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1 Hour of Interesting Flags
Aug 10, 2025
1 Hour of Interesting Flags. This is a 1 hour compilation of my interesting maps videos, conveniently stitched together for your viewing pleasure. @JackSucksAtLife @JackSucksAtStuff @JackMasseyWelsh on JackSucksAtGeography we upload a range of easy to watch & sometimes educational geography related content. I have successfully learned all 197 countries and flags of the world. I also look at interesting maps to teach us more about different parts of the world and their culture. On this channel I also play Geoguessr. video edited by: https://instagram.com/kairossbest instagram: https://instagram.com/jackmasseywelsh my subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/jacksucksatlife/ tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jackmasseyw twitter: https://twitter.com/jackmasseywelsh business email: jack @ skycade . net
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One hour of interesting flags
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Found this very old flag in my grandfather's chest. I do not recognize this
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Hopefully, it's nothing controversial. Looks like a service flag, indicating a family member in the military
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Okay, I think that's fine. That's something to be proud of. Finnish company Kiltor uses typography to form the flag of Finland
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Oh, their company name is Kiltor, but when you put it sideways
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and with a certain kind of font and spacing, the two eyes make the Finnish flag
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That is delightful. Very, very nice. I'm tired of vexillology nerds shitting on California's flag
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pretending their 20th century graphic design trends are iron design laws. This is the Californian flag, if you are not familiar
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Some of the most iconic flags in the world break the rules. No text, no details
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Shut the f*** up, idiot. Jeez, he's kicking off. They are right, though
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People say that you shouldn't have lots of text on a flag. People say that flags shouldn't be so detailed that you wouldn't be able to just easily sketch them
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But then you look at these four flags and you think, they're really cool flags. I'd have a nightmare trying to draw the Bhutan or the Welsh dragons
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But they're still cool and iconic. I guess it just depends on the actual flag in question
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But there are definitely ugly ugly flags like some of the u.s city flags are terrible for example this one this
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It doesn't look like a flag. It looks like an advertisement and the milwaukee one's also not great
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There's just too much going on and what is this beanville parish within the state of louisiana
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This is a terrible terrible flag. Oh my god. This is incredible
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My grandma has worn the same shirt with red, white, blue and stars to celebrate 4th of July for more than 25 years
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Every year she wears the exact same shirt. Thanks to the World Cup, we finally noticed it's the Panama flag, not the USA flag
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Over 25 years of treason. That is so funny. Oh, it's my favourite thing
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Is this European Union and China? That is delightful. Look at the way the stars wiggle like this
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Oh, yeah. Oh, that is the ticket. I asked AI to redesign the flags of the world
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This is country starting with A. So this is Afghanistan. That is quite striking and quite different from the original
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Albania. That is badass. My God. He's missing the other head though
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He has two heads of the Albanian flag. Algeria. Okay. Yeah. That's kind of cool, I suppose
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Andorra. That's gone a bit wacky. Then we've got Angola, which is pretty cool, I suppose
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Oh, Armenia's is very nice. Very flaggy as well. Australia. They've gone a bit more literal
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I like the actual kangaroo. Austria is a bit of a disappointment to finish on
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Decided to buy some of my favourite flags to decorate my place and I accidentally stumbled upon this very satisfying arrangement
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Oh my god, the yellow in the Seychelles perfectly lines up with Barbados
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That is delightful. You should probably iron your flags though. That's kind of lets them down
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Flag from current French protests. I like that. Badass. Gets a message across. Very simple, very nice
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Flag of Elba under Napoleon, 1814 to 1815. It's a flag that's got some nice B's on it
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Generally not a big fan of white flags because I don't like how they kind of just look like they've not been filled in yet
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But this one's quite striking with the diagonal red. Ah, Estonian flag ice cream that celebrates Estonian's 105th birthday
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That is delightful. But what have you smudged it? Get the smudge out of there. If that smudge wasn't there, I'd be
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Going crazy right now. Let me tell you Montana flag redesign. Ooh, I like the look of this, you know, I think this is just a suggestion, a proposal
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I don't think it's been made official, but most of montana's area are part of the great plains and they're rockies to the west
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So they've got some mountains over on the west of the flag very simplified states form. Oh
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That's clever. So this blue bit is actually the shape of the state
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It's a simplified version, but you can see what they're doing I like that the bison skull is sacred symbol to native tribes
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So that's very important for some representation star for the whole state itself each star on the u.s flag represents a state
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So that makes sense and then they break down the colors as well and there it is full screen. That's beautiful
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Oh, and that's the carrot one. Yeah, i'm sorry, but that is a beautiful very cool looking flag
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I love the idea they've had with the shapes and the mountains minnesota has a new flag pending legislative approval
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It's very nice. That's a strong flag. I'm all over it Let's get these ugly us flags updated flag. I saw at the pro-palestinian march in washington dc
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Why so many melons? What's the melons about? Oh, okay So it's used as a replacement of the Palestinian flag because some places have banned you whacking the Palestinian flag about
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So it's kind of like a peaceful protest move, which I like The watermelon is apparently the same colors of the Palestinian flag. So that's the logic from 2017 to 2022
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The Vatican flag on Wikipedia comments contained a mistake You can now tell which flag manufacturers slash emoji platforms used the file as that's so interesting
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So yeah on their Wikipedia they had the wrong file there and that is where everyone grabbed their reference image from
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So facebook twitter google all their emojis were wrong that whole time
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Apparently there was just a mistaken bit of red on this crown. That's actually really interesting
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I mean not in the traditional sense of the word interesting Every single flag looks better with their coat of arms on it. Oh, that's an interesting question because looking at these flags
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I kind of agree germany's was really badass and striking with the black eagle francis looks so fancy and glorious with the gold
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There's got to be some really ugly coat of arms, though. Surely this does not apply to every single flag out there
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What is your favorite German state flag? Ooh, here we go. Well, I do like one that's got a bear on it
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I quite like the Hamburg flag, you know. I think out of those, I will go with Hamburg
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What about yourself? According to the US Flag Act of 1818, this is a legally valid interpretation of the US flag
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It's got all the right colors. It's got enough stripes. It's got enough stars. What more could you want
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Redesigning flags to wear as capes. Well, this is adorable. The Ukrainian flag, for example, is a flag that sits well as a cape
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Okay, that's nice. But the Seychelles flag would need to be shaped like this in order to look good as a cape
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And my god, does it look good as a cape? What else have we got? The Israeli flag
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Yeah, I see that. See, this is very clever little details. You make the lines vertical instead of horizontal, and then you've got a cool cape out of nowhere
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USA flag, you've got to turn the square into a triangle, and then it sits like that
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Yeah, it does look pretty cool. Some of these are just as simple as changing the angle to 90 degrees
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That looks very nice. All Nordic crosses get scented. Yeah, all very delightful. I wish I had a flag cape
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British county flags are surprisingly good. Do you know what? I don't think I've seen every county flag
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Let's have a look through them. They're all very, very old-fashioned looking. Look at the Buckinghamshire one
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There's a swan, which is cool, but why is there like a crown strangling him? What's that about
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This is where I'm from, County Durham. I've seen this flag many times at the Durham Miners Gala
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It's not a bad flag. It's okay. I think there are some cooler ones like Hertfordshire has a cool cow on it
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That's very nice. Essex has got swords. That's delightful. Kent have a horse, which is all right
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Oh, I'm not sure about the Lincolnshire one. I don't think these colours go well at all
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Nottinghamshire, this is where I live these days. They've got Robert Hood on there. I mean, it looks okay. It's just a very detailed sketch in the middle for such chunky lines elsewhere
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Whoa, look at Shropshire with the scary cats. Ah, they definitely get cooler the further down you go
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Warwickshire. I like that. Is that some kind of bear? And then Somerset have got a cool red dragon
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I'm not sure about Wiltshire. I don't think the colours go well once again. And then why is Worcester just got some pears on there
