Keeping me amused this morning

[chickenfeet]

Pointed out by llygoden, the flags of the world considered on their artistic merits.

Some of the comments are hilarious.

Comments

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

!!! No Scotland! NO WALES!!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have Canadian provinces or US states either. pfft!

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

That's different. We were separate nations until we got grabbed by England.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

When was Wales a separate "nation", in the sense of some reasonably unified political entity having roughly its present boundaries?

Besides, the flag page would be huge if every former country was represented. There's no Aragon, Mecklenburg or Savoy for example. Let alone Bernicia, Gwynedd or Strathclyde.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Since Hywel Dda. And the original meaning of "nation" has nothing to do with being a unified state, more people sharing a language and culture (eg the use of "Iroquois Nation")

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

but nations in that sense don't have flags... and the poor flag person page would get very long if it had to have the Niskah, the Alqonquin, the MicMacs etc. It would end up with over a thousand for New Guinea alone.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Comr to think of it, England isn't there either.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Well go on, give us your appraisal!

[wandra.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for this! It has brightened up an otherwise dull lunchtime at work.

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

This is fab. I particularly like "US external territories all use something the local military commander has created using Microsoft Frontpage."

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

I love flags. I especially love flags with snarkyness!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think she was a bit unkind about the Canadian flag. It's got a simple design and colour scheme and it annoys Albertans. What more could one want?

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure -- I think she got caught in her own 'no graven images' trope

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Great link. I had no idea some of the world's flags were so eye poppingly bad.

Sad that Wales isn't on there, though. I'm quite fond of the red dragon.