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Title: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: CHONGS on October 14, 2020, 10:25:29 AM
I don't know if we've already had this thread (if so I'll mod this).

In this thread we put pictures of the best & worst flags (country, state, city, etc).

GO!

Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on October 14, 2020, 10:32:01 AM
When did Wichita steal New Mexico's flag?

I never even knew they had one then one summer I visited and boom that flag is everywhere
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on October 14, 2020, 10:35:41 AM
Obviously South Carolina is great


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And interesting!

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While the flag invariably includes a white palmetto and crescent design on a blue background, state law does not provide "specifications for the shape, size, design or placement" of the symbols, or the exact color of the background.[7][8] As a result, flags from different manufacturers may have different appearances. A committee of the South Carolina Senate held a hearing on the issue in January 2018, but did not immediately advance a bill to standardize the design.

Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 14, 2020, 11:14:34 AM
feel like montana just used the same person that kansas did. eerily similar
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: KST8FAN on October 14, 2020, 11:16:08 AM
Worst state flag... Maryland gets my vote.  Part union, part confederacy per Wikipedia.


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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on October 14, 2020, 11:18:07 AM
When did Wichita steal New Mexico's flag?

I never even knew they had one then one summer I visited and boom that flag is everywhere

1937, NM made theirs in 1925. The flag has been there forever, the difference is now it's fashionable to display it, to try and make Wichita more cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Mexico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Wichita,_Kansas


Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on October 14, 2020, 11:20:45 AM
When did Wichita steal New Mexico's flag?

I never even knew they had one then one summer I visited and boom that flag is everywhere

They've had that logo and flag for a very long time, I don't think it looks like New Mexico's at all. They both have a Native American sun symbol, that's it.

(https://i0.wp.com/logodepotweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/wichita-flag.jpg?fit=937%2C511&ssl=1)

(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1364/2399/products/new-mexico-flags_2048x.jpg?v=1527708173)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on October 14, 2020, 11:21:17 AM
Worst state flag... Maryland gets my vote.  Part union, part confederacy per Wikipedia.


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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on October 14, 2020, 11:22:00 AM
France is always going to be cool and historic, even if simple

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/250px-Flag_of_France.svg.png)

I always enjoyed the combination of flags to make the Union Jack
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/255px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png)

Mozambique is baller cause of the AK-47
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_Mozambique.svg/255px-Flag_of_Mozambique.svg.png)

Sicily has always weirded me out with the legs but it's cool too

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Sicilian_Flag.svg/255px-Sicilian_Flag.svg.png)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on October 14, 2020, 11:27:55 AM
Survey of best American city flags, it's a PDF, they love Wichita! Check out the bottom of the list, I can't believe Pocatello and Huntington are actually flags.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://nava.org/digital-library/design/surveys/2004-American-City%2520Flags-Survey.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjVqL6Jv7TsAhV3Ap0JHe6nAeMQFjAAegQIFBAC&usg=AOvVaw0AEU9jp0eIwAnZPIH-ctv3
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: ben ji on October 14, 2020, 11:33:14 AM
I've always like the old USSR Flag

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931955%29.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931955%29.svg.png)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on October 14, 2020, 11:34:33 AM
HM:

Seychelles is just different, not many flags do non boxy stuff

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Seychelles.svg/250px-Flag_of_Seychelles.svg.png)

Barbados is cool with the trident
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Barbados.svg/255px-Flag_of_Barbados.svg.png)

Colorado is pretty great
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colorado_designed_by_Andrew_Carlisle_Carson.svg/150px-Flag_of_Colorado_designed_by_Andrew_Carlisle_Carson.svg.png)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on October 14, 2020, 11:34:56 AM
I've always like the old USSR Flag

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931955%29.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931955%29.svg.png)

It is actually pretty good
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on October 14, 2020, 11:40:16 AM
I went through Mir's list and while it has been replaced, Provo's flag made me lol irl

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg.png)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 14, 2020, 11:44:51 AM
I went through Mir's list and while it has been replaced, Provo's flag made me lol irl

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg.png)
looks like a kid made this on the original powerpoint
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: mocat on October 14, 2020, 11:45:42 AM
I went through Mir's list and while it has been replaced, Provo's flag made me lol irl

