[News report] ...After the founding ceremony for the new state (not yet recognised by the UN) and the unveiling of its new camo-pattern flag, the Minister for Vexillographic Affairs said "Well, I think we can all agree that this puts the 'flag' into camouflage!"...-- hippo, Sep 15 2023 https://www.rbth.co...with-ak-47-on-flags [hippo, Sep 17 2023] More broadly - flags with weapons of any sort https://commons.wik..._flags_with_weaponsUSA is not unique in bloody history and obsession with armament [a1, Sep 17 2023] Flag of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon https://en.m.wikipe...re_and_Miquelon.svgThe flag of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon features a ship with pennants and a flag on the stern [hippo, Sep 27 2023] Flag flag scribble of idea... https://www.tumblr....o-flag?source=shareidea I had several years ago as mentioned in annotations - I have the actual flag somewhere but have moved studio a few times so it could be anywhere.... [xenzag, Sep 27 2023] [+/-]-- Voice, Sep 15 2023 Next up: transparent flag-- pocmloc, Sep 15 2023 Will somebody tell me what the numbers in front of the searched list entries mean? They start high and decrease as you go down the page. I just don’t have the muscles for this. I need a patch on my software.-- minoradjustments, Sep 16 2023 I was going to guess it was the number of instances of the search term on the page. But I searched for "frog" and the first result said "29" but there are 42 occurrences of the word "frog" on the linked page so that's not it.-- pocmloc, Sep 16 2023 I once exhibited a flag flag. It was a flag depicting flag.-- xenzag, Sep 17 2023 There are several countries with an AK-47 depicted on their national flag (see link) but, as far as I know, no country with a flag on its flag*.[* I’m not counting all those countries whose flag designs contain a small version of the UK’s Union Flag]-- hippo, Sep 17 2023 So hippo, you are stating that there are no countries which have a flag on their flag, except those which have a flag on their flag.
I think we could all agree with the truth of that statement, apart of course for those of us who disagree.-- pocmloc, Sep 17 2023 I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on that.-- a1, Sep 17 2023 There exist statements with which I agree.-- Voice, Sep 17 2023 //puts the 'flag' into camouflage!//
It also puts the "vex" into vexillology.-- pertinax, Sep 17 2023 I think the good [hippo] is differentiating between having the *pattern* of another flag (such as the aforementioned Union Flag), & having a *pictorial image* of a flag (waving in the breeze on a flagpole, that sort of thing). Of course, putting a flag on a flag could end up going down a recursion rabbit-hole of flag-on-flag-on-flag-on...-- neutrinos_shadow, Sep 26 2023 Indeed [neutrino] - the closest I've been able to find to this is in the link I've just added-- hippo, Sep 27 2023 Still think an empty pole would be good.-- RayfordSteele, Sep 27 2023 random, halfbakery