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exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

state of burma (1943–1945)


uganda


wallonia


louisiana


british antarctic territory


frenštát pod radhoštěm

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The Narrator
Aug 11, 2011

bernie would have won

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1yYHVTdViA

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Michael Bayleaf
Jun 4, 2006

Tortured By Flan

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

I've been playing the Flags of the World quiz on Sporcle, and after repeated plays over a couple days the best I've gotten is 194/197:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/worldflags

I've developed a number of mnemonic devices to remember flags, including recently realizing that there are at least three countries that really look like their flags are African but they aren't: Lithuania, Myanmar, and Bolivia.

One of the last remaining buggers is keeping West Africa straight, with just way too many green-yellow-red flags of little difference (hint: Benin's flag forms a B, as does Guinea-Bissau's)

I like how the average score is 60% on that. Yeah right

Michael Bayleaf
Jun 4, 2006

Tortured By Flan
No I don't know what hte flag of Togo looks like because I didn't know that it exists. I liked it that way too

TapTheForwardAssist
Apr 9, 2007

Pretty Little Lyres

Michael Bayleaf posted:

No I don't know what hte flag of Togo looks like because I didn't know that it exists. I liked it that way too

How can you miss it? It's like right next to Burkina Faso.

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

Yeah 60% average might be bullshit. I got 50% (exactly 100 right answers) on my first try. EU4 has broken my brain because I spent a good minute trying to get it to accept "The Papal States" as an answer for the vatican. gently caress every flag with the union jack on it. :mad:

Concordat
Mar 4, 2007

Secondary Objective: Commit Fraud - Complete
What's the difference between Chad and Romania's flags?




Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

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

Odobenidae posted:

Yeah 60% average might be bullshit. I got 50% (exactly 100 right answers) on my first try. EU4 has broken my brain because I spent a good minute trying to get it to accept "The Papal States" as an answer for the vatican. gently caress every flag with the union jack on it. :mad:

Those Chav fucks just need to be reminded of their empire!

The obvious solution would be to recolor the Union Jack based on national symbolism. Kinda like the Nordic Cross flags.

Andorra
Dec 12, 2012

Concordat posted:

What's the difference between Chad and Romania's flags?





I don't know, but those colors are popular.






The Narrator
Aug 11, 2011

bernie would have won

Andorra posted:

I don't know, but those colors are popular.

Excellent username/post combo.


Flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia.


Sakhalin Oblast. A bird poo poo on my flag!


Republic of Buryatia, a federal subject of Russia. I really like this one.

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
One of the nice things about Russian flags is that they are often a bit longer than others, because of the 2:3 aspect ration favored by the Soviet Union. In contrast the US flag has a ratio of 10:19.

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
but which flag has the higher fps

burnishedfume
Mar 8, 2011

You really are a louse...

rudatron posted:

but which flag has the higher fps

Nepal. You can run it on a 10 year old toaster and you'll still get 120 fps because of how little there is to render.

Pomplamoose
Jun 28, 2008

rudatron posted:

but which flag has the higher fps

flaps per second

Nckdictator
Sep 8, 2006
Just..someone

Dreddout posted:

Those Chav fucks just need to be reminded of their empire!

The obvious solution would be to recolor the Union Jack based on national symbolism. Kinda like the Nordic Cross flags.

Trying to find the oddest union jack flag.













(I know, the last is pre-1801, still counting it because of NO POPERY)

Also, apparently this is Jordanian

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

Nckdictator posted:

Also, apparently this is Jordanian



The short lived Jordanian-Italian-Hungarian union

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

i like the hungarian flag with a hole cut out of the middle where the hammer and sickle were. my hometown has them at an independence monument

The Narrator
Aug 11, 2011

bernie would have won

DrProsek posted:

Nepal. You can run it on a 10 year old toaster and you'll still get 120 fps because of how little there is to render.

What are the best flags to run on an old video card?


Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011)


Paris Commune (1871)
Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
Bavarian Soviet Republic (1919)
Strandzha Commune (Bulgaria, 1903)
Finnish Socialist Worker's Republic (1918)
Odessa Soviet Republic (1918)
Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic (1918)
Free Socialist Republic of Germany (1918)
Slovak Soviet Republic (1919)
Sultanate of Muscat (modern-day Oman, 1650–1820)


Emirate of Afghanistan (1880-1901)


Bourbon-restoration France (1814-1830)
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban, 1996-1997)

The Narrator has issued a correction as of 02:57 on Dec 11, 2016

TapTheForwardAssist
Apr 9, 2007

Pretty Little Lyres
Googled it and apparently technically the flags of Chad and Romania are different: Chad has an "indigo" stripe and Romania has a "cobalt" stripe.

Fidel Castronaut
Dec 25, 2004

Houston, we're Havana problem.

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

Googled it and apparently technically the flags of Chad and Romania are different: Chad has an "indigo" stripe and Romania has a "cobalt" stripe.

I don't know how faithful the posted images are to the actual flags but the top one is clearly darker than the bottom one. I mean, if you saw a random one at a glance on a pole somewhere, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference but there clearly is one when staring at the two images.

KIND OF A KIM DEAL
Oct 28, 2016

by zen death robot



:911:

:dealwithit:

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

merry exmarx posted:


state of burma (1943–1945)

bless them...the peacock deserves to be on a flag! and Burma/Mynamar is a beautiful country full of intrigue and amazement...

King of Birds!



Formosa bae




:rolleyes:

get real kim deal

Andorra
Dec 12, 2012

The Narrator posted:


Bourbon-restoration France (1814-1830)

Of course it's French

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Olga Gurlukovich
Nov 13, 2016

Lord Hydronium posted:

lovely city flags can't be talked about without a mention of Provo's old flag:



(Slogan: Ask your doctor if Provo is right for you.)

Which was changed last year to an actually good flag:



the obama look is dated, now its all about white text on red

Olga Gurlukovich
Nov 13, 2016

awyeahz posted:

central america loves putting a tiny flag icon in the middle of the flag

costa rica. enHance

two boats flying the flag that you are looking at

that loving owns

HBar
Sep 13, 2007

Every time I see this thread title I think "Do I?!"


Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

reminds me of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFNO7qorvI


Mariana Horchata has issued a correction as of 19:04 on Dec 11, 2016

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Nckdictator posted:

Trying to find the oddest union jack flag.



This one rules.

Tommah
Mar 29, 2003

mozambique:


assyrian flag

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
i thought about this flag for the first time in over a decade



it actually kinda bothers me how lazy it is. I B and M get their own stars?????? why do internet explorer and windows get separate stars?????? playboy is gross and all but how is it representative of the corporate hegemony, i bet it is itself owned by another larger fish

Concordat
Mar 4, 2007

Secondary Objective: Commit Fraud - Complete
Playboy is representative of America's weird relation with sex? Really should have had Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman on there, but I guess those don't really have iconic logos.

What a dumb selection. Don't even have any oil companies on there.

Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...



Loving the contrast between flags that have clearly been in use for hundreds of years vs wtf is going on in South Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight

Pomplamoose
Jun 28, 2008

IMAO (in my American opinion) the Isle of Wight flag didn't stand out as unusual but South Yorkshire looks like a sports team logo.

*in a seinfeld voice* Also what's the deal with the gradients on Worcestershire's flag? Do they represent the sauce?

Lobster God
Nov 5, 2008

Whorelord posted:



Loving the contrast between flags that have clearly been in use for hundreds of years vs wtf is going on in South Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight

The Lincolnshire one was chosen by public vote in 2005. It looks even sillier being flown.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

Sami flag



Aboriginal flag

Pantsuit
Oct 28, 2013

Whorelord posted:



Loving the contrast between flags that have clearly been in use for hundreds of years vs wtf is going on in South Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight

None of those flags have been in use for 100's of years.

Jaramin
Oct 20, 2010


Some of my favorite corporate logos flags.


Basin, Wyoming.


Huntington, West Virginia.


Annandale, Virginia.


Arvada, Colorado.


Moses Lake, Washington.


Salem, Oregon.

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twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author

Can you imagine a distant world where you could be so happy and energized from something as simple as a stick of gum? Imagine staring off into the icy expanse through dead eyes as you savor the flavor, and then plunging off of a cliff into the abyss, your soul already having been swallowed by a dark chasm of taste sensation.

twoday has issued a correction as of 01:32 on Dec 15, 2016

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