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg.png)

lmao
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on October 14, 2020, 11:45:52 AM
Mexico is also pretty great, the eagle with a serpent on a cactus is a great nod to the Aztecs

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/255px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Trim on October 14, 2020, 11:58:41 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Flag_of_Chicago%2C_Illinois.svg/1200px-Flag_of_Chicago%2C_Illinois.svg.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/AlgcAW6_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Trim on October 14, 2020, 12:02:13 PM
Some of the best flags in hat form: https://www.officialflaghat.com/
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on October 14, 2020, 12:40:48 PM
When did Wichita steal New Mexico's flag?

I never even knew they had one then one summer I visited and boom that flag is everywhere

1937, NM made theirs in 1925. The flag has been there forever, the difference is now it's fashionable to display it, to try and make Wichita more cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Mexico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Wichita,_Kansas




INTERESTING!

Both flags are great and MiR GTFO with your "those flags are nothing alike" take. If you don't frequent either location and don't see them side by side that symbol basically makes them identical
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 14, 2020, 02:05:20 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Flag_of_the_Benin_Empire.svg/1200px-Flag_of_the_Benin_Empire.svg.png)

This one comes from Benin.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: meow meow on October 14, 2020, 03:19:14 PM
beheaded his own twin brother, that's dark
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: nicname on October 14, 2020, 03:39:20 PM
Wichita’s flag is very cool imo.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: nicname on October 14, 2020, 03:49:58 PM
Funny flag story involving your’s truly. When I was in second grade we had this parade of nations thing one year where a bunch of grade school kids got to draw/color up a big flag of whatever country. Prob 60 kids in total. It was part of one of the many local parades downtown.  I think we were all second graders. Well, nicname got Libya.

That’s cool. It’s pretty neat flag you might be thinking. Take a look...

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Wrong! From 1977-2011 the flag of Libya was rough ridin' green. That’s it. Just a big green rectangle.

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So there were all the other kids with their cool flags and there was Nicname with his green blob parading his ass down main street. I was not amused.


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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Trim on October 14, 2020, 03:53:27 PM
That’s your 2nd best flag story, nic.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 14, 2020, 03:55:43 PM
thats awesome!
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: nicname on October 14, 2020, 03:56:40 PM
That’s your 2nd best flag story, nic.

 :lol:
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on October 14, 2020, 04:02:55 PM
I really like the design of Poland's flag. According to legend, the blue stripe in the flag represents all of the reliable allies the Polish people have had during their history.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/255px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on October 14, 2020, 05:07:54 PM
I've always like the old USSR Flag

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931955%29.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281924%E2%80%931955%29.svg.png)

Ominous
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on October 14, 2020, 05:08:51 PM
I went through Mir's list and while it has been replaced, Provo's flag made me lol irl

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg.png)

And that isn't even close to the worst one.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on October 14, 2020, 05:10:42 PM
When did Wichita steal New Mexico's flag?

I never even knew they had one then one summer I visited and boom that flag is everywhere

1937, NM made theirs in 1925. The flag has been there forever, the difference is now it's fashionable to display it, to try and make Wichita more cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Mexico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Wichita,_Kansas




INTERESTING!

Both flags are great and MiR GTFO with your "those flags are nothing alike" take. If you don't frequent either location and don't see them side by side that symbol basically makes them identical

Maybe. I lived at one of those places and been to the other roughly a dozen times so I don't see them as similar at all, no different than two flags with one star on them.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on October 14, 2020, 05:12:30 PM
I really like the design of Poland's flag. According to legend, the blue stripe in the flag represents all of the reliable allies the Polish people have had during their history.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/255px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png)

LOL
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on October 14, 2020, 05:48:03 PM
I went through Mir's list and while it has been replaced, Provo's flag made me lol irl

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_Provo%2C_Utah_%281989%E2%80%932015%29.svg.png)

And that isn't even close to the worst one.

