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The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by brirec »

sschueller wrote: post #33
nojs wrote: post #13

Off topic, but articles like this are a good case study in whether Google should return articles written for the sole purpose of marketing and SEO or not. It’s quite interesting, and probably useful when you’re researching flags. On the other hand, it’s obvious that the Kobadoo wrote it as “content marketing” ie probably paid someone to write it who has no organic motivation other than that and no particular interest…

It also contains incorrect information like this: https://blog.kobadoo.com/2022/02/the-history-behind-worlds-o...

What’s incorrect about this? Nepal’s flag is indeed the only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign nation, shaped like two pennants.

Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by dzqhz »

JeanMeche wrote: post #34
sschueller wrote: post #32

https://blog.kobadoo.com/2022/02/the-history-behind-worlds-o... This is not correct. The Swiss flag is officially square not rectangular. The only exception is when it is display on an airplane fuselage otherwise it is supposed to be square.

A square is in fact a rectangle.

You should have used the word "actually"

Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by sschueller »

brirec wrote: post #41
sschueller wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also contains incorrect information like this: https://blog.kobadoo.com/2022/02/the-history-behind-worlds-o...

What’s incorrect about this? Nepal’s flag is indeed the only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign nation, shaped like two pennants.

The Swiss and the Vatican flag are not rectangular but square. Article implies rectangular being Oblongular.

Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by bee_rider »

aasasd wrote: post #14

I've been using Anki to learn various kinds of geographic stuff, flags among them—and let me tell you, country flags around Europe sure could use some variation. I mean, I get it that flags were designed to be recognized from afar, with large fields of color, but now I have to memorize the order in all those tricolors like I'm doing middle-school rote learning again. Especially Ireland and Ivory Coast—what's up with…

> Especially Ireland and Ivory Coast—what's up with that?

Presumably it is part of their tactical plan (the dreaded two-I's alliance). If you think you've beaten the Irish and they are retreating, bam, turns out Ivory Coast was actually headed your way.

Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by [deleted] »

sschueller wrote: post #43
brirec wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s incorrect about this? Nepal’s flag is indeed the only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign nation, shaped like two pennants.

The Swiss and the Vatican flag are not rectangular but square. Article implies rectangular being Oblongular.

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Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by rembicilious »

sschueller wrote: post #43
brirec wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s incorrect about this? Nepal’s flag is indeed the only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign nation, shaped like two pennants.

The Swiss and the Vatican flag are not rectangular but square. Article implies rectangular being Oblongular.

That’s a stretch. I am certain that a square is a rectangle. A rectangle is a 4-sided polygon with four 90 degree corners. The sides can be of equal lengths.

Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by herodoturtle »

OskarS wrote: post #29

I bet this flag is the bane of the existence of some developer maintaining a flag database or something. Like, having to rejigger the entire schema to fit this thing in, telling war-stories to the new devs coming in: "Kid, you don't even know how weird flags get...". At some point he'll write an article that's like "Falsehoods programmers believe about flags", and this will be the example for like seven of the points…

If the dev used PNG / transparency they could stick to the standard rectangle and add transparent strips ^_^

Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by RedNifre »

sschueller wrote: post #43
brirec wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s incorrect about this? Nepal’s flag is indeed the only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign nation, shaped like two pennants.

The Swiss and the Vatican flag are not rectangular but square. Article implies rectangular being Oblongular.

Are you sure? All OOP tutorials disagree with you.

Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by sschueller »

rembicilious wrote: post #46
sschueller wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Swiss and the Vatican flag are not rectangular but square. Article implies rectangular being Oblongular.

That’s a stretch. I am certain that a square is a rectangle. A rectangle is a 4-sided polygon with four 90 degree corners. The sides can be of equal lengths.

A square is a rectangle but ask the general public. So many websites etc. all get it wrong. They all make the Swiss flag not square.

Re: The only flag of the world that is shredded by design

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Post by yread »

aasasd wrote: post #14

I've been using Anki to learn various kinds of geographic stuff, flags among them—and let me tell you, country flags around Europe sure could use some variation. I mean, I get it that flags were designed to be recognized from afar, with large fields of color, but now I have to memorize the order in all those tricolors like I'm doing middle-school rote learning again. Especially Ireland and Ivory Coast—what's up with…

Or Netherlands and Luxembourg...
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