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iemanja

(54,754 posts) Tue Dec 19, 2023, 11:18 AM Dec 2023

Our new flag

Thoughts? I'm not thrilled with it myself. I thought there were so many other pretty ones in contention. It does look more traditionally flag-like than many of them though.

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Our new flag (Original Post) iemanja Dec 2023 OP

The finalists were consistently generic. TwilightZone Dec 2023 #1

It is...acceptable. Nothing more. Mawspam2 Dec 2023 #2

Very much a design by committee iemanja Dec 2023 #4

Meh geardaddy Dec 2023 #3

TwilightZone

(28,833 posts)

1. The finalists were consistently generic.

Reply to iemanja (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2023, 01:24 PM

Dec 2023

This and the one that looked like a river were probably the best, relatively speaking.

Mawspam2

(848 posts)

2. It is...acceptable. Nothing more.

Reply to iemanja (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2023, 05:44 PM

Dec 2023

A State flag should reflect its past, respect the present, and inspire the future.

This flag does none of that. It is a 'design by committee' response to a problem flag. It is every General Motors vehicle since the mid-60s after Harley Earl and Zora Arkus-Duntov retired.

iemanja

(54,754 posts)

4. Very much a design by committee

Reply to Mawspam2 (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 19, 2023, 08:43 PM

Dec 2023

That was one of my first thoughts too.

geardaddy

(25,341 posts)

3. Meh

Reply to iemanja (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2023, 05:57 PM

Dec 2023

It's ok, I guess. I would have liked to see the new state seal on the flag (the one with the loon).

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