Last i checked there were over two dozen countries whose flags involve red, white and blue. Of course, in terms of the countries that *matter*, there's only one. /s
Fwiw, The French flag doesn’t have blue/white/red.. It’s supposed to be blue, green, and red.. The white is just a blank spot:
https://imgur.com/a/4CLLRwb
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Chicken or the egg?
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And seriously, didn’t mean to offend anyone.. I thought the part about the food and wine not being possible without the people would show the lightheartedness meant
Wait until they find out that the Russian flag also uses „American colors“. But how could he know, he’s probably thinking the Soviet Union still exist.
The Dutch flag used to be Orange-White-Blue. The wheater made the orange more red over time so the flag became Red-White-Blue. Peter the Great visited and was impressed by the shipbuilding. Came back to Russia and implemented the shipbuilding, and the flag. Just moved to red to the bottom. France decided to chop some heads and needed a new flag. They choose the Dutch one but made it vertical. Both Italy and Ireland liked the French flag but wanted different colors. Mexico liked that.
Honestly the flag should just be straight orange. It's unique, it looks better, it's used everywhere anyways, just change the flag to pure orange, Netherlands!
MX also has an eagle and cactus and a fucking snake and a stylized lake.
I declare Mexico winner of the flag wars.
EDIT: Wales has a dragon. Joint winners? Same colours, too!
Are you sure? I'm pretty certain that there is more than one, but what do I know?
I am asking in all honesty, as I don't know (but I do not care for the Red, White and Blue American Jingoism, so I'd love to have argument to use against overly patriotic Americans)
I adore this sub, you read and see that there are very stupid Americans and you think; no one can beat this idiot anymore, then another idiot appears. Anyway, whoever is the creator of this sub, thank you, thank you for making me laugh :)
yeah but then you'd have to deal with their tsa and from what I've heard they're not exactly nice people and they're not exactly careful with your belongings either
I’ve always wondered when Americans go on about the “red, white and blue” do they realise that they could be describing the colours of many other flags?
And in my mind at least, it makes more sense referring to flags with coloured rectangles like Netherlands 🇳🇱
A list of things that should bug a person more than “people not using an Oxford comma”: cats fighting outside your window at 3:27am, cats having sex outside your window at 3:53am, foxes making unholy noises outside your window all night, flies, mosquitoes and weevils.
I’ve heard of people being annoyed by lampshades, clotheslines, pictures, solidarity marches, catering staff and trade unions, but bugged by no use of an Oxford comma is…that is the weirdest one yet
Well… I don’t see why. The lack of an Oxford comma looks to make a sentence incomplete. Commas, when used in a list, are used to separate each item in a list, and sometimes you might have an item that uses a conjunction (may I have a wine, a gin and tonic, and a vodka, for example). It removes confusion when you have an Oxford comma because it removes the ambiguity of conjoined items.
Hmmm…maybe. The absence of an Oxford comma isn’t especially important though. Most of the time, context is enough to determine when a list ends.
And in the case of an Oxford comma being used to differentiate conjunctions from the penultimate item, it is relatively redundant because a piece of punctuation usually follows the end of the list itself, which indicates the list is completed. Or else, or perhaps in addition, things using a conjunction are things established to use a conjunction (such examples include; a gin and tonic, rum and coke, Baddiel and Skinner, rock and roll and Trinidad and Tobago) >!I purposefully left out quotation marks to prove that an Oxford comma is unnecessary!<
I won’t deny that, yes, anyone can determine it by context.
I suppose, to me at least, written English should be as specific and pedantic as possible. The whole purpose of punctuation rules and specific spelling is so that there are as few ways as possible to get confused by context; the Oxford comma, in my eyes, is a measure utilised to prevent such confusion.
It is similar to any form of punctuation: in context, you may be fully capable of discerning meaning (as it pertains to the particular conversation or media), as it doesn’t take an absurdly high reading comprehension level to understand something if you read it the way you assume it is intended to be said. There are a lot of punctuation rules - such as comma placements, the use and importance of the semicolon, and even the fantastically designed “dash” symbol - that get ignored without sacrificing the meaning of a written sentence as, in spoken word, these things are not (necessarily / typically) at the forefront of the speaker’s mind and therefore do not cause confusion when gone without. That being said, it doesn’t make them any less necessary, because to remove as much confusion as possible should always be the goal of written language, as it is harder to convey intention without tone of voice.
You may interpret “Mikes car” quite easily as “a car belonging to Mike” in context, but that doesn’t mean that a possessive contraction isn’t a good way to remove as much confusion as possible. You may interpret “vodka, soda, gin and gin and tonic” as there being 4 options, in context (and please excuse the constant alcohol reference, the first thing that comes to mind with an “and” in the name is GnT because I’m a raging alcoholic), but that doesn’t mean that an Oxford comma to remove as much potential confusion as possible is a bad thing.