It's not the worst, but it's the only one that made me lol at it as I scrolled through
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on October 14, 2020, 06:03:08 PM
this was rated the worst

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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on October 14, 2020, 06:09:37 PM
99 percent invisible is a fantastic podcast and this was unsurprisingly informative:

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/vexillology-revisited-fixing-worst-civic-flag-designs-america/

Looking at the Lowell, MA flag it's pretty easy to see why Kansas's New England imports came up with a shitty flag with a seal:

(https://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2016/02/lowell-flag-predesign.png)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on October 14, 2020, 06:13:44 PM
also today I learned that Kansas used to have a "state banner" meant to be hung vertically instead of horizontally to not compete with the US flag but it got rejected for display in Washington, DC so they made a flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kansas#cite_note-NAVA_Banner-6

And the banner was pretty cool!

(https://i.imgur.com/cJidg2y.png)

why they just didn't rotate that bitch 90 degrees and call it a "flag" I have no idea.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Brock Landers on October 14, 2020, 06:20:56 PM
Lol at that Lowell flag.  Every bountiful cornucopia starts with some coal fired air pollution.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: CHONGS on October 14, 2020, 06:31:28 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheleznogorsk%2C_Krasnoyarsk_Krai
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on October 14, 2020, 07:26:17 PM
Looking at the Lowell, MA flag it's pretty easy to see why Kansas's New England imports came up with a shitty flag with a seal

Watch your rough ridin' stupid mouth :angry:
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on November 04, 2020, 01:06:15 PM
SIAP:

New flag for Mississippi:

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/mississippi-voters-replace-confederate-themed-flag-with-new-design-featuring-magnolia-flower (https://www.fox5ny.com/news/mississippi-voters-replace-confederate-themed-flag-with-new-design-featuring-magnolia-flower)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 04, 2020, 01:40:20 PM
also today I learned that Kansas used to have a "state banner" meant to be hung vertically instead of horizontally to not compete with the US flag but it got rejected for display in Washington, DC so they made a flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kansas#cite_note-NAVA_Banner-6

And the banner was pretty cool!

(https://i.imgur.com/cJidg2y.png)

why they just didn't rotate that bitch 90 degrees and call it a "flag" I have no idea.
Need that for my garage!
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Katpappy on November 04, 2020, 02:10:42 PM
Have you been to the Kansas State Fair?  They are all over the place during the fair, but most are the size of a car window flag(1'x2').
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 04, 2020, 02:23:10 PM
Have you been to the Kansas State Fair?  They are all over the place during the fair, but most are the size of a car window flag(1'x2').
need bigger katpappy
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: star seed 7 on November 04, 2020, 02:29:22 PM
Katdaddy hears that a lot  :frown:
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on November 04, 2020, 02:57:05 PM
I have been to the Kansas State Fair but not recently
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on November 04, 2020, 05:44:04 PM
Katdaddy hears that a lot  :frown:

7, yes!
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: KST8FAN on June 24, 2024, 05:11:35 AM
Adding a Betsy Ross flag and Whiskey Rebellion flag to the rotation for July 4th.


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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spracne on June 24, 2024, 11:55:19 AM
Was there not a better way to spread out the stars on the first one? Seems kinda just sloppy.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: KST8FAN on June 24, 2024, 01:49:08 PM
Was there not a better way to spread out the stars on the first one? Seems kinda just sloppy.
Keep in mind these guys were probably drunk on their own product when they decided they needed a whiskey rebellion flag.


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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spracne on June 24, 2024, 01:57:40 PM
It really triggers the OCD part of my brain.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2024, 02:10:02 PM
also today I learned that Kansas used to have a "state banner" meant to be hung vertically instead of horizontally to not compete with the US flag but it got rejected for display in Washington, DC so they made a flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kansas#cite_note-NAVA_Banner-6

And the banner was pretty cool!

(https://i.imgur.com/cJidg2y.png)

why they just didn't rotate that bitch 90 degrees and call it a "flag" I have no idea.

dang this is too good
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spracne on June 24, 2024, 02:11:40 PM
ITT, mich travels to the future to compliment his past self.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2024, 02:17:00 PM
ITT, mich travels to the future to compliment his past self.

i'm complimenting the flag, silly!
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: pissclams on June 24, 2024, 05:02:02 PM
ITT, mich travels to the future to compliment his past self.

i'm complimenting the flag, silly!
it’s dumb.  kansas leans way to heavily into the sunflower.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: KST8FAN on June 24, 2024, 05:05:22 PM
This is on my short list.  The 34 star US flag.  Signifying when Kansas joined as a state.  Unfurled Jul 4, 1861.


