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Ultimate Battle of Western Europe

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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hainaut, four dragons > demon dolphin. The other one is just ugly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,561 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    I'm late to the party but may I join in?

    Bavaria for me. It makes me chuckle to think they originally designed it with squares but it got stuck in the printer (true story)

    Plus the other two... look, I love an animal on a flag but if you're going to include one pay someone who can fecking draw to draw them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,561 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
    French Region

    300px-Flag_of_the_region_Auvergne-Rh%C3%B4ne-Alpes.svg.png
    Is that even their flag though?
    They seem very confused...

    522213.png
    Don't vote for such mixed messages!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Bavaria for me. It makes me chuckle to think they originally designed it with squares but it got stuck in the printer (true story)

    Really? Nothing about that on Wiki and if it's not on Wiki it can't be true :P

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bavaria


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,561 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Really? Nothing about that on Wiki and if it's not on Wiki it can't be true :P

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bavaria
    The Bavarian secret police try to suppress the truth to protect the region's reputation, but it's true I tell you!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Ahhh, EN said it on the internetz so it must be true :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    ENOUGH! By which I mean, Bavaria wins! We've only two matches left folks.. stay with us.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Really? Nothing about that on Wiki and if it's not on Wiki it can't be true :P

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bavaria


    I can't BELIEVE you fell for that! :P


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Weirder things have happened.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    :o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    La Rioja
    Spanish Autonomous Community

    300px-Flag_of_La_Rioja_%28with_coat_of_arms%29.svg.png

    VS

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommer
    German State

    300px-Flag_of_Mecklenburg-Western_Pomerania.svg.png

    VS

    Cantabria
    Spanish Autonomous Community

    300px-Flag_of_Cantabria.svg.png


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,340 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    La Rioja - a four stripe flag is a bit different from the norm. Plus I like their wine.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Toss up between the first two because they're both quite pretty, but going with Mecklenburg-Vorpommer. Apparently the yellow stripe represents the millions affected by yellow fever back in the 1700s. True story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,561 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Vote Cantabria - bit of class to it

    La Rioja, the colours are too garish
    Mecklenburg-Vorpommer looks like the background to a game of Frogger


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,266 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Yeah, the better of the two quadricolour flags on offer. I like the green/yellow combo in particular


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    La Rioja, pretty colour combination. Would make an excellent beach towel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,561 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Apparently the yellow stripe represents the millions affected by yellow fever back in the 1700s. True story.
    Nope, I'm not going to Google it :p


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I probably am though.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Let me just double check the La Rioja crest to make sure it's not hiding a lion....

    ....


    .....ok, it's clear. La Rioja for the bold "horizontal tricolour but it's actually four stripes" move.


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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In other news, gullible is the only word in the English language not listed in the Oxford dictionary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    La Rioja


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,340 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Candie wrote: »
    In other news, gullible is the only word in the English language not listed in the Oxford dictionary.

    However it is in the Merriam-Webster dictionary because it's the dictionary most widely used by Americans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,697 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Lá Roija. Cos I like to say it with a flourish, as if someone has insulted my family's honour.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    La Rioja does it in record time! Last match of the round coming up next.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Match 32 is ready to go. Who's taking that last spot in Round 2?
    Rhineland Palentinate
    German State

    350px-Flag_of_Rhineland-Palatinate.svg.png

    VS

    Saarland
    German State

    350px-Flag_of_Saarland.svg.png

    VS

    Marche
    Italian Region

    marche.jpg





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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Marche - because the other two are just variations on a theme


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Saarland, I prefer the symmetry.

    Regione marche looks like a warning label on a packet of poison, the bird on it looks like he's in the throes of terminal diarrhoea.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Lion. :mad:
    Lions. :mad: :mad:
    No lion. :)

    Marche it is then.

    I have absolutely no idea what that's meant to be, the closest I can come up with is 'Xatu throwing black sludge behind its back'. And I'm totally on board with that!!

    Also, black white and green is a nice combination that's very underused on flags.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Not thrilled by any of them, but first two are too German, so I go for Marche. That's a woodpecker in the image which is a totem of the Picentini tribe of Italy. True story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,561 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Rhineland Palentinate, because it looks like they've just pulled back the curtains to surprise Homer with a lion :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,561 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Marche's looks like the logo of a pharmacy where you'd buy cheap sunscreen that's past its use by date, we can't let that tat go through


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Despite EN's protests, Marche marches on!


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,340 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Rhineland Palentinate - I like the German colours and it has fewer lions on it. The Marche flag loses out because I hate flags that tell you where they're from on them. It smacks of chronic insecurity. Plus it's a bird that they realised only made half an M so they added a black squiggle for the rest. Altogether a bit shoddy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Round 2 will kick off tomorrow and a special thanks to all the new players who jumped on board today, hope you can stay around for some more action :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,561 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Despite EN's protests, Marche marches on!
    cxiSvEQ.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    So it's time for Round 2 to kick off. It's all head to head bouts from here on out. Same as before, 5 votes will get a flag through and reasons will be considered in the event of a tie. 30 mins remains as your time limit. Let's see who's first up...

    Liege
    Belgian Province

    400px-Flag_of_the_Province_of_Li%C3%A8ge.svg.png

    VS

    Sicily
    Italian Autonomous Region

    400px-Sicilian_Flag.svg.png


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Liege is a bit too "busy" but Sicily is just freaky, so I'd better stick with Liege.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭LadySkunk


    Hahaha it has to be siege for me. That abomination on it is amazing :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,331 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Liege is a bit too "busy" but Sicily is just freaky, so I'd better stick with Liege.

    exactly my thoughts. liege for me


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭LadySkunk


    I just realised I voted for the hybrid of the two, I meant Sicily but I reckon that was obvious from my description


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Viva La Siege!!! :D


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Sicily. Who doesn’t like a three legged contortionist?


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,340 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    I'm going with the freakiness, Sicily for me. I like how weird it is and the Liege one is a bit of a jumbled mess.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Zaph wrote:
    I'm going with the freakiness, Sicily for me. I like how weird it is and the Liege one is a bit of a jumbled mess.

    Yes to this. Sicily for the win!!


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,266 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Don't like the baggy eyes on the Sicily one. Other than that, it'd win. So I'll vote Liege, which is just the right side of "too busy"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,454 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Hey Sicily

    The Isle of Man just called, they want their flag back.

    Liege for me


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,266 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Hey Sicily

    The Isle of Man just called, they want their flag back.

    Liege for me

    Wiki says -

    First found in Sicily in the 4th century BC
    First found in the Isle of Man in the 13th century AD...


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    ^^ True story!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Fr Tod tied it up at 4-4 .......but, it was two mins after the expiration time.

    Sicily rolls on, probably literally as that's how it would move I imagine.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Sicily - looks kind of saucy


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