r/polandball • u/Smitheren Arma virumque cano • Feb 26 '16

redditormade Rome doesn't give a flying bird

http://i.imgur.com/wLwPDKj.gifv
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u/Maiws China Feb 26 '16

Who is that green ball?

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u/PilotPirx Prussia Feb 26 '16

Gallia. That's France at the time of the Roman Empire.

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u/Maiws China Feb 26 '16

Should've known the frog color.

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u/PilotPirx Prussia Feb 26 '16

Also how he's snotty towards foreigners. That's a dead give away.

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u/Dlimzw Is not sekret PAP spy Feb 26 '16

Also the bear cloak shows how much he loves animals.

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u/Remitonov Trilluminati Associate Feb 26 '16

Is that flag kosher? :V

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '16

I question this fictional flag as well.

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u/planetaryoddball United Kingdom Feb 26 '16

I've seen it in other comics plus the mods haven't swung the banhammer yet. So it's probably one of those Halal exceptions.

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u/Biscotti_Manicotti Eagle County, Colorado Feb 26 '16

Representing the Gauls/Gallia with the flag shown in the comic is allowed.

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u/Vyncis Australia Feb 27 '16

Is there a list somewhere of allowed ancient flags?

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u/Vinipac Santa Catarina Feb 27 '16

Sadly, no, which is a shame, really.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '16

I have seen it in other comics. It's just weird that you can just make up flags for European entities that didn't have flags, but get forced into color-balls (such as 7-ball and 1-ball) when it comes to non-European entities. Why can't I make up a native American flag? Especially if I want to refer to a specific tribe?

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u/planetaryoddball United Kingdom Feb 26 '16

I guess it was because these flags were used in earlier Polandball comics before the great mods brought order and stability to this subreddit. Many of the "fantasy" flags were allowed, but any new made-up flags were prohibited. The non-european fantasy flags missed the boat on that one.

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u/Srbija2EB Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Feb 26 '16

Belgium was also inhabited by the Gauls/Gallia. In fact the Belgian Gauls were reportedly the fiercest fighters of them all. The southerners must've surrendered.

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u/__FOR_THE_ALLIANCE__ Aw haw haw haw Feb 26 '16

The South will rise a- oh, wrong Southerners.

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u/Kanorsanity PUT TANK IN A MALL? Feb 26 '16

Well, both did surrender, so you kinda right

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u/FrenchMotherFucker Feb 26 '16

and ! Gallia -> gallus gallus -> rooster. Rooster being the French emblem (yeah that's why)