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Flags I find confusing
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Nothing in the US flag code specifies what shade of red and blue to use. These are all compliant with the flag code
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Okay, so you could legitimately display this version of the US flag somewhere and no one would be allowed to tell you off
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Laser Kiwi flag. The laser Kiwi flag, originally titled Fire the Laser, was designed in 2015 as a proposed flag of New Zealand
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Oh, that would have been incredible if they'd actually used it. Look at his lasers. The description of the flag was that the laser beam projects a powerful image of New Zealand
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I believe my design is so powerful it does not need to be discussed. I gave some red, white, and blue flags Luxembourg colours
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Oh, now I'm a big fan of the Luxembourg blue. UK, I think you definitely get away with a lighter blue
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United States looks good with blue. I like the Russian one. I think the Russian one's genuinely better
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New Zealand and Norway both work with the lighter shade of blue. Let's do it
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Estonian flag ice cream that celebrates Estonia's 105th birthday. I want Estonian flag ice cream
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Who smudged it though? Hands up. Whose fault was that? If you knew you were going to get a picture of the Estonian flag ice cream
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What are you smudging it for? The flag of Portugal in the style of Spain, and the flag of Spain in the style of Portugal
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Do you know what? Both work really well, in particular the Spanish one. They both just look like legit national flags
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Unpopular opinion. Modern vexillology is becoming too graphic design-y. These are finalists for Utah's redesign
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They all look like logos, not flags. Oh, I'm a vexillologist. I get to keep flags
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Let's have a look at them. Let's see. Do we think they're too graphic design-y? Uh, I mean, I don't think that looks particularly good
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but too graphic design-y? Nah, that's nice. I like that one. And that one looks epic
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Oh, look, that's the one they actually used. Utah's new flag. That looks epic. That's too graphic design-y
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Maybe that one doesn't look very flaggy, but it didn't get used, so chill out. Somebody posted about the proper technique
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of folding the US flag. Here is the proper way of folding and carrying the Indian flag
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I never knew about it. I'd have shoved it in a bag. So place it horizontally. Okay, fold the saffron and green bands
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under the middle white bit, all right? Fold the white band in such a way that only the Ashoka Chakra
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I'm sure I nailed that is seen with parts of saffron and green bands then carry the folded flag on palms or arms to store it
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I guess if it's like you need to move a flag It's the most official and respectful way of doing so
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I'm guessing it's a practice that like people in government buildings have to follow meeting between Estonian and Finnish prime ministers
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Oh, you know I love it when heads of states meet each other and have big flags behind them and these ladies have done a fantastic job because they've got
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Matching outfits as well. So everything just looks fantastic in this photo
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Oh there's Utah's new flag again, look at it wafted about, yeah that's lovely
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Let learn the meaning behind it because I don recognise what this image represents Alright so it a gold beehive because in the u utah is known as the beehive state but why is utah the beehive state it because the beehive symbolizes the utah community as each person in utah works together to support
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and help one another to create a successful industry okay okay fair enough cool putin and
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cheese flags are perhaps a touch too big real photo from today ah see they've gone too far
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gotta be more like the ladies it's like you're compensating for something guys and he's quite a
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short fella anyway pewter innit why the flag's so big come on here we go that's more like it cuban
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louse flag look crazy good together yes look at that the matching colors but the different designs
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they're not too big not too flashy it's not like they're trying too hard it's just perfect it's
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beautiful the village of udor nervine in the netherlands just revealed their new flag i'll
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be honest looks more like a banner that you'd see outside of a garden center but that's fine
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generally, I would say I'm against having just the name of a place in the flag of the same name
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Although, are there any national flags that have their own name in the flag? Does Brazil? No
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it doesn't, to be fair. What about San Marino? No, once again, it says Libertas. Let me know if
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there's any flags I'm not thinking of. Staying in a port city in Tokyo, Japan, and a few ships
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bear this flag. It's too centred to be Norway. So what is it? All right, how are we? I have no idea
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Let's have a look. Ah, it's literally just a Japanese shipping company's logo. Five reasons
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why Greenland and Antarctica's flags are the best combo on the planet. They look ducking rad together
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Okay, I mean, they do look cool, to be fair. I don't know if I'd say ducking rad, but, you know
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whatever. The positions of the white stripes are the same as the position of the polar ice caps
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Oh, yeah, I didn't actually realize that. So, yeah, you got the ice in the north, you got the
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ice in the south. That makes sense. Fair enough. Antarctica is wider with a wider flag, and Greenland
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is smaller and has a narrower flag, just like the actual landmass. Okay, cool. The position of the
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shapes is the same as their positions relative to the zero degrees longitude. Okay, Antarctica goes
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right down the middle, so, you know, lines up with the South Pole and stuff, but then Greenland's
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off-center to the left, just like it's off-center to the left on the Mercator projection. Fantastic
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I didn't realize that was the reason. The shapes on the white stripes represent sun and shadow
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Whenever there is light in the Arctic, there is night in Antarctica. Sun, shadow, the shadows on
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the bottom and the top and ah best flags good ducking rad some proposals for the flags of south
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africa from the 1910s to 1920s which is your favorite so yeah obviously still have links with