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Kyrgyzstan have passed legislation to change flags from having wavy rays of sun to straight ones
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This is pretty crazy to be fair. Obviously, I learnt all the flags. And this is the flag that I know is Kyrgyzstan
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So the fact that it now looks like this is mad. And I not sure I like it Why is there such a big gap here All this yellow it too much Oh people do not understand rule one of good flag versus bad flag Keep it simple the flag should be so simple that a child can draw it from memory
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Well, we've seen earlier in this video that perhaps that isn't always the case
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Despite not being perfectly accurate, this drawing is still recognisable as the flag of Wales to anyone who's ever seen the flag of Wales
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I'm not sure, that's a bear's head, that's not a dragon's head. I'm not giving them that one, I'm sorry
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A simple mistake in drawing the Russian flag can make it indistinguishable from the flag of the Netherlands
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Yeah, I have gotten them confused in the past. Very embarrassing. Simplicity was never about the simplicity of style
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but about the simplicity of composition and reducing the number of elements to the most mimic ones
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Each flag showed above our eyes. Too many words. The flag of Shuya, a town in Ivanovo or Blast Russia
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See, that's a very modern looking flag. It's got an actual gradient on it
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and generally gradients on flags are like a bit of a question mark. It doesn't look like a flag though
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It looks more like a game I'd play on Cool Math Games. Everyone is hating on the Maryland flag
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including my girlfriend and i just don't know why because it looks beautiful to me i think that's a
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weird looking flag these components do not go together i'm sorry the new flag of pocatello
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compared to the old one okay new one looks quite cool i like what they've done with the the snow
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combined with the sun let's see the old one oh it's this one from earlier in the video thank god
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that is so much better i mean i don't think it's perfect but anything is better than that monstrosity
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Oh, I can rest easy at night once again. Thank the Lord
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Pocatello, this video is dedicated to you. I tried to find the most complicated flag ever
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That is a very, very complicated flag. There is a lot going on
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How many people are in it? There's like 30. There's so much shading. It's all so small and detailed
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Imagine I get that in my drawing flags from memory series. I mixed all the Middle Eastern countries flags with Azerbaijan
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Okay, so Saudi Arabia flag combined with Azerbaijan flag, making this fella in the middle
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If we've got each one, we do. Let's see if I can guess them. So that's going to be Syria
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That's going to be Egypt. That's going to be Saudi Arabia. Next up, oh, that's a bit trickier
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Palestine, maybe, possibly. I'm not sure. That's going to be Lebanon. That'll be Qatar, I think, followed by Israel
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Okay, then Iran. Oh my God, there's so many. I can't go through all these
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That's UAE. That's Oman, I think. That's Kuwait. That's Jordan. That's Iraq
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That's Yemen, I guess. That's Bahrain. And then that is Cyprus. Is Cyprus in the Middle East
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I'm not gonna lie though, all of these flags, they kind of look cooler with Azerbaijan colours
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Fair play. The US flag in the style of the Saudi Arabian flag
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Yeah, so as you've seen, Saudi Arabia, they've got like their country motto and their country weapon
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US's country weapons, obviously a gun and in God we trust is the motto
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Doesn't look very flag-like, does it, when you see words in English. Here to remind everyone what's written in the same booklet as the five rules of vexillology
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Okay, so for context, a lot of flag lovers, vexillologists, they think that all flags need to have rules, like you can't have loads of text or loads of detail
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But there are always exceptions where it works. So for example, the Colorado flag
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This is using the letter C, but it's a really cool and really iconic looking state flag
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They also think that Maryland's complicated quarters produce a memorable and distinctive flag
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It is memorable and distinctive. I have said in the past that I find it a bit messy looking, and I think most people would agree
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The california flag is really cool as well, even though it's got a bunch of text on it and south africa a flag rule is not too many colors
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This has got six different colors But they all have deep symbolic meaning and it's created something which looks fantastic flag of israel in the style of saudi arabia
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Once again, it kind of only looks cool when it's a big sword, you know
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I'm, not sure about the guns unpopular opinion national flag should start embracing black as a flag color
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Recolored the south korea flag as an example. Do you know what that does look cool
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and thinking about it, you do not see black in many flags at all. Like, there's a few Middle Eastern countries that have a bit of black
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Obviously, South Africa's got a bit of black. But black as a background color, I'm not sure there's any national flags
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And it does look really, really good. I like that. Ooh, you've done a couple of different options with the red and the blue
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Very nice. I mean, it'd be a nightmare for printer ink, but I would be up for it. What flag is this? Spotted at a Palestinian protest in Amsterdam
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I have no idea. Are they just confused? Let's find out. Well, this guy's a genius
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So they decided they would remake the flag in Microsoft Paint and then reverse Google image search for it to see what comes up
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And the only thing that came up is the Bailor Chistan flag, but the colors are the wrong way around
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which means that potentially the person waving it had it upside down or it's a different flag
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But if you enhance the image, we could see the word Bailor, which means it is the Bailor Chistan flag
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And Bailor Chistan is a state in Pakistan. So I don't know why they were there at the protest, but at least now we know what the flag is
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That was an obscure one. Well, that's adorable. This is a homemade flag of united humanity
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I'd have that flag up. That's so nice. What's this one on the side? Recent contest winners
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Right, well, that's kind of made this one look a bit lame now, hasn't it? I just caught sight of it on the side
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I like both concepts, to be fair. The flag of Bern, Switzerland, and New Bern, North Carolina
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They differentiate for only one detail. All right, let's see. Oh, hang on
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It's like spot the difference, and it appears to be... Is it the color of the feet
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They're a bit more red on the New Bern? is that right wait ah they've got rid of his willy i did not see that coming the americans got
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embarrassed about it so they had to get rid of it in my opinion the entire time the seychelles have been independent they've never had a bad flag i've never seen history of the seychelles flags this
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is interesting so this was from 1976 to 77 so it wasn't there long this is 77 to 96 once again yeah
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that's quite nice looking flag i like it's like a wavy hungry and then this is 96 onwards this
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beautiful iconic one of my favorite flags yeah i mean obviously i really like that one this one does
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are cool this one i'm not 100 sure on the color scheme i'm glad they updated it to something a
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little bit crazier the un flag but with a soviet eu nato and arabic spin okay so this is the
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soviet style the red and the yellow it's pretty iconic looking isn't it this is eu style so you
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know fairly similar this is nato all right once again just changing of the color scheme slightly
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and then that's arabic they all just look good don't they i think this one's the most striking
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though flag for a secular iran wait what do you mean with a lion and sun this is just blank and
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then this is lioness and sun i don't know what secular means ah non-religious basically because
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current iranian flag has a religious symbol in the middle that's an interesting spin i'd like to see
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more flags like that and i like the lioness too there has been three relative legislative attempts
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to add the name pennsylvania to the pennsylvania state flag so this is the pennsylvania flag currently
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for your reference and in 2004 to 2007 they wanted to add text either above or below it then between
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2007 2010 they wanted to add some text to both sides of it 2014 they wanted to add it with like
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a fancy banner but each time it has been declined it's not necessary in my opinion i think it works
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how it is is mexico the only official country flag to use gradients so this isn't really a gradient
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is it it's just shading done with two colors but i guess this on the little pink things i guess
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Those are gradients because it kind of blends from the white. Apparently, Ecuador uses a gradient
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Ah, the blue sky. Yeah, that is gradiency. Fair enough. Look at the cool Ecuador-colored boat
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I've never really looked at this coat of arms close up. Look at the vulture and everything. It looks amazing
