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Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
Australia’s cities have flags, and they are awesome! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-17/australia-city-flags-sydney-redesign/103585696
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Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
Brisbane’s flag celebrates the pretzel, and rightly so, as it is a famous local delicacy.
Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
Wagga (“Wagga”) Wagga spells its initials with stalks of wheat. Thank goodness its name doesn’t start with S or G or some weird-ass curved letter.
Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
Hobart’s flag celebrates the legend of St George defeating the mutant starfish, the O.G. Tasmanian mutant joke.
Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
Sydney’s flag depicts the bringing of the Three Seashells to this land, and also the Three Lions, which became feral and are now considered an introduced pest.
Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
There are flags for the other capitals too, check out the article. I couldn’t seriously make fun of them because they’re so, so bad.
devopscats mastodon (AP)

now channeling memories of the intro to Australia You’re Standing in it flag scenes…

https://youtu.be/1ZaYhbaydUc?si=iRgp-5Kb6OPJjYVH

Glen Turner (VK5TU) mastodon (AP)

@devopscats Adelaide's flag looks a bit silly, but it was an early attempt at agricultural region branding (eg, as done well by Italy's Puglia).

So the design had to be able to be stenciled to a burlap sack.

Strongly suspect the author has never actually busted a gut crowning swans all day long just to make a crust. But sure, go ahead and lecture us about how to do it "properly".
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Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
@mat “The swan extended another eight feet of neck and gave an imitation of steam escaping from a leaky pipe.” — _Jeeves and the Impending Doom_, P.G. Wodehouse (1926)
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/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 mastodon (AP)
you can still find one of those lions roaming around in the blue mountains
Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
@jpm It’s really just someone’s orange tomcat though.
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 mastodon (AP)
they said the same thing about the Mt Dandenong Panther too, but I don’t believe it for one second
Stuart mastodon (AP)
it also has the Minions Pride Flag on the background of the boat, representing the assistance given to James Cook in his voyage and in the colonisation of Sydney.
Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
@stalruth Ooh that’s not pleasant.
Wonderdog mastodon (AP)
Coulda been worse, we coulda spelt the name with crows. Since the locals believed for many years the name meant “place of many crows.”
tjhowse mastodon (AP)

I think the yellow and blue combination looks terrible. Brisbane's flag is a real shemozzle.

Though looking at other cities' flags for the first time... Brisbane's is about on par.

lucie digitální mastodon (AP)
also doctors?
Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)
@luciedigitalni I think the two-snake one is about commerce.
noodle mastodon (AP)

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Deborah Pickett hometown (AP)

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