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frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

Lord Hydronium posted:

Why the hell do I know this one :psyduck:
Because it's a pretty distinct design among our world's flags and thus easy to remember once you see it?

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HBar
Sep 13, 2007

I just now realized those are mines in the Honduran seal. Playing the geography game, I always saw them as little hobbit holes/sod homes.

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe
Extremely non-aggressive, non-corrupt state, USA

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

actionjackson posted:

poo poo, you guys got me owned. I'm pretty good with capitals but not as much with flags.

Aren't Monaco and Indonesia exactly the same except for the actual flag size? Can you detect that on a quiz?

monaco is almost square whereas indonesia is much wider because they just took a dutch flag and ripped the blue off

Peanut President fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Jul 4, 2018

Redeye Flight
Mar 26, 2010

God, I'm so tired. What the hell did I post last night?
I'd like to thank Paradox games and specifically EU4 for cluing me in immediately to the flag being Mongolia's thanks to the sun-and-crescent symbol on top of the glyph.

Saladman
Jan 12, 2010

Redeye Flight posted:

It's a revolutionary symbol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolour_(flag)

Specifically, tricolor flags have been associated with republicanism and revolution from tyranny since the Dutch in 1579, and more powerfully and recently with the revolutions of 1848. The horizontal ones draw inspiration from the Dutch, the vertical ones from the French.

Ha, I thought I was asking a rhetorical question, but now that I think of it the tricolor flags are actually super distinct compared to the heraldic royal flags with their fleur-de-lys and lions and dragons and whatever on them.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

I love those googly-eyed towers.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Cat Mattress posted:

I love those googly-eyed towers.

Yeah it's a bit weird to let Rare design a Coat of Arms

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005

Cat Mattress posted:

I love those googly-eyed towers.

They look so surprised!

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

double

actionjackson fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jul 4, 2018

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

I need to redo the flag, capital and country quizzes on Sporcle. I was amazed how bad I do if I don't keep them fresh in my mind.

Let's just say this was definitely a highlight of Vienna:

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Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
I'll never be able to tell all the Yellow-Blue-Red Latin American flags apart.

Banana Canada
Sep 2, 2003
I'd tax all foreigners living abroad.



There's only three. Venezuela has the 8 stars with Chavez adding 8th one in 2006 to represent their claim on Guyana. Columbia is the plain one. Ecuador has the emblem with the river and mountain.

Now the Arabic flags otoh...

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

Banana Canada posted:

Now the Arabic flags otoh...
srsly

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

Oh yeah, for the black/white/red/green ones, so Syria has the two stars, Iraq has the Arabic on it, but UAE, Kuwait, Jordan and Palestine are all pretty similar

Count Roland
Oct 6, 2013

actionjackson posted:

Oh yeah, for the black/white/red/green ones, so Syria has the two stars, Iraq has the Arabic on it, but UAE, Kuwait, Jordan and Palestine are all pretty similar

Because of the war I can recognize Syria now. Egypt I can do.

But gently caress look at this:

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

Oh yeah haha, looks like the six I mentioned are on there, plus Egypt B2, also pretty sure one of those is Algeria

edit: gently caress Algeria doesn't have black in it

feller
Jul 5, 2006


What’s the symbol that looks like a bar chart and what does t mean?

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Senor Dog posted:

What’s the symbol that looks like a bar chart and what does t mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takbir

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!
Today we learn Allah is really into charts and graphs.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Patter Song posted:

I'll never be able to tell all the Yellow-Blue-Red Latin American flags apart.

It makes more sense when you realize they all wanted to keep Gran Colombia's flag but had to give it up because of the divorce :(

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014


tag urself im the one island of the philippines

Mandoric
Mar 15, 2003

stone cold posted:

tag urself im the one island of the philippines

join the Navy, they said

see the world, they said

System Metternich
Feb 28, 2010

But what did he mean by that?

Mandoric posted:

join the Navy, they said

see the world, they said

lmao

Fizzil
Aug 24, 2005

There are five fucks at the edge of a cliff...



Count Roland posted:

Because of the war I can recognize Syria now. Egypt I can do.

But gently caress look at this:



Its easy let me explain:

The three color horizontal ones are: Syria (two stars) Egypt (eagle) Iraq (takbir) the blank one is yemen.

The ones with triangles in the side: Jordan (seven sided star) Palestine (no star) Sudan (green triangle) Kuwait (black uh triangle shape) and the one with the star and crecent is the unrecognised sahrawi republic in western sahara.

That weird flag with the vertical bar and horizontal tricolor that looks like the old flag of south africa (veirkleur) is the UAE.

Fizzil fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Jul 5, 2018

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

stone cold posted:

tag urself im the one island of the philippines
im the mercator projection

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

FreudianSlippers
Apr 12, 2010

Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

That's the cheesiest map I've seen.

Flayer
Sep 13, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Buglord
Thassa tasty map. Draw a line from the Jarlsberg down to the Menorca and anything west from there is a good time whatever cheese you pick (there's good stuff on the other side too and plenty of it but it's not consistent).

I'm really not sure what's going on with all that pure white stuff in the far east....

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

The braided smoked goat cheese they have over in Slovakia is beyond amazing.

Flayer
Sep 13, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Buglord

Grevling posted:

The braided smoked goat cheese they have over in Slovakia is beyond amazing.
Which one is that? The Oravsky? Smoked goats cheese sounds very much on point.

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

Flayer posted:

Which one is that? The Oravsky? Smoked goats cheese sounds very much on point.

Yeah. I was mistaken about its goatiness apparently but it's really good anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korb%E1čik

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

twoday posted:

The Mandela Effect On World Geography! vs. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Sad Mafioso by VJ American Geography

(turn up the volume on the video on the left a bit)

edit: holy poo poo, this is better than I thought it would be

I loving love this

a pipe smoking dog
Jan 25, 2010

"haha, dogs can't smoke!"

The one labelled cheddar is clearly red Leicester. Cheddar is a very light yellow colour.

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

stone cold posted:

tag urself im the one island of the philippines

I'm the infection spreading from Baffin Bay.

Barbelith
Oct 23, 2010

SMILE
Taco Defender

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milbenk%C3%A4se

I didn't know Germany had a tradition of insect infested cheese too.

Negostrike
Aug 15, 2015


I'm the titty cheese at Galicia.

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Ireland :catholic:
Cumbria :rip:

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Ras Het
May 23, 2007

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.
It seems kinda weird to use raw numbers there - surely the population decline due to "deaths" is also because people of child bearing age are moving away?

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