12mo ago

Rainbolt is unbeatable

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Having your country's flag on your property
Oh wild guess... USA?
- Denmark too. You’re not a success in Denmark until you have a flagpole, two kids (no more, no less), an electric car, a robot mower, a robot hoover and a sunken trampoline.
  
  Is sinking a tampoline a Danish nautical tradition?
  
  I moved to Denmark recently. The Danish love to fly their flag. Half of the houses have a flagpole. It's weird for me because no one in Poland does this.
- I've seen this more in Norway than in the US, people love their flags here
- Popular in finland too
  
  Only on flag days though.
Isn’t putting up flags an American thing too? Don’t really see this kind of nationalism in other coutnries.
- In England we only really put them up for football and racism.
  
  In the US, we have our own special flag just for racism.
  
  Hey it's for hockey and racism in Canada, too!
  
  can you explain the racism part of it to a non brit? like I'm five /stupid american pls
  
  So ... every day?
  
  So football?
- I've seen it in just about every country I have visited physically and in Geoguessr. Maybe not quite as prevalent as the US but I wouldn't actually say the difference is as big as people probably think.
  What's funny is that beyond knowing you're in America, the flag doesn't help a lot with location guessing. USA is one of the tougher countries to pinpoint within in GeoGuesser. It's probably harder to distinguish Vermont from Ohio from Oregon (depending on the photo) than it is to tell Albania from Austria even with no flags or signs.
  
  Complete opposite of my experience. While you do see flags in other countries they are usually only at governme t buildings, it's rare to see people flying flags themselves. Whereas in America they are everywhere and also buildins will often have multiple. Like I went to a mall and the outside had at least a dozen flags on sides.
  
  american geography is also aggressively diverse as well, it varies from ice in alaska, to the literal desert
- I went to a hardware store in the states during a trip. Turns out they had a patriotic corner there, full of flags and banners. I've never seen anything like that before in any country. In a lot of countries you have to search for even a tiny souvenir flag.
- I live in Taiwan and plenty of people put flags up.
  
  In Europe, mostly during soccer championships because you get them with a crate of beer during that time.
- In Finland we have plenty of national "flag days" every year. I don't see people putting up flags on their porch or anything but many has flag poles on their yard and flying a Finnish flag has no racist implications to it or anything like that. It's a traditional thing to do and especially the elderly are pretty strict about it.
  
  That was what the US used to be, but now flying a flag has too many negative connotations. Don’t let your nationalist nut-jobs ruin it for you too
- It seems like it's common in places that have an independence movement (Quebec, Ireland and Taiwan as others have mentioned), the USA is an exception to that.
  
  Catalonia. Catalan flags are everywhere.
- Northern Ireland, plenty of flags over here.
  
  We were there a couple of weeks ago. Seems different neighbourhoods had different flags. We elected not to fly a courtesy flag on our boat as all the alternatives were partisan one way or another.
- A fair few Australians fly the flag in front of their house all year round.
  
  And they without fail put up the coalition corflutes during elections, and had the 'if you don't know, vote no' signs during the referendum.
  The Venn diagram is a perfect circle.
- I would call that fanaticism over nationalism.
  
  It really depends on what definition of nationalism you're using, absolutely. Original usage of "nationalism" had its meaning much closer to "patriotism", the older of the two words, but usage over time has separated their definitions (again, dependant on where you are in the world).
  In america "nationalism" is more often associated with 'white nationalism' and even when not explicitly tied to the white nationalist movement, 'nationalism' at best carries with it a negative connotation. "Nationalism" in the States means patriotism, but an exclusive sort which puts the rest of the world beneath the needs of America, even the basic needs of a given country's right to self-determination if it goes against the US's interests, which dovetails nicely with your definition of fanaticism
- Canada. Not as many as in the US but the Canadian flag is flown in many households.
- Depends on which part of the country. In Spain some places are full of Spanish flags, others have none, and others have regional flags (Catalonia, basque country).
  My guess is they're more common in rural areas, independent of the country.
- Common in Canada.
  Where do you get the notion that it’s an American thing from?
  
  Where is this common? I have family in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC, and we rarely see flags on people's lawns/whatever. I'm in Vancouver and there is ONE flag within a 20 minute walk in any direction. In fact, my kids refer to it as 'the flag house' it's so out of place.
  Hell our Prime Minister had to ask us to be more patriotic for the olympics in 2010.
- In austria, the only flags that i have seen are pride flags. And even that is very rare.
- Some people in Japan put them out occasionally on holidays.
- Uncommon in Swiss, flagpoles have fallen out of fashion. More common on 1. August.
- Common in other places too
- Ah yes, because no where but America and Europe exist.
Is that guy okay?
- Nope. Storing all of Google street view in one human's brain takes a toll on you.
  But seriously, if you haven't seen him before, the guy is nuts. He has to come up with challenges to make geoguesser difficult for himself now:
  https://youtube.com/shorts/cCVJtd0ZPHQ
  
  Grayjay isn't opening this up for me. What's the channel name of this guy?
- if this guy worked for the CIA every russian spy in existence would be dead within two weeks
  
  Explain that
Holy shit, it's postal dude without his glasses.
Sign my damn petition
- Signed!
- My grandmother could win this game if she saved as often as you do
I’d put mine out in the garden. Mate. Cheers.
- Bonzer craic, y'all guv'ner.
He’s the Usain Phelps Real Madrid of Geoguessing
I’ve only seen him in one video and he picked Hawaii when it was Idaho
- Is it one of the videos where the picture only shows for a second?
  
  No, this was an intentionally bait round where the soil looked super volcanic. Basically if you don't know the random park in Idaho, Hawaii is the most likely place
- United States
He's not saying lawn in geoguessr though, so a moot point.
- Good thing the lawn wouldn't be visible
  
  it would be to cows, which makes it a moo point.
  
  Visible in plenty of countries outside of US.
  
  Good thing lawns are an American feature and not at all common elsewhere lol

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