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For the purposes of flag display in an international forum, the selection should be limited to internationally recognized independent countries.  England and Wales are not on that list and adding them to please the UK citizens here is silly and confusing for others.  I for one have never before seen that red crest on white flag; the only flag I associate with those parts has red on blue.

The other problem with this is if you treat non-recognized parts of one country individually, you should do it for all of them, including every piece of every *stan that thinks it should be a country -- and I can't imagine where you will find a person qualified to compile that sort of list. 

Edit: if flags of non-countries are allowed, then I demand a Jolly Roger.

[11:58:43] <&Omar> gotta agree with Adeptus here
[11:59:10] <&Omar> the only representation scotland has is in soccer and log tossing...

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Originally posted by Adeptus
For the purposes of flag display in an international forum, the selection should be limited to internationally recognized independent countries.  England and Wales are not on that list and adding them to please the UK citizens here is silly and confusing for others.  I for one have never before seen that red crest on white flag; the only flag I associate with those parts has red on blue.

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Exactly the point i was trying to make. The flags are there for ppl to recognize (in one glance) where a member is from, without having to investigate where f.e. Wales is...

nice flags

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
off topic: while wdz is busy changing stuff anyways, maybe remove the ASL emoticon: (?), or change its shortcut to (asl)

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[offtopic] I changed it to ((?)) quite a while ago, after I saw you mention it. [/offtopic]

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Originally posted by J.J
IMO the 'Status: Offline' should be put back. I don't see the point in removing it if you're going to keep the online and away status'.

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The Offline status is completely useless though. A missing "Status" line means the exact same thing as "Status: Offline". It was removed to save a little bit of space.

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Originally posted by Sunshine
1) It's "The Netherlands"

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If I added that, then The Netherlands would be listed right under Thailand in the UserCP.

I could change it to "Netherlands, The" if you want. BTW, the country names I'm using come directly from the official ISO 3166 standard, with only a few minor changes.

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3) And what's up with the UK having several like Welsh and Essex, they aren't countries! Should i request a Frisian flag?

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Blame famfamfam.com. Their zip file includes flags for England, Scotland, and Wales. Since we have quite a few members from those places, I thought they would appreciate being able to choose those flags, even though ISO 3166 doesn't consider them countries.

I think only recognized countries should be there .

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Originally posted by Voldemort
I think only recognized countries should be there .

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FFS, stop fucking complaining!

It seems there's always something left to do, wtf?

Then some will complain that those countries or lands are not in the list... You won't use them, anyway...

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Originally posted by WDZ
Their zip file includes flags for England, Scotland, and Wales. Since we have quite a few members from those places, I thought they would appreciate being able to choose those flags

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Yes! Don't get rid of the England flag .

It's fine how it is .

Yes... they are pretty nice... but most of us don't recognize those flags....

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Originally posted by Voldemort
Yes... they are pretty nice... but most of us don't recognize those flags....

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I don't recognise the Mexican flag

You can't get rid of all the flags you don't recognise. People are going to come onto the forum and try and find their country flag and it's not going to be there, if we start getting rid of certain flags that aren't "well known".