Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Either make a cool design with the stars (not a grid or an offset one) or go back to the horrible original idea of 51 stars and 51 stripes too

Kennel posted:

Just hire a marketing company to design a fresh new flag.

Powered Descent posted:

The watchword for this redesign was "less is more". We've kept the traditional colors -- the red, white and blue is so core to your corporate national identity that we just couldn't bear to change it! -- but we've simplified the way-too-busy design. The stars, in particular, were a little much, so we've reduced them to a single large emblem that's the new focal point of the whole flag. It's now centered vertically, between a reduced number of stripes, but it's offset slightly toward the hoist, both as a callback to the old flag and as a way to avoid a too-boring symmetry. Overall, this new design just screams "America"! You're going to love it!

"Wikipedia posted:

The coat of arms of Irkutsk features an old symbol of Dauria: a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the coat of arms was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger ("babr", a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a sable in his mouth. This image had been used by the Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the Siberia Khanate representing a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word "sable" is derived from the Russian "sobol").

By the mid-19th century, the word "babr" had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the Armorial of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the tigers became extinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that "babr" was a misspelling of "bobr", the Russian word for "beaver", and changed the wording accordingly. This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the "babr" as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.

The Soviets abolished the image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

That French heraldrist who accidentally invented the beaver tiger was a cousin of the US Army officer who turned the caduceus into a symbol for medicine.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

That French heraldrist who accidentally invented the beaver tiger was a cousin of the US Army officer who turned the caduceus into a symbol for medicine.

The Cubelodyte posted:

Why isn’t the Russian flag on this chart? Whatever that is under the Czech flag comes close, but the Russians don’t use any kind of shield-shaped device that I can recall.

The Cubelodyte posted:

Why isn’t the Russian flag on this chart? Whatever that is under the Czech flag comes close, but the Russians don’t use any kind of shield-shaped device that I can recall.

Grouchio posted:

I hate how all the reds and blues are all the same drat hue.

Grouchio posted:

I hate how all the reds and blues are all the same drat hue.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

so every time i drive to my gf's house. i pass this house with three flags. 2 i know. one is the christian flag and the other is the Israeli flag. the third one i have never gotten a full look at and its not on road that i can slow down and take a picture like the weird goon i am. from what i see. the flag has writing on it and is yellow and green with some white. I think it has a figure but its curled around the poll most of the time.


Edit. I looked through various nation state flags and i can't find any that look like it.

bowser posted:

The flag of the city of Anadyr in the far east of Siberia is a personal fave .

Some other Russian city flags:


Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Very Soviet.


Vladivostok. Siberian Tigers are a popular symbol here, unsurprisingly.


Irkutsk. What animal is that supposed to be? Well...


Look at this majestic beast.


And finally... Khabarovsk with the crossover event of the century! Even the red fish from Anadyr makes a cameo.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

The_Other posted:

Christian Flag? do you mean this one?

I've never actually seen or heard of this flag before.

As for that green and yellow one, could it be the Irish "Erin Go Bragh" flag?


I found it on this wikimedia page

Vasukhani posted:

Probably a Georgian emigre. Most Americans from the former soviet union support Trump and are fond towards Putin.

Pope Hilarius II posted:

I wonder why they would use that flag though, Georgia began using it from ~2004 after a political movement drove the distinctly pro-Putin president Shevernadze from power

SlothfulCobra posted:

I think it was pretty obviously meant as a reference to the Georgia that was all over the news at the time as the biggest upset of the 2020 election. I feel like anyone who's big on Putin probably wouldn't be waving the flag of an independent Georgia.

The_Other posted:

Christian Flag? do you mean this one?

I've never actually seen or heard of this flag before.

As for that green and yellow one, could it be the Irish "Erin Go Bragh" flag?


I found it on this wikimedia page

Mr. Wiggles posted:

That red white and blue thing is no Christian flag.

Mr. Wiggles posted:

That red white and blue thing is no Christian flag.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Heretic. How dare you disrespect the papal

BonHair posted:

That's Catholic, not Christian.