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What are the worst flags, aesthetically?
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Heh, not the worst by far, but I wish to submit the German Coat of Arms. I mean, there's people in this very thread thinking our glorious country flag is dull. Well, chew on this for a change.
That tongue. ...and the facial expression. It's just... just... :lol
Has historical reasons for looking like it does, obviously. Heraldry and all that jazz.
Nonetheless, I still can't quite get over it. I always feel the need to draw in an x for the eye, etc.
Edit: Again, not knocking the eagle. I'm just amused by his facial expression. And the tongue. What is it with heraldic animals and tongues, anyway.
That tongue. ...and the facial expression. It's just... just... :lol
Has historical reasons for looking like it does, obviously. Heraldry and all that jazz.
Nonetheless, I still can't quite get over it. I always feel the need to draw in an x for the eye, etc.
Edit: Again, not knocking the eagle. I'm just amused by his facial expression. And the tongue. What is it with heraldic animals and tongues, anyway.
Ganzlinger
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All of those flags are great.All the flags that are just two or three stripes. Like:
Also these:
So lazy.
thesoapster
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Maryland, USA
So when is MD GAF meetup occurring
Jason Frost
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Provo, Utah
Actually, they're changing it this year. I'm assuming because it looks like 90's MS Office shit.
That's totally what I thought when I saw that flag.
Most of the counties and districts of Liberia
Bomi:
River Gee:
Nimba:
Sorry dude but I really like the art style and colours of these flags.
Mexen
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Sexy AFMotherfucker, I live for bad flags
Zambia:
Alo Island, Wallis and Futuna
This flag was the only one I bothered to check, but there's a neater vector-based version on the Wiki page (the design is still crap but it looks significantly better).
Let's put two complementary colours next to each other. That won't hurt the eyes at all.
Well, nature is disagree with you.
These are the flags of the Dutch provinces:
Proud to say this one is mine (at least, I was born there):
I like the Zuid-Holland, Friesland and Drente flags as well. But the rest are awful imo.
Yes, and the three XXX's are well known. The design stems from banners used since the 17th century.
And as for relating it to the Great Dictator, the XXX symbol was also featured in the resistance flag of Amsterdam during the second world war (which is also a badass flag; It reads heroic, determined, and kind-hearted).
Proud to say this one is mine (at least, I was born there):
I like the Zuid-Holland, Friesland and Drente flags as well. But the rest are awful imo.
Holy shit, that looks just like the Tomanian flag from The Great Dictator. That's messed up.
And that is Amsterdam's actual, official, current flag?
Yes, and the three XXX's are well known. The design stems from banners used since the 17th century.
And as for relating it to the Great Dictator, the XXX symbol was also featured in the resistance flag of Amsterdam during the second world war (which is also a badass flag; It reads heroic, determined, and kind-hearted).
RoadHazard
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Why are all those shitty flags so pixelated? Were they literally made in Paint?
Darth Kupi
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I checked out the Triskelion link someone posted, and the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging flag leaves no doubt to their inspiration as a group.
They are a South African white supremacist group. Goebbels would sue if he could.
RoadHazard
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I checked out the Triskelion link someone posted, and the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging flag leaves no doubt to their inspiration as a group.
They are a South African white supremacist group. Goebbels would sue if he could.
Aesthetically that's pretty nice. As is the Nazi style (their actions don't nullify the striking visual design of their clothes, symbols, etc), the Helghast in Killzone, etc. This is a thread about bad flags, not good flags used by bad people.
I lived in Ainsworth, NE for 7 years when I was in elementary school. I don't know if that flag is real, this is the first time I've ever seen it.
Edit: My 5 mins of googling make me doubt it's real. There is no info out there about it besides some tweets, reddit posts, this thread, a wordpress site, and some wikis with no source. I also never saw it when I lived there nor when I've been back to visit.
Edit: My 5 mins of googling make me doubt it's real. There is no info out there about it besides some tweets, reddit posts, this thread, a wordpress site, and some wikis with no source. I also never saw it when I lived there nor when I've been back to visit.
Let's all just take a moment to marvel at the most badass flag on Earth, the flag of Zheleznogorsk, Russia:
That's bear standing in an atom and cracking open its nucleus.
That is pretty awesome.
it's Kermit's sphincter
Poodlestrike
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Let's all just take a moment to marvel at the most badass flag on Earth, the flag of Zheleznogorsk, Russia:
That's bear standing in an atom and cracking open its nucleus.
Holy shit.
has literally a leaf on it
Better than our old one:
More lions! More fleur de lis! Quick, put a naked lady harp on there! (yeah that's right, Canadian's went into WW2 wearing a flag with nipples on it)
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
I think he means the particular tones used there, with nothing to break their contrast.
jackissocool
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son, take a trip to ohio
All time best flag confirmed.Let's all just take a moment to marvel at the most badass flag on Earth, the flag of Zheleznogorsk, Russia:
That's bear standing in an atom and cracking open its nucleus.
True Savior
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Albania has some kind of a villain symbol
Knit Your Own Porridge
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Buckinghamshire's flag makes me smile. The swan's like "Goddamn it, couldn't you get me a crown that fits? How am I meant to get this damn thing off my neck? FML."
Pretty much all coats of arms run the risk of looking weird because of heraldric rules, especially if they're involving animals.
The coat of arms of Finland: a lion stabbing itself in the head and screaming:
Coat of arms of the Swedish province of Ångermanland: three doped out fish.
Sucks for them, the other provinces get stuff like griffins, crossbow bolts or, in the case of Småland, a red lion wielding a crossbow:
The coat of arms of Finland: a lion stabbing itself in the head and screaming:
Coat of arms of the Swedish province of Ångermanland: three doped out fish.
Sucks for them, the other provinces get stuff like griffins, crossbow bolts or, in the case of Småland, a red lion wielding a crossbow:
The flags of Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie have the stupidest-looking lion on them, and they're more funny side-by-side because they're the same flag with three lions instead of two on one:
Haute-Normandie:
Basse-Normandie:
Basse-Normandie uses the old flag of Normandie (they split in the 50s) and clearly the guys in Haute-Normandie shrugged and did the least amount of work they could.
Haute-Normandie:
Basse-Normandie:
Basse-Normandie uses the old flag of Normandie (they split in the 50s) and clearly the guys in Haute-Normandie shrugged and did the least amount of work they could.
.Motherfucker, I live for bad flags
Bangladesh:
This flag actually symbolises the blood of soldiers on the green battlefield.
TheRealTalker
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British Somaliland
lol like the Hell
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lol like the Hell
))Megadragon15
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The Union Jack especially since so many other flags of their former colonies contain it (see the post above).
Wow, you're totally correct. I've never noticed that before. It's not just that lion either - all Swedish lions appear to be, as you put it, anatomically correct. It's apparently in the heraldic rules. Found an article from a few years back that the female soldiers of the Nordic Battle Group actually found the idea of having to wear an, ahem, excited lion on their sleeves a bit off-putting. So the Armed Forces castrated it.
The heraldric artist behind it wasn't pleased at all. This is a direct quote from the article, my translation: "The heraldic lion is a powerful and stately symbol with its genitals intact and I cannot abide an incised image. The department of defense are ignorant about heraldry. Historically, coats of arms with castrated lions were reserved for traitors to the state".
No ambiguity there. Or in typical neogaf fashion:
Buckinghamshire's flag makes me smile. The swan's like "Goddamn it, couldn't you get me a crown that fits? How am I meant to get this damn thing off my neck? FML."
That's a JRPG end boss.
Bry0
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You kidding? It's awesome.
Eagle is like, "Check out these guns son. I lift."
This is by aesthetics. Leave current politics out of it.
A flag is an outward symbol of a place and its people, or a movement, or a peace of history. The history of flags goes back thousands of years.
Unfortunately, a lot of them are shit. Here are a few.
Irribarren, Venezuela
This one ain't half bad. Looks like something for a racing team. Would look great on a Forza livery.
SirMossyBloke
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This is about design, not context.
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Context is central to the designs of flags. The meaning is as important as the way that meaning is conveyed.
Say what? The majority of those are fucking awesome.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
The black tribal Union Jack one is so badass. I really hope they pick it.
TheRealTalker
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Motherfucker, I live for bad flags
Pensacola, Florida:
Haha, talking about a busy design.
Do the really just sew some other flags together?
The Münchner Kindl started out as a Monk. Nowadays, it's a kiddo. Actually, a girl, ever since around 1920.
A transsexual age-regressed monk holding a beer mug. Or a bible. Or a radish. Heraldic stuff is deep, mang.
Sounds like a mage to me.
Let's put two complementary colours next to each other. That won't hurt the eyes at all.
This flag is cool. WTF You talking about.
I actually like it in an absurdly artsy kind of way. It went well with Gaddafi's green motif (The Green Book) as well as his impeccable sense of style.Flag of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
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