The actual Union Flag is common knowledge, and if somebody doesn't know it, they can always check Wikipedia. In any case, the Gurren Jack is, by my estimations, approximately 99.9999879849% more awesome than the actual Union Flag.
Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffMaybe we could just change the caption to something like "This addition makes the Union Jack
97.2% more awesome." or something like that.
That way we could keep the joke while still referencing the actual flag.
edited 15th Mar '11 12:40:56 PM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryBecause this was an actual joke. Some news company left a "redesign the British flag" poll/quiz/thingy open online, and since Gurren Lagann was just coming out, this was the one that won.
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A 4 year old obscure newspaper/company competition where the flag is redesigned with reference to an (Obscure or not depends on reader) Japanese Anime, and the flag was submitted by a Norwegian.
By the powers invested in me by tabloid-reading imbeciles, I pronounce you guilty of paedophilia!Maybe the Beano, if you want something British.
http://cgi.ebay.ie/BEANO-BOOK-BRITAIN-HARD-BACK-DJ-1996-/180608952601
I'd say we'd still want something humourous yes, not sure that pic would work though. I mean I'm not a comic fan but I know there is at least a Captain Britain or Union Jack we could maybe get a funny screen cap or something from those franchises?
If not maybe something like this?
Not that this invalidates your point at all, but:
- The Telegraph is obscure?
- Things that win popularity contests are generally not obscure either.
edited 27th Mar '11 5:35:20 AM by AngryScientist
Not great wording on my part:
The competition is Obscure not the Telegraph. Online only, week long opening time and it is clearly a spacefiller for their online content. Never was a major thing in Britain, online or not.
Not as important a point but the Telegraph thinks that the picture is of the welsh dragon wearing shades...
By the powers invested in me by tabloid-reading imbeciles, I pronounce you guilty of paedophilia!Getting the flag 100% correct, in both appearance and terminology (the flag that is being referred to herein is not the British flag, in fact I don't think I've seen a British flag since the early 80s) is something you can spend weeks on, possibly even years. It's one of those things that people took really seriously before they had television. Aside from everything else we'd need to clarify which side was the flagpole.
I'd prefer to keep something on the image to indicate that we don't need the level of accuracy that it is possible to put into these things. As such I would suggest choosing something from Union Jack Wear
that is suitably inappropriate but still represents the kind of drek you might be able to buy in Britain if you have little enough taste. The Union jack baseball cap
would work as an embodiment of several jokes about americanization in Britain.
Although my first choice is the toilet seat. Britain is known for toilet humour.
edited 23rd Apr '11 1:08:33 AM by Michael
The image for the useful notes for the US have a map of North America with The US territory on a different color, does people really don't know where The US is located on a map?.
Of course, this isn't an encyclopedia, but I think it could be seen as insulting that the article about ones country feature a joke as its introductory image.
edited 23rd Apr '11 2:57:08 AM by shark33
Sorry, are you saying the British page is offensive for having an Affectionate Parody of their flag, or the USA page is offensive for having an image joke about how Americans supposedly can't find their country on a map?
I'd expect people to take more offense to the USA page.
Why not both? Jokes are fun, but people goes to Useful Notes for it useful information, which include flags. Lets just show the flag in the end of the article, like we do to all other countries Useful Notes (Preferably with a small joke referring to the first flage).

As per this thread.
Is this is useful notes, why is the picture a joke?
edited 15th Mar '11 12:12:51 PM by nuclearneo