Why I don't like the flag of the State of Washington.

Sportsdude · Apr 13 06 07:50

I don't like it because to put it bluntly: Its dumb. Yes the state is named after him but come on a blue flag with just his mug on it in my opinion degrades the state.

Scrap the flag completely and do something that incorporates the mountains and trees.

TehBorken · Apr 13 06 07:53

This will be Washington's new flag, seeing as how the whole stinkin' State is beholden to Redmond:

Sportsdude · Apr 13 06 07:59

lol!

But seriously stealing a line from UPS: What has George (Washington) done for you?

Personally B.C. and Quebec have the flags that actually represent there areas well. Quebec is self explainitory but in B.C. there is the Sea to Sky highway which connects you to the sea: Vancouver to the sky the mountains and what do you know look at the flag:

[A href="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Flag_of_British_Columbia.svg"][img height=482 alt="" src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Flag_of_British_Columbia.svg/800px-Flag_of_British_Columbia.svg.png" width=800 border=0][/A]

A flag deep in symbolism.

The Flag of [A title="British Columbia" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"]British Columbia[/A] is a banner of the [A title="Coat of Arms of British Columbia" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_British_Columbia"]provincial arms[/A]. The rendition of the [A title="Flag of the United Kingdom" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom"]Union Flag[/A], [A title="Defacement (flag)" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defacement_%28flag%29"]defaced[/A] in its centre by a crown, represents the province's origins as a British colony. The wavy white and blue lines symbolize the [A title="Pacific Ocean" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean"]Pacific Ocean[/A] and the [A title="Rocky Mountains" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountains"]Rocky Mountains[/A]. The setting sun represents the fact that British Columbia is [A title=Canada href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"]Canada[/A]'s westernmost province.

The British Columbia flag was introduced on [A title="June 14" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_14"]June 14[/A], [A title=1960 href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960"]1960[/A] by Premier [A title="W. A. C. Bennett" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._A._C._Bennett"]W. A. C. Bennett[/A], and was first flown on board the [A title="BC Ferries" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Ferries"]BC Ferries[/A] vessel Queen of Sidney.

Trollio · Apr 20 06 12:56

George Washington is one of the most overrated figures in American history. He was a snobbish and selfish old bastard who frequently separated his slave families to pay off his gambling debts. He was initially a military failure and a crudely unimpressive proto-capitalist. He had a child by a slave woman that actually looks like him, whom he left property to, but which the Mount Vernon association refuses to acknowledge, and whose grave (previously on the grounds of Mount Vernon) was mysteriously moved to prevent any further investigation into the matter.

But one could argue that the head of Washington on that flag (which, if there at all, should be rendered as a modern silhouette and not a portrait) is as symbolic for the history of the state of Washington as is the Union Jack on the BC flag.

The US flag itself is one of the most gaudy monstrosities in vexillological history.

Sportsdude · Apr 20 06 01:03

he also had an open marriage and like to swing or wife swap.

kitten · Apr 20 06 01:13

Was he considered one of the founding fathers of the U.S.? If so, I can see why!

Sportsdude · Apr 20 06 01:19

Ben Franklin was a womanizer who loved orgies and affairs with older women.

Trollio · Apr 20 06 01:20

Some people in the US want you to think that the corruption is a recent development in their history, and that things were much better and more nobler in the beginning.

But then you have people like Benjamin Franklin, another "founding father", who while living the good life in Paris as Ambassador to France, responded to his abandoned sick and dying wife's letter from Pennsylvania telling him that the money was running out back home by telling her to stop whining, stop spending, and make sure to keep the books in order.

Real fine guys, these f*ckers.

Trollio · Apr 20 06 01:22

Sportsdude wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Ben Franklin was a womanizer who loved orgies and affairs with older women.

[/div]Hah! Beat me to it.

Sportsdude · Apr 20 06 01:23

And the u.s. won the war because when the british over took Philidelphia the ladies in the town who were really loose back in the day got all the top british soldiers infected with STD's.

Trollio · Apr 20 06 01:29

[font style="font-family: times new roman;" size="6"]S Y P H I L I S[/font][br style="font-family: times new roman;"] [span style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;"]friend of opposing armies worldwide[/span]