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> It's hard to imagine the flag flown at the UN being done as a rush job from a Wikipedia article. Maybe the UN has their buttons on, but at the Olympics, disp

> It's hard to imagine the flag flown at the UN being