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daert1 posted:Michigan has some unique seals and flags My favorite part of the Michigan flag is the correct use of a Latin irregular verb. "We shall defend" Which is, to say "gently caress off Canada, just try to invade, we dare you."
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Speleothing posted:My favorite part of the Michigan flag is the correct use of a Latin irregular verb. "We shall defend" Fixed that for you.
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blunt for century posted:I really really like the Maryland state flag This flag looks like two reasonably good flags that have nothing to do with each other got mashed together.
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Phlegmish posted:This flag looks like two reasonably good flags that have nothing to do with each other got mashed together. Amusingly, that's exactly what happened. Wikipedia posted:The Maryland colony was founded by Cecilius Calvert, second baron and Lord Baltimore, (1605-1675), which was granted to him as George's son and heir by King Charles I, hence the use of his family's coat of arms in the flag. At first, only the gold and black Calvert arms were associated with Maryland, being reintroduced in 1854.[2] The red and white colored arms of the Crossland family, which belonged to the family of Calvert's (Lord Baltimore's) paternal grandmother, gained popularity during the American Civil War, during which Maryland remained with the Union despite a large proportion of the citizenry's support for the Confederacy, especially in the central City of Baltimore and the counties of the southern part of the state and the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Those Marylanders who supported the Confederacy, many of whom fought in the Army of Northern Virginia of General Robert E. Lee, adopted the Crossland banner, which was red and white with the bottony (trefoil) cross [2] (seen as "secession colors") and often used a metal bottony cross pinned to their gray uniforms or caps (kepis).[citation needed]. The black and gold (yellow) colors with the chevron design of the Calvert family were used in the flags and devices and uniform pins of the Union Army regiments in the northern Army of the Potomac.
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Is there a master list of municipal flags in the US? I've got a feeling Wikipedia's isn't exhaustive. Here is a great video about the design of municipal flags. http://99percentinvisible.org/news/99-invisible-at-ted/
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Alouicious posted:best part of the maryland flag is Under Armor's attempts at turning it into a football uniform for the University of Maryland, all of whom's attempts are AMAZING SUCCESSES I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but that is a loving cool uniform. It's like dazzle camo but for football!  e. even the gloves have it! blunt for century has a new favorite as of 21:11 on May 21, 2015 |
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Alouicious posted:best part of the maryland flag is Under Armor's attempts at turning it into a football uniform for the University of Maryland, all of whom's attempts are AMAZING SUCCESSES He looks like a knight with cool-rear end shoulder armor.
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May 21, 2015 21:10
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Here's my home town's: I remember posting this in a different thread and getting the response "that pig just loving loves pretzels  "
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May 22, 2015 12:51
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Well, who doesn't?
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blunt for century posted:I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but that is a loving cool uniform. I am never being sarcastic about my love of Maryland's football uniforms  
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This one also means it's illegal under the patriot act to tackle him.
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Alouicious posted:I am never being sarcastic about my love of Maryland's football uniforms Needs more skulls, purity seals
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Needs more skulls, purity seals I was gonna make that joke. 
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Bitter Mushroom posted:Can someone tell me, I thought it was the case that there are no 'family' coat of arms, all coats of arms were awarded to specific individuals, and are not passed down to their sons or other descendants. Hence why all the 'Discover your noble coat of arms $9.99' websites are full of poo poo. Arms are usually passed down from father to eldest son with modified versions for other members of the family. However, if you are the descendant of a family that has arms, in a line that is actually eligible to receive the coat of arms, you probably already know and don't need a website to tell you. E: The Netherlands should bring back the orange stripe in the flag. If you don't like the connotations, hang Geert Wilders, opening the trap door at the same moment you hoist the new flag. Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 03:59 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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The Confederacy was a vile institution that existed entirely to preserve the practice of owning other human beings as property. The biggest group of traitors in American history should by no means be celebrated or apologized for. But goddamn, they knew how to make a great flag*. I don't know who originally designed it, but man, I wish a Northerner had come up with the idea first.  *not gonna post it in this thread for the same reason I wouldn't post a swastika. This link just goes to a picture of the flag in question, if for some reason you've lived under a rock for the last 150 years. EDIT: Like, I can't emphasize enough how terrible the Confederacy was and why this flag is a symbol of misguided nationalism at the very best. It just happens to be a really, really solid design. ninjahedgehog has a new favorite as of 03:16 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Take the stars off and you have the flag of Novorossiya, so you can endorse naked Russian imperialism and propaganda rather than slavery and hideous, lingering bigotry.
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StandardVC10 posted:Take the stars off and you have the flag of Novorossiya, so you can endorse naked Russian imperialism and propaganda rather than slavery and hideous, lingering bigotry. The background is a different colour.
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So you just like the St. Andrew's Cross?
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I've always liked my surname's coat of arms(not that I am in any way calling it my personal arms), just because it seems so different from all the other European heraldry designs. I kinda want to get a tattoo of it, but I'm afraid people would mistake it for a neo-Nazi rune design or something.
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Admiral Bosch posted:I've always liked my surname's coat of arms(not that I am in any way calling it my personal arms), just because it seems so different from all the other European heraldry designs. I kinda want to get a tattoo of it, but I'm afraid people would mistake it for a neo-Nazi rune design or something. That's a "fret", it's actually not too uncommon and looks good:  There's also "fretty", which is a series of frets:  I plan on using fretty in some capacity when I design a coat of arms for my partner, as a cant on her name.
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The Night of A Monkey Holding An Apple
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Why is he holding a hops flower emitting an explosive fart?
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Woolie Wool posted:Why is he holding a hops flower emitting an explosive fart? Maybe its an artichoke. Not sure that explains it any better, but who knows.
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ninjahedgehog posted:*not gonna post it in this thread for the same reason I wouldn't post a swastika. This link just goes to a picture of the flag in question, if for some reason you've lived under a rock for the last 150 years. It's okay dude, we get it, no one is going to tar and feather you for wrongthink.
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Phlegmish posted:It's okay dude, we get it, no one is going to tar and feather you for wrongthink. speak for yourself, if I see any incorrect opinions about flags or otherwise I will flay the poster alive.
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BBJoey posted:speak for yourself, if I see any incorrect opinions about flags or otherwise I will flay the poster alive. A heavily stylized and stereotypical Something Awful forums poster being flayed alive for a bad post sounds like a perfect nonsensical heraldric device.
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Is that James Bond's from whatever that movie was?
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Sure is! The motto means "The World Is Not Enough".
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James Bond is from Ulster?
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That lion's looking a little emaciated too, could use a sausage
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:James Bond is from Ulster? That particular red hand appears to be suffering from some sort of tissue or bone disorder. Perhaps Celtic hand for maximum irony.
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The Red Hand of Ulster is a right hand, while the hand on Bond's heraldry is a left hand. Bond's ancestry is from Scotland, but he grew up in Pet Bottom in Kent.
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A good and interesting TED talk about city flags reposting, probably:  Zheleznogorsk
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My municipal crest, for the city of Örebro, looks like this: It's a displayed, wings inverted, eagle sable sinister, armed tenné.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:tenné Heraldry Nerd: Indeed? *Patronizing and really rude chuckle*
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It could be sanguine, but I felt it was too light. That's why I said tenné. E: Originally, I wrote or. So I was even more wrong before!
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