The Off Topic Topic

[celedhring]

Why are they changing it?

Old one sucked. The new one is cool.

Is it? Looks like the logo of a honey brand.

[Valmy]

Why are they changing it?

Old one sucked. The new one is cool.

Is it? Looks like the logo of a honey brand.

Is there someway to put a beehive on a flag that doesn't look like a honey brand?

[FunkMonk]

Hmmm. They could keep the old seal but get rid of the arrows and the eagle and the stupid '1896', '1847' and 'Utah'. Modernize the shape of the white shield.

Boom, done. Pay up Utah.

[Barrister]

Seals are fine, but suck on flags. And the logo is the same, only recognizable on a flag.

And Marxists were pretty terrible at most things but damn it they could make good flags.

Marxists were terrible at designing flags:

[FunkMonk]

All Marxists flags should be just a solid red field because nations are a tool of capitalist elites and should be abolished.

[Sheilbh]

I quite like Marxist flags

[Sheilbh]

That one would have won if it wasn't for the dark elitist forces preventing its entry 

They get one Boaty McBoatface and democracy's cancelled

[Valmy]

Marxists were terrible at designing flags:

Oh yeah ok you got me with those. Those kind of suck.

[Josquius]

Yeah, those flags are cool, especially east Germany, though they do shit on vexological rule number 1 of can a 10 year old draw it in a minute.... But then on that fuck you USA.

[Sheilbh]

I'm personally a big fan of Mozambique's. But tough to draw.

Edit: Also on seals on colour flags being crap - all of the other United States need to have an intervention with Washington because it is, by far, the worst offender

[mongers]

I'm personally a big fan of Mozambique's. But tough to draw.

Edit: Also on seals on colour flags being crap - all of the other United States need to have an intervention with Washington because it is, by far, the worst offender

This.

[Barrister]

I quite like Marxist flags

Expand.

I just gave 5 examples of bad flag design.  The first two, East Germany and Romania, are just taking the national flag but putting a communist coat of arms in the middle - and in a thread where we were talking about how coat of arms make for terrible flags.

Middle one is Mozambique which has a fucking AK-47 incorporated into it's flag.

Final two flags are Ukrainian SSR and Belorussian SSR, which just took the soviet flag and put a coloured stripe onto them.

Now some communist countries just kept the national flag, which is fine, but not very marxist.  Or just have a big red star somewhere, which is pretty boring and uninteresting.  But really - I can't see the appeal of "Marxist flags".

[Grey Fox]

No one designs great flags.

[The Larch]

I also judge all new flags with the proposed new New Zealand flag (sadly not allowed to participate in the referendum because the powers that be fear democracy) - and it's a high bar:

That flag was too good and pure for this wretched world.

[HVC]

No one designs great flags.

Portugals is cool

As is Canada's I think. Sure it's a dumb leaf, BUT easy to draw and memorable