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So, who amongst all y'all nerds can name: A)The one between Sierra Leone and Singapore B)The one between South Vietnam (Sydvietnam) and Syria and C)The two between Zaire and Austria (Østerrige) e:and for penance for starting a new page: Lo and behold, a flag that doesn't suck poo poo Pretty sure it's been posted in here before, but it's the Sápmi flag 
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Jerkhammer posted:e:and for penance for starting a new page: Lo and behold, a flag that doesn't suck poo poo It does look a little like a Google logo for a goatse-themed app. Maybe it's the divided ring that makes it look like something you could pull, uh, open.
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Randallteal posted:It does look a little like a Google logo for a goatse-themed app. Maybe it's the divided ring that makes it look like something you could pull, uh, open. Or some sort of solitaire rebrand of the Olympic Games.
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Jerkhammer posted:e:and for penance for starting a new page: Lo and behold, a flag that doesn't suck poo poo One of my favorite flags, every time I’m up near the arctic circle I grab a few flag patches and mugs to give away. So good.
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Jerkhammer posted:So, who amongst all y'all nerds can name: A) Sikkim, before India took it over in 1975; B) South Yemen - wouldn't have known that if I hadn't fallen down a wikihole looking at Yemeni flags yesterday; C) One is the United Arab Republic, but I think is currently the Syrian flag too; the tricolor I don't know. E: Bolivia in the Upside Down.
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Albino Squirrel posted:
Bolivia in the top left above Chile. That one is probably Ethiopia. The one that is throwing me is the one just to the left of Mexico. The first three colors make me think Armenia, but it's sitting on a fourth green bar.
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Thanks both. Never occurred to me that Yemen was split in East and South  I, too, was thinking UAR, but it doesn't fit alphabetically (I would've expected it to be Forenede Arabiske Republik anyway). Ethiopia makes sense, though; I understand Danish well enough to figure out most of this, just not enough to instinctively think "Ætiopien". As for the one before Mexico, that's Mauritius. e:  The "UAR" one is Egypt (Ægypten)
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Do you guys play one of the "Flagle" games out there? I've always been into geography but never knew my flags. Now that I play the game every day my knowledge has improved dramatically. This is the one I play: https://flagle-game.com/
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https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/1573040891018739712 Shittiest loving flag in a while
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I suppose we don't have a cursed flags thread...
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Count Roland posted:Do you guys play one of the "Flagle" games out there? I've always been into geography but never knew my flags. Now that I play the game every day my knowledge has improved dramatically. this is way better UI than "flaggle" which I was using, although I don't love seeing them on the scroll through. Thanks! my first guess is always South Africa because it usually gives a hit on at least one of the countries.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:this is way better UI than "flaggle" which I was using, although I don't love seeing them on the scroll through. Thanks! You can turn that off by clicking the setting and switching to hard mode
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Seychelles also good, with a lot of common colours on diagonals across the flag
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I used to start with South Africa but then switches to Central African Republic. And yes hard mode is key, just like for the Worldle.
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Tsaedje posted:Seychelles also good, with a lot of common colours on diagonals across the flag I feel like this is a cheat code.
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I went to an OU graduation ceremony in London the other day and one of the graduates was waving this flag: Which is a cool flag, but also, hell yeah dude
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The squad patch for the evil avatar team in the new avatar movie. https://twitter.com/KevinPayravi/status/1578525537688948736 Personally, I like to think of this as the hungary for pizza flag.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The squad patch for the evil avatar team in the new avatar movie. At least the franchise is consistent in not being remotely subtle in any way.
