Flegs

[Underturd]

The best flags are ones that have birds or animals on them, if only because it makes them harder to copy. Bavaria is a good one, or Wales, although it means hordes of primary school children ending up in tears because Mrs Blodwen wants them to draw the flag and they're shit at dragons or two headed eagles and wish they lived in Japan.

[baptist]

Or France during the war.

[Zero Gravitas]

Having a national flag isn't a representation of genuine historical continuity, it's a falsification of the current society back into the past.

Having said that, battle flags are cool:

[QDRPHNC]

Best flag is Japan. End of.

[Gambrinus]

I'm a big fan of New Caledonia and Palau. On phone so can't do pictures easily.

During lockdown I managed to learn every single national flag on Sporcle. Couldn't do it now, the interchangeable blue and white Central American ones and the Arab green/black/white/red ones are a bit confusing without practice.

[Glebe]

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

God Hates Flags

[Shaxberd]

The "flag match" stipulation in wrestling is accidental genius, imo. Big sweaty men pretending to fight over bits of cloth. Oh no the non American is waving their flag boooooo. Now the American is waving the Stars and Stripes, yaaaaay. It's nationalism ad absurdum. All national conflicts should be resolved this way.

[Arbiter]

There's this fantastic resource called the Internet, all your questions can be answered there

I have absolutely no interest in flags

[Underturd]

Sounds like a false flag, to me

[Glebe]

Sounds like a false flag, to me

[gib]

If Scotland ever gets independence I suppose we'll have to change the flag. Not if Wales leaves, obv.

Oh hi Australia, Scotland just left so you are going to have to change every flag you have, shouldn't cost too many millions. Yes we know you didn't ask for this but get on with it.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Greggs competitor to shut down all bakery outlets due to "disappointing" sales.

[dissolute ocelot]

Belfast is nice



The Isle of Wight is trying a bit hard



In the USA, New Mexico is reckoned a classic (another sun, but a really cool one)



The original design for Florida is like a shit version of the old Haitian flag



As for Hawaii, oh dear!

[jobotic]

New idea for Florida

[Underturd]

What if all the countries had flags, that had pictures of food on them? So Scotland could have a haggis, Wales could have seaweed, Germany could have a sausage, France could have a croissant, USA could have a hotdog, and so on? And now I'm hungry, not for the seaweed though.

[Aaron500]

In 1989 when the Romanian people turned against Ceaucescu, they cut the communist crest out of the centre of their flag so it just had a circular hole in it and it looked cool af.

I was disappointed when they just filled it in after they'd shot him and his Missus.

[Ferris]

Best flag is Japan. End of.

Of course, switzerlands is a big plus.

[Ferris]

I live in Halifax. Post-amalgamation (mid '90s) the city's flag was abolished which is a crime against art, basically.



It's like a blue kingfisher having an existential crisis (and maybe buying a yacht?)

Now sadly decommissioned. We don't even have fuckin kingfishers.

[popcorn]

Best flag is Japan. End of.

The "rising sun" version is particularly bitchin', shame it's the Asian equivalent of the Confederate flag.

[FeederFan500]

TIL the birds on the flag of Sussex each represent a rape.

[dissolute ocelot]

I live in Halifax. Post-amalgamation (mid '90s) the city's flag was abolished which is a crime against art, basically.



It's like a blue kingfisher having an existential crisis (and maybe buying a yacht?)

Now sadly decommissioned. We don't even have fuckin kingfishers.

I assume the ships are because it's not in Calderdale. Wonder if the colours are from



https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Halifax_(Yorkshire)

[JesusAndYourBush]

If you kindof squint the ships look like clenched fists, with the arrows indicating direction of movement, basically doing a goatse.


And is that Halifax UK or Nova Scotia?

[Ferris]

Nova Scotia. The goatse aspect is just one of the good things about this flag.

[Theoretical Dentist]

The "rising sun" version is particularly bitchin', shame it's the Asian equivalent of the Confederate flag.

You could use the flag of North Macedonia instead for something similar, although it doesn't look as good and it's possibly still controversial because of Macedonian heritage fuckery (it's derived from an ancient Macednnian symbol, and replaced an earlier flag using the actual symbol which Greece complained about).

[seepage]

The flag of Essex features three seaxes. Seax = Essex - geddit?

[Underturd]

Looks like someone amputated the Lumiere family's arms.

[dissolute ocelot]

Bavaria has two flags, of which this is quite jaunty

but the other is just 2 stripes.

The flag of Schleswig-Holstein is just the Netherlands flag upside down.

The Dutch naval flag is also quite fun


And the Cross of Burgundy (flag of the Valois family and battle flag of the Dukes of Burgundy) looks like it could do some damage

[Ferris]

The flag of Essex features three seaxes. Seax = Essex - geddit?

Woke flag, real world there are only two saexes.

[Theoretical Dentist]

The flag of Essex features three seaxes. Seax = Essex - geddit?

And it's not a coincidental pun – the same Proto-West Germanic root, meaning knife, is the origin of seax and Saxon. The Saxons were named after their knives, and an Old English ancestor of Saxon is the origin of the -sex in Essex, Sussex, Wessex and Middlesex.