Which Euro Country Has Ugliest Flag?

airis · Post by **airis** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 1:05 pm

K3lvin wrote:
Olivier wrote:Nice voice indeed!

It sounds hard to pronounce for a poor latin...
If you want to hear how Finnish text is being pronounced you can use http://www.mikropuhe.com/demo.asp Just type/copy the text and press the "kuuntele puhe" -button.

It speaks Finnish very well.

I did copy and paste some French, English, Dutch and Italian text.

The result

TC · Post by TC » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:08 pm

pfff

i like my national flag...

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:11 pm

TC wrote:pfff

i like my national flag...

By the way... where does it come from? Is it tricolore because of France and have the colours been chosen because of Germany?

O.

Antti · Post by **Antti** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 2:44 pm

Wouter1 wrote:What's the history behind the flag of Finland?

The cross was chosen, because it was in the flags of the other northern European countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark). White is for snow and blue is for lakes. Or they are also the colours of the sky, but I think it was snow and lakes.

jaker · Post by **jaker** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:49 pm

airis wrote:It speaks Finnish very well.
I did copy and paste some French, English, Dutch and Italian text. The result

The problem is the weird spelling in those languages

. Paste this text to the application and it's perfect English: helou ool juoroubillträköös, kiip on träking tem juorous.

(Or at least Finglish.)
--jaker

TC · Post by TC » Fri Oct 18, 2002 6:46 pm

Olivier wrote:
TC wrote:pfff

i like my national flag...
By the way... where does it come from? Is it tricolore because of France and have the colours been chosen because of Germany?

O.

if i remember ... black is for "deuil" (in french sorry) because there are alot of people who's died for belgian revolution (like all other revolution); yellow for euh.... and red ... for euh too

... hum i think i had my history lessons forget

( yes, i know... my english lesson too

)

emmem · Post by **emmem** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 8:28 pm

TC wrote:
Olivier wrote:
TC wrote:pfff

i like my national flag...
By the way... where does it come from? Is it tricolore because of France and have the colours been chosen because of Germany?

O.

if i remember ... black is for "deuil" (in french sorry) because there are alot of people who's died for belgian revolution (like all other revolution); yellow for euh.... and red ... for euh too ... hum i think i had my history lessons forget ( yes, i know... my english lesson too )

From my history lessons I remember red stood for blood. But somewhere on the internet I found this:

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be.html wrote: The colours were taken from the flag of Brabant, a province in the Low Countries (the Netherlands + Belgium ), which extended from Walloon province Walloon Brabant, over Flemish Brabant (and Brussels) and Antwerpen in Flanders, and in the Netherlands the province of North-Brabant. The flag of Brabant was a golden (yellow) lion climbing the hoist, on a black surface, and its tongue and nails were red. Its heraldic description is:
Sable, a Lion Rampant Or, Nails and Tongue Gules.
This lion features on the arms of the Belgian kingdom, and several arms of the provinces, like Walloon Brabant (Brabant wallon), Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant), and the Dutch province North-Brabant (Noord-Brabant).

Probably, the vertical ordering of the colours in vertical bands was based on the French flag, since the colours of the Dutch flags were ordered in horizontal bands, and the founding of Belgium was actually a separation from the Netherlands.

Ferrari · Post by **Ferrari** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 9:05 pm

Definitely the German/Belgium flag, because of its colours

pinguino79 · Post by **pinguino79** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:04 pm

@ Ferrari: I like both your username and your avatar

BossaNova · Post by **BossaNova** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 12:14 pm

Olivier wrote:
I wish we could see it for the Olympics of Athens (2004), with a european delegation!

Olivier

that wouldn't be fun.. EU would win like at least half of the medals...

as to this topic, that for some wird reason I only saw today, I must say I like every flag of European Union, I think they're all elegant, and I also like the EU flag.. and the German is one of my favorites, but it looks like it has many opponents.. as to the portuguese flag you have to be carefull because many times it's incomplet, like when there's some soccer match, on tv sometimes they put like an orange point in the midle or nothing at all.. but I must say that our monarchic flag was nicer, white and clear blue, like Finland and Greece..

any way, I voted for Ireland because I don't like the orange very much...

as to my other favorite flags, I like Canada, Norway and Iceland, Latvia, South Africa, Brazil, Israel, Japan, ex-URSS, USA, the new East-Timor flag and many others..

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 12:18 pm

BossaNova wrote: that wouldn't be fun.. EU would win like at least half of the medals...

That would be fun!!!

BossaNova · Post by **BossaNova** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 12:20 pm

here it is the monarchic flag, by the way this is only an estetic taste, I am deeply republican!

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 12:22 pm

BossaNova wrote:here it is the monarchic flag, by the way this is only an estetic taste, I am deeply republican!

Nice colours!
But I like also the globe in the current flag.

BossaNova · Post by **BossaNova** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 12:24 pm

Olivier wrote:
BossaNova wrote: that wouldn't be fun.. EU would win like at least half of the medals...
That would be fun!!!

no it wouldn't, there wouldn't be any competition.. it could be fun for a while, but.. only 5 minutes, then it would be boring...

even UK has 4 different soccer teams.. europeans would never accept that..

look to Spain where lots of people wants a delegation to Catalunya, Basque Country, Galicia..

now days there's few opportunities for small countries show to the world, the Olimpic Games are one of those rare ocasions..

BossaNova · Post by **BossaNova** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 12:30 pm

Olivier wrote:
Nice colours!
But I like also the globe in the current flag.

yes I like it too very much, but today is a dark and raining day, probably that's way I'm prefering the white and Blue...

when we became a Republic ther was a lot of discussions about if we should only change the arms or also the colors.. we changed it all..