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New Zealand flag redesign. I like it. I would be excited if New Zealand changed their flag
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I don't like the current one with the bigger Union Jack, but I'd personally be inclined to go with the cool silver fern one
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that they proposed a few years ago. The Eureka flag is the best Australian flag but sadly it used by white supremacists assist Well that certainly took a turn Somewhat failed redesign of the flag of Singapore Why you fail What the fail
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Okay, the texture's based off this giant statue scale type things. Are they scales if he's a lion
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There's probably more fur, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, it looks alright. Oh my god, why is there a white frame cornering the German flag
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It's a flag on a flag. I've seen one of these before, that's so weird
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It's like it's just a printing error where they got the template wrong, but that's not the case It's a pilot flag used for pilot boats in Germany
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Yeah, literally just looks like they thought it was a PNG, but it's actually a JPEG. I'm not sure about that
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It's a real flag. I think that's terrible. I'm up showing the number of stars on every country's flag. Oh enhance enhance
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Right, so all the red countries have one star, which is quite a lot. That's like a major amount in the world
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Two is orange. So Syria for example, there are not many with just two. We've also got panama as well
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Oh, yeah with the boop in the boop three is yellow, which is just slovenia is there? Oh, no, there's also
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Malawi arts Burundi there it is three flags that makes sense and then the pattern does continue so
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Five is the big china and then the stripey ones have more so we have 50 for america
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That is a crazy jump from the previous which is 27 which is on the brazilian flag
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And I guess they're kind of dotted about this is a cool map. I like this map a lot We found these cups in our house and I've no idea what the flag means
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Does anyone know if they've seen it before? I do not recognize that. It's very similar to this Lieutenant General Rank Flag of the Republic of Korean Army and Marine Corps
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That must be it. Ah, they are Korean. Okay, that makes sense. If they were not from Korea, that'd be really random
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The flag of my classroom, 8A. That's so cute. The school each have their own little flags on the rooms
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I mean, it's pretty ugly. It's kind of horrendous, I'm not gonna lie. But a cute idea. The US flag with 73 stars
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I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't have noticed a difference there if you hadn't pointed it out
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The proposed new New Zealand flag designs would work better as a government logo than they ever did as a flag
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Hey, I think that looks good. What do you mean? But I suppose, yeah, it does look good
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But that's because it's a good looking flag. Not because it's better suited as a government logo. It just looks good
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Why do so many flags have this deranged looking look to them? What does it mean
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Alright, then we've got a few different examples. So we've got two stretched out lines and then a few more kind of here
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It's just a style, isn't it? From like the Renaissance period or something. That's my guess anyway
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It's from the court of arms of england Which in turn came from the court of arms of normandy after willing the conqueror conquered england. Hey guys, william be conquerin
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What more can you say? The uk flag does not have rotational symmetry? Oh dear The conservatives first election broadcast shows the union flag flying the wrong way up, which is a distress signal
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Yeah, the uk flag is annoying. Here's the uk flag turn it upside down
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It's the wrong way around because of these off-center red and white
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diagonal bits. I lived in the UK for about 25 years before noticing my own flag had these
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off-center diagonals. Because of this, people are constantly putting the flag upside down
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including the conservatives, which is pretty funny. Flying your flag that almost has rotational
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symmetry upside down might just be the least effective distress signal in the world. Yeah
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it's so subtle. And that's why this is a flag I find annoying. The flag of East Palestine
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Ohio. That's not what you do with the Palestine and Middle East. It's just a place called East
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Palestine in Ohio, USA. Possibly one of the worst flags I've ever seen. Yes, that is hideous. Oh my
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God. They've got horrible font. You do not want a font like this on a flag. Text generally does not
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work on flags at all. An example of a flag that I think gets away with it is the California flag
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but that is horrendous. Then they've got the text a second time over to the left in this little
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Metal thing then they've got an outline of the town and then it's a weird shape as well
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I assume the whites not included right? You know, that is the most British looking American high street
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I've ever seen I feel like I could go five minutes up the road and see this view
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I've also just taken in the fact that on the flag. It says where you want to be
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For those of you all who create flags digitally what program do you use my tool of choice is Microsoft PowerPoint
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That's a good flag for Microsoft PowerPoint. Look at all these flags that you've made
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Opinion on Art Deco in flags. And then you've shown Lincoln City's new flag
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I've seen this flag design before. I think it's really cool looking. I think it works at the moment because the style's kind of unique
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I do think if every flag was like this, it would probably not be great
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But Lincoln City got in early and it looks fantastic. It feels gold. All nice, like gold shiny bits
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Slightly incorrect British flags lining the streets of Tirana, Albania. Must have been some kind of UK related celebration
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But yeah, you could see the flags have got middle diagonals rather than like off-center diagonals
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And it would be way easier if this is what the UK flag looked like. I don't know where they got this flag from
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Did they just like ask someone to draw it and then print in a thousand of them
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It would be way more straightforward if this was our flag. Evanston, Illinois has a new flag designed by seven-year-old Bernie Allen Harrer
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Look at little Bernie! As if they've adopted their flag designed by a seven-year-old
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And it looks really good as well. This is a bit of a mucky color, but when you see it not printed out, the green works with better
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I think the flag print was maybe a bit brown. I think this looks cool
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I like it. Never seen before flag. Okay, so there's some hedgehogs with a giant wheel and they're pulling a carriage
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What is that a flag for? It feels like it's for travelers, right
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It is. It's a Romany flag. The wagon symbolized the fact that a while ago, they were often represented in caravans of artists, troops, and hedgehog
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because at least in my country, it is said that they eat hedgehogs. That went a slightly different direction
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I thought they were gonna say that they thought hedgehogs were cute. But let's move on. Flag of Cape Independence movement in South Africa
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It's a pretty cool looking flag that is really, really striking. Really nice color scheme
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What's your favorite flag from film and television? I'll start with Klingon
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That is a really cool fictitious flag, to be fair. I want to see what other people thought of. Victoria
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New California Republic. Oh, I'm guessing that's from Fallout. So it's like the mutated bear
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That's really epic. New Fallout series was so good, by the way. If you haven't watched it the jackass skull and crutches is instantly recognizable and immediately communicates what they're about 10 out of 10
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Yeah, to be fair, it really does represent them really well. Sheldon's apartment flag from big bag theory. That's such a cute idea
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He had his own flag every us state as nordic crosses or enhance enhance these have been really nicely done
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To be fair, you can see that texas it's sticking on brand with the nordic cross
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But we still got all the right color schemes and the star and everything same in new mexico
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This is what the new mexico flag looks like so you can see really kept with that style and it works quite well
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Colorado as well. Hawaii weird looking, but just as weird looking as the current hawaii flag. What about maryland
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Where's maryland? Oh, it's down here They've got a really weird looking flag and once again, it is still translated as a weird looking flag even in nordic style
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Oh, alaska's quite interesting with the stars. Yeah, that one doesn't really work does it
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But everything else I think looks quite good belarus nazbarjan looks so good together
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Yeah, to be fair, side by side, they do match quite well. Is the height of the green on both those flags the same
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I would have said for Belarus, it was like way bigger. I guess that's probably one third, isn't it
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So I guess they do line up. And then the orange is the exact same color as well. It probably helps that whoever printed them was probably making sure they would match nicely
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Can you guess how many stars are on the EU flag? Um..
