This Flag is Illegal in Austria.*

The Federal Service Flag is illegal in Austria; at least for most people. Unfortunately, no one seems to have told them.

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[Tapakapa]

Please don't yell "I am the Austrian chancellor!" at little girls. You can support me on Patreon, though.

[KhAnubis]

When I was in Vienna a few years ago and tried to get a flag (as I do for every new country I visit) I remember I couldn’t find a single souvenir store that sold a flag without the eagle. So now evidently my basement in the US thinks it’s part of the Austrian government

[redoktopus]

the austrian coat of arms has a crowned eagle as well as a hammer and sickle on it. so no matter which revolution wins (the fascists or communists) they won't have to change anything.
very forward thinking.

[anthonygc]

I find it quite amusing that Peru has a similar flag design to Austria (basically rotated 90°) and has the exact problem (and outcome) you just described with the civil vs. state flags hehe

[oshino_meme]

I noticed when you buy the flag with the eagle on it, the eagle never has the exact same size as the one on official flags

[Milenakos]

thats like the 6th video in a row with flag on thumbnail

[kendrickbritto]

What the Austria flag stands for🇦🇹 ?
🟥-precision quality handguns
⬜️-beautiful mountains

⬛️- friendliness
🟦- exotic beaches

*BONUS*
🦅- Starting two World wars and blaming it on Germany

[bjornmu]

Not flag but: there was some hoopla here in Norway this year when the Labor Party used the coat-of-arms in some election campaign material. This is strictly illegal for any non-state entity so they had to remove it.

[jonathandevries]

thank you tapakapa for setting your video to premiere 1 hour after appearing on my feed....some are days away! Good on you buddy!

[Marylandbrony]

This gives me an idea. I will run around Washington D.C with the Austrian state flag saying "Hello i'm the Austrian chancellor".

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

More on the Austrian eagle: The current coat of arms of the Republic of Austria has been in use in its first forms by the First Republic of Austria since 1919. Between 1934 and Anschluss in 1938, the Federal State used a different coat of arms, which consisted of a double-headed eagle without the hammer and sickle. The establishment of the Second Republic in 1945 saw the return of the original arms, with broken chains added to symbolize Austria's liberation. When the hammer and sickle were added in 1919, the government in charge of Austria was chancellor Karl Renner of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria, now the Social Democratic Party of Austria.

In 1981, the Wappen der Republik Österreich described the blazon in Federal Constitutional Law. With this change of law, it was defined that the specific drawing is to codificate in an own statute law and that all other versions of the coat of arms of Austria were no longer in law. In accordance to this, the Wappengesetz from 1984 and the drawing of the actual Wappen der Republik Österreich is in Austrian law.

[Todesnuss]

It seems to me it's mostly about regulating the use of the flag for marketing. It's normal to see the civil flag on the packaging of a local product. Even if it's unlikely to be misused maliciously it makes sense for the to be rules about that. The law would be most directly relevant to graphic designers working for Austrian Brands. Don't wanna slip up and paste the wrong flag into your PS project, though it'd be easy to make the civil flag from scratch.

[dnielbloqg]

3:39 Nice to see that Doofenshmirtz hasn't given up on his dream of ruling over something, and if not the Tri-State Area, then the next best thing must be Austria

[robloxmemedudes]

Tapakapa is a walking billboard for Austria

[PTrit]

In Germany there´s a similar case in which u are dont allow to use the "Bundesdienstflagge" if u r not a government offical. For the People there´s another version with another version of the Bundesadler (Federal Eagle)

[ChadwickMann]

I like the slight change in both editing style and with your characters. The stick people a no more, the age of slightly rotund people has begun!

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

To be fair to Monaco, the flag they've been using was officially adopted in 1881 by Prince Charles III, although red and white have been the heraldic colors of the House of Grimaldi since at least 1339. And the dimensions are different from Indonesia's in that Monaco's flag is a square. But yes, the lozenge flag is much cooler! The House of Grimaldi was founded in 1160 by Grimaldo Canella in Genoa and became the ruling house of Monaco when Francesco Grimaldi captured Monaco in 1297. A poetic interpretation may take from the flag according to the Monegasque government is that it is a representation of the blood of Saint Devota, 4th century martyr and the Principality’s patron saint.

And the Lesotho flag is interesting! Blue represents the sky and rain, white represents peace as Lesotho has had the ideology of peace since King Moshoeshoe I, and green represents prosperity. The symbol in the middle is called a Mokorotlo which is a traditional Basotho straw hat. It has been said that the Sotho adopted this hat from the Cape Malays who wore a similar hat called the toedang. The Sotho display them in their homes to both uphold their customs and protect the home against danger and other evil influences.

[joshuahillerup]

I would love to see a video explicitly about the Austrian identity

[maxfi]

Finland also has a separate state flag from the civil flag, it has the lion coat of arms in the middle of the cross. There are also separate flags for the president, the minister of defence and the commanders of the land and naval forces.

[EdKolis]

Reminds me a bit of the US flag code. It's a set of rules that you're supposed to abide by when displaying the American flag. Things like the blue part with the stars goes on the flagpole, and you're not supposed to print the flag on clothing, and you actually are supposed to ceremonially burn a damaged flag to dispose of it. But none of these rules are actually laws; they're just guidelines and people violate them all the time! Especially the clothing one...