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The world's flags given letter grades
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jay-shi



Joined: 09 May 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:26 pm    Post subject: The world's flags given letter grades Reply with quote

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
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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

PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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visitorq



Joined: 11 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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).
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visitorq



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



Mozambique's flag has to be my least favourite.
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Newbie



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that guy wrote:


Mozambique's flag has to be my least favourite.


What is that? A bayonet, a hoe, and a book?
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SuperHero



Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout

PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

Also really like the old Japanese empire flag. Very cool

I kind of agree with the site guy that it is a little busy and would probably give it a B+ rather than the C+ that he gave.

Interestingly North Korea got an A-
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Kimchi Cowboy



Joined: 17 Sep 2006

PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Atavistic wrote:
that guy wrote:


Mozambique's flag has to be my least favourite.


What is that? A bayonet, a hoe, and a book?



That'd be a Kalashnikov AK-47.









(Rent Lord of War.)
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Junior



Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye

PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kimchi Cowboy wrote:

Mozambique's flag has to be my least favourite.

What is that? A bayonet, a hoe, and a book?

That'd be a Kalashnikov AK-47.
(Rent Lord of War.)


I spent 6 months in mozambique. The symbols are quite apt because everyday i saw either farm workers carrying hoes, or soldiers carrying AK's.. Seems to be what the country was built on. The book is presumably marxist ideology.


my favourite:

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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about Libya? This one took some imagination:

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flakfizer



Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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:
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kermo



Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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...
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