What does your countries flag symbolize?

[Az]

Thanks for putting me right on this. I always thought it expressed a wish to be lifted into the heavens and spread between the Nile and Euphrates in a zillion different pieces. You live and learn

not very creative. Try again.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Azazel

Thanks for putting me right on this. I always thought it expressed a wish to be lifted into the heavens and spread between the Nile and Euphrates in a zillion different pieces. You live and learn

not very creative. Try again.

OK, you asked for it.

How about it symbolising leaving the tracks of a tank over Palestinian land, restamping it as Israel?

EDIT: These are meant to be jokes. I apologise to anyone who finds them offensive.

Brits will laught at just about anything. We have to. The alternative is endlessly screaming.

[Eli]

Originally posted by Azazel
the two stripes represent the Euphrates, and the Nile, and the star of David represents greater Israel, that is destined to dominate the middle east.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Azazel
the two stripes represent the Euphrates, and the Nile, and the star of David represents greater Israel, that is destined to dominate the middle east.

Glad to hear those two blue things aren´t the atlantic and pacific oceans, with _much_ greater Israel in between.....

[Ben Kenobi]

The crescent moon, I believe, is a nod to Singapore's Malay indigenes. The rest I can't remember.

Nope. Most countries using the crescent are Muslim countries.

[Az]

BeBro: you must remember that Greater Israel is only a part of Greater Finland.

[BeBMan]

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by obiwan18


Nope. Most countries using the crescent are Muslim countries.

Singapore's Malays are majority-Muslim.

[Ben Kenobi]

Mr. President:

That's what I thought. It's not clear from how you phrased your earlier statement how the flag played tribute to the Malays.

[Mr. President]

Sorry about that.

[South killer]

Nobody really knows what the argentine flag colors were chosen for, but it is said that they represent the colours of the sky, simbolizing freedom.
The true fact is that the colours were first used when the Virreinato Del Rio De La Plata (vicerroyalty of the river plate) called a meeting to elect new authorities (the first argentinian authority, before independence). Two guys named French and Berutti (those where their surnames) started giving light-blued and white strips to argentinians attending the meeting, to diferenciate them from spaniards.
When independence war begun the revolutionary General Belgrano decided to use those colours on the national flag. Since then, the argentinian flag has been light-blued and white.
A lot of years later, the ''Sol De Mayo'' (Sun of May) was added. Nowadays, the flag with the sun is used in war and in all diplomatic events outside of Argentina, while the flag without the sun is used in not-very formal acts inside the country.

[ranskaldan]

Originally posted by Mr. President
I used to live in Singapore, so I'm using their flag.

The crescent moon, I believe, is a nod to Singapore's Malay indigenes. The rest I can't remember.

You used to live in Singapore? Nice! So did I.

When were you there? Where did you live?

Oh, and as for the crescent - the official line is that "Singapore is a new nation on the rise", hence a crescent moon.

[Ben Kenobi]

"Singapore is a new nation on the rise", hence a crescent moon."

Seems a stretch that all of the majority muslim countries are on the rise at the same time.