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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on June 24, 2024, 05:05:53 PM
ITT, mich travels to the future to compliment his past self.

i'm complimenting the flag, silly!
it’s dumb.  kansas leans way to heavily into the sunflower.
Have you seen the current flag
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: pissclams on June 24, 2024, 05:14:29 PM
ITT, mich travels to the future to compliment his past self.

i'm complimenting the flag, silly!
it’s dumb.  kansas leans way to heavily into the sunflower.
Have you seen the current flag
it’s like the state of kansas version of the kstateo poster
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: star seed 7 on June 24, 2024, 06:41:41 PM
The sunflower is all we have
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Katpappy on June 24, 2024, 08:39:22 PM
The sunflower is all we have

Box turtle.  Can't get enough.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: tdaver on June 25, 2024, 08:33:23 PM
Utah got a new state flag recently.  What do you think?  Is it Utahy?

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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: michigancat on June 25, 2024, 08:43:58 PM
Utah got a new state flag recently.  What do you think?  Is it Utahy?

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240626/1221ccf19fb3798d7688b54726d68f6a.jpg)
Yes, I hate it
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: star seed 7 on June 25, 2024, 09:05:31 PM
Horrible
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spracne on June 25, 2024, 09:05:42 PM
Is that Pacman about to eat that star?
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spracne on June 25, 2024, 09:11:12 PM
I'm quite fond of the Maine flag. It looks like a beer label.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flag_of_Maine.svg/687px-Flag_of_Maine.svg.png)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Katpappy on June 25, 2024, 09:21:32 PM
I'm quite fond of the Maine flag. It looks like a beer label.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flag_of_Maine.svg/687px-Flag_of_Maine.svg.png)

It's quite confusing to me.  What Candian word is that below the "star"?  Also, WTH do the guys have on them?  Are they some marine tools?
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spracne on June 25, 2024, 09:32:08 PM
Obviously, one is an anchor. The other I believe is a scythe. No matter, I can picture this on a bottle of German beer.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Katpappy on June 25, 2024, 09:37:26 PM
Why is there a handle on the anchor?  WTF does a drinking dude need a scythe?  Is Maine loaded with drunk Germans?
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spracne on June 25, 2024, 09:43:46 PM
Why is there a handle on the anchor?  WTF does a drinking dude need a scythe?  Is Maine loaded with drunk Germans?

1.) To affix the rope to

2.) To harvest the hops

In actuality, I presume, most likely correctly, that the two implements are intended to convey two aspects of Maine: (1) maritime activities; and (2) agricultural activities (e.g., Mowing by famous Mainer Robert Frost).

There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;
Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,
Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound—
And that was why it whispered and did not speak.
It was no dream of the gift of idle hours,
Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf:
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak
To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,
Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers
(Pale orchises), and scared a bright green snake.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.

Btw, I think Albert Camus lifted "the heat of the sun" line later and included it in The Stranger (L'Étranger).
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Katpappy on June 25, 2024, 10:08:24 PM
Great response Spracne.  Also, since you didn't address the state motto, I googled it.  dirigo is Latin for "I direct"  or "I lead".  Maine is known as the Pine Tree state.  I do think the two guys are lost Canadiens looking for a bar to get drunk and party.   :cheers:
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on June 26, 2024, 01:15:58 AM
i wonder if the guy who got the gig of designing like all the state flags back in the 1800s was a relative of the guy who did all the college mascots wearing sailor hats
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: KST8FAN on June 26, 2024, 07:53:46 AM
Why is there a handle on the anchor?  WTF does a drinking dude need a scythe?  Is Maine loaded with drunk Germans?
The stock on an anchor is a crossbar that prevents the anchor from lying flat on the seabed, allowing the flukes to dig in and provide maximum holding power. The stock can be removed from the head of the anchor so it can be stowed flat on a ship's anchor bed. Before releasing the anchor, the stock must be folded out again, or "stocked", to ensure that one of the flukes digs into the ground.