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It's like 30 maybe? 12? Oh, what? Oh I fell for the trap I thought it would be close to one of these Of course it only 12 The Bretagnen flag is just so cool What do you think No idea how to pronounce that correctly but you know what
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Black and white flags, you don't see enough of them. I think that does look quite epic. New Minnesota state flag
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The US are just constantly fiddling with their flags. They seem to have a flag for every single state
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which, you know, that's fair enough. County, okay, I guess. Town, I don't know, is that a necessary village
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Absolutely not, East Palestine, Ohio. Like, how many different flags must be in the US
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It's got to be like well over a thousand, right? Apparently this is every county that has a flag
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So it actually isn't that many of them But that's still probably close to a thousand and then there are the towns and some villages as well
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What do y'all think of germantown, ohio? It's ohio again just whacking out whatever flags they want. I actually think this one looks kind of cool
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I don't think the text germantown is necessary And I feel like even though it's centered with the image above because of how close it is to this it feels off-center
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So I would get rid of the text. But other than that, that's fine. Oh, here we've got the old Minnesota flag
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So they've had this one since 1983. And they've now changed to this, which we've just seen hung up
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This looks way better, doesn't it? There's just way too much detail there. Let's enhance, enhance, get a good look at this
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Yeah, it's probably not politically correct. And it's just way too much going on
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Look at all these horrible little balls. I hate all the balls. They look horrible
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Ethiopian empire flag in Walmart. That's this one at the front. How's that creeped in there then
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All the other flags are like national flags, but this is Ethiopian empire
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So I think someone's just made a mistake. What is this flag displayed by the King of Jordan today
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I mean, I am going to assume it's just the Royal Jordan flag because it's got a little crown on it
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It's the Royal Standard of Jordan. Yeah, there you go. Which Greek flag is your favorite
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No, that one. Boring. Okay, same, but with a little crown. I don't really like that
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I don't think it works. That one works a bit better. There's the actual one
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No, no, this is the actual one. I think that's definitely the best. I mean, kind of hurts your eyes to look at
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I would be okay with this one, but I do think that this one's better. My uncle's flag designed for United's world
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That's actually really nice, isn't it? Just a big blob symbolizing the earth
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and it's all green to show that we are one rather than multiple segregated countries and nations
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We're all just on the same big green blob. And green has lots of positive connotations
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to like the environment and positiveness. Yeah, I like it. I'm on board with your uncle
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US flag hung from the stripe side rather than the stars side
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What are they playing at? That's a maniac move. How did they even get the pole down that bit
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That's not where it goes. Flag for a Korean reunification. So you've kind of combined North and South Korea's flags
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And we've got a couple of different options. It looks quite cool, doesn't it? What are the little dots
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What are the lines for? I don't like the lines. Editor Kai, move the lines. Thank you
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Does this style of flag have a name? Oh, so I think this was somewhere in China
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I'm not 100% sure. That's obviously Bhutan. They are really cool looking though, aren't they
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I love this one as well. I think that's the old Taiwanese flag. Yeah, it was back when it was Republic of Formosa
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And it just looks so good. Like I think I've said before, it would look really nice on like a hoodie
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a blue hoodie or a t-shirt. Oh, and then we've got the peacock at the end
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I'm not sure that really fits the style of the wiggly windy dragon
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Spotted an advert, which either has obscure flags I don't recognize or an AI generator had a go making its own flags
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Yeah, it's probably the latter. So it seems like a lot of the flags have had their emblem centered
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So like, I think that's meant to be Portugal, but they've moved the crest in the middle
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And then that looks kind of like Serbia, doesn't it? But it isn't Serbia. And then what's this one
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They've got, they've just added a bit of yellow to the top of like the Bulgarian flag
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AI definitely just doing its own thing there. Would removing the Union Drive from the Australian flag
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make a good new flag without losing too much identity? I think you can kind of get away with that
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I reckon that works. Australia, we on board? Jack said it's fine. What will happen to the Puerto Rican flag emoji if Puerto Rico becomes a state
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Oh, God, I don't even want to think about it. Let's just move on. Flag of Rome, which is the best
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Don't like that flag. I don't like the colours. I don't like how this bit of yellow doesn't really stand out against this yellow
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Not on board with that one. I don't like the text at all, but yeah, let's just stick with that one
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I'll go with that one. There you go, Rome. Visit Venice just for these. Not gonna lie
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Yeah, the venice flag is absolutely epic looking isn't it editor kai who edits all of these videos
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He went on a holiday to venice a few months ago. He saw this flag
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He sent me a picture saying here's that cool flag that we've seen in some videos What's the flag for again and I was like it's for venice kai
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You're you're in venice Why did you need to ask that you've edited hundreds of these videos
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Which pan-african flag is your favorite? I mean i'm a big fan of the pan-african flags obviously south africa is just really iconic
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looking but so many of them work like togo's just looks really cool ghana's looks epic ethiopia you
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know i'm a big fan of the ethiopian flag jamaica yep don't mind if i do and even mozambique with
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their like badass guns and books they look pretty cool but i think if i had to just pick one it would
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be south africa but there's not much in it proposed flight for massachusetts i'm not sure about that
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i actually kind of hate it but like the fish is just not flag style at all also the fish looks
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dead. And then the St. George Cross, if that's what it is up the top, I'm not a fan of that at
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all. It just looks really out of place. Massachusetts, please don't do it. Redesigning
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what, in my opinion, is the worst US state flag, Delaware. So this is the current Delaware flag for
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your reference. So you see, the color scheme's pretty similar. I'm going to be honest, I don't
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think this works as a flag. It looks like packaging for food. It looks like this would be like a paper
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bag that would hold your fast food and i think it's a nice design for that but uh for a flag i'm
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not sure libya redesign oh i think it looks cool but i don't think it works as a flag once again
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it kind of looks like a loading screen in a game set in libya like i feel like those two green and
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red bars would just be moving like this while we're waiting for the cut scene to begin but if
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that's what you're going for then you have succeeded american flag cake well i mean you know it's nice
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Is it a cake though? It looks more like a souffle or something
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I've googled souffle. It doesn't look like a souffle. It just looks like it wouldn't have sponge, alright, is what I'm trying to say
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It looks like... What? I don't know what I'm trying to say. Jamaica is the only country whose flag does not feature red, white or blue
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The flag is black, green and yellow. This makes Jamaica unique among all national flags
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Okay, I've heard that before. How many examples can we think of that prove this wrong
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I don't think there are any. I think that's true. Like, yeah, the state flags and county flags that don't feature red, white, or blue
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but I think when it comes to national flags, Jamaica's the only one that doesn't have at least one of those colours
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For example, you might think of the Sri Lanka flag, but that dark red is still a kind of red
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And was it Libya that briefly had just an all green flag? Yes, look at that
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From 1977 to 2011, it was just pure green. But then when Gaddafi, who was in control, was overthrown
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they changed it back to this one. which means Jamaica is the only flag that does not feature red, white or blue
