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New Zealand choosing new flag

The Guardian is reporting that the results are too close to call for now. Official results will be announced on tuesday after the overseas and late votes have been counted.


Currently the Silver Fern (Black, White and Blue) design has 50.53 % of the total votes while Silver Fern (Red, White and Blue) design has 49.47 % of the votes.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/dec/11/new-zealand-flag-referendum-first-results-live

I like the Red, White and Blue one better, the blue is a better shade. Now, if they had that blue on the Black, White and Blue one. That would be the best.
 
^ The black, white and blue flag is my favorite, just as it is. I think that the darker blue would look very drab with black.
 
First, they are all hideous, and second, black doesn't belong on national flags.
 
The Guardian is reporting that the results are too close to call for now. Official results will be announced on tuesday after the overseas and late votes have been counted.


Currently the Silver Fern (Black, White and Blue) design has 50.53 % of the total votes while Silver Fern (Red, White and Blue) design has 49.47 % of the votes.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/dec/11/new-zealand-flag-referendum-first-results-live
This seems like a weird way to perform a count. Surely they should have waited for all the ballots to be ready before starting? Especially in a preferential ballot situation where the order of elimination can change the final result.
 
First, they are all hideous, and second, black doesn't belong on national flags.
Jamaica, Germany, Egypt, Belgium, and many other countries would beg to differ.

Just because the colour appears on flags, doesn't mean it belongs there. There is also a distinction between using the colour sparingly as some form of accent, or having it be one third of the flag - ugh!
 
I'd've thought that the mere fact that nations select black to be on their national flags literally proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it does in fact belong on them.
 
I'd've thought that the mere fact that nations select black to be on their national flags literally proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it does in fact belong on them.

ISIS has a right to color their flag black. It is their GOD given right. To hell with the unbelievers. :lol:
 
You think this is the end?

There a mechanism that ate a noticeable fraction of 26 million dollars and liked it.

However much money they did make from tricking us into thinking that this was necessary, there's still 215ish other countries who's pain and transition can be monetized just like ours was, and theee Musicmen are going to fold up their shit and set up shop in new gullible virgin territories next year to rinse and repeat.

Why not Spain next?

There could totally be a Black Flag for Spain in the not so distant future.
 
What do you mean black doesn't belong on flags, why the heck not?

Its ugly.

Again, distinction between black on a flag in the way Spain has it, from the travesty that is the German flag.
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Obviously plenty of people seem to like it. :shrug:
 
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