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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: GregKSU1027 on June 26, 2024, 09:21:52 AM
https://www.theringer.com/2016/8/16/16046150/which-country-has-the-best-flag-d0b1d4bf1aa1

Here is Shea Serrano's take on The World's best flags.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on June 26, 2024, 11:48:41 AM
also today I learned that Kansas used to have a "state banner" meant to be hung vertically instead of horizontally to not compete with the US flag but it got rejected for display in Washington, DC so they made a flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kansas#cite_note-NAVA_Banner-6

And the banner was pretty cool!

(https://i.imgur.com/cJidg2y.png)

why they just didn't rotate that bitch 90 degrees and call it a "flag" I have no idea.

dang this is too good

I want to keep "ad astra per aspera" on our flag. So maybe have the sunflower growing on the moon with an astronaut wearing a cowboy hat over the top of his helmet or something.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Pete on June 26, 2024, 12:11:47 PM
also today I learned that Kansas used to have a "state banner" meant to be hung vertically instead of horizontally to not compete with the US flag but it got rejected for display in Washington, DC so they made a flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Kansas#cite_note-NAVA_Banner-6

And the banner was pretty cool!

(https://i.imgur.com/cJidg2y.png)

why they just didn't rotate that bitch 90 degrees and call it a "flag" I have no idea.

dang this is too good

I want to keep "ad astra per aspera" on our flag. So maybe have the sunflower growing on the moon with an astronaut wearing a cowboy hat over the top of his helmet or something.
Yes, this exactly. Took what I was going to say.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on June 26, 2024, 01:46:02 PM
I'm quite fond of the Maine flag. It looks like a beer label.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flag_of_Maine.svg/687px-Flag_of_Maine.svg.png)

They're voting on a new one, well an old new one. A lot of people have been using the one below, for a few years now, it's the first Maine flag. Many people thing the Dirigo (I Lead) flag looks too much like other state flags in the NE. The people will settle it in November.
(https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/52e7133/2147483647/strip/true/crop/480x322+0+0/resize/880x590!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fmpbn%2Ffiles%2F201903%2F1901_Maine_Flag.png)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on June 26, 2024, 01:52:32 PM
Minnesota just changed flags from this
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Flag_of_Minnesota_%281983%E2%80%932024%29.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Minnesota_%281983%E2%80%932024%29.svg.png)
to this
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Minnesota.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Minnesota.svg.png)

People didn't like the old flag because the seal is busy as hell and because of appropriation. It wasn't very old, they started using it in 1983. I have hardly seen the new flag at all, one I think. I didn't even see the new flag when I went to a Minnesota United match earlier this month.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on June 26, 2024, 01:55:41 PM
Incidentally, I love the state mottos for Kansas, Maine, and Minnesota. I think they are the three best in the country.
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Dirigo
L'etoile du Nord
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on June 26, 2024, 02:32:03 PM
Minnesota - The Toilet of the North

Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: star seed 7 on June 26, 2024, 02:34:02 PM
These modern minimalist flags are not my jam
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spaces on June 26, 2024, 03:30:40 PM
Kingman, KS  :love:
(https://www.kingmancoks.org/DocumentCenter/View/609/Kingman-Flag)


Lindsborg, KS   :D
(https://www.mrflag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Flag-of-Lindsborg-Kansas-600px.png)


Garnett, KS   :cool:
(https://www.mrflag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Flag-of-Garnett-Kansas-600px.png)


Manhattan, KS   :shy:
(https://cityofmhk.com/ImageRepository/Document?documentId=55989)


Augusta, KS   :thumbs:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Flag_of_Augusta%2C_Kansas.svg/800px-Flag_of_Augusta%2C_Kansas.svg.png?20220706190400)


Overland Park, KS   :lol:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Overland_Park%2C_Kansas.svg/800px-Flag_of_Overland_Park%2C_Kansas.svg.png?20221112012718)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on June 26, 2024, 03:32:12 PM
overland park received the assignment, but its painfully obvious they were not in class the day it was assigned.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: mocat on June 26, 2024, 07:12:15 PM
overland park received the assignment, but its painfully obvious they were not in class the day it was assigned.

