NationStates Jolt Archive


"Default" flag real!

Kazikamimoto
22-06-2005, 07:41
I currently live in Sydeny Australia and yesterday while taking the train into the city, I noticed that a building right across from the Circular Quay station was flying the "Default" nationstates flag (red, black, with the yellow circle). It was still there today, a very weird sighting. I'll haul my digi camera down with me in the next few days and take a pic to confirm it to you all.
Frisbeeteria
22-06-2005, 12:38
... uh ... yeah. This is news?

The Aboriginal Flag (http://www.ausflag.com.au/flags/ab.html)
Puppet nr 784512
22-06-2005, 13:14
Or either there's a frantic Nationstates fan living there ;)
Orioni 2
22-06-2005, 13:21
Thats not quite a new given. Just rightclick on the default flag and you should be able to see where it's from.
Neuvo Rica
22-06-2005, 14:36
Is there any reason why the Aboriginal flag was chosen?
Yammo
22-06-2005, 14:40
How can you live in Australia, and not know the Aboriginal flag? Seriously.
Chancellor Palpatine
22-06-2005, 14:48
Is there any reason why the Aboriginal flag was chosen?

i don't know. i doubt max barry is aborigine (is that how you spell it?)
Makatoto
22-06-2005, 14:55
I say Alphabetical order did it.

Damn the alphabet and logic placing it first.
Magnetic Island
22-06-2005, 15:20
How can you live in Australia, and not know the Aboriginal flag? Seriously.

Woah, I agree. I've known since I was a kid.
Cape Carnivale
22-06-2005, 15:59
Woah, I agree. I've known since I was a kid.
1. "since"? :p

2. To put the flag of any one country as the default would give it predominance over the others. Currently, the default flag is rather neutral; if Max came from another country, perhaps he would have chosen a similar locally well-known flag.

[Edit: note that I am just hypothesising, and am not omniscient]
Neuvo Rica
22-06-2005, 16:33
Fair enough.
Kazikamimoto
23-06-2005, 08:21
How can you live in Australia, and not know the Aboriginal flag? Seriously.

To answer your question:

I am originally from Canada, I've only just moved to Australia so I wouldn't know things like that now would I? Geesh.
Qaaolchoura
24-06-2005, 00:58
I recall when I learned what the flag actually was.
I was in Maine and saw a guy who looked kind alike TROUSRS with the aborigine flag on a T-shirt.
Conversation went something like this:

Me: Do you play NationStates?
He: I don't know what that is.
Me: It's an internet webgame and uses that flag as the default. So what is that flag?
He: It's the Australian Aborigine flag.
Me: Oh, I guess that makes sense since the guy who created it is an Australian. Well, thanks, sorry, and good bye.
He: *smiles polititely and says goodbye*

Of course I talked really fast the entire time, and the conversation made me feel like a completely oblivious, insensitive, and utterly clueless boor.

But yeah, funny in retrospect.
Tuesday Heights
24-06-2005, 01:36
... uh ... yeah. This is news?

The Aboriginal Flag (http://www.ausflag.com.au/flags/ab.html)

To me it was... I honestly thought the default flag was just made up for the game. *embarassed*
Kazikamimoto
24-06-2005, 07:29
Well I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't know
Marmite Toast
24-06-2005, 17:30
I didn't know, but then I do live several thousand miles away from australia...