Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[manureid]

Boaty McBoatFace. Awesome.

 

[edgie]

I complained about the Blue in some of our ODI uniforms over the years, so there's one person.

 

[edgie]

Carn, if you grasp these straws any harder you'll develop arthritis.

 

[Dylan8]

Portia's doing the thing where you drive a point found to be incorrect several times into the ground to make it seem like its true. Green and gold are infinitely more relevant to our identity especially in international sports than any shade of blue.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I complained about the Blue in some of our ODI uniforms over the years, so there's one person.

What about when the home ODI's kit's went almost green-black & they only wore the yellow/gold away.

*They are ordinary colours it's just another example of tinkering with shit colours

 

[Dylan8]

Green and gold are ****ing sexy as anyway what kind of dumb idiot buttface would think otherwise.

 

[Portia]

Portia's doing the thing where you drive a point found to be incorrect several times into the ground to make it seem like its true.

Take a pick:

- The Australian flag shouldn't be green and gold, particularly not because `Australians identify with those colours' (Dylan8). I've never met anyone who has complained about Australia wearing blue, or that it is unAustralian.
- Green and gold is shit. It is shit.
- We already wear blue regularly among our sporting colours; if green and gold were so iconic, you'd do anything possible to avoid muddying that. In fact, we actively choose blue over green and gold at various points.

Which of those has been found to be incorrect exactly?

Green and gold are infinitely more relevant to our identity especially in international sports than any shade of blue.

Green and gold are only relevant to our identity in international sports, and not in any other aspect of the nation, Mr. Snot & Wee Vexillologist. Thats a pretty shit reason for choosing a flag.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Take a pick:

- The Australian flag shouldn't be green and gold, particularly not because `Australians identify with those colours' (Dylan8). I've never met anyone who has complained about Australia wearing blue, or that it is unAustralian.

Check the bigfooty thread every time a new IR series kit is released and its full of people complaining that we're wearing blue.

Other than that, the main reason nobody complains that we're wearing blue in sports is that we aren't wearing blue, we're wearing green and gold.

- Green and gold is shit. It is shit.

This is your one reasonable argument, but it's subjective and the majority would disagree.

- We already wear blue regularly among our sporting colours; if green and gold were so iconic, you'd do anything possible to avoid muddying that. In fact, we actively choose blue over green and gold at various points.

Again, the times we've chosen to wear blue as a primary colour were due to mitigating factors, usually avoiding a clash. And those times are few and far between. An Olympic opening ceremony uniform is usually the remit of a single or small group of designers who have been encouraged to go crazy. It doesn't count.

Just about every other country uses tertiary colours, and navy has been one of ours for a long time. That isn't an indication that we are going to move away from green and gold as our primary colours at any point ever.

I'll also add that green and gold are also the sporting colours of one of the few countries that play almost every common or bizarre international sport that we do, so why would you really be so determined to lock in keeping the same colours if we changed our flag?

The US are the biggest sporting country in the world. The wear the most common set of colours that exist, red white and blue. Heaps of other countries wear the same colours, and the US regularly have to play against countries that wear that set of colours in all kinds of sports. We've worn green and gold since the 1800s and they are entrenched as our national colours. Why would we change now?

I'd add green and gold to navy and white on the flag because they are our national colours, are recognised worldwide as our national colours, and have been so since the 1800s. If we keep our flag navy, red and white, it will be just like every other red, white and blue based flag, of which there are heaps.

Green and gold set us apart, and combined with recognisable elements from our existing flag would give us something that looks and feels Australian.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Check the bigfooty thread every time a new IR series kit is released and its full of people complaining that we're wearing blue.

Other than that, the main reason nobody complains that we're wearing blue in sports is that we aren't wearing blue, we're wearing green and gold.



This is your one reasonable argument, but it's subjective and the majority would disagree.



Again, the times we've chosen to wear blue as a primary colour were due to mitigating factors, usually avoiding a clash. And those times are few and far between. An Olympic opening ceremony uniform is usually the remit of a single or small group of designers who have been encouraged to go crazy. It doesn't count.

