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SlothfulCobra posted:It's a nice video, although I am a bit tired of flagnerd posing. Always love it when a video proclaims how good Confederate (absolutely Georgia and probably Alabama) and Mormon (the beehive) iconographies look while being mad about letters being on a flag. King Hong Kong fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Apr 3, 2023 |
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Kennel posted:Have CGP Grey roasting From the East India Company chat, Union Sulphur's house flag certainly has a piratical flair:  
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Rebel Blob posted:So CGP Grey has joined the Ken Cuccinelli club in censoring the Virginia seal, a common depiction of a Roman Goddess is just too scandalous for him. He is afraid of demonetization. The YouTube channel is his full time job.
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exmachina posted:He is afraid of demonetization. The YouTube channel is his full time job. Also google does a poo poo job communicating why videos get demonetized and how to avoid it, so there's a lively ecosystem of hearsay and cargo culting. A lot of creators censor everything they even hear a rumor about causing videos to get yanked.
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Showing some love (and hate) for some flags I didn't see upthread (I removed the couple I noticed after the fact  ).First I gotta say, it feels like an Arby's night:  The official flag of the city of Calgary, Alberta. lol This one seems a tad problematic to put it mildly, but surely attitudes were different in- 1980? Holy poo poo:  Corsica, France As far as made-up flags for real places, I always liked this one:  Mars flag from Mars Attacks A very chill, very made-up seeming flag for a real place:  State of Pernambuco, Brazil Another nice rainbow. Who doesn't like rainbows?  Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia River Gee County in Liberia again, because to me it didn't seem real:  But apparently it is, based on these stamps released in 2008. Futanari Damacy fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Apr 4, 2023 |
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Futanari Damacy posted:However this one would probably be the best if it were actually an official flag:
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Powered Descent posted:Antarctica: I have always disliked this one because it doesn't make any distinction between the ice shelves and the land 
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It's clearly a stylized spaniel wearing a fake rhino horn, why would it?
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I think I'd like that better if it didn't have the star.
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This is an actually good modernistic flag https://twitter.com/Mjmccleary/status/1643299162602225664?t=DnIrnLYL2ZXmU2pRs2r-OQ&s=19
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/cgpgrey/status/1643259508083286016 Yuck. I don’t even understand the desire to make these flags as generic and uninteresting as possible. In a few decades, I think people will look on this aesthetic preference only slightly more favorably than the old seal on blue.
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I would accept this if they removed Nevada from the flag.
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I'm often not a fan of maps on flags, and if any states should be split up, California fits the bill. On top of the fact that the specific state borders may not be eternal, borders are the most shallow thing you can use as a symbol for whatever you're making a flag for. Not much better than just signing your name. Rivers are probably a better thing to use maps of, because they're more relevant to how areas grow and how people interact rather than just "there's a coast and the desert side of the border is kinda bendy". HopperUK posted:I think I'd like that better if it didn't have the star. The star is Alcatraz. King Hong Kong posted:Yuck. I don’t even understand the desire to make these flags as generic and uninteresting as possible. In a few decades, I think people will look on this aesthetic preference only slightly more favorably than the old seal on blue. Stylistic minimalism makes sense as a way to back away from old, more elaborate designs, especially getting away from the complex details of coats of arms and seals that are the hallmarks of "bad flags". But they do sure seem to often look the same though.
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King Hong Kong posted:Yuck. I don’t even understand the desire to make these flags as generic and uninteresting as possible. In a few decades, I think people will look on this aesthetic preference only slightly more favorably than the old seal on blue.
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The Flag Nerd Thread: good flags other than Maryland's
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/cgpgrey/status/1643259508083286016 California's current flag is very distinct and fun and this guy should be put in flag prison.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The star is Alcatraz. Alcatraz is located well inside the territory of California.  The star is clearly the Farallones
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/cgpgrey/status/1643259508083286016 Like many youtube people, he's an idiot who does a very good job at sounding smart on the internet.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:This is an actually good modernistic flag That's a great design. For an airline frequent flyer card.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's a great design. How would you know, no one flies to your country
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Futanari Damacy posted:This one seems a tad problematic to put it mildly, but surely attitudes were different in- 1980? Holy poo poo: The flag was only officially adopted and standardized in 1980, but the Moor's head design goes back to at least the 1750s, and given that neighboring Sardinia has used a similar emblem since the 13th century, it's likely that it's been in use in Corsica for at least that long. I would note that while it is supposed to represent a victory over the Moors, the people of Corsica do seem to now see the figure as representing themselves - there is a variant of the flag where the Moor is blindfolded as a prisoner, which has historically often been flown as a sign of protest when the Corsicans feel their rights are being infringed upon.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:How would you know, no one flies to your country Lots of people fly away though.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Was that supposed to be some sort of burn or am I missing a joke? Suomi ei ole hyvää. Actually, it's pretty great, that's part of why I started learning the language. It's not exactly a popular tourist destination, on account of both nature and culture being mostly bog
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BonHair posted:Suomi ei ole hyvää. So don't eat it 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:So don't eat it You're not my dad
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BonHair posted:You're not my dad *smirks dadly* Amn't I?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:*smirks dadly* Amn't I? Come to think of it, I technically don't know my dad, so I guess if you hosed a Danish woman 35 years ago?
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I'm glad they switched back to the Union Jack on the bow of warships. 
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Mr. Nice! posted:I'm glad they switched back to the Union Jack on the bow of warships. I hope calling it the Union Jack pisses off the Brits.
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Angry Salami posted:The flag was only officially adopted and standardized in 1980, but the Moor's head design goes back to at least the 1750s, and given that neighboring Sardinia has used a similar emblem since the 13th century, it's likely that it's been in use in Corsica for at least that long. Yeah, it's awkward to think about, but it goes back a long time, here's it in the 14th century.  Life as a christian island in the mediterranean back in the day would've been characterized with having to deal with a lot of muslim pirates, so it's easy to see how that would really stick in some people's minds as a national symbol. And then when you've spent centuries with it as your national symbol, well now you're stuck with it. Some Hungarian coats of arms get a lot more aggressive with severed heads, although their depiction of Turks doesn't seem very relevant to modern racial politics.  As a bonus, another graphic hungarian coat of arms.  Guy had some kind of job castrating animals a pipe smoking dog posted:California's current flag is very distinct and fun It sucks though.
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I see the conversation has moved on, but I'm not gonna deprive the thread of a much improved flag for California:
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Bah, that's so derivative of the original bear splitting the atom.
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bird food bathtub posted:Bah, that's so derivative of the original bear splitting the atom.
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