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And the comments have fact checked that for me, so I'm not just talking rubbish. Guy in Scotland continuously flying the flag of whoever's playing against England in the Euros
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That is so funny. Oh my god. Imagine seeing a Serbian flag outside of this tiny little house in Scotland
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Then there was Denmark. I can't quite see where that is. Is that Switzerland? And then Slovakia too
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It's so funny thinking about this Scottish fellow ordering all these flags online just to kick off at the English
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Ivory caused an Irish delegated meet. Oh, we love to see cool country flag combos. I don't know what the politicians were meeting for
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What do the Irish and the Ivory Coast have to chat about? Probably something really important
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that I'm just ignorant. But either way, we get to see their very, very similar flags side by side
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finally. And that is beautiful. Whoa, flag of the United States in the style of the Republic of
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Venice. So for context, this is the United States flag. You probably know that one, but you might
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not recognize the flag of Venice. So this is a really cool mock-up. You can see we've got a bunch
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of old US presidents. We've got the Declaration of Independence. We've got a fancy version of the
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stripes on the side. We've got the stars in the background still as well. Looks kind of badass
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doesn't it? Awful at the same time, but still badass. Which flags do you hate seeing people get
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wrong? Right, so they've done Turkey with the emblem too far to the left. They've done not
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enough stars on the US flag. No leaves around Cyprus. We've got a centred Portugal. Triangle
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touching right. I don't actually get that one. That's Bosnia and Herzegovina. I'm gonna have to
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have a look at the actual flag. Ah, okay. There's a square over on the right, a big square of blue
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I'll be honest, if I was drawing that flag from memory, I absolutely would have drawn it something
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like that. And full stripes for Israel. Do they also end short? Ah, yeah, there's white at the top
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That's something I definitely would have got wrong as well. Yeah, two out of six there, I would have
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messed up. What's your favorite flag style of flag design and why? Oh, we just love flags on this
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channel. Traditional European, okay, fairly standard. We've got the communist flags with a
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bunch of red and a little bit of yellow in the corner. Oh, early modern East Asian. That's a
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cool set of flags, isn't it? Pirate flags, I could get behind. I don't know what flag this is, but it
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looks badass with the black. Anarchist is kind of cool. Pan-African flags always look nice. Vertical
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tri-color, a little bit boring, but still nice. Modern American with the multiple shades of blue
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on these new state flags. Yeah, they are really modern, aren't they? They work though. The Nordic
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flags are classics, Pan-Slavic and Soviet satellite states, which is not something I'm really that
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familiar with. What is this incomplete EU flag? How has that happened? So the stars are meant to
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go all the way around and create a full circle? Does this mean something else or if they just messed up? Yeah, it's just people making jokes in the comments. So I think this is just a literal
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mistake. How does something like that happen though? Bottle return machine in Ireland using
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the Irish flag for English and the Irish presidential standard for Gaelic, which is a
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language in Ireland. Interesting. I actually kind of understand the logic to that because if this is
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a machine that's in Ireland, it would perhaps feel out of place putting an England flag there
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And a United Kingdom flag wouldn't make sense either. But most people in Ireland do speak
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English, so I don't know. That's a weird one. What's a flag that is terrible in your opinion, but you like it anyway? And then you've got the flag of Zambia here, which when you think about
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it, is a pretty weird flag with just all of that green. And then the eagle that's kind of taken up
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an odd amount of space with a big gap underneath it. But like you say in the caption, it kind of
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works, doesn't it? You still like this flag. North Caucasian Emirate flag. No way, is that real
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Looks like a smiley with a nose. Well, yeah. I've always loved this flag for some reason
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Whoa, what is that? That's the flag of the province of Connacht in Ireland. That looks crazy
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It's literally like two flags stitched together, but it is kind of badass, isn't it? Look at the
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eagle with his big arm. Which do you prefer? The old American style flags, okay, or the modern
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American style flags. Yeah, because a lot of states are doing modernizing at the minute
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and it is quite a big difference when you put them side by side. They're all cute, aren't they? All
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the new flags are very cute looking, whereas there's something kind of established and badass
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feeling about these, but also, I don't know, I'm actually really conflicted. I feel like I like
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bits of both. There are some cool ones here, though. I mean, you know I love the California
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flag. I feel like don't tread on me a bit much. Maybe, you know, chill out. But I like the simplicity
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of the arkansas flag as well but then i like all of these as well you know what i don't know let's
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see what the comments say i like a healthy mix of both it's just kind of a case-by-case basis some
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of the modern designs are too minimalistic slash corporate looking but at the same time some of the
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older designs are just ugly or as equally uninspired yeah i guess a lot of the new ones look a bit like
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logos for brands maybe that's the issue each group's got some studs and some duds couldn't
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have said it better myself to be fair mystery flag seen in carfu greece what is that it's got
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chains on it i do not recognize this at all it's the flag of black country the former heavily
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industrialized area of just west of birmingham england very surprising place to encounter it
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what's it doing in corfu not at all there are many brits in corfu fair enough i guess someone
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from near birmingham just moved to corfu and they're proud of the black country all right
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i think orange suits better for the south african flag are you crazy it definitely does not kai can
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you please make it red again thank you whoa saw this flag in chicago what is it it kind of hurts
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your eyes to look at it, but I like it at the same time. Not as a serious flag, of course
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but as something to waft about in the street, I'm on board. Apparently, it's a Chicago-specific
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pride flag. That's the star shape of the flags on both the city of Chicago and Cook County. Ah
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yeah, when you zoom in, you can see it's obviously pride-related. And pride flags are meant to look
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a bit fun and flashy, aren't they? So I think it works pretty well. What's your favourite fictional
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flag? I'll start. I do not know what this is from, and no one has told me in the comments. Please let
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me know. Oh, Kingdom of Rohan from Lord of the Rings. That is a nice looking flag, really well
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suited. And then we've got Kingdom of Gondor from Lord of the Rings as well. Rohan one's better
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but both are good. Whoa, why is the Bolivian Court of Arms displayed like that? So it's the right
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way up, even though the flag is the wrong way up. That's so weird. Literally just a stylistic choice
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to straighten the Court of Arms while it's on display. I have never seen anything like that
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Nah, put it the right way up, because it's merging into the bits of green and red on each side. You
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can't have that. But at an angle, it doesn't matter if it's at an angle. That's what your flag's like
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If you want your coat of arms straight, then have your flag straight. I don't like that at all
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Think about how silly that would look if you actually did straighten it up now. Why is there
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so much blue beneath the bottom of stars on this US flag? Oh yeah, look at that. It's definitely too
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much blue. That's way too big a gap. Donald, what are you buying cheap flags for, Donald? Donald
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New Minnesota state flag in the wild. Yeah, it was changed a few weeks ago and it's one of these new
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modern blue us day flags it looks cool doesn't it i like it i'm a big fan oh we know this once this
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was spotted in prague that's zambia of course i would never get that mistaken with zimbabwe i'm
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not even going to check the comments i'm that confident that's the zambia flag all of yesterday's
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games at the euros featured a team with a red white blue flag versus a team with a red white