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uk at this point in time i mean that's kind of a cool looking flag but it's not very space
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efficient is it this one looks a lot like togo but with a big ugly saint george flag there yeah do you know what these are all terrible thank god they didn use them national flags of World States Ah I like this So this is Mercury flag then Venus and now we got Oh
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the Moon has their own flag! That's fantastic. Turan Alliance. I don't know what Turan actually
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represents. Please let me know in the comments. Martian Commonwealth. Ah, that's cool, because
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they got their two little Mars moons in there. That's nice. Confederated Worlds of Saturn with
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all of their rings. I feel like the Saturn flag probably could look cool than that, to be fair
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Holy Union of Uranus. Now, that's more like it. And the independent states of Pluto and Charon
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Oh, look at the little moons. I just love seeing the little moons next to it. Oh my God
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Terrible flag of Thatcher, Arizona. Thatcher, Arizona. What are you doing? Look at the gradients
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It's like it was made in like Microsoft Word in 2005. Oh, guys, if you're watching, can we get that changed
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Please, thank you. Ah, throwback to earlier. The US flag has a proper way of folding it
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I like this idea, but I also want to know if any other countries do this. So this is pretty different to the Indian one
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You just kind of fold it into a pretty little triangle thing. That's nice
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If beer brands were flags. Oh, okay. So we've got Heineken. We've got Corona Light
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And Heuser Busch, which I've not heard of. And finally, we've got Guinness
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Do you know what? There's some pretty legit looking flags. I like them. What the F is this in Texas
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I reckon it doesn't really mean anything. I think it's just a really badly put together Texas flag
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Oh no, I'm wrong. It is the flag of Paris, which is a place in Texas that obviously shares a name with another Paris
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So I suppose they took inspiration from the actual French flag. But what's actually epic is that Paris, Texas has its own Eiffel Tower, and there's a cowboy hat on it
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That is the stupidest and best thing I've ever seen. Whoa, now that is badass
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The excellent flag of the Royal Thai Police. The emblem is a little small for the size of the flag, that's all I would say
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But I think the actual details of it are epic. Rate my Benelux
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Okay, so I've not heard the term binne luxe before but I assume it means like Luxembourg with France and Belgium
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Like combined into a little area because they border each other So you've combined the three flags which looks really nice. You've done it in a tasteful manner. Wait, it's not France
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It's the Netherlands really sorry guys. I got mixed up that makes more sense because yeah, it would be the wrong way around
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Yeah, okay, okay, okay Sri Lanka is one of the only countries that does not have the color red blue and white
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Jamaica is not alone. So Jamaica is actually kind of famous in vexillology for being the only flag
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that doesn't have red, white, or blue in it. But Sri Lanka has been sat and forgotten about the
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whole time. I suppose maybe it's because the maroon could be seen as red. Yeah, everyone
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classes it as a shade of red Yeah it pretty red on reflection Let be honest Flag of Gelida in Catalonia Spain I only know of this place because my aunt lives there And what else is nice is the flag I like it Nordic flags but with court of arms
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All right, we've got Sweden's. We've got Norway's. Looks kind of cool with the curtains
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I like it. And Denmark. Oh, look at Denmark. That requires an enhance
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There's a couple of naked men with some leaves. Anyway, sorry about that. Then we've got Finland's
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And finally, we've got Iceland's. And Iceland's is kind of cool as well
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Flag of MILF? Okay. Which is, of course, the Moro-Islamic Liberation Front. Thank you
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Ah, that's the stuff. Japanese PM visits Poland. We need more country officials just meeting up with each other and putting their matching flags behind them
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Ah, I love it. I can't get enough. Need to identify this local flag. This person has a pretty cool rotation of flags that I've never seen
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Well, I think you'll find that's the Caribbean country Antigua and Barbuda
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Guys, imagine not recognizing that flag. But flag positions for a united Korea. I'm not sure how likely that's gonna ever be
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But we'll do an enhance enhance right there's a lot to go through Normally, I know I kick off at gradients on flags, but this one looks kind of cool
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But then this fella and this fella they went way too far with it. This is cool. I like this one
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That's nice kind of represents both north and south. I don't know what this is like who put that in there
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You can't just write Korea Korea Korea. Nah, nah, these are more like pieces of art than flags
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Let's be honest. Italy's prime minister an official visit to iraq welcomed with
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Ireland's tricolor. Oh, no, they put the wrong flag behind them and they've got big tassels and
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everything. Oh, dear. Does anyone know what flag this is for? It looks like it has chess pieces in
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the top left. Right. That is not a flag I recognize. It's Brittany. Okay. Which is a place in France
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I reckon. Yeah, it's the most northwestern point in France. How to fold the Canadian flag. Do you
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know what? The more I look at these, I'm like, you just fold it, man. Stop faffing about. I got it
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with the Indian one where like you just put it so that the nice middle circle bit is on short
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because you may as well. But what's the point in this if you're just gonna fold it so it's so small
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you can't see what's going on anywhere? I don't get it. President of Italy visiting Kenya. Carpet
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with Kenyan flag pattern. Oh it's cute. Yeah I like it. I like it. I like it. Oh my god. Just
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notice the bottom of my slides have flags all over them. Oh the dream. That is the dream. What's on the
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bottom of my google slides. It's just some stupid triangles and a bit of dust. This is the worst
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Get off me. Thank you very much for watching this month's Flags I Find video. Hopefully you
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