Proposed Flags That Were Never Used | Fun With Flags

In this video I talk about proposed flags that countries considered using, but never did. #FunWithFlags

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[General.Knowledge]

What other unused flags should I have put in the video?

[peggy]

I can imagine a world where the New Zealand flag would have been a low-quality stickman on a bicycle.

[Jason-mgfk]

Slight correction;

The US flag used to add stripes for every new states as well as stars. They stopped at 15 stripes and went back to 13, but if you look at the flag in 1812, the so called “star spangled banner” it has 15 stars and 15 stripes

[ecurewitz]

Not only was John Paul Jones a US naval commander, but also played bass for Led Zeppelin. Truly a man of many talents

[BlackDobbie]

Creator: How many symbols do you want on your flag?
Portugal: Yes.

[michaelrobson]

The U.S. flag has not always had just thirteen stripes. Initially, as states were added, they added both a stripe and a star. It got up to fifteen of each (the “Star Spangled Banner” that flew over Fort McHenry) before it was decided that the flag was getting too crowded and they went back to thirteen stripes but still adding a new star for each new state.

[lambo]

New Zealand blew it. They had some amazing designs uniquely tied to their history and culture to chose from. The current flag looks like Australia lite. Smh.

[TheBigRedskull]

If I remember correctly, the stripes were originally added for each new state aswell, but this was changed to just 13 because it became too cluttered.

[Thomas-tchp]

No one:

New Zealand kiwi flag: so anyway I started blasting

[walterzamalis]

Bit of context from a New Zealander on why we voted to keep our flag. Our flag is little thought of and widely disliked in New Zealand- it’s pretty much universally seen as boring, inherently colonial, unrepresentative, and looks too similar to Australia (who did actually copy us, but that’s another story). There’s no real enthusiasm for it at all. But the Prime Minister who organised the flag referendum, the conservative John Key, did so at a time when we were experiencing a horrendous housing crisis and increased levels of poverty. Instead of addressing that, he wasted $26 million on some blown up corporate logo-like designs to be put to a vote. The good designs were sidelined because Key refused to appoint graphic designers to the board which shortlisted the designs submitted. The vote to keep the flag was a, largely, just a protest vote against that, and Key’s party lost the next election. But also it was because if we had chosen a terrible design, which we marginally preferred to the status quo, for an enormous price, we likely would not have gotten a chance to change it when something better came around.

TL;DR - it cost too much, the designs were awful, and we didn’t want to forfeit a future vote on a good alternative.

[chrisca]

4:39 Top to bottom, left to right.

Spain's old flag
Spain's current flag
Spanish Vietnam
Spanish Conchinchina
Spanish Scandinavia
Spanish Norway
Spanish Sweden
Spanish Vietnam (alt version)
Sweden
Weird Flag
Weird Flag
Spanish White Ruthenia
Spanish Tuscany
Spanish Austria (reverse card those Habsburgs)

[unionmen]

“Ferb I know what we’re going to do today!”
*changes Spanish flag*

[ApplezzMapping]

I like this guy, he goes thumbnail first
Instead of just forgetting about the whole thumbnail and not doing it at all
*Cough* clickbait *cough*

[SinuheBE]

Thank you for your interesting videos.
The Spanish flag adopted during the reign of Carlos III wasn't exactly a "war flag". It was just a flag FOR THE ROYAL NAVY and the COASTAL FORTIFICATIONS (therefore linked with the Navy). Well into the 19th century, Spanish Army units and the local militias everywhere in the Spanish possesions used the white flag with Saint Andrew's cross in red, the "Burgundian Cross", which came to Spain from the Low Countries with Charles I (as King mof Spain) or V (as Emperor) about 1516. It was the flag used by the Dukes of Burgundy who were also Lords of the Low Countries (Dukes of Brabant, Counts of Flanders, Holland and Hainaut, Marquises of Namur, etc...). It was continued by the army and militia units after the arrival of the House of Bourbon in 1700. During the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, during Nelson's attack on the town and port, the flag hoisted in the castles or forts was the red-gold, but the flags used by the militia and army was the white one with the red Burgundian cross. This flag could have been the Spanish flag, it was the traditional one since the early 16th century, but probably because its origin was in the House of Habsburg -"Low Countries branch"-, the monarchs of the House of Bourbon prefered to have it changed.
In the mid 19th century, the red-gold flag was used also by army units and became the national flag. Nowadays, many "standards" (estandartes) of Spanish military units continue to be based on the Burgundian flag, sometimes red cross on white field, or red cross in yellow field, etc... The flags still hoisted in historic American places, like fortresses in Puerto Rico, Habana, Florida, California, etc... are those of the red Burgundian cross on white field, because this was the flag still used in the 19th century.
There is also a curiosity, which even most Spaniards ignore: the Carlos III design was used ONLY by the Royal Navy. The merchant fleet used another design you have showed for the contest: yellow, with two red stripes near the upper and lower borders, but with a yellow stripe separating them from these borders. It actually was a flag which was closer to the one adopted in the 20th century by South Vietnam.

[neutral]

I can already imagine a parallel universe with these flags

[abdulrahmanabdulaziz]

I honestly prefer the pre-1910 flag of Portugal.. They could have kept the same flag to maintain the legacy, and removed the crown since it's no longer a monarchy.

[aixx]

Kiwi flag is the best flag ever !
*CHANGE MY MIND*

[Brunozamp]

6:19 how many symbols you want in the flag?

Portuguese: *YES*

[Cookie-nrxl]

You are amazing. You don’t clickbait, you explain thoroughly and I am adding you to my “trusted educational channels”

[patrickgrisley]

Great video mate! From a fellow flag obsessed person. New Zealand really dropped the ball on the laser beam kiwi🤪