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[boomerang]

Boomerang, You're a real dick at times! Vexillology is the scientific study of flags and its history. As I am a vexillologist, I know a lot about national flags and their histories, plus I also regularly contribute to various flag web sites and publications. The TRNC flag falls under the "good flag" category because it is (a) a simple design with few colors, (b) uncluttered with any lettering or excessive design elements, (c) distinctive in that it does not match or closely match any other country's flag, and (d) it is easilly identifiable at a distance. The big painted flag is a bit over the top, but given the RoCy policy of TRNC isolation and pretending that the TRNC does not exist, I can understand why the TRNC chose to paint that flag on the mountain.

BTW, the RoCy flag falls into the "Good Flag" category as well. It meets the first four points I mentioned for the TRNC flag, plus the fifth point of political neutrality. IMHO, it would have been perfect for the island had the partnership republic prevailed. Since 1963, its meaning had been undermined by the intercommunal conflict.

and I said wear it with pride...

scientific study of flags... hahahahahahahahahaha...now everyone knows you are an idiot...

[Expatkiwi]

scientific study of flags... hahahahahahahahahaha...now everyone knows you are an idiot...

You want to say that to the members of FIAV, NAVA, FOTW, or to eminent people like Dr. Whitney Smith of the Flag Research Center?

For the benefit of your room-temperature IQ, Boomerang, Vexillology (derived from the latin word 'Vexillium', meaning 'standard') is a serious subject. You can tell a lot about a country's culture and history by their flags and symbols. There are a lot of flag enthusiests, collectors, and researchers, and I'm proud to be one of them. I've written several research papers, and made presentations of several of my papers to several conferences. I am also the designer of the flag of the International Australian Football Council.
Now, you may find this really hard to believe, but one of my favorite flags is the National Flag of Greece! Asthetically, it is one of the more pleasing flags to the eye. The current national flags of Australia and New Zealand do not impress me, whilst my favorite flag of all is that of the United States of America.

[boomerang]

scientific study of flags... hahahahahahahahahaha...now everyone knows you are an idiot...

You want to say that to the members of FIAV, NAVA, FOTW, or to eminent people like Dr. Whitney Smith of the Flag Research Center?

For the benefit of your room-temperature IQ, Boomerang, Vexillology (derived from the latin word 'Vexillium', meaning 'standard') is a serious subject. You can tell a lot about a country's culture and history by their flags and symbols. There are a lot of flag enthusiests, collectors, and researchers, and I'm proud to be one of them. I've written several research papers, and made presentations of several of my papers to several conferences. I am also the designer of the flag of the International Australian Football Council.
Now, you may find this really hard to believe, but one of my favorite flags is the National Flag of Greece! Asthetically, it is one of the more pleasing flags to the eye. The current national flags of Australia and New Zealand do not impress me, whilst my favorite flag of all is that of the United States of America.

I really would like to see your point of view, but somehow I can't seemed stick my head so far up my ass...

how about all you wankers start studying something like, lets say world poverty, wolrd pollution, stopping ethnic cleansing, etc, rather than walking around with your head buried


wasting everyomes time with bullshit...

[Expatkiwi]

There's no getting to you is there, Boomerang? Why don't you just piss off to the Ettamooga Pub and get blitzed on 4X and Bundys? You'll find people of your intelligence level there doing the same thing...

[boomerang]

There's no getting to you is there, Boomerang? Why don't you just piss off to the Ettamooga Pub and get blitzed on 4X and Bundys? You'll find people of your intelligence level there doing the same thing...

you are an idiot comical expat...this is the cyprus forum and you are still shitting all over the place...not only an idiot but a mental retard...

[Expatkiwi]

There's no getting to you is there, Boomerang? Why don't you just piss off to the Ettamooga Pub and get blitzed on 4X and Bundys? You'll find people of your intelligence level there doing the same thing...

you are an idiot comical expat...this is the cyprus forum and you are still shitting all over the place...not only an idiot but a mental retard...

If that's the case, then why bother responding to my posts?

[boomerang]

There's no getting to you is there, Boomerang? Why don't you just piss off to the Ettamooga Pub and get blitzed on 4X and Bundys? You'll find people of your intelligence level there doing the same thing...

you are an idiot comical expat...this is the cyprus forum and you are still shitting all over the place...not only an idiot but a mental retard...

If that's the case, then why bother responding to my posts?

what can i say comical expat...i look forward for comic relief from clowns...

[miltiades]

The "brutal" display of this monstrosity on the mountainside has nothing whatsoever to do with the people , the true T/Cs , the indigenous to Cyprus T/Cs who still consider their motherland and the motherland's flag , designed by a T/C , to be Cyprus and not some third world destined part of Cyprus administered by a nation that debated for a whole mounth whether its women folk would wear or not a head scarf.
This monstrosity does not represent the T/Cs that I know and neither is it a symbol of "independence" as someone suggested , it is unquestionably an eye sore , graffiti of cheap taste and indicative of the third world mentality of those responsible for its existence , the Turkish military.

[Tim Drayton]

Boomerang, You're a real dick at times! Vexillology is the scientific study of flags and its history. As I am a vexillologist, I know a lot about national flags and their histories, plus I also regularly contribute to various flag web sites and publications. The TRNC flag falls under the "good flag" category because it is (a) a simple design with few colors, (b) uncluttered with any lettering or excessive design elements, (c) distinctive in that it does not match or closely match any other country's flag, and (d) it is easilly identifiable at a distance. The big painted flag is a bit over the top, but given the RoCy policy of TRNC isolation and pretending that the TRNC does not exist, I can understand why the TRNC chose to paint that flag on the mountain.

BTW, the RoCy flag falls into the "Good Flag" category as well. It meets the first four points I mentioned for the TRNC flag, plus the fifth point of political neutrality. IMHO, it would have been perfect for the island had the partnership republic prevailed. Since 1963, its meaning had been undermined by the intercommunal conflict.

My dear boy, if you examine this flag carefully you will observe that it is the flag of the Republic of Turkey in reverse. Add this to the fact that the TRNC flag never flies on its own, but in tandem with the Turkish flag, and there is a very powerful symbolic message there waiting for you to decipher.

[Expatkiwi]

Boomerang, You're a real dick at times! Vexillology is the scientific study of flags and its history. As I am a vexillologist, I know a lot about national flags and their histories, plus I also regularly contribute to various flag web sites and publications. The TRNC flag falls under the "good flag" category because it is (a) a simple design with few colors, (b) uncluttered with any lettering or excessive design elements, (c) distinctive in that it does not match or closely match any other country's flag, and (d) it is easilly identifiable at a distance. The big painted flag is a bit over the top, but given the RoCy policy of TRNC isolation and pretending that the TRNC does not exist, I can understand why the TRNC chose to paint that flag on the mountain.

BTW, the RoCy flag falls into the "Good Flag" category as well. It meets the first four points I mentioned for the TRNC flag, plus the fifth point of political neutrality. IMHO, it would have been perfect for the island had the partnership republic prevailed. Since 1963, its meaning had been undermined by the intercommunal conflict.

My dear boy, if you examine this flag carefully you will observe that it is the flag of the Republic of Turkey in reverse. Add this to the fact that the TRNC flag never flies on its own, but in tandem with the Turkish flag, and there is a very powerful symbolic message there waiting for you to decipher.

Tim, the reversed colors make it distinctive. Who confuses the Red Cross with the flag of Switzerland?