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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 43 points 2 months ago

Yours obviously. Terrible design and awful colour choice. Not completely surprising from such a backwards country but I have to admit you raised the ugliness bar to a whole new level. Matches well with your ridiculous anthem and your stupid traditions (incest and cannibalism are still a thing I've heard).

My country on the other hand... now that's some nice flag design: good palette, great inspiration, high symbolic value. Very nice. Pairs well with our melodic anthem and our respectable traditions (like ritual 'feast of the elders' and ceremonial family acts of love)

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Basically any flag that’s just 3 colored bars. They’re so boring and there are so many that it’s hard to even differentiate them.

Flags should say something about your country.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They do, the colors usually have some meaning attached. Also, as a kid, would you rather draw Bhutan's flag or Ukraine's?

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 months ago

I would 100% pick Bhutan's flag as a kid. Flags should be simple but come on, that dragon is awesome.

Um Dragon flag definitely! Easy to draw is not on my list of criteria.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

When i was a kid, Ukrainian flag looked much better

[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Feel like pure shit just want it back

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A cross isn't exactly that much better tbh. So you are or used to be some kind of Christian country. Great.

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Australia & New Zealand. The two are too similar and IMO keeping the Union Jack on your flag while being an independent nation adds to the confusion. Canada had the right idea with the maple leaf.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

... And then there's Hawaii.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This.

Bloody Aussies stole out shitty design.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ha at least you had the chance to change your flag. I don't think Australia ever got as close as New Zealand did to changing it.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All the tricolor ones. At least put something there ffs, Serbia and Slovakia did and it's still not great but much better.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

Mexico and Argentina, too.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tie. Poland and Indonesia.

[–] Bademantel@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But you like Monaco, right?

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Of course, that one's awesome!

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[–] king_comrade@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any flag that cucks itself by having the union jack on it. Looking at you Oz/NZ... It's time to move on.

[–] LazyPsychonaut@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

For sure! I’m an Aussie and I wanna get rid of that shit. Not just because I’m a major sci fi nerd (well, a big reason) but I’ve always been partial to the Aussie flag as depicted in Event Horizon.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Four bars is already too many, adding a big red line down the middle is not helping, and tbh if you took away the star it'd at least be symmetrical.

If your flag is gonna be busy, at least be creative and put like a dragon or something on it.

Sorry CAR.

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Bosnia and Herzegovina πŸ‡§πŸ‡¦ is so unbalanced it just feels wrong. At least you can't say it's boring.

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've always been annoyed at Ireland's because it replaced a much nicer flag.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Because it had boobs on them?

[–] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

Bangladesh is so fucking asymmetric

WHY

[–] trk@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

The Torres Straight Islands flag is pretty bad. It looks like a cats arsehole.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lithuania maybe. Boring Tricolore and I don't like the color combination at all.

[–] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 3 points 2 months ago

I like the colour combination, personally

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Close tie between America and UK, both horrible color choices

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The worst part of the UK flag is they didn't put a dragon on it.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well at least the Welsh kept it as their nation's flag.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dragons in old English stories too so it's not even specifically a Welsh thing. Just another reason to have one on the UK flag.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'd have to dig into the archives but all of Britain was once the Welsh, till the 'English' invaders pushed them into the pocket of land they are in now. I wonder if the Union Jack specifically left off the dragon, as to not recognize the welsh folk lore, or claim of an independent group like the rest of flags on it

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Which invasion? There were a few... To say it was all Welsh seems a bit odd. Everywhere has been invaded at least a few times. I think some are more a change of ruling class and others have more immigration of normal people.

I think the most well known ones here would be Roman, Anglo Saxon, Viking and Norman.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Its in the old hiatory books. The Welsh were from the Original Celtic Britons of the Iron age. Before the 'new' invaders.

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

See the red part. Now that's all squished into the western tiny zone after the various invaders drove them into it

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What about all the other flags that use those same colours?

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Norway just subscribed to this thread

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I think it's a rule that countries that have been conquered by the french have to use those colours.

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[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Morocco has the worst colour scheme. Low contrast makes the star disappear when viewing from far away.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Wales.
There's something seriously wrong with that dragon.
It's got a tail as its tongue, a hook-nose, fluffy ears,
an air cushion frontal neck, a fishnet back neck
and a look so annoyed that
if flag dragons could talk I'd swear it would say
"Don't look at me, my mom put me up for this".

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Lol. At least the flag improved a bit.

Modern

Ye Olde one

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 2 months ago

Brazil. Mostly because it has text. Actually, reading about the flag and its history has made me appreciate it more. FUCK! I'm changing my answer to Malaysia for copying my country's flag.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Bosnia’s is fire wdym

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