Garnett's assignment: POV colorado is giving you a BJ
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spracne on June 26, 2024, 07:25:23 PM
Minnesota just changed flags from this
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Flag_of_Minnesota_%281983%E2%80%932024%29.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Minnesota_%281983%E2%80%932024%29.svg.png)
to this
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Minnesota.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Minnesota.svg.png)

People didn't like the old flag because the seal is busy as hell and because of appropriation. It wasn't very old, they started using it in 1983. I have hardly seen the new flag at all, one I think. I didn't even see the new flag when I went to a Minnesota United match earlier this month.

Why was the old motto in French? Agree it's busy, and there are three dates I don't understand the significance of.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on June 26, 2024, 10:24:23 PM
overland park received the assignment, but its painfully obvious they were not in class the day it was assigned.

Garnett's assignment: POV colorado is giving you a BJ

oh, crap. welp no putting the genie back in the bottle.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on June 27, 2024, 12:39:56 AM
Minnesota just changed flags from this
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Flag_of_Minnesota_%281983%E2%80%932024%29.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Minnesota_%281983%E2%80%932024%29.svg.png)
to this
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Minnesota.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Minnesota.svg.png)

People didn't like the old flag because the seal is busy as hell and because of appropriation. It wasn't very old, they started using it in 1983. I have hardly seen the new flag at all, one I think. I didn't even see the new flag when I went to a Minnesota United match earlier this month.

Had some time (10 hours) recently between flights and it was decently represented in Minneapolis. I generally like it just kinda basic

Totally hope Maine goes the old new way

I really want Kansas to be a 1:2 proportioned flag that is outlined in the top right corner with the Missouri River. Have a 34 petal sunflower surrounded by two wheat heads and ad Astra per aspera and we're good
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on June 27, 2024, 03:27:41 AM
Swiss flag rules. Simple, striking design.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on June 29, 2024, 10:46:40 AM
Minnesota - The Toilet of the North

I know you're trolling
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on June 29, 2024, 10:47:46 AM
overland park received the assignment, but its painfully obvious they were not in class the day it was assigned.

Garnett's assignment: POV colorado is giving you a BJ

 :ROFL:
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on June 29, 2024, 10:52:31 AM
Why was the old motto in French? Agree it's busy, and there are three dates I don't understand the significance of.

They were settled by the French, in a lot of ways a French motto makes a lot more sense than a Latin one. The three dates might be the dumbest things on any flag in the United States, the reasoning for two of the dates is really stupid. One of those dates signifies when the seal was adopted.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on June 29, 2024, 11:18:22 AM
Minnesota - The Toilet of the North

I know you're trolling

Well you know, bc L’Etoile kinda looks like the word toilet if you don’t know French and then du nord “of the north”  you know never mind if I have to explain it then i guess it wasn’t very funny
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on August 28, 2024, 02:30:00 PM
Illinois, your turn
https://x.com/WGNNews/status/1828799986290888900
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on August 28, 2024, 02:38:21 PM
Sweet, one less awful flag, many more to go
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Spracne on August 28, 2024, 02:41:13 PM
That's the actual flag of Illinois? Woof.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: cfbandyman on August 28, 2024, 03:00:38 PM
Flags that still need updated/in Hud voice "Gots to go"

Connecticut
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Flag_of_Connecticut.svg/127px-Flag_of_Connecticut.svg.png)

Massachusetts
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg/167px-Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg.png)

New Hampshire
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/150px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png)

Virginia
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_New_Hampshire.svg/150px-Flag_of_New_Hampshire.svg.png)

New York
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_New_York.svg/180px-Flag_of_New_York.svg.png)

Vermont
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Vermont.svg/167px-Flag_of_Vermont.svg.png)

Kentucky
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/180px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png)

Louisiana
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_Louisiana.svg/155px-Flag_of_Louisiana.svg.png)

Missouri
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Missouri.svg/172px-Flag_of_Missouri.svg.png)

Michigan
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/150px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png)

Florida
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Florida.svg/150px-Flag_of_Florida.svg.png)

Oregon (I don't care if a beaver is on the other side)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Oregon.svg/150px-Flag_of_Oregon.svg.png)

Kansas
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Kansas.svg/167px-Flag_of_Kansas.svg.png)

West Virginia
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Flag_of_West_Virginia.svg/180px-Flag_of_West_Virginia.svg.png)

Iowa
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_Iowa.svg/150px-Flag_of_Iowa.svg.png)

Wisconsin
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg/150px-Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg.png)

Nevada
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Flag_of_Nevada.svg/150px-Flag_of_Nevada.svg.png)

Nebraska
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Nebraska.svg/167px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png)

North Dakota
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flag_of_North_Dakota.svg/127px-Flag_of_North_Dakota.svg.png)

South Dakota
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_South_Dakota.svg/160px-Flag_of_South_Dakota.svg.png)

Montana
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Montana.svg/150px-Flag_of_Montana.svg.png)

Washington
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Washington.svg/168px-Flag_of_Washington.svg.png)

Idaho
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_Idaho.svg/127px-Flag_of_Idaho.svg.png)

Delaware
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Flag_of_Delaware.svg/150px-Flag_of_Delaware.svg.png)

Pennsylvania
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg/137px-Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg.png)

New Jersey
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_New_Jersey.svg/167px-Flag_of_New_Jersey.svg.png)


Maine and Illinois not shown since they appear to be in process or will vote on a new one.

I don't care what people say about flags like Maryland's, yes it's over the top, but like it's so awful it's ok. There are a few others that could be better too but also not really as bad as these are

Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on August 28, 2024, 03:13:17 PM
The Nevada flag is an actual national entertainment embarrassment.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: DQ12 on August 29, 2024, 10:57:20 AM
I like a lot of those. 

If every state flag becomes some modern-trend, minimalist abstract thing (like Minnesota's new one), that would be kind of sad.

FWIW, Nevada's old flag was baller:

(https://nevadatrivia.com/wp-content/uploads/1st-Nevada-Flag-Edit.jpg)
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on August 30, 2024, 02:22:43 PM
Holy crap  :lol: like do they use their flag for inside jokes or some crap?
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Trim on September 20, 2024, 06:56:38 PM
https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2024/09/20/city-flag-redesign-upgrade-fifa
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: KST8FAN on June 29, 2025, 04:31:47 PM
I got a new US flag (not pictured) as the current one is fading badly.  Betsy Ross and the Whiskey Rebellion flag complete my July 4th display.  I've been debating getting a 34 star US flag, which was adopted when Kansas joined the union.  It began flying July 4th, 1861.


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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: nicname on June 29, 2025, 08:00:50 PM
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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: ben ji on June 29, 2025, 11:44:36 PM
I got a new US flag (not pictured) as the current one is fading badly.  Betsy Ross and the Whiskey Rebellion flag complete my July 4th display.  I've been debating getting a 34 star US flag, which was adopted when Kansas joined the union.  It began flying July 4th, 1861.


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You definitely should and I'm jealous of your 3 flag setup.

I'm a huge flag nerd and probably have 10 in my garage (one is a PR flag I got at fatty fest along with a clemente signed picture).

My standard flag rotation is COKEHEAD EMAW Willie flag from September until we start doing bad at football, then maybe mix in a chiefs flag around December, switch back to the EMAW flag in February or March then once the wildcats are eliminated its the old Red White and Blue flying until next September.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: MakeItRain on July 01, 2025, 01:04:34 PM
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context brotha
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: nicname on July 01, 2025, 01:57:15 PM
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context brotha

It’s the Newton, KS flag.
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: KST8FAN on August 21, 2025, 07:44:31 PM
Added a fourth flag because when all of your teams are kicking ass, why not?  In a week it will be old glory, Cats, Chiefs, Royals.


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Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: Stevesie60 on August 21, 2025, 11:21:56 PM
Added a fourth flag because when all of your teams are kicking ass, why not?  In a week it will be old glory, Cats, Chiefs, Royals.


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Hell yeah
Title: Re: Best & Worst Flags
Post by: DaBigTrain on August 22, 2025, 10:07:11 AM
Love it Tom