
If ground conditions permit, the lightweight titanium ground spike and socket can hold the base of the pole, braced by nylon cords and guy ropes to appropriate pegs (included).
*You will be notified when you should begin to despair. About now, probably.
**Obviously, non-English people will invariably shrink from humiliating themselves and publicizing their nationality by means of a prominent flag.
***Special order - a check will be made with the College of Arms to ensure that the purchaser has indeed been granted arms, and that the heraldic detail is correct.
http://www.ebay.co....elescopic-flag-pole
[pocmloc, Jul 23 2017]
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//There are times when it is useful to be able to indicate a location from a distance without resorting to flares, smoke, or rockets.// |
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Could you, perhaps, describe such a circumstance? |
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The main concourse of a busy, crowded urban indoor shopping centre. |
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And why would one not resort to flares, smoke, or rockets in such a situation? Also, what is an "urban indoor shopping centre"? |
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//However, poles are awkward things to carry round// The
skinny ones are not so round and therefore easier to carry,
especially if they've been drinking. |
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Some of them can get quite belligerent with a drink or five inside them. |
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// And why would one not resort to flares, smoke, or rockets in such a situation? // |
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Apparently, smoking is now frowned upon in such places. |
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// Also, what is an "urban indoor shopping centre"? // |
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A sort of low-budget theme park for proles, based on the traditional concept of Hell, but with rather more screaming children and notably fewer toilet facilities, typically in a revolting state of uncleanliness (both the children and the toilets). |
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Widely baked. See any music festival. |
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What is a "music festival" ? Is it like Glyndeborne, or the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts ? |
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We have seen flags at the "Last Night of the Proms" but they appeared to be entirely conventional. |
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// What is a "music festival" ?// |
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A sort of low-budget theme park for proles, based on the traditional concept of Hell, but with rather more screaming children and notably fewer toilet facilities, typically in a revolting state of uncleanliness (both the children and the toilets). |
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Clearly you have never seen the hallowed Good Toilets At The Back Of Field 7B At Cropredy. |
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There was loo roll aplenty. There was even some sort of posh hand washing soap in little bottles. And the sink taps worked. |
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Well worth a long walk at 3 in the morning. |
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// a long walk at 3 in the morning // ?? |
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What sort of an en-suite bathroom is that ? |
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Admittedly at Buchanan Towers, even the smaller guest suites have substantial floor areas; hence the ornately-carved Jacobean oak fingerposts at intervals. But fifty metres is hardly a "long walk", even after very substantial indulgence in fermnted grape products ... |
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Would also make a good, portable replacement mast for my
kayak sail. [+] |
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When open, it also automatically sends an indication to
Google Maps. Within the next 6 years, the satellite is
instructed to try and take a picture. |
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If you are inside a bustling city, the Google car will know to
take a picture of your flag without blurring it. |
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