The Australian Flag...should it be changed?

Truthfully I think the Australian flag looks a hellova lot better then the British flag.
But thats me.....
 
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We all make a song and dance about changing it every year around this time but no one ever does, we just argue about it. No biggie.

It looks too much like the NZ flag and I think we're hoping they'll change theirs first and save us the trouble.
 
[h=2]Should Australia “Get That Jack Off My Flag”?[/h]At first I thought WTF but now thinking it's an interesting idea. Don't like any of the alternative choices offered, though . . . except for Phil's of course.
 
Diwundrin said:
We all make a song and dance about changing it every year around this time but no one ever does, we just argue about it. No biggie.

It looks too much like the NZ flag and I think we're hoping they'll change theirs first and save us the trouble.
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Ditto, but really they are too much the same.We'll talk about it again this Waitangi Day, another controversial subject.

 
SifuPhil said:
If I were to include all of your dangerous creatures you'd up flying a quilt, not a flag! :playful:
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If you do a re-design, here's one to include:

Chopper.jpeg


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-09/chopper-read-dies/5012244
 
FERN: Yep; more NZers would give the Aussies a run for their money.:wink-new:
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Just what we need, more Kiwis.
I know a few from other forums but won't be steering them here, they're a bit forthrightly fiery for decorous company.

You came in late CeeCee, we did a crash course on OZ when we 'invaded' the forum.
Fern is sole flagbearer for NZ ... The Shaky Isles to Aussies, Aotearoa 'Land of the Long White Cloud' among themselves.

Politically we're scarily similar. Historically, locally very different, but on global terms also very similar. OZ and NZ are totally separate, but 'sibling' countries with the friendly rivalry that goes with that. Other than them having funny 'iccents' our populations blend unnoticeably. Much as Canada and the US are set up.

We battle each other verbally always, in jest, but stand together when times demand it. Our 'Veterans' Day' is ANZAC Day. Australian and New Zealand Army Corp. We were, and are, always brothers in arms. We don't separate the Nations in remembering veterans.

Geologically you couldn't find two more opposite Countries. We are big dry and flat as a tack. They are small, wet and pointy all over. We go there when we feel the need to remember what a mountain looks like and they come here to dry out.

NZ is a 'new' volcanic pop up geologically, Australia is the oldest still recognizable landform on the planet.

There endeth lesson one. Ask Phil about the weird stuff, he can tell you about the Drop Bears, he's getting good at working us out.






 
Thanks DB, anyone else kind of missing Chopper yet?? He was 'interesting' if nothing else. And hey, he only offed the other baddies, like Dexter.
He was also very funny in a creepy way. I almost liked the bloke.
 
dbeyat45 said:
If you do a re-design, here's one to include:
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You guys still make heroes out of sociopaths, huh? We've kind of moved on from that ... :playful:

Diwundrin said:
... We are big dry and flat as a tack. They are small, wet and pointy all over.
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Sounds like my third and fourth wives, respectively.

There endeth lesson one. Ask Phil about the weird stuff, he can tell you about the Drop Bears, he's getting good at working us out.
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DROP BEARS!

Ah, yes, the inimitable drop bears! I'm currently writing the third draft of what I believe will become the definitive treatise on drop bears.

The working title is "Death From Above: Strategies and Tactics of Australia's Drop Bears".


Warrigal said:
And the spider ?
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Hmmm ... I see I'm going to have to make one BIG flag in order to fit all this stuff on there. How about I just have a regular-sized flag with a star for each deadly beast?

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It's the colour thing that cheeses me off. What the hell colours are we supposed to be represented by? The flag is red white and blue and the Olympic and international teams are rigged in Green and Yellow (Gold? I don't think soooo.) We look the same as NZ on a flag and the same as Jamaica in the Olympics.
Just to confuse it more, Australia's original colours were blue and yellow. Where the hell did the green come from?
And the original Australian flag had a red field, not a blue one! What's wrong with just going back to that? It's still legitimate to my knowledge, and they were interchangeable when I was a kid and there's still an old red one in a box somewhere that I was sent out to wave at something once.

All the people who wax patriotic about not changing it because "It was the flag the ANZACs fought under." are historically confused. They fought under the red one in WWI not the blue one we have now.

But I'm up for argument about the above because I can't be bothered checking it. Just going on what trivia I've picked up about it. So history buffs go for your lives.
 
SifuPhil said:
Hmmm ... I see I'm going to have to make one BIG flag in order to fit all this stuff on there. How about I just have a regular-sized flag with a star for each deadly beast?

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I quite like that really, reminds me of my first and favourite screen saver. It was hypnotic, Id gaze into it and imagine I was in a spaceship cruising the galaxy.... wonder if it's still around?
 
I like it too. Could the stars be represented by spangles?

Of course that would mean that we had the only true star spangled banner
so you would have to rename your national anthem to Betsy Ross' Flag.
 
Warrigal said:
I like it too. Could the stars be represented by spangles?

Of course that would mean that we had the only true star spangled banner
so you would have to rename your national anthem to Betsy Ross' Flag.
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Why on earth would you want a bunch of big-haired chicks representing your country?

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