So the Telegraph requested submissions for a revised Union Jack to appease some politician with his panties in a bunch. What they got were mostly jokes.
"Flame-haired cartoon dragon" my ass. Don't any of these people do any research anymore?
"It represents shouting "UNION!" and joining together; kicking reason to the curb and doing the impossible; fighting the power, and piercing the heavens," said the Norwegian designer.
My lord in heaven, google any one of those phrases and you're bound to come across an image like this.
Either they really don't get the joke, or they know they've been caught with their pants down and only hope to salvage some small amount of dignity by keeping quiet..
The flaming-skull-in-glasses is the emblem of the Great Gurren Brigade (Dai-Gurren-Dan) from Gurren Lagann. Those phrases are the various over-the-top slogans/mottos the croup leader uses to describe their ridiculous antics.
The show's been consuming my thoughts lately in a way I haven't experienced since I played Xenogears back in 2000.
I won;t say you should look into it, but I think Gainax pulled off a winner with this one.
Posted by: Will at December 11, 2007 09:36 PM (E3UGR)
*sigh* I can not wait until comment editing is available. I was typing that other comment on the computer hooked into my TV, and the crappy resolution makes it very difficult to check for typoes.
I also think I should clarify myself.
It's a mecha show, which is an immediate negative for you, but there again, it's also got the DBZ theme of "New Big Bad? MORE POWER! Super-Saiyan-jin Level 37 here I come!" They aren't so much machines as extensions of the characters' "fighting spirit." In the process, it tells a story about a kid who grows up into a man (the anti-Shinji Ikari) and his allies who group up right along with him. It's a mixed bag of things you list as positives and negatives.
Posted by: Will at December 11, 2007 10:39 PM (E3UGR)
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I've heard good things about it, and it does have that amazing redhead, so it can't be all bad. (Unless she gets killed.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 11, 2007 10:54 PM (+rSRq)
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Even funnier was second place, which was a Welsh dragon with Louise photoshopped on the back...
Well. Probably not actually funnier. But also funny.
But yeah, it's another example of how online polling is useless for serious matters - you have to assume you're going to attract the attention of an infinite amount of people with too much free time and no respect for you or your goals. ;p
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at December 12, 2007 10:48 AM (LMDdY)
They weren't being serious. The whole point of this poll was that the idea of changing the Union Jack is a frivolous waste of time.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 12, 2007 10:56 AM (+rSRq)
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Truly. The Internet is awash in unhelpful people.
Posted by: Will at December 12, 2007 11:08 AM (WnBa/)
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What's really disturbing (now that there are a few comments up over there) is the number of people who seem to have taken the whole matter quite seriously.
Posted by: Will at December 12, 2007 05:42 PM (E3UGR)
It took a while for AMV Hell 4 to grow on me. One of the things that really grabbed me was the song "Welcome to the Black Parade", played during the ending credits.
Now, My Chemical Romance is not the kind of band I would normally find myself listening to. The prevailing opinion of them is that they're an "emo" band, regardless of what the band members may think. To be honest, I probably wouldn't recognize any of their other songs.
"Welcome to the Black Parade" is not a negative song. It sounds negative at first. That is until they hit the first chorus and you figure out that it's nothing of the sort. And that's why I like it.
The theme is carrying on in the face of pain, fear, sorrow, and grief.
That got me to thinking about how well it would mesh with the themes from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
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Oh, Will, I adore My Chemical Romance in secret due to their reputation as an "Emo" band.
Here is a little MCR Christmas Cheer: All I Want For Christmas <object width="300" height="80"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/II7kcRJEEI/aus=false/"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/II7kcRJEEI/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="80" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
And my favorite MCR song: You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison (from the Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge Album)
There are certain limitations put in place to cut down on external abuse of the comment system. The other thing to keep in mind when commenting around here is that the editor is WYSIWYG. When you paste html in the editor, it's treated like normal text, not code. The far right button in the tool bar is where you go to view the source code. You would have to paste your embed code there (like so)
And even then, it doesn't appear to have been accepted because certain html tags are locked out.
Posted by: Will at December 09, 2007 04:07 PM (E3UGR)