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flag that's weird isn't it so netherlands and austria that's red white and blue versus red and
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white then we've got france and poland red white and blue white and red white and red then white
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blue and red that's so weird all the way at the bottom it's almost as if they're the most common
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flag combinations in the world what's yours thoughts on this georgia state flag redesign
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they are just going crazy for the flag redesigns in the us and they just can't get enough of these
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wiggly lines as well it looks good it's nice it's modern saw this crab on a car in the line
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at chick are these maritime flags what does it mean i recognize another flag that just maryland right maryland the usa state that the maryland state flag yeah marilyn just said that it the shape of a crab because steamed crabs are a popular meal in
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Maryland and people from Maryland like to put their flag on everything. Am I warming to the
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Maryland flag? Because I've previously said that it's really ugly, but do you know what? I quite
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like the chaos of it. I found this flag in the forest and I picked it up because litter is bad
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but I want to know what it means. Okay. It's got an igloo on it and a palm tree. That is weird
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Let's see if anyone in the comments knows. Boogaloo movement. I don't know what that is
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Ah, they're far-right anti-government extremists. Well, that's ruined the fun of it
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The Olympic Facebook flag trivia is just mean. So the official Olympics made a flag quiz on Facebook
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but it has compared Chad and Romania, which obviously have basically the same flag
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I think Chad has an ever so slightly darker blue. Yeah, they do. It's really subtle though
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Anyone know why Spain is using a flag without their coat of arms at the Olympics? Ah, I didn't notice that
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My guess is just for small icons, it makes more sense because the other one's too detailed. Ah, the official flag is the plain one
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I did not know that. The Court of Arms version is mandatory only for official buildings and
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entities. So apparently actually in Spain, you just find both variations everywhere. How did I not know that yet? I've heard so much flag trivia. Why complicate things? Australia and
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New Zealand flag redesign proposals. Oh, they've gone very simplistic with just the two colours
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I mean, to be fair, it kind of works, doesn't it? I kind of like it. But I have seen better flag
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proposals from both countries, particularly the New Zealand silver fern one. That's always nice
38:20
Proposed flag of Maine that will be voted on in November. How did the United States get anything
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else done with all of their redesigns for state flags? It feels like they're just constantly
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switching them up at the minute. That looks sweet though. I kind of like it. Another tree is maybe a
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bit too detailed for kind of modern flags, but I think it works. What flag is this? I have literally
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no idea. We do have Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, and Poland, but I do not know that one
38:44
It appears to be some guy's fictional flag for Uranus. What? Oh my god, this was shared in 2010 on DeviantArt
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That's the exact same image. Wait, what? I'm betting someone saw this labeled Uranian and thought it was Ukrainian, which is absolutely hilarious
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No way. That's insane. That's so funny. This shop's in the UK
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I want to visit it, seeing as it's the only shop out there that caters to a Uranus market
39:09
Cleveland is ready to vote for a new flag. They're at it again. All these US counties, towns, states, cities, they're all switching up their flags willy-nilly
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And it looks like they're all going very modern as well. Part of it feels like they start feeling a bit more like logos rather than flags
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but I don't know, I'm still kind of undecided. Favourite flags of countries that don't exist anymore
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Oh, that looks cool. Look at that. I always love a bit of purple. I'm always willing for a bit of purple in a flag
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This is the Spanish Republic flag that hasn't existed since 1939. Ooh, the King Dynasty flag
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Yeah, this is one of the coolest designed flags that's ever existed, let's be honest. A 1707 Union flag used for Team GB
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This is once again in the Olympics. And there it is, the United Kingdom with the 1707 flag
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How does this accidentally happen? Do you know what? I say how does this accidentally happen. A couple of years ago, I accidentally used the same flag in a thumbnail
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instead of the modern day Union flag. So I can't really talk, can I
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I saw the comments and I just slightly changed it and then pretended nothing ever happened. Countries are the most similar flags
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This is red and white specifically, which is incredibly common in flags
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It's these four here that are the worst offenders. There's Monaco and Indonesia, literally just the same flag but different dimensions
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But then you throw Singapore in, which I guess gets away with it because this symbol doesn't show up anywhere else
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Most flags these days I can instantly recognise, but with Poland, Monaco and Indonesia, I always have to think about it for a second
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Qatar and Bahrain, once again, really similar. These days, I have worked out a mnemonic to remember the difference between the two
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You're welcome to use it if you wish, but the way I remember it is that Bahrain, starting with B, is way earlier in the alphabet than Qatar, starting with Q
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So because it's a lower number in the alphabet, it has a lower number of spikes
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Because you can see Qatar has way more of these pointy little spikes. Turkey and Tunisia, I have also gotten mixed up in videos many times and people kick off at me
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But I walked past the Tunisian embassy in London. And since that moment, it's kind of stuck in my head a little bit more
40:56
What the hell did I just come across in Amsterdam? Okay, that looks to me, whoa
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I was going to say the first one looks like a Nordic pride flag. But I have no idea what that is
41:07
What's going on there? It's multiple flags stitched together. We've got like an EU flag in there
41:10
What is this? That looks like a Argentinian pride flag, I guess
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Yeah, these are some really chaotic flags. What is going on there
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Right, USA mixed with a pride flag mixed with so many other things
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This is absolute chaos. What is going on? Oh, there's so many as well
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I mean, they all kind of look cool, but in a horrible, horrible way. An art project
41:30
I think someone was just feeling a little bit wacky, you know. What's this flag
41:35
Oh, that's just a classic Confederate flag variation, right? That's the old Mississippi state flag
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Oh, of course. I've heard that before. Crazily, they only changed that in 2021
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And this is the new flag, which is much nicer, isn't it? Let's be honest. Why does the flag of Alaska not get more love
41:50
Is this the flag of Alaska? I don't know if I've ever seen the Alaskan flag before. I assume the stars represent the position of the biggest cities in the state
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Yeah, it's got to be, hasn't it? We've got to be each of these here and then the big fella in Fairbanks
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Wait, I did a video learning all of the American state flags. I must have seen this before
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It has not stuck in my head. I am one of these people that have not given the Alaskan flag love and I apologize
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All my flags gone from emailing consulates slash embassies. Ah, yeah. Spaghetti Road
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It was a YouTuber a few years ago that did a video where he contacted every embassy and
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like asked for a flag and he managed to get loads back. I watched the whole series actually. It was a really fun project and it's nice to see other people still doing it
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And it's also nice to see the embassies actually get back to people and send them flags. It's a video idea I wish hadn't already been done because otherwise I'd be absolutely on it
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Whoa, big ass flag in Montenegro. That looks insane. Let's get an Enhance Enhance, please
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Whoa, it's Big Daddy. Look at that. That is badass, to be fair
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My God. And then there's even another big chunky fella over here as well. Yeah, look at that
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Double-sided. Estonia used to have purple in its old flag. I found out about it in the Big Bang Theory
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I didn't know that. From 1721 to 1917. So a long time they had purple
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Obviously purple is famously a really rare flag color, but Estonia were whacking it about years ago
43:04
Flag identification seen outside of San Francisco capital, but looks like the Lebanon flag, but it isn't
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Yeah, it does look like a reshuffled Lebanese flag. Apparently it's the New England flag. All right, fair enough
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Spotted outside of French Bistro in NYC. What is this interesting mashup
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Uh, I think I know this one. Isn't it all of the different British Isles flags
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Excluding England. So you've got Scotland, Wales. I think that's Isle of Man
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Then you've got ireland and i'm assuming these are jersey and guernsey. No, it is not guernsey and it is not jersey