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DEJA "WE ARE THE BAD GUYS OF THE MOVIE" BLU
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Eiba posted:I don't know Cyrillic, but from knowledge of the Latin alphabet and basic pattern recognition, the all Cyrillic one appears to say Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan SSR. Same as the one that's mixed Cyrillic/Latin. I'd guess it's referencing the ethnicity and place separately for some reason? Or else the Kazakhs don't call their country Kazakhstan. It's Kazakh SSR in kazakh and Kazakhskaya SSR in russian. The latin is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C3%B1alif which replaced arabic (which few people were literate in) and was replaced to The SSR construction is already russification. In (modern latin) kazakh it should be Qazaq Keñestik Sotşialistik Respublikasy. The USSR at various points made people say "sovet" instead of the kazakh word that literally translates to the same concept as a soviet, as in a workers' council. Last year they settled on some diacritics including the spanish n with the thing, pronounced the same way and everything. Used to be gn like french.  (all this is iirc) Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Dec 26, 2022 |
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So in another thread, someone posted a fun story that had a flag to go with it.Cessna posted:Submarine USS Bowfin destroyed a Japanese bus and heavy crane with a torpedo. Citation. So I went down a whole thing looking up some other submarine battle flags. For various reasons, I often like to try to find pictures of the physical flags if I can for these obscure flags.   "angry fish ready to gently caress you up" seems to be a fairly common theme for a lot of these flags, but I thought the one in a sweater was funniest.    Trying to stuff so many symbols into a flag breaks the rules of flag design, but in this case all the extra symbols are mainly there to brag to others about all your accomplishments, so if they can't make it out because it's too busy, then they at least know that the ship with that flag has more under its belt than they can keep track of (and maybe being around the US flag so much teaches bad habits). These flags are made by "amateurs", not by symbology fans, but by relatively young enlisted dorks. They do what they think looks cool, and sometimes don't even really have the technical skills to render the images like they want to. The place I found the most of these flags was an old website last updated in 2008. Godspeed wherever you are old independent website maker.  http://donmac.org/Flags.htm
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SlothfulCobra posted:The place I found the most of these flags was an old website last updated in 2008. Godspeed wherever you are old independent website maker. He's still around, and if the site hasn't been updated it's probably because he'd been managing websites for like half the West coast's US submarine veteran group chapters.
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https://nava.org/2022-survey some of the ones in the bottom 25 gave me chills
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:https://nava.org/2022-survey Ranger is one of the funniest flags in a long time. Heck, I might even prefer it in an ironic way to the kinds of flags NAVA loves. Certainly more distinctive than Reno, which looks like the NordVPN logo. King Hong Kong fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jan 20, 2023 |
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:https://nava.org/2022-survey The Lincoln one appears to be invoking the state capitol, which is a really cool Art Deco-style tower.
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Rochallor posted:The Lincoln one appears to be invoking the state capitol, which is a really cool Art Deco-style tower. That flag is new; I remember the candidates being discussed in this thread a year or two back. e: Found it. BuckT.Trend posted:My hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska is choosing a new flag. They've put four designs up for a public preference vote. Details: https://www.amalincoln.org/reflag-lnk/
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Rochallor posted:The Lincoln one appears to be invoking the state capitol, which is a really cool Art Deco-style tower. nice, that's definitely one of the more distinctive and cool looking ones in the kind of snooze top batch. Glad to see Pocatello finally changed their tragic Graphic Design Is My Passion flag to something a little more normal. Maybe Provo will catch on. My favorites are the ones that look like other types of signs/packaging. So many of the bad ones look like they're signs for hospice cares, funeral homes, or nonprofits. Odessa meanwhile looks like a sour cream label and Richfield looks like a hotdog brand. Really love the label across the river on the Springfield township flag, too.
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I love the mIami township flag that has to clarify that it's in Ohio, unlike the most well-known Miami, but then it also has to further clarify its county because there's 5 other Miami Townships in Ohio. I do wonder what people will think of all these fancy aesthetically pleasing vexillologist-compliant flags in a decade or so, whether they will encourage people to take more pride in their locality and give them more of an identity. Or it could go the other way and maybe if these places put more emphasis in these minimalist flags to be their symbol everywhere, then that could lead to the place having less recognition since the flag won't really be recognized by anyone who doesn't already know (and in that sense, Flags might not be good replacements for other symbology like seals). Nobody's recognizing this thing waving on a pole unless they've been told multiple times.  And often the world outside of acceptable flag rules can turn out some interesting things.  
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Obligatory "No ring." Powered Descent posted:That flag is new; I remember the candidates being discussed in this thread a year or two back. Ah, cool. Is the owl based on something? I recognized the capitol building immediately because of its distinctiveness but it's been a while since I was out that way.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:https://nava.org/2022-survey Only 312 city flags?
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Enjoy posted:Only 312 city flags? I believe it was public submissions in addition to public voting, hence the clumping at the top and bottom of the distribution; the people who were most motivated to submit were the folks with flags they were proud of, or folks who had something to mock.
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Here are my takes of what these communicate: Local ISP  Trucking company  Medical clinic  Margarine  Café that hasn't seen a remodel since the mid-90s  Three-star hotel  Clothing brand, mostly baggy jeans and hoodies  Website under construction  Another three-star hotel  Men's underwear  This is a cheese brand, right?  I remember watching this in the mid-2000s 
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