Monmouth makes mammoth mistake
I know what you’re thinking: when did Flaghagz move away from flags and toward modern art renderings of art deco desks?
Well friends, you may be surprised to learn that the abomination above is a flag. And not only is it a flag, it’s a very recent flag. As in, this year. As in, Monmouth heard about all of the crowdsourcing success of New Zealand and Fiji, and wanted a piece of the action.
So here we are, with probably the worst flag in the UK on our hands, and they can’t even blame it on posterity. And if you’re wondering how many votes it takes for one of the four finalists to win the Monmouth flag design competition, it’s 181. The answer is 181 votes.
The illustrious and hopefully less crowd-sourced newspaper Monmouth Today claims "The number of entrants (into the competition) was very pleasing; especially regarding school children.” Well no shit, Monmouth Today, obviously they were coerced into designing flags as some sort of jingoistic school project, and obviously this design came from one such schoolchild.
So I’m guessing there’s a bridge in Monmouth, and also some large desk. But the only article on the subject doesn’t address anything about this flag except that it won the competition. Luckily, Wikipedia came to the rescue (as always) and let me know that the famous Monmouth bridge is topped by a gate (not a desk, though you could probably place a desk in the gate), and dates back to the Norman Invasion (which every linguist and maybe some other people too know was in 1066 AD). Oh yeah, and shockingly, there are no other such old-ass stone bridges left in England. So actually this is a really old bridge and totally worth being on the flag as the foremost characteristic of Monmouth - just could use a little more explanation, and maybe a clearer representation and less neon on the flag.
And in case you were wondering, the flags that lost:
I smell nepotism.