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Is it is of sky then instead? No, it's not of sky. Let's just check the comments
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I think i'm closed. Yeah, that's right pan celtic flag featuring six celtic nations sometimes used by the celtic league
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So I got four out of the six but I forgot cornwall and britney I will always forget the cornwall flag phew I know this one What is this flag found in North London That is the Yorkshire flag I know because my girlfriend Becky from Yorkshire
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And whenever we drive past this flag, she shouts Yorkshire at the top of her voice. It's a lot of fun
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Is this literally just an upside down German flag or am I missing something? My prediction is that it is literally
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an upside down German flag based on the surrounding flags. Yep, top comment, totally agrees with me
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Flags I got in my two years of traveling. Each was purchased in the territory whose flag it belongs to
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That's really cool, isn't it? It's something I'm definitely going to do as well next time I go to a different country
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And do you know what? I'm actually going to Ireland next month, so I'll try and pick up an Ireland flag somewhere
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Whoa, flags of countries if they were taken over by pirates. That's an epic idea
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This is the Mexican flag, and they've gone kind of Day of the Dead theme with the skull
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I like that a lot. That looks amazing. Poland. Whoa, these all look epic
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Getting a skull on a flag just looks incredible, doesn't it? Netherlands. I'm not sure about the Netherlands one
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I don't know if I like that. Oh, some more on the other hand. That looks absolutely epic
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Then we've got Bahamas, which does look really cool. And it's had its fair share of pirates around the Bahamas over the years
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Russia. I guess I see what they were going for. Oh, Nigeria looks really badass, definitely
45:01
Somalia looks epic. Somalia should just use the, I reckon. I'm sure there'd be no consequences to a really aggressive looking flag in Somalia
45:08
But albedos, once again, that looks cool. I like how they've integrated the pointy things, whatever they're called
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But I think my favourite's the Somalian one. Flag of the Polek Municipal District, which is in the Ivanovo region of Russia
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That looks incredible. It's a really beautiful looking flag. It'd be a nightmare to try and recreate it, but it looks epic
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Maine released over 400 rejected designs for its proposed new main flag after unveiling the official design yesterday
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Oh, that's kind of cool that they did. Okay, let's have a look. Why'd they not pick that one
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That one's kind of cool, I suppose. The quality's not great on these
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That one's quite similar to what was chosen. I mean, that's annoying for them. Yeah, we've got some moose antlers
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I'm guessing they're not great. Kind of a sweet drawing, okay. Uh, yep, amazing
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Chuck Norris. Don't see him enough these days. I say we all strike until this one gets officially adopted
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Is that a lob step? Posting every municipal flag in Belgium. Day 59 is a place called Brevere
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which I assume is Belgian for beaver, and that is a great flag
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I don't like how his tail's touching the water, though. That lets it down, you know
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Found a commemorative UN plate from 1968. Oh, so it's probably in a charity shop, thrift store or something
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Look at that. It's got United Nations souvenir shop November 1968 right on the back
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I wish I found that. That's incredible. What a lovely piece of history. There'll definitely be a bunch of flags on here
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They're outdated. Can I spot any? Maybe that one? Is that Hong Kong? I'm not sure. That looks maybe like Portugal, but it should be off center
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Hmm. US flag evolution. Yeah, this is always interesting. So start in 1775 with just 13 states and they had a sort of union flag kind of
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Then they scrapped that quite quickly, moved on to the stars, and then they've basically just added the stars almost one at a time since
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I can't believe they updated the flag each time. Like, they had to do it multiple times a year for a period of time
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Look at 36 states. They're having to have these weird gaps, and then 37 states, the gaps go the other way around
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They should have just held out and updated it on a big, nice, even 50, really. New political party in Tamil Nadu, India
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Well, I don't know anything about their politics, but I like their two elements on the flag
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So no, I probably shouldn't say they get my vote in case they're awful people
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Red and yellow flags. All right, a lot of flags in the world are made up of red and yellow slash gold
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Whoa, I've enhanced and enhanced way too much. National flags include Kyrgyzstan, North Macedonia, China and Vietnam
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But then there's a bunch of cities and states with a yellow and red theme. And you know what? It's very nice. I like it
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A few in Spain, Aragon, Catalonia, which makes sense with their national flag
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But then there's a few in Italy as well. Rome, Naples and Sicily. Oh, look at Wallonia with the cockerel
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That looks amazing. Finally figured out a way to store my flag collection without having to fold them up in boxes
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Ah, this is magnificent. Yeah, you don't want to unfold because then when you unfold them, they've got all the creases on them
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Ah! Whereas this looks fantastic. I mean, it's not hugely space efficient, but it's a cool collection nonetheless
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I can see the California flag. We've got a Jolly Roger flag. Any others I can recognize
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Woo. Portugal sneaked in, to be fair. Yeah, there's some cool flags. I want to collect flags
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The new flag in the main flag referendum appears to be heading for defeat, With 84% of the votes already counted, it received only 44% of the vote
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So Maine, the US state, must have had a local vote to see if they want to change their flag
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This is the current flag of Maine. Very classic early United States style. I like the colors on this one
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I feel maybe they did go a little too simplistic. Where's the moose
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Bring back the moose. That's clearly the best bit. If they kept the moose, it would have been an easy dub
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Ooh, interestingly, somebody that got to vote on the ballot said it was incredibly confusing
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and they didn't even include a picture of the flags they were voting for
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It's a conspiracy. The people in charge did not want to update the flag. Spotted on an NFL player's helmet
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What is it? I think that's Sierra Leone, right? Yes, it is
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Soviet Union occupied Egypt concept. Okay, so this is completely fictional. But if Soviet Union did occupy Egypt, this is a design for the flag
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And I like it. It's cool with the pyramid, the 3Dness. Yeah, that works quite nicely
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What are these flags in a video my toddler became addicted to while sick
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I love whoever posted this, sat watching this show over and over again, desperately trying to find something for their mind to think about
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Okay, I actually do recognize the flags, but I don't know. This one looks a bit like the Kiribati flag, but it isn't
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Ukrainian flag with their emblem and the naval ensign of China. That's an interesting combination
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So this flag and a bar, I need help to identify it. So it looks to me a lot like the Albanian flag, but like a modernized style
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But it does look more like a ghost than a bird. So I reckon it probably is just coincidence. Spooky Albania is the top comment
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Okay, everyone's just making puns about Albania I think it's probably just something that the owner thought looked cool. Whoa naval unsight of japan rising sun flag
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Backdropped by sunset. So if you don't know the circle on the japanese flag represents the sun
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But in this image the sun is actually lined up perfectly with the sun on the flag. Oh, it's beautiful
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You know, i'm surprised we haven't seen more photographs like this national flags, but with cute couples on them
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Oh my goodness. This is incredible. Okay. So this is brazils and there's a little cute brazilian couple having a great time dancing about with some drums
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Next up is the japanese flag that looks so cute as well canadian flag. Oh, they're all chilly
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We've got some possible inuits doing a bit of fishing. That is incredible. Saudi arabian flag
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I've got a couple and they're holding a cool hawk. Okay, chinese flag. These are so cute
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The usa flag. Okay. Keep them coming. UK flag. I don't actually recognize this one
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I guess it's Scottish. We've got English and Scottish depictions there. I assume we've got oh, that's Hawaii
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Yeah, Hawaiian couple with very knobbly knees next up Greek and they're having a dance about and we've got Irish very nice
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We've got French look at a thimble hat. That looks incredible Kenyan. Okay, fair enough Netherlands with the tulips