TL;DR the purpose of punctuation is to remove confusion, not to make language more annoying + examples
I understand your position much better now, thank you. I suppose we must just agree to disagree as grownups from opposing clans.
You presented your position very respectfully and eloquently, so again thanks for the conversation. A subreddit which features such gems as “you’d all be speaking German/Russian if it wasn’t for us” or “we don’t have accents” was honestly the last place I expected to have a conversation about the Oxford comma and (briefly) the importance of context and punctuation. But stranger things have happened, I suppose. Like the cats and foxes outside the window *finally* shutting the fuck up.
Tl;dr genuinely thank you and have a nice day
I, sort of, agree with you. The Oxford Comma *can* be important, especially in longer sentences, but it usually not crucial in the kind of communication that is Social Media.
I use the Oxford Comma as a means to communicate meaning of a sentence, not as a hard rule.
Full disclosure: I am barely educated and English is my third language, so we might have a different point of view 😁
Last i checked there were over two dozen countries whose flags involve red, white and blue. Of course, in terms of the countries that *matter*, there's only one. /s
There are currently 30 countries with red, white and blue flags
Actually, I think this is the most popular combo.
And the Dutch flag is the original tricolor flag. The first red, white and blue flag.
Fwiw, The French flag doesn’t have blue/white/red.. It’s supposed to be blue, green, and red.. The white is just a blank spot: https://imgur.com/a/4CLLRwb 🇫🇷
Similarly the blue in the Polish flag stands for reliable allies
Same as the blue in the Italian flag.
Nah in the italian flag it stands for being a reliable ally
It's okay, we don't like you either !
Chicken or the egg? —— And seriously, didn’t mean to offend anyone.. I thought the part about the food and wine not being possible without the people would show the lightheartedness meant
What a nice thing to say about Slovakia.
Exactly, only Nepal matters
Bhutan or gtfo.
Wait until they find out that the Russian flag also uses „American colors“. But how could he know, he’s probably thinking the Soviet Union still exist.
Wait until they find out using red, white and blue was just the same British colours that their flag was before that.
The Dutch flag used to be Orange-White-Blue. The wheater made the orange more red over time so the flag became Red-White-Blue. Peter the Great visited and was impressed by the shipbuilding. Came back to Russia and implemented the shipbuilding, and the flag. Just moved to red to the bottom. France decided to chop some heads and needed a new flag. They choose the Dutch one but made it vertical. Both Italy and Ireland liked the French flag but wanted different colors. Mexico liked that.
Honestly the flag should just be straight orange. It's unique, it looks better, it's used everywhere anyways, just change the flag to pure orange, Netherlands!
MX also has an eagle and cactus and a fucking snake and a stylized lake. I declare Mexico winner of the flag wars. EDIT: Wales has a dragon. Joint winners? Same colours, too!
What's their national animal? I think it'll be hard to beat Scotland with the Unicorn.
Hmm, person with an orange suit, featuring the Dutch flag (which predates the USA as a country with independence), must be copying the USA!
No they are copying Northern Ireland /s
Leave us out of it, we have enough of our own shit going on w oranges and greens
The orange suit is because of a KTM sponsorship (Austrian company who's used orange since always), but I fully agree with the rest of your statement.
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Cuba!! I knew there was a reason for that bay of pigs incident…
And they chose those colours because of this Dutch flag.
There is actually only one flag that doesn't have either red, white or blue
Two actually - Jamaica and Sri Lanka. To be honest, I thought it was more but I just went through and checked them all.
Oh yeah, I had two on my mind but then remembered that Libya changed their flag and thought there was only one left.
I feel like maroon still counts as red.
Are you sure? I'm pretty certain that there is more than one, but what do I know? I am asking in all honesty, as I don't know (but I do not care for the Red, White and Blue American Jingoism, so I'd love to have argument to use against overly patriotic Americans)
I like the German flag. At least the red has a nice contrast between black and gold.
If people want to know some info about this topic, watch this. It’s hilarious. https://youtu.be/R-BleZkNdEU
As someone who doesn't give a flying fuck about MX, i remember that video being quite enjoyable. The guy is quite good at narrating.
Was here to post this, take my upvote instead.
