Forum - View topicNEWS: Gurren Lagann Design Wins Informal British Flag Poll
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MeggieMay
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Agreed. I actually didn't know the picture was from this particular anime when I saw it last weekend and neither did a friend of mine who thought the flag was way cool (they're not as interested in Anime as I am). While I knew several of the other flags were referencing Anime shows it wasn't until someone mentioned it was from Gurren Lagann after the flag won that I found out it was from said show (I've not seen Gurren Lagann yet). I did tell my friend it was Gurren Lagann after I read about it so they'd know as well. |
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Cold-NiTe
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4CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.
Also, to what a previous poster said... [norio]ALL HAAIL BRITANNIA![/norio] |
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bleuster
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I would have figured The Elevens would have had a more conservative taste.
There isn't much you can do with the U.S.A flag, but the idea of it being a Chiyo country is wonderful. |
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Seif
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4chan spammed the polls until it won. It was at 1% before they started.
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Vir
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Once it hit 4chan, it spread out like wildfire to other forums and irc channels. 4chan was actually disappointed that it rose over 40% and tried to vote it down again. 
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albanian
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What surprises me more than anything is that the Daily Telegraph is about as conservative as mainstream British journalism gets. It's the paper of choice for choleric retired colonels and elderly spinsters from Godalming - as well as the infamously proverbial 'Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells'. The very fact that the competition existed at all will probably have induced a plague of heart attacks over the toast and marmalade right across upper middle class England!
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Moomintroll
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From the news story:
You don't say? 
Whilst I entirely agree with your appraisal of the Telegraph, Lucas' suggestion for a revised flag has met with such a resounding lack of support from all quarters (including his own party and the Welsh Nationalists) that nobody - and that includes the editorial staff at the Telegraph - takes it seriously enough to be offended by the idea. They're running the story for laughs. If anyone was taking this remotely seriously, it would be front page news in the rightwing gutter press (Mail, Express) and Gordon Brown would be loudly decrying the idea whilst simultaneously proclaiming how proud he is of his "Britishness". Again. |
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Vir
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Might be some drilling to be done down in Bara, Iraq. spoiler[(Manipulated image. Source)] |
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Tenchi
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Aww... since Ichigo Mashimaro is my favourite anime/manga franchise of the past half-decade or so, I can't express just how dismayed I am that Ana Copplla only got a pithy 3% of the vote.
But, since the vote is indeed "non-binding", nothing's stopping the British Parliament from adopting the "Coppola Standard". And, assuming the quantum physics theory of infinite universes that branch off from our own each time a decision is made is true, there's gotta be one universe somewhere where Ana Coppola is indeed the new British flag. By the way, I wonder what these "questionable voting patterns" were; was Ron Paul a choice in this poll? [/LITTLEGREENFOOTBALLSFAN] Last edited by Tenchi on Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:56 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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What the frig, Britain.
You make up "manga hair gel" for X-TREEEEEEEEME DBZ-LIKE HAIR SPIKING ACTION. You make up this "Book of Best New Manga" and it turns out to be some wacky OEL compendium. You do a "manga Shakespeare" that involves Romeo + Juliet being retold in modern-day Shibuya, or something. You try to adapt the story portions of the Old and New Testaments into a single graphic novel volume and call it "The Manga Bible." And the flags. And Grantm. Seriously, WHAT IS IT, BRITANNIA?! What is it with you?! |
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Vir
Posts: 33 Location: Central European |
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I laughed a bit when these two stories were the top viewed stories at the Telegraph at the very same time: 
It's like the view statistics are trying to tell you something.
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britannicamoore
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wicked flag. but um. I prefer ALL HAIL BRITANNICA! better.
edit: and how fitting a post about me be 1111 for me. I rule. |
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Doktor Wilhelm
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I know this is old, but the skull on the flag also looks like the logo from the Offspring - 'Consipracy of One' albume (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_Of_One)...
I guess I'll have to watch Gurren Lagann, to see where the flag idea actually comes from... |
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tyciol
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I love seeing the design at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1572168/The-new-face-of-Britain-Flag-poll-results.html
I thought it might also look great on the Canadian flag, and lo and behold someone else thought of it first: http://katsuyo-sinuji.deviantart.com/art/Gurren-Lagann-Canadian-Flag-105289246 |
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