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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 junon »

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…

Thing is though, there are a lot of misshapen flags. This one is just one of the weirder ones :D

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

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Post by Asraelite »

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

That's far from the worst of it when it comes to national flags. Compare Indonesia and Monaco or Romania and Chad.

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

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Post by samatman »

sschueller wrote: post #49
rembicilious wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You said the information was incorrect, but it isn't incorrect, and you've been moving the goalposts ever since.

Every rectangular flag has a specific aspect ratio and it's incorrect to make it wider or narrower than that. The Swiss flag isn't special just because that ratio is 1:1.

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

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Post by samatman »

labster wrote: post #39
evanb wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some other instantly recognizable flags include Alaska (Big Dipper, though it’s hard to see from far away), New Mexico (sun symbol), Arizona (sunrise), South Carolina (palm tree), Tennessee (weird circle with stars), DC (white with 2 red bars + 3 red stars, Washington’s coat of arms), Maryland (nightmare that it is), and Puerto Rico (blue triangle with a star, 5 red/white stripes).

You named all the best US state flags; it goes downhill pretty fast from there. Hawaii is okay (but what country are we in again?), and Maryland is an acquired taste. Anything with text is a bad idea, as it’s supposed to be seen from a long distance. California’s flag is recognizable without the text, which can’t be said of the other fifteen with text plus circles on a field azure. Dishonorable mention to the corpora…

> Hawaii is okay (but what country are we in again?)

Hawaii, and if you're of a mood to disagree I suggest doing it quietly, and maybe just around the other haole.

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

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Post by yccs27 »

sschueller wrote: post #38
JeanMeche wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A square is in fact a rectangle.

Technically true but from the way I understand the article they are implying Oblongular.

Then the mistake is not in their statement, but in your interpretation.

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

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Post by alvarado »

zinekeller wrote: post #35

The article is even wrong, while there is indeed a currently-flying intentionally-shredded flag, that's for Zamora the city and not Zamora the province (which was named for its capital, Zamora). I don't believe the province itself has its own flag, although Zamora-Chinchipe in Ecquador does have one!

As local I confirm that this flag is used in every single official building in the province of Zamora, but it was never made official. The city of Zamora did. Some details (in Spanish): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%B1a_Bermeja

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

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Post by detaro »

sschueller wrote: post #49
rembicilious wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"So many sites" also gets most (or all) of the other flags wrong, because they pretty much always just fit the pattern on one size of rectangle. Which isn't any more correct.

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

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Post by zinekeller »

alvarado wrote: post #56
zinekeller wrote: post #35

The article is even wrong, while there is indeed a currently-flying intentionally-shredded flag, that's for Zamora the city and not Zamora the province (which was named for its capital, Zamora). I don't believe the province itself has its own flag, although Zamora-Chinchipe in Ecquador does have one!

As local I confirm that this flag is used in every single official building in the province of Zamora, but it was never made official. The city of Zamora did. Some details (in Spanish): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%B1a_Bermeja

That's even more confusing!

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

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Post by aasasd »

Asraelite wrote: post #52
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 That's far from the worst of it when it comes to national flags. Compare Indonesia and Monaco or Romania and Chad.

Ah, yes, Romania and Chad aka total lottery in Anki in this regard.

As for Indonesia, I learned to distinguish the shade. Still would prefer not to have to do that, of course.

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

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Post by geoduck14 »

sschueller wrote: post #49
rembicilious wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>A square is a rectangle but ask the general public

I went to a church that called a "rectangle" a "square". It drove me nuts.

For context, after the first round of singing, someone would announce "kids go to children lessons, light up by the door with the green square (it was a rectangle)". They did this every service.

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