The Flag Thread - national flags, state flags, city flags, etc.

[pj3000]

Best state flags:

Maryland
New Mexico
South Carolina



Worst state flag:

Texas

There's nothing cool, unique, nor easily identifiable about the Texas state flag. I have never gotten what's even remotely interesting about the design... because there is nothing remotely interesting about the design.

Colors of the United States, single star -- the LONE STAR... wowww, greeeaaat.

I'm sure it's the most flown flag within a state. But that doesn't make it a good flag. It's just because Texas just wants to feel unique, independent, exceptional... the lone star... the whole "biggest and best" Texas thing.

They basically just took the French flag and flipped it on its side, then weren't quite as creative as Cuba or Puerto Rico in throwing a star on it, and said voila!... Lone Star! Fuck the Texas flag, it sucks. There, I said it, fuck it.

[MolsonExport]

Montreal flag

fleur de lis (french), shamrock (irish), thistle (scots), rose (english)

[montréaliste]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Montreal flag

The new Montreal flag displays a white pine in the middle to emphasize the First Nations presence.

[pj3000]

City Flag of Rancho Cucamonga

[JManc]

Originally Posted by Double L

Houston's city flag was designed in 1915. It features the city seal in the center of a star. The city seal has a train on it because at the time is was adopted, Houston's nickname was "The city where seventeen railroads meet the sea". It also has a cotton gin below the train because at the time, Houston's economy relied on cotton. Also a star above the train for the lone star state.


https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-tx-hu.html

Houston's is boring and outdated. A locomotive? We should replace it with the moon or something else spacey. And no words.

San Francisco's is just horrible.

[pj3000]

Oil City, Pennsylvania has always been a favorite of mine

[Boisebro]

Pocatello, Idaho, recently updated its flag for some weird reason.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Jesus, I think I made more coherent drawings using KidPix back in the mid 90s...

[badrunner]

The Los Angeles city flag is pretty lame. It's just the city seal on a weird background:



But the seal might be one of the most iconic and recognizable city seals in the world, mostly because it appears on the door of every LAPD squad car. The four panels on the shield represent the four sovereign flags that flew over the city:



Iconic:


source

[harryc]

On a sunny day - with the CP filter - can't beat our local emabssy.



And our flag

[Steely Dan]

I love how the old pocatello flag has both the copyright and trademark logos directly on the flag, LOL!

What the hell was the pocatello chamber of commerce smoking to be under the impression that any entity in the entire freaking universe would ever want to steal that god-awful shit.

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by badrunner

The Los Angeles city flag is pretty lame. It's just the city seal on a weird background:

I never knew what LA’s flag looked like. Bizarre. Seal doesn’t seem to go with the background at all.

Kind of an African vibe to it.

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by Boisebro

Pocatello, Idaho, recently updated its flag for some weird reason.

Reminds me of 1990s mountain bike graphics... or maybe a trail mix label from the same era.

[Innsertnamehere]

I always liked Toronto’s. A bit untraditional but it works. Could maybe do without the maple leaf though.



It’s designed to invoke City Hall:

[Double L]

Originally Posted by pj3000

Best state flags:

Maryland
New Mexico
South Carolina



Worst state flag:

Texas

There's nothing cool, unique, nor easily identifiable about the Texas state flag. I have never gotten what's even remotely interesting about the design... because there is nothing remotely interesting about the design.

Colors of the United States, single star -- the LONE STAR... wowww, greeeaaat.

I'm sure it's the most flown flag within a state. But that doesn't make it a good flag. It's just because Texas just wants to feel unique, independent, exceptional... the lone star... the whole "biggest and best" Texas thing.

They basically just took the French flag and flipped it on its side, then weren't quite as creative as Cuba or Puerto Rico in throwing a star on it, and said voila!... Lone Star! Fuck the Texas flag, it sucks. There, I said it, fuck it.

Are you serious? You are completely missing the point of that flag.

When Texas was its own country, it was known that almost everybody in that country was from the United States. So they designed a flag commemorating the United States and designing a flag that was like the US flag but with one “lone star” to represent that the Republic of Texas was a “lone star state.” They were commemorating the US flag and recognizing the US was where they were from. It also wasn’t the only way they commemorated the US. They did it in their constitution and also named their first capital after their general Sam Houston, just as the US capital was named after their general George Washington.

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by Double L

Are you serious? You are completely missing the point of that flag.

When Texas was its own country, it was known that almost everybody in that country was from the United States. So they designed a flag commemorating the United States and designing a flag that was like the US flag but with one “lone star” to represent that the Republic of Texas was a “lone star state.” They were commemorating the US flag and recognizing the US was where they were from. It also wasn’t the only way they commemorated the US. They did it in their constitution and also named their first capital after their general Sam Houston, just as the US capital was named after their general George Washington.

My whole post was a ridiculous joke. Aside from not being a unique flag, I don’t really feel that way. Seriously though, thanks for the flag history.

[Double L]

Originally Posted by pj3000

My whole post was a ridiculous joke. Aside from not being a unique flag, I don’t really feel that way. Seriously though, thanks for the flag history.

You’re good.

[muppet]

City of London






Lord Mayor of the City of London, showing London's coat of arms

[muppet]

flag of Zhelezhnogorsk, Russia -a bear cracking open an atom (doesn't get better than this)



Kiribati




Libya (1977 -2011)



The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996-97)




Caithness (Scotland)



Kazakhstan



Sicily



Mozambique



Bhutan



Northern Marianas




Northern Caucasian Emirate (1919-22)



Dominica



Tamil Eelam




Argentina



Australian Capital Territory



Albania



Saudi Arabia



Wichita



Athabasca





Rising Sun flag, Japan




China (1890-1912)




Benin Empire



South Carolina





Rochester Minnesota




Brown County, Wisconsin

[harryc]

Originally Posted by muppet

Caithness (Scotland)

Caithen Carmichael - my wife thought it was a cool ethnic name.
Lanark | a close by Harry Carmichael, on Flickr