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Okay Russian big Russian hat cool Indian more dancing going down traditional outfits German fair play that everyone loving a dance Israel no dancing going on fair enough Spain bringing it back
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Mexico, I did think that was a traffic cone, but I assume it's a type of sombrero. And finally
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Sweden. They were so cute. I genuinely oppose everything this flag represents, but the design
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is fire. Okay, so I assume these flags represent controversial things, but if you're just talking
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about the design, they look cool. I don't recognize any of these flags. I'm sure some of them are
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deeply offensive organizations, but you know what? They are some pretty cool designs. All right
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I recognize North Korea. Yeah, that is a good flag. It's just so, like, industrial but smart at the
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same time. Here, we've got the proposed and old main flag side by side. Let's see what other people
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thought. I'm telling you, they're missing the moose. So apparently, most people voted no because they didn't care what the flag looked like, so no was just, like, a default answer. Why is nobody
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talking about the moose? All right, I'm controlling F and writing the moose. The beige one is really
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missing the moose. Thank you. I definitely would have pushed more for the moose. Uganda space flag
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So another fictional flag, but if Uganda had its own space agency, this is what the flag could
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possibly look like. And that is epic. It's kind of Saturn ring type thing. Do we have any other
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little pictures? Yeah, there's the actual Uganda flag so you can see the color scheme inspiration
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I don't know why the bird's gone though. You keep the bird on there. Similarly, we have the United
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Arab Emirates space flag. So they've got a shooting star next to a planet type thing going on. I like
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it. Really cool depiction. What is the meaning of the color altered US flag? Oh, I don't know. So
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this is like inverted colors. My assumption is that it's just trying to be cool and there isn't
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really much of a meaning behind it. Oh, I'm wrong. It's the US flag in the colors of the Pan-African
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flag. Okay. Afro-American flag. Fair enough. An attempt to make symmetrical Union Jack flag. All
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right. So this is what the actual one looks like. I've talked about this before, but for so long
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even though I'm from the UK, I didn't realize that the flag wasn't symmetrical. I didn't realize that
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these lines weren't centered and it makes it really difficult not only to draw accurately but
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also to work out which way up you're meant to have it so i'm fine with this alteration i'm happy with
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that that's how i always drew it for most of my life if you are interested this is why the flag
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isn't actually lined up do you guys like the new flag for the lego room don't tread on me so i know
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this is a parody of a flag that's got a snake on it i can't remember which flag that is okay there
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we go it's a historical american flag don't tread on me it's kind of a badass little catchphrase
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though i'm not gonna lie massive protest in wellington new zealand today vexillogical wet dream
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oh that is a lot of cool looking flag what is that that's an epic looking flag it's all wiggly
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wiggly oh they've got a big bob marley flag popping out there is some cool looking flags
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oh it's literally the maori flag that's a really cool looking flag it looks blue in the images they
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all look so epic waggling together random countries in the style of the marshall islands flag okay so
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this is the marshlands flag for your reference so this is germany i assume to begin with then we've
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got, oh, can I work that out? I can't remember. Let's see if I can get the next one. Oh, this is
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so hard. Is this Ireland? I assume so, but I could be wrong. Then we've got Slovakia, sure. Serbia
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right. Then Sweden. Next up, I guess maybe Estonia, Albania. That's an easy one. That's going to be
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India. That's Brazil. That, Libya, I think. Next up, Moldova. This one is Kip Verde, maybe. These
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are getting really difficult. Oh, I don't know. Can we get to the end? That's Ecuador. I genuinely
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can't work that one out. This one's going to be Brunei. Then we have Liechtenstein to end off. I
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assume the answers are in the comments. The answers are not in the comments. Flag of Slovakia in
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Eurovision 1994. There it is. Whoever made this graphic really just did their own thing. Selection
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of strange Russian flags. So specific small regions of Russia have some really interesting flags. Like
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look at this cool cat thing. Okay, fair enough. I've seen this bear one before. It's still epic
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though. Whoa. Okay. Right. What is going on here? This does not look like a flag at all. Look at the
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crown thing on a cloud. These are crazy. All right, little squirrel fella. We've got a wild
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cat with a dead squirrel in its mouth. What's that? Oh yeah. We've seen this one before. That's cool
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And ended on the cow with the big tongue to finish. Also, then we're wild. Turkey space flag
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These have all been created by the same user, the flagstronaut. He loves a Saturn ring reference
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And you know what? He smashed it again. That looks really cool as a flag. 23rd of November
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2017, the English city of Southampton inaugurates a new flag designed by an eight-year-old student
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Okay, fair enough. This kind of looks like the Labour Party logo. No, it doesn't
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That's what the logo looked like in my head, but it's not actually that similar at all. Okay, history of the Philippine flag. Okay, here we go. Okay, we've really gone far back. So it's
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unknown if there was a flag for Astronesia, which was 2200 BC, but then the Kingdom of Tondo had a
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flag. Then Spanish colonization came in. Oh, how sad is this, by the way? Then the British tried to
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take over, also sad, cross of Burundi, then they've got the full Spanish flag, 1879, Tagalog people
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that's a kind of cool flag, you know, this version's got an unfortunate abbreviation, okay, by 1893
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starting to recognize the normal flag, then the USA colonized, brilliant, and that tweaked, but then
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in 1919, we have kind of way closer to the normal Philippine flag, navy blue, then the Japanese took
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over, but then 1945, it was kind of back to the original, all the way up to the current flag, which
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has been since 1998. Today I learned the flag of Niagara-on-the-lake. Ontario still uses the pre-1801
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British Empire flag. Okay, fair enough. So where's Ontario? It's Canada, isn't it? Yeah, it's a Canadian
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province. But this specific area in Ontario still uses this flag, and it's not like it's the modern
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day British flag. It's the one from 1801. A very cool and uncommon flag, the flag of the first Iraqi
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Republic. It's a nice flag, but look at all the creases. You've got to get yourself a flag rack
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mate. Flag of major countries in 1947 from a Chinese atlas with some strange looking flags
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Okay. It's interesting seeing the map projection too, because it's not very common to see these
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gaps in the West. Well, look how cool they've made China look. Which version of the Mississippi
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flag do you prefer? I'm always happy to give an opinion on this. This one. The People's Republic
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of Bikini Bottom. I like it. Got the little spatula and the anchor. Fantastic. Do flags look
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better with less saturated slash warmer earthier colors. I mean, I always go crazy for some
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saturation. You should see the amount of times I've whacked up the saturation of a flag in a
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geography thumbnail. Maybe the Albania flag and the Algeria flag possibly look better, but the
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Central African Republic flag, for example, that looks a million times better with more saturation
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In 1985, Westchester County in New York changed its flag. So they went from this to... Oh
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I don't like that at all. They just added the words Westchester County, New York to their flag
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You don't add what you are on your flag. Nah. Your flag's meant to be just a visual thing, not a reading thing
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Ah, I hate it. And it probably looks like it's been added on with Microsoft PowerPoint as well
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That's the worst. It's not too late to go back, Westchester. Do you know what
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Westchester's ruined my day there. I think I'm ending off the video. Thank you very much for watching. If you're from Westchester County, New York, please make a petition or something
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And also subscribe to Jack's Looks at Geography so that I can try. Please get to 2 million subscribers
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