New Aussie Flag

Merlin wrote:Why change it?
 
The Union Jack in the top left corner adds a sparkle colour . . .
 
Imagine how bland the flag would look if it were just a dark blue background with a whole array of white blobs liberally sprikled across it.
 
Like confetti blowing across the sky just before sunset.

I can think of a more apt description.

taipan wrote:

Merlin wrote:Why change it?
 
The Union Jack in the top left corner adds a sparkle colour . . .
 
Imagine how bland the flag would look if it were just a dark blue background with a whole array of white blobs liberally sprikled across it.
 
Like confetti blowing across the sky just before sunset.

I can think of a more apt description.

sounds like Taips has successfully found another subject to skype with

Big Dog wrote:

vilkrang wrote:

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:all we need to do is get rid of the ****** british union flag

You wouldn't be the country you are today were it not for our selfless efforts to better your nation over many years.

I think it only fair that the Union Jack stays to remind the world of this fact.

That is the opinion of the majority. Its only the vocal, lefty, revisionist minority who want to change it. The usual idiodic excuse is that Australia is now a multicultural country so we have to have a flag that reflects this. Its crap. I suspect that most immigrants were glad to leave their old culture behind. Why else would they come here. f]]The Union Jack reflects the heritage that has given us a prosperous, wealthy & stable country that is the envy of the free world & the very reason immigrants come here[/b].

Yet most polls in the last thirty years or so have shown a majority in favour of change.  And if choices were offered after a 'yes' vote, 2/3 favour some element of aboriginality in a new a flag though not the flag itself

Why not a coon hanging by a tree, a ghostbusters sign with a dark,slit-eyed pictogram and the holden logo.

If you want to make a couple of simple generalisations, then I could get a new flag and republic tomorrow by disenfranchising every non-citizen and anyone who frequents Cronulla beach.

Billy Braddles wrote:Why not a coon hanging by a tree, a ghostbusters sign with a dark,slit-eyed pictogram and the holden logo.

because not everyone is from Queensland

Nah. There's even less from WA. Actually disenfranchising wozziesw would take care of the ex-pat pom problem and the Cronulla mind-set. Much simpler.

The fact that horrie wants it changed should kill the argument.

Bradman wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

vilkrang wrote:

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:all we need to do is get rid of the ****** british union flag

You wouldn't be the country you are today were it not for our selfless efforts to better your nation over many years.

I think it only fair that the Union Jack stays to remind the world of this fact.

That is the opinion of the majority. Its only the vocal, lefty, revisionist minority who want to change it. The usual idiodic excuse is that Australia is now a multicultural country so we have to have a flag that reflects this. Its crap. I suspect that most immigrants were glad to leave their old culture behind. Why else would they come here. f]]The Union Jack reflects the heritage that has given us a prosperous, wealthy & stable country that is the envy of the free world & the very reason immigrants come here[/b].

Yet most polls in the last thirty years or so have shown a majority in favour of change.  And if choices were offered after a 'yes' vote, 2/3 favour some element of aboriginality in a new a flag though not the flag itself

Why not a coon hanging by a tree, a ghostbusters sign with a dark,slit-eyed pictogram and the holden logo.

If you want to make a couple of simple generalisations, then I could get a new flag and republic tomorrow by disenfranchising every non-citizen and anyone who frequents Cronulla beach.

Evidence?...or do your simple generalisations carry more weight than mine.

Mine weren't generalisations (apart from the deliberate one) so yours I guess. I could certainly see support for change softening since Big post-war mistake number two, and Howard spending most of his time, when he wasn't morally bankrupting the country, stacking the deck.

The stuff about discriminatory voting rights comes from a theme I wasn't aware of until The Australian started pushing it when I first came back to Oz permanently in '98. Just assumed the Australia Act had consigned it to the dustbin of history.

JGK wrote:

PeterCS wrote:Forget the Poms. And the Irish.

Would never get up although it is a terrific flag.  Maybe a concession could be made by sticking a small southern cross in one of the corners.

or change the yellow disc to a silver roulette ball

G.Wood wrote:or bert newton's face in the yellow bit

funny then, and still funny now ... but is it yellow enough?