Just about every other country uses tertiary colours, and navy has been one of ours for a long time. That isn't an indication that we are going to move away from green and gold as our primary colours at any point ever.



The US are the biggest sporting country in the world. The wear the most common set of colours that exist, red white and blue. Heaps of other countries wear the same colours, and the US regularly have to play against countries that wear that set of colours in all kinds of sports. We've worn green and gold since the 1800s and they are entrenched as our national colours. Why would we change now?

I'd add green and gold to navy and white on the flag because they are our national colours, are recognised worldwide as our national colours, and have been so since the 1800s. If we keep our flag navy, red and white, it will be just like every other red, white and blue based flag, of which there are heaps.

Green and gold set us apart, and combined with recognisable elements from our existing flag would give us something that looks and feels Australian.

That's one ugly fookin' flag mate

 

[El_Scorcho]

Green and gold are only relevant to our identity in international sports, and not in any other aspect of the nation, Mr. Snot & Wee Vexillologist. Thats a pretty shit reason for choosing a flag.

Our entire national identity is built around sport, and regardless, green and gold are used to represent Australia everywhere that colours are used to represent countries.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I just made a professional photoshop of miss feel in the hat with the dogs and hyacinth bucket in our new house to give her an idea of what it will be like.

She is pretty mad.

 

[TeeKray]

How is this even a discussion. Green and gold (well, yellow, but that's another discussion) are almost universally recognised as our national colours. The fact that blue, white and red appear on the awkward anachronism that we call our flag is just beside the point.

 

[Dylan8]

I just made a professional photoshop of miss feel in the hat with the dogs and hyacinth bucket in our new house to give her an idea of what it will be like.

She is pretty mad.

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Needs New Port Power hat being hung proudly on the wall

 

[edgie]

I just made a professional photoshop of miss feel in the hat with the dogs and hyacinth bucket in our new house to give her an idea of what it will be like.

She is pretty mad.

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Why is there a turd on her arm? Oh. It's the floorboards, or a very realistic tattoo. Of floorboards.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I just made a professional photoshop of miss feel in the hat with the dogs and hyacinth bucket in our new house to give her an idea of what it will be like.

She is pretty mad.

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Why do you have garden furniture in your house?

Are you poor?

 

[edgie]

Now, this may reek of bias, but my "Mad Max Fury Road isn't as dinky di Australian as the industry would have you believe" rants have more credibility than the "Australia has been making a conscious effort to move away from green and gold as our international sporting colours".

 

[Doctor Feel]

Needs New Port Power hat being hung proudly on the wall

 

[ClintEastwood]

I'm sorry, but that is disgusting. Vomit-inducing.

 

[edgie]

What about when the home ODI's kit's went almost green-black & they only wore the yellow/gold away.

*They are ordinary colours it's just another example of tinkering with shit colours

The wearing of the dark ODI uniform in Australia in so stupid, especially if there is any reality in the "dark colours draw in heat" theory. It was so good to see the proper yellow/gold one during the world cup.

 

[El_Scorcho]

The wearing of the dark ODI uniform in Australia in so stupid, especially if there is any reality in the "dark colours draw in heat" theory. It was so good to see the proper yellow/gold one during the world cup.

We only changed to the dark green (stylized as being the same colour as the baggy green caps) because the Commonwealth Bank logo stood out a lot better on a dark background.

 

[_VXV]

The Indigenous & NT flags are the only ones representative of our country.

 

[edgie]

We only changed to the dark green (stylized as being the same colour as the baggy green caps) because the Commonwealth Bank logo stood out a lot better on a dark background.

But the VB would clash, and also have different shades of green!

Won't somebody think of a hard earned thirst deserves a big cold beer?

 

[Dylan8]

The Indigenous & NT flags are the only ones representative of our country.

Not really. I don't feel any connection to them.

 

[Dylan8]

 

[edgie]

I don't feel a connection to any flag of Aus but I identify with both the official flag and what the indigenous flag represents.