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)
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.
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.
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
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.
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".
I'll give you that.
But still, if you're gonna make a flag with a dragon on it,
don't make it look like a botched art restoration.
Same goes for Bhutan by the way,
which is the most awesome dragon flag in the world,
holding dragonballs and all that,
but then they forgot to color it in.
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.
52 Comments
drolex@sopuli.xyz · 58 pts · 57d
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 · 25 pts · 57d
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 · 11 pts · 57d
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 · 30 pts · 57d
I would 100% pick Bhutan's flag as a kid. Flags should be simple but come on, that dragon is awesome.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 19 pts · 57d
Um Dragon flag definitely! Easy to draw is not on my list of criteria.
Also, I know the colors usually have meaning, it’s just so boring.
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 57d
When i was a kid, Ukrainian flag looked much better
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 57d
A cross isn't exactly that much better tbh. So you are or used to be some kind of Christian country. Great.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 5 pts · 57d
Believe it or not that does actually narrow it down quite a bit.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 57d
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 pts · 56d
... And then there's Hawaii.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 56d
This.
Bloody Aussies stole out shitty design.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 56d
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 · 3 pts · 56d
True
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 57d
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 · 5 pts · 57d
Mexico and Argentina, too.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 12 pts · 57d
Tie. Poland and Indonesia.
Bademantel@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 57d
But you like Monaco, right?
darklamer@feddit.org · 6 pts · 57d
Of course, that one's awesome!
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 4 pts · 57d
TIL
azimir@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 56d
Not Romania and Chad?
Maybe Ireland and Ivory Coast?
Objection@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 56d
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.
Egonallanon@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 57d
I've always been annoyed at Ireland's because it replaced a much nicer flag.
folaht@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 57d
Because it had boobs on them?
king_comrade@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 55d
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 pts · 55d
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.
LeapSecond@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 57d
Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 is so unbalanced it just feels wrong. At least you can't say it's boring.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 56d
Morocco has the worst colour scheme. Low contrast makes the star disappear when viewing from far away.
trk@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 55d
The Torres Straight Islands flag is pretty bad. It looks like a cats arsehole.
Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org · 4 pts · 55d
Bangladesh is so fucking asymmetric
WHY
PonyOfWar@pawb.social · 4 pts · 57d
Lithuania maybe. Boring Tricolor and I don't like the color combination at all.
Bonifratz@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 56d
I like the colour combination, personally
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 57d
Close tie between America and UK, both horrible color choices
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 57d
The worst part of the UK flag is they didn't put a dragon on it.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 56d
Well at least the Welsh kept it as their nation's flag.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 56d
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 · 3 pts · 56d
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 · 2 pts · 56d
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 · 4 pts · 56d
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 · 8 pts · 57d
What about all the other flags that use those same colours?
espentan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 57d
Norway just subscribed to this thread
erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 57d
I think it's a rule that countries that have been conquered by the french have to use those colours.
daniel@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 57d
Well one of them was based on the other…
But hey, don’t hate on our 400+ year old colour choice! 🇳🇱
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 57d
Chick0nPlayz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 57d
Imo good contenders are Nicaragua and El Salvador for being so incredibly generic. At least other Central American countries have more unique designs.
folaht@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 57d
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".
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 57d
folaht@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 56d
I'll give you that.
But still, if you're gonna make a flag with a dragon on it,
don't make it look like a botched art restoration.
Same goes for Bhutan by the way,
which is the most awesome dragon flag in the world,
holding dragonballs and all that,
but then they forgot to color it in.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 56d
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 56d
Lol. At least the flag improved a bit.
Modern
Ye Olde one
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 57d
Seychelles
Bonifratz@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 56d
Two random ones I find quite ugly are Madagascar and Samoa.
daggermoon@piefed.world · 2 pts · 55d
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 pts · 56d
OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 56d
Bosnia’s is fire wdym
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 56d
Best flag is Estonia's
Worst flag is Fiji