Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Ye gods no, it looks like a bad attempt at disruptive camouflage, literally something so ugly and discordant your eyes refuse to recognise it as a coherent shape.
Ye gods no, it looks like a bad attempt at disruptive camouflage, literally something so ugly and discordant your eyes refuse to recognise it as a coherent shape.
It doesn't have to be a coherent shape. The pattern may be disruptive and striking, but that's literally the point.
It follows the conventions of good flag design and yet it looks like no other flag on earth. That is a good flag.
Why is this guys face so familiar yet I can't remember any of the other videos on his channel
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
edited March 2020
During the colonial period, only the gold and black Calvert arms were associated with Maryland. The state stopped using the colors following independence, but they were reintroduced in 1854.[3] The red and white colored arms of the Crossland family, which belonged to the family of Calvert's (Lord Baltimore's) paternal grandmother, gained popularity during the American Civil War, during which Maryland remained with the Union despite a large proportion of the citizenry's support for the Confederacy, especially in the central city of Baltimore and the counties of the southern part of the state and the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Those Marylanders who supported the Confederacy, many of whom fought in the Army of Northern Virginia of General Robert E. Lee, adopted the Crossland banner, which was red and white with the bottony (trefoil) cross (seen as "secession colors") and often used a metal bottony cross pinned to their gray uniforms or caps (kepis).[3][4] The black and gold (yellow) colors with the chevron design of the Calvert family were used in the flags and devices and uniform pins of the Union Army regiments in the northern Army of the Potomac. After the war, Marylanders who had fought on either side of the conflict returned to their state in need of reconciliation. The present design, which incorporates both of the coats of arms used by George Calvert, began appearing.[3]
Why is this guys face so familiar yet I can't remember any of the other videos on his channel
Because he does videos for Polygon, like Unraveled.
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
edited March 2020
Yeah, jerks appropriate a lot of bullshit. I guess you could argue it was added as a reconciliation token, but the reason any Marylander used the red and white cross is because of the association with Lord Baltimore.
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PwnanObrienHe's right, life sucks.Registered Userregular
back when they were deciding what to call the state, the other name that was being considered was Columbia
and they looked at Washington DC and said, no, we can't call a state Columbia, that would be confusing
I would have thought it was more related to the province immediately north of it being named British Columbia some 40 years before
america has never once thought about canada
But then we could have had a Vancouver, Columbia right near a Vancouver, British Columbia
The Orange Order in Canada is one of the many things in Canada's history where people in hte US decided to start shit
The Fenian Brotherhood is yet another odd point of history between them
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The black and gold crest also got the Baltimores a bird and butterfly - the Baltimore oriole and the Baltimore checkerspot.
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If you pick any random video on the internet, that involves music and/or offbeat humour (or likely both), there's roughly a 70% chance it's by Neil Cicierega.
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Ye gods no, it looks like a bad attempt at disruptive camouflage, literally something so ugly and discordant your eyes refuse to recognise it as a coherent shape.
It doesn't have to be a coherent shape. The pattern may be disruptive and striking, but that's literally the point.
It follows the conventions of good flag design and yet it looks like no other flag on earth. That is a good flag.
Look okay you're the design expert who has forgotten more than I will ever know about this stuff, but that flag is fucking hideous. Which to my mind makes it not a good flag.
There are plenty of flags that look like no other flag on Earth with a striking design that are also beautiful, like Barbados or The Seychelles.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
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I legit printed and framed the Bojack Horseman version, the superior state flag of all state flags.
Only if you need a backup flag to wave at the finish of an auto race.
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And a related follow up:
so is this state's name
you want to know something real fuckin' stupid?
back when they were deciding what to call the state, the other name that was being considered was Columbia
and they looked at Washington DC and said, no, we can't call a state Columbia, that would be confusing
I would have thought it was more related to the province immediately north of it being named British Columbia some 40 years before
Ye gods no, it looks like a bad attempt at disruptive camouflage, literally something so ugly and discordant your eyes refuse to recognise it as a coherent shape.
america has never once thought about canada
Who?
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Forgot about that, very true.
It doesn't have to be a coherent shape. The pattern may be disruptive and striking, but that's literally the point.
It follows the conventions of good flag design and yet it looks like no other flag on earth. That is a good flag.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
the red and white section on its own would make a way better flag, imo.
The flag is the combining of Northern and Southern civil war banners, the red and white one being the Southern. So I mean...
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
What? No, it's Lord Baltimore's coat of arms. (Well, a combination of his mother's and father's)
Why is this guys face so familiar yet I can't remember any of the other videos on his channel
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Because he does videos for Polygon, like Unraveled.
"MARYLAND! We're all behiiiind you!
Raise HIGH the black and gooold!"
(My dad comes from Maryland.)
But then we could have had a Vancouver, Columbia right near a Vancouver, British Columbia
The Orange Order in Canada is one of the many things in Canada's history where people in hte US decided to start shit
The Fenian Brotherhood is yet another odd point of history between them
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Look okay you're the design expert who has forgotten more than I will ever know about this stuff, but that flag is fucking hideous. Which to my mind makes it not a good flag.
There are plenty of flags that look like no other flag on Earth with a striking design that are also beautiful, like Barbados or The Seychelles.
It makes me think I'm about to hit my head or trip on an unexpected step.