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A lesson in America - Does Your Flag Fail?

Started by Maximum Ordinate, February 16, 2025, 01:59:37 PM

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Maximum Ordinate

February 16, 2025, 01:59:37 PM
I'm comfortable with all but one grade.  Whatcha think?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l4w6808wJcU
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ChuckA

#1
February 16, 2025, 06:05:22 PM
 ;D  ;D "There's no crying in flag design"

Kudos to my birth state for a C, I would be curious to see where Illinois new proposed designs would score (hint: one has a butterfly). We can only go up.

https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/first-look-new-illinois-state-flag-designs-unveiled/
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#2
February 16, 2025, 08:39:28 PM
What?? New Mexico is "best" at something? Be still my heart, we'll take it  **)
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MattNH

#3
February 17, 2025, 08:16:18 AM
My neighbor, Maine, proposed a new design last year and was rejected by voters ?!? I mean it wouldn't have been S tier, but so much better than state seal on blue

new maine flag.jpeg
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#4
February 17, 2025, 11:33:12 AM
That's actually quite nice, Matt. I wonder if the voters don't know the significance of the pine tree.
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You can have peace, or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein

"A generation which ignores history has no past, and no future." - Lazarus Long

"What we do now echoes in eternity." Marcus Aurelius

DEH

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February 17, 2025, 12:01:23 PM Last Edit: February 17, 2025, 12:14:36 PM by DEH
Interesting. If nothing else as a mental exercise.  I actually agree with with criteria for what makes a good flag.  I just don't agree with the application in this video.  Interestingly enough I think we did something like this in my middle school social studies class.

I find interesting that He rated Utah's flag as an A and was exceedingly complimentary of the beehive symbol, but I had to look up what it meant; however, with the South Carolina flag he rated it a D and mentioned the Angel Oak.  Pretty sure nobody in the world associates SC with the Angel Oak.

Then he ranked Hawaii's flag as a B and it has another country's flag in it.
When I see Maryland's flag, I always think NASCAR but it is rated as "super"  :)

As best I can tell the author of this channel is from the UK. (I watched it with CC. The website is from the UK).  It would make sense that he rated the South Carolina as D.  Because one way to interpret the SC state flag is that when faced with an overwhelming British naval force, South Carolinians loved liberty (what the crescent means) that they chopped down palmetto trees and made a fort to defend against the British fleet.


All that being said:  Most of the flags that are higher up on the grading scale I could recognize the state they were from.  The flags lower on the scale, I actually needed the words on them to identify the state.

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Guns&Hoses

#6
February 19, 2025, 12:21:46 AM
I'll take it. I always thought Arkansas' flag before they added the name was MUCH better.

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#7
February 19, 2025, 07:41:39 AM
"Nudity, murder, and a call to arms"...
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scuzzy

#8
February 19, 2025, 05:30:16 PM
As in all other things Texas is best. :F
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JustKim

#9
March 14, 2025, 10:57:38 AM
That was fun!
It's not about perfection -- it's about progress!!

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