The_Other posted:

I've actually been going though Wikipedia looking at various flags lately and yeah, most US state and city flags are pretty bad. That said I think the flag of Phoenix, AZ is pretty neat (how many purple flags are there?)

RagnarokZ posted:

That alignment of the stars is loving awful, why would you align it like that?

Did the designer read a shitload of Lovecraft and decide just to mess with perception forever?

Powered Descent posted:

Earth:

By far the best of the various proposed world flag designs, in my opinion. This one dates back to 1970 but it's seen only niche use, mostly among particular types of space nerd.

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

Knock-off of the Stars and Stripes. Uses Navy blue for Kentucky and Goldenrod as the state flower. 15 stars because Kentucky was the 15th state the two stars represent "unity" according to reddit. Actually looks really good, probably my favorite of the flags posted here.

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

Red white and blue was fine when you used them because those were the three cheapest colors of dye. Very utilitarian. Now its just lack of imagination.

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

Hard disagree. Too many red white and blue flags as it is. I love the lower right and upper left personally

escapegoat posted:

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

The curves represent the "feeling of driving along the coastline"

exmarx posted:

tbilisi

Angepain posted:

does that mean new states have to be admitted in groups of 5 or do you use a different polygon for each update depending on what factors easily

Kennel posted:

Time to post the best of Finnish heraldry again?

reignonyourparade posted:

The byzantine emperor wasn't roman but the ottoman was because... gently caress it I don't want to decide hot to justify this.

Angepain posted:

But was the Roman Empire a sandwich?

aphid_licker posted:

I mean designing flags is fun, just refuse to approve a design so you can keep designing new ones

BonHair posted:

In addition to the globe being weird, the projection is even weirder. It's centered on the Atlantic, and the West coast is basically hidden. It's a Eurocentric projection really, which seems odd when Usan maps are usually centered on the Americas.

Platystemon posted:

How does Portland think that rivers work?

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

Pretty safe choices for the winners. Worst country flags (ignoring minor territories) are Zambia, Haiti, and Belize. The part about most overrated flag is great, though I'm biased toward historical designs like Gran Colombia.

BonHair posted:

Sorry. I thought it was a weird fringe belief that could be safely mocked, but it sounds like it's more common than I thought.

Count Roland posted:

I've been assuming that Christian is a generic term that encompasses Catholicism, Orthodox churches as well all the assorted Protestant denominations.

Is this not the case?

Lutha Mahtin posted:

this post got a bunch of real basic stuff wrong, so i suggest nobody rely on it, but i also feel like a big effort post reply to it would be getting off topic, so i will just explain the main points

the biggest problem with the post is that it doesn't consider the beliefs of the people it is all lumping together: one of the basic things you have to do when talking about religious sects is to consider how the adherents of each sect think about themselves in relation to other sects. the second biggest problem is that the post says it's "not confusing" to lump in Nestorians, Mormons, and Jehova's Witnesses with the more traditional groups, which, just, lol

BonHair posted:

Yeah, but that's actually a point towards Baal being somewhat known amongst Christians - they wouldn't have dragged out someone with zero name recognition unless it was from the established Egyptian pantheon.

Also it was great with all the ball puns.

Pope Hilarius II posted:

I appreciate the design shootout to Greenland's flag, but why the hedron?

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Is it that much worse than Europe's "different colours same shape" tricolour trend?

BonHair posted:

Italy/Ireland

Peanut Butler posted:

european tricolors suck they should take a note from US states and put the country's name on there

moonmazed posted:

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I have braintrusted a new flag for the dutch, so that they not get confused with anyone else.

Platystemon posted:

Everyone knows that the ultimate protest is to breed an animal such that its coloration is vaguely reminiscent of your flag.

SlothfulCobra posted:

More weird flag stuff.

https://twitter.com/Jack_Mrgln/status/1515787920505987076

See that thing in the background? Sure makes you think Confederate flag. Well, that apparently is a flag that has been adopted by some of the separatists in Donbass as the flag of "Novorossiya" (or "New Russia", a name that Russia had for the area from way back in the day when the Russian Empire first established its dominion over the area).



Coincidence? Maybe. A blue X on white is an old Russian symbol, and a red flag is associated with Russia. Still, I wonder. It's not like they'd be totally unaware of it. I've often been surprised at how much Europeans are acutely aware of American pop culture. It'd be no weirder than just throwing around some weird german neonazi symbol.

https://twitter.com/Jack_Mrgln/status/1515787148510875649

There's a Moscow Times article where they draw the same comparison, although the top of that they lead with a guy who is clearly using the Arkansas flag. Weird.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/06/09/ukrainian-rebels-channel-us-confederates-a36318

SlothfulCobra posted:

What's weird is that there are maps of krypton in the comic as well, and none of them match the planet on the flag.

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

Always protect The Thin Brown Line (tm) - Baristas Union

Edit: Oh my god, please someone tell me if this is satire or not.

bird food bathtub posted:

Bah, that's so derivative of the original bear splitting the atom.

Count Roland posted:

Whoever brought about those changes should be sent to the Hague.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

who needs to be a pretend fancy euro confederate when you invented slaver revolts

BonHair posted:

Isn't the rule in heraldry that it's the description that counts, not the specific execution? So, in that tradition, literally all of them are equally good, because they have the right elements in the right places, who cares if they look different?
Of course, that's a lot different from modern flag traditions, and it's basically a remnant of flags/crests being a thing you had to paint or sew by hand.

ChubbyChecker posted:

those idiots approved the caduceus for the medical corps, their opinions about anything are irrelevant

SlothfulCobra posted:

Something I don't get with Latin America is that there are two separate clusters of countries with nearly identical flags. Subnational units can have lovely flags no problem, but if you have national flags that are basically the same as your neighbors, then it gets hard to signify yourselves separately at international events.

Count Roland posted:

All parts of the world should be divided into regions in which each country shares a unified brand identity but with different flags. Scandinavia, West Africa and Arab nations are already on board but could use some more distinctiveness.

SlothfulCobra posted:

It would be funny if Colombia adopted the one on the right and became closer to Panama.

BonHair posted:

If y'all not following the graphs thread, I'm gonna crosspost this here: