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French region flags (which are not necessarily official) are generally based on the region's historical coat of arm. Here's Auvergne. It's not actually a dick, it's a gonfalon (specifically, the gonfalon of the Abbey of Aurillac). So it's kind of a flag of a flag.  Here's Savoie. Like the flag of their Swiss neighbors, it's a centered white cross on a red field, but the cross here extends to the border of the flag.  Here's Lyonnais. It's the land around the city of Lyon. And yes "Lyon" sounds just like "Lion", so the choice was obvious.  Here's Dauphiné. The Count of Vienne had a dolphin on his coat of arm for some reason, so he was nicknamed "the dolphin", so his land was referred to as the Dolphined Land. Later the Dauphiné became the land for the heir apparent of the King of France (kind of like Wales for the British), which is why the title for said heir apparent was Dauphin. Notice how the dolphin here has fish fins, because medieval heraldry did not know or care about accurate details of cetacean biology.  Nowadays all these areas and then some are merged into a single administrative region, so its flag is:  Historical flag of Brittany. Sometimes variants feature ermines, since they were on the coat of arms of the Duchy of Brittany.  Modern flag of Brittany. Like the modern Greek flag, you can see the influence of the US flag in its design.  Alsace. This combines the historical coat of arms of Upper and Lower Alsace.  Languedoc. The Occitan cross in gold on a red field. There's also a variant with a seven-pointed star in the upper-right corner.  Roussillon. Yeah it's just the Catalan flag.  Occitanie, being the Languedoc-Roussillon.  French Guiana. Kinda boring honestly.  Martinique, historical. Now that's a cool flag.  Martinique, modern. A shame to lose the snakes, IMO.  Réunion. A proposed flag, not actually official. The red triangle symbolizes Furnace Peak.  New Caledonia. This flag has there the same official status as the national French flag.  Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises (TAAF). They managed to turn that clumsy acronym into a kinda cool logo.  Coxswain Balls posted:
Really cool design on this one.
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exmarx posted:i was reading a little book a couple of years ago and did an actual lol when i saw the bottom left It's just a gallery of Wikipedia flag versions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Libya.svg You can find Zscout370 here, though the most recent version is by SiBr4. I haven't found which file has MaggotMaster's version but I haven't searched too long.
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Jehde posted:I don't have any good candidates for what the region now commonly known as British Columbia should be called though. All I can think of are lame things like Pacifica. My idea would be to ask the remaining local natives how the area was called in their language before colonization, and then choose the best-sounding name from the list you get. Wikipedia posted:British Columbia, before the arrival of the Europeans, was home to many Indigenous peoples speaking more than 30 different languages, including Babine-Witsuwit'en, Danezaa (Beaver), Carrier, Chilcotin, Cree, Dene language, Gitxsan, Haida, Haisla, Halkomelem, Kaska, Kutenai, Kwak̓wala, Lillooet, Nisga'a, Nuu-chah-nulth, Nuxalk, SENCOTEN, Sekani, Shuswap, Sinixt, Squamish, Tagish, Tahltan, Thompson, Tlingit, Tsetsaut, and Tsimshian. There was frequent contact between bands and voyages across the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca were common. There should still be plenty of choices available.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Bottom right is so good. Who said the writing has to be ugly, though? Here is a proposal where the phrase is turned into an elegant graphical element.  It was either that or using Wingdings, but the latter is more for the GBS thread I think.
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Edit: repost for new page: Mississippi flag redesign with "In God We Trust" written on it as requested by the law.Vivian Darkbloom posted:Seems like a better flag for Middle-earth The joke was that it's basically the flag of Iran.
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"Who the gently caress threw an anchor in my garden," roared Mr Bear.
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Where does the Indonesian pentagon come from since it's not in Indonesia's actual flag design? I suppose it's to represent the pencasila but IRL this is represented by a coat of arms without any pentagon in it.
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exmarx posted:
Are those beehives?
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Love that sickle and fleur-de-lis one. "We're a socialist agrarian monarchy; everyone is equal except of course for our divinely-mandated king."
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Smirr posted:Serbia (🇷🇸) A thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters, and what came out was "Kosovo je Srbija".
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Platystemon posted:
The giant floating letters spelling out GUAM are so much better than the misaligned HOLLYWOOD letters.
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saccharomyces covidisiae
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I appreciate the iranian flag but Mississippi colours and the calligraphy is "ingodwetrustingodwetrustingodwetrustingodwetrust" that was mine, did someone actually submit it?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
Ah, it's a slightly different version; I had the flower centered and in a simpler pattern with flat coloring to make it even more like the Iranian flag.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:The Mississippi flag redesign shitshow made me wonder, are most subnational flags just worse than the few ones I know? Fortunately, Wikipedia has a convenient page for that. East Timor has a strong branding policy for its district flags.
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https://local.theonion.com/local-jew-feels-left-out-of-worldwide-jewish-conspiracy-1819564292
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Xelkelvos posted:I dislike both, but I dislike the left one less.  it's a bit less generic with the magnolia.
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Aug 25, 2020 21:12
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"The Pumping Iron Curtain"
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That's a flag version of the coat of arms of the city of Oran during French Algeria. I think it's been built out of mismatched elements from other flags/coat of arms. The boat looks like the one from New Brunswick, and the lions are now purple? That tower design is quite distinctive, too.
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The United States of America: literally founded on the principle of corporate tax dodging.
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