What icon should we have?

This community still needs an icon, and just the flag is boring. What does the community want to see?

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51 Comments

meejle@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Never forget that the classic video game Lemmings is itself a British creation.

This would be my pitch:

::: spoiler Alternate version and transparent PNG


Still an official™️ Lemmings skin tone, but one from a later game I guess, in the interest of inclusivity:

Transparent PNG in case anyone wants to remix it:

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::: spoiler Easy, relevant banner idea


Use a screenshot like this one, but decide what they're queueing for. Greggs? Woolies? Half-price biscuits? The possibilities are endless.

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sunspider@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Ooh, I love it! I'm inclined to go with the banner already. Any objections?

sideone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Make it so (please)

thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org · 4 pts · 3y

Gotta be between this and top hat lemming. Does Lemmy do polls, yet? 🤔

Fishbulb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

This has got to be it, it's perfect

thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org · 15 pts · 3y (8 replies)

Greggs pasty, or a nice cuppa (pending inevitable bickering over exactly what shade of tea)

Edit: Differentiate ourselves from the other place with an icon of a duck

rubikfrog@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 3y

A quick image search for "union jack rubber duck" shows some contenders...

LillianVS@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

I approve of duck. Everyone likes duck

Speckle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (5 replies)

I was thinking something Greggs based as well. I was just going to say the logo though 😂

sideone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (4 replies)

I was thinking something Greggs based as well

I know this is a safe space, so I'm going to say something controversial. I don't like anything Greggs make (apart from the jammie dodger biscuit)

thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org · 11 pts · 3y (1 reply)

... There's a limit to how safe a space gets you know

sideone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Yeah, that's fair. I'll take it on the chin!

rmuk@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

What's your local alternative? There's a chain in the North-West called Greenhalch's that's solid, or Cooplands in the Midlands is good too.

sideone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

We have Parsons which is OK. Plenty of independent bakeries but all quite expensive (think £2.60 for a plain croissant). I don't tend to bother.

TheFriendless@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
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Repulsa@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 14 pts · 3y (1 reply)

A buttery crumpet?

PrimordialSoup@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Mmmm

alibloke@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 3y

GoingMenthol@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y (1 reply)

An imposing picture of Mr Blobby

rmuk@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 3y

So, just a picture of Mr. Blobby?

Honestly that diseased penis looking fucker haunts my nightmares.

chaosppe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Just for fun I asked gpt-4 what the most British thing is, I then asked it to make a prompt for midjourney. Here is the result. (Don't question the alien hand)

GuinnessChocolates@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 3y

Ugh the hands. Always the hands.

HumanPenguin@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 3y (18 replies)

Lemming wearing a top hat and monicle. Drinking a cuppa

itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 3y (16 replies)

Something like this?

thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org · 5 pts · 3y

What a dapper fella

charred@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

Is that AI?

HumanPenguin@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 3y

Love it.

Speckle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (12 replies)

This is brilliant! How'd you come up with it so quickly?

itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3y (11 replies)

AI, innit.

Speckle@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y (10 replies)

Bruv I tried AI and got this, not quite the same lol

RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y (4 replies)

This was my go, love how we're all getting totally different styles!

Speckle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

This one is great! I love how gentlemanly he is

RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

He's a dapper chap isn't he

HumanPenguin@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 3y

Looks lime a winner to me.

TeaHands@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Maybe more suited to UKFormal?

itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I honestly prefer yours. It's adorable!

Speckle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Oh thanks! Well seems like there might be a couple of options then 😊

dimspace@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

I actually love this.. lemming in bowler hat sat in a cup of tea.. very british

TeaHands@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

And yet so charming in its way!

andypiper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

this is the best :-)

Speckle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

How about a lemming sipping tea like the Kermit the frog meme?

GreyShuck@beehaw.org · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

A deckchair? A pub sign?

rmuk@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 3y

A pubsign for a pub called The Deckchair?

mykl@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Angry woman looking at sausage

How about this most British of pictures? Angry person, reactolite glasses, a sausage ready for the back garden barbecue and even a sneaky garden fence. If there was a wheelie bin in there it would cover 90% of normal chat :-)

(Edit: and please for the love of all that is holy do not use a top-hat or a monocle. Those are lazy parodies of Britishness used mainly by Americans whose idea of the UK comes from The Crown and Downton Abbey. There's only one person who I can even imagine wearing either item regularly and I would probably get banned for saying what I think of him.)

TSMKFail@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

The Alonso Deckchair image with the Union Flag as the background. Also give Alonso a Top Hat plus Monacle

LillianVS@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

I propose this cute rubber ducky! All hail the duckies!

Mane25@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

I now think a duck would be the funniest. Obviously, the ultimate "middle-finger" to the old regime.

jerome@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Spotted dick and tea.

America gets gun and hamburders.

India gets many phone icons.

Australia gets scary spider on a dingo.