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jay-shi · Joined: 09 May 2004 Location: On tour

I personally like the ROK flag and think it should have gotten a getter grade, but the author makes a valid point. The methodology section is interesting.

http://pukeko.otago.ac.nz/~jp30/flags/intro.html

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

An interesting activity which I'm sure angers most Americans who read it (although the writer did give his own country a lower score).

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

I disagree with many on that list.

The Best

Seychelles = psychedelic

Swaziland = tribal, very cool

Kenya = similar to Swaziland

Macedonia = awesome

South Korea = very unique

Greneda = cool and different

South Africa = one of my favorites

The Worst

Bulgaria

Ecuador

Rwanda

Gabon

Monaco, Cote D'Ivore, Romania, ect.. and all the other boring ones.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I don't mind the tricolour ones, depending on colour choice. One thing I do agree with them about is "colonial nonsense."

Here's one I don't like--Pakistan. It's lopsided.

Iran's is not bad.

Kiribati is pretty badass.

Brazil is pretty good.

I've always liked Greece.

visitorq · Joined: 11 Jan 2008

The best flags are simple, easy to recognise and easy to draw. Having symbolic meaning is good too, but I agree with him that having complicated graphics or writing is tacky.

Classics imo are the French and Italian flags (simple color schemes of red, white and blue/green), the German flag (both the modern one, and actually the swastika was a very nice flag design, leaving aside the nazi aspect of it), the Japanese flag (a rising sun, just about perfect), the Canadian flag (a graphic, but still simple enough to be hand drawn to some extent), the St. Georges Cross (cooler looking than the union jack I think), and the Israeli flag (without politicising it, the star works pretty well as a design I think).

The American flag isn`t so bad, but I agree there`s too many stars (if it were just one star, like in the middle or something, it would look better).

I think the Korean flag would look more classic without the trigrams (if it were just with the taegeuk in the middle - though on the other hand it would kinda just look like a copy of the Japanese flag in that case).

visitorq · Joined: 11 Jan 2008

I just saw the Rwandan flag for the first time and nearly choked! There`s just a big `R` plopped in the middle Laughing

that guy · Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: long gone

Mozambique's flag has to be my least favourite.

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I like the Korean flag. Would have given it an A.

Also really like the old Japanese empire flag. Very cool

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jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

How about Libya? This one took some imagination:

flakfizer · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:18 am Post subject:

I have to disagree with his insisting that flags must be ultra-simple. How many countries are there now? And that list includes entities that are not countries, right? If everyne had a simple flag, they would all start to look too much alike. I agree that some flags tend to look a bit strange if they have "graven images" on them or writing, but we can't all just have flags with three stripes or a single star or circle in the middle.

EDIT: One nice thing, though. It gave me great new way to respond to some of the posts on Dave's:

kermo · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:39 am Post subject:

I've spent a lot of time looking at that site, and please watch out-- some of the flags are just messed up. If you can find a way to contact that guy, please give him a nudge and tell him to sort that out!
For instance, Georgia is completely wrong, and Argentina is missing its frowny sun. There may be others...