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Mostly blue skies and rain at the same time.

The goat represents Istria, which has a goat on its flag. I like the goat . Also, Geography Now did a video of this flag literally yesterday. He'll only time he'll be ahead, since he only makes videos about flags on Fridays. Flag of Cuba Part 1 Rule 1: Simple flag. Rule 2: There's a story about...

Basically, state ensigns are used by governments and civil ensigns are used by citizens. At least, that's what I remember. I could be wrong about this. Also, I don't think laws about their use are enforced nowadays. By the way, while ensign technically means any kind of flag, it's mostly only...

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Flag of Costa Rica Civil ensign State ensign Part 1 Rule 1: The civil ensign is simple, but the state flag has a complex coat of arms in a rather small area, which a child could not draw from memory. Rule 2: First, some history. From 1823 to 1838, Costa Rica was part of the Federal Republic...

I apparently suck at tags. The preview button is good. Flag of the Congo (Republic of ) Part 1: Rule 1: Simple. What's simple? This flag. Rule 2: The flag has Pan-African colors. Of course, the colors of Pan-Africans also have meanings specific to the place they represent. In the Republic of...

Holy *bleep* I somehow *bleep*ed the DRC. I wrote it all, but apparently it didn't come out fully. Sorry, I'll fix it. Oh wait, I just *bleep*ed up my spoiler tags. Now it's fixed

From here, I can either post the flags of the Congos (whose official names, which are used to distinguish the countries don't start with C) or I can post the flag of Costa Rica. Wikipedia's list of sovereign states puts the Congos first, so Costa Rica will have to wait. Flag of the Congo...

Flag of Comoros Part 1 Rule 1: I honestly can't memorize this flag, though this is probably because the fact that the country is little known. If Comoros were more well known, I'd probably memorize this flag, since it's not very complex. Rule 2: The green and the crescent represent Islam, the...

Flag of Colombia (state ensign) Civil ensign (Note: all references to “this flag” are references to the state ensign, since that's the most commonly used flag) Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple flag. Rule 2: The yellow represents Colombia's gold, the blue... Oh, fucking again? The goddamn sea and...

During WWII, Japan had occupied some Aleutian Islands, including Kiska. In August 1943, the military forces of United States and Canada launched an operation (called Operation Cottage) to retake the islands. Eventuually, the islands were retaken, but it took 32 deaths and 300 casualties in...

Flag of China (People's Republic of) Part 1 Rule 1: Yes, the child could. Rule 2: The red represents the Communist revolution. The big stars represent the Communist Party and each one of the other four stars represents a social class: the peasants, the working class, the urban petite...

Typo, but I'm keeping it

Flag of Chile Part 1 Rule 1: A chil could draw this flag from memory. That's all I need to say. Rule 2: The white represents the white peaks of the Andes mountains (the Andes are a rather important part of the country's geography. Check out this topographical map. Chile is very mountainous)...

Haven't played Minecraft and don't care for it, but this like pretty cool.

It's cloudy and cool. I like this.

Just coincidence, I think.

(Fun flagless fact: Chad has beaten Libya in war) Flag of Chad Part 1: Rule 1: A child could draw Romania's flag from memory Rule 2: Blue represents hope and sky (You know, I didn't know that meaning for blue was so common) and water (Chad is landlocked, but it does have lakes and rivers...

0 Heh, we're almost writing binary

Re: The Official Birthday Thread- RENOVATING- - 10 - Threek - 14 - Iggy Koopa Jr Happy belated birthday Threek.

Flag of the Central African Republic Part 1 Rule 1: A child could draw this from memory. I think some children couldn't memorize the color arrangment of the flag, but some children could. Rule 2: Red symbolizes the blood of Central African (Central African history is rather bloody). Blue...

Found an intervew with the designer of Cape Verde's flag on /r/vexillology/. A translation from Portuguese by a Reddit user:

Flag of Cape Verde (or Cabo Verde) Part 1 Rule 1: A child could not draw this flag perfectly from memory due to there being too many stars to memorize their number. But if you've read this thread, you'll already know that I think recognizability is... (Also, proving my point about the stars, I...

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Re: Pokémon Sun and Moon (New starters and cover legendaries revealed) Damn all of the starters look good. (Right now I prefer Rowlet, but evolutions could change) The game also looks pretty good. Don't like the legendaries though.

In fact, in 1876, 1888 and (famously) 2000 the candidate which won the popular vote did not win the election, thanks to the Electoral College. (The candidate which won the popular vote in 1824 also didn't win the election, but that was the House of Representative's fault)

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badposter--> Water trumpet. Yeah, I've only been here for a bit more than a month

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Sorry, due to homework and studies I won't write about a country flag today. But I will banepost: Flag of Ulsan, South Korea (South Korea has some English language flags. The worst part is that most of the flags were pretty good before being changed, as what happened in Seoul and Jeju)

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Fun fact: The next country, while commonly in English as Cape Verde, its official name is Cabo Verde (Its name in Portuguese. The Portuguese, in fact, were the first people to inhabit the island country, whose population is a mix of descendants of European and African slaves they brought there)...

Got my Zygarde. (Actually didn't know there was a Zygarde giveaway, luckily I checked Mystery Gift literally the last day of the event) Unfortunately can't get a Darkai, due to not living in the US.

Flag of Canada Part 1 Rule 1: Maple leafs are surprisingly hard to draw (though it maybe cause I'm terrible at drawing in general), though recognizability... Rule 2: This flag, despite only being adopted in 1965 has history behind it: In 1921, red (from St George's Cross, which is in the...

My avatar is a plant. So nothing?

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It's been one month since this topic was created! Flag of Cameroon Part 1 Rule 1: I wonder how many times I've written “a child” or “draw this from memory”. (This flag doesn't break rule 1 btw) Rule 2: This flag is a Pan-African one. Pan-African flags also have symbolism about the country they...

I'm not from the United States and I'm underage, but if I could vote, I'd be like 46% of Clinton supporters (Bernie has unfortunately no chance of winning imo)

Water trumpet, please. Edit: Thanks

Flag of Cambodia Part 1 Rule 1: Angkor Wat is a complex temple. Rule 2: The temple is Angkor Wat, which is the largest religious monument in the world and represents Theravada Buddhism, the country's main religion (around 95% percent of Cambodians are Theravada Buddhists). The blue represents...

I hate this heat

Re: The Official Birthday Thread- RENOVATING- - 4 - Smg2daisy - 6 Stooben Happy birthday Stooben!

I was trying to get an avatar related to Hoenn, but I couldn't find a good image. In my last attempt, I typed water trumpet on the Wikipedia search bar. And that's why I have this avatar right now

That's actually Portuguese (understandable mistake, Portugues is a Romance language and thus descended from Latin) Flag of Burundi The following spoiler is optional, but it gives some context to the flag's symbolism. It's a rather sad read, though. Part 1 Rule 1: I think a child can draw this...

Badposting is like shitposting, but without profanity. I'm pretty sure you can't put swear words in usernames

Flag of Burkina Faso Part 1 Rule 1: It's a simple flag a child could draw from memory. Rule 2: This flag was adopted after the 1983 coup that brought the communist Thomas Sankara into power. The red represents the revolution, the green the abundance of natural riches in Burkina Faso and the...

Fuck it's hot