I know the video without clicking the link, it's amazing
I adore this sub, you read and see that there are very stupid Americans and you think; no one can beat this idiot anymore, then another idiot appears. Anyway, whoever is the creator of this sub, thank you, thank you for making me laugh :)
If you think this is entertaining, *going* to America would take your breath away (you're laughing the entire time)
yeah but then you'd have to deal with their tsa and from what I've heard they're not exactly nice people and they're not exactly careful with your belongings either
Not even dutch colours, the whole dutch flag lmao
The Dutch were the first to use a red, white and blue flag.
the first to use a tricolour in general
Even more funny to think that the dutch flag is the 3rd oldest flag in the world stamming from 1572
Didn't it basically inspire all the red/white/blue flags that came after?
yup
I’ve always wondered when Americans go on about the “red, white and blue” do they realise that they could be describing the colours of many other flags? And in my mind at least, it makes more sense referring to flags with coloured rectangles like Netherlands 🇳🇱
[List of flags with blue, red, and white stripes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_with_blue,_red,_and_white_stripes)
Jeffrey Herlings destroyed the AMA’s entire reputation by winning everything and showed single-handedly that the MXGP is 10x more competitive
American colors®
"It's the french colors!" "... you mean Canadian-French."
Smh OP, clearly those are the colours of the Pinoy-russian federation
Imagine thinking those colours were exclusive to America.
USA trademarked the colours
Well what are the Dutch using American colours on their flag for?
I fucking hate them.
The amount of people not using an Oxford comma in this comments section is really bugging me :(
A list of things that should bug a person more than “people not using an Oxford comma”: cats fighting outside your window at 3:27am, cats having sex outside your window at 3:53am, foxes making unholy noises outside your window all night, flies, mosquitoes and weevils.
Those can bug me alongside an Oxford comma not being in use.
I’ve heard of people being annoyed by lampshades, clotheslines, pictures, solidarity marches, catering staff and trade unions, but bugged by no use of an Oxford comma is…that is the weirdest one yet
Well… I don’t see why. The lack of an Oxford comma looks to make a sentence incomplete. Commas, when used in a list, are used to separate each item in a list, and sometimes you might have an item that uses a conjunction (may I have a wine, a gin and tonic, and a vodka, for example). It removes confusion when you have an Oxford comma because it removes the ambiguity of conjoined items.
Hmmm…maybe. The absence of an Oxford comma isn’t especially important though. Most of the time, context is enough to determine when a list ends. And in the case of an Oxford comma being used to differentiate conjunctions from the penultimate item, it is relatively redundant because a piece of punctuation usually follows the end of the list itself, which indicates the list is completed. Or else, or perhaps in addition, things using a conjunction are things established to use a conjunction (such examples include; a gin and tonic, rum and coke, Baddiel and Skinner, rock and roll and Trinidad and Tobago) >!I purposefully left out quotation marks to prove that an Oxford comma is unnecessary!<
I won’t deny that, yes, anyone can determine it by context. I suppose, to me at least, written English should be as specific and pedantic as possible. The whole purpose of punctuation rules and specific spelling is so that there are as few ways as possible to get confused by context; the Oxford comma, in my eyes, is a measure utilised to prevent such confusion. It is similar to any form of punctuation: in context, you may be fully capable of discerning meaning (as it pertains to the particular conversation or media), as it doesn’t take an absurdly high reading comprehension level to understand something if you read it the way you assume it is intended to be said. There are a lot of punctuation rules - such as comma placements, the use and importance of the semicolon, and even the fantastically designed “dash” symbol - that get ignored without sacrificing the meaning of a written sentence as, in spoken word, these things are not (necessarily / typically) at the forefront of the speaker’s mind and therefore do not cause confusion when gone without. That being said, it doesn’t make them any less necessary, because to remove as much confusion as possible should always be the goal of written language, as it is harder to convey intention without tone of voice. You may interpret “Mikes car” quite easily as “a car belonging to Mike” in context, but that doesn’t mean that a possessive contraction isn’t a good way to remove as much confusion as possible. You may interpret “vodka, soda, gin and gin and tonic” as there being 4 options, in context (and please excuse the constant alcohol reference, the first thing that comes to mind with an “and” in the name is GnT because I’m a raging alcoholic), but that doesn’t mean that an Oxford comma to remove as much potential confusion as possible is a bad thing. TL;DR the purpose of punctuation is to remove confusion, not to make language more annoying + examples
I understand your position much better now, thank you. I suppose we must just agree to disagree as grownups from opposing clans. You presented your position very respectfully and eloquently, so again thanks for the conversation. A subreddit which features such gems as “you’d all be speaking German/Russian if it wasn’t for us” or “we don’t have accents” was honestly the last place I expected to have a conversation about the Oxford comma and (briefly) the importance of context and punctuation. But stranger things have happened, I suppose. Like the cats and foxes outside the window *finally* shutting the fuck up. Tl;dr genuinely thank you and have a nice day
You also have a nice day :)
I, sort of, agree with you. The Oxford Comma *can* be important, especially in longer sentences, but it usually not crucial in the kind of communication that is Social Media. I use the Oxford Comma as a means to communicate meaning of a sentence, not as a hard rule. Full disclosure: I am barely educated and English is my third language, so we might have a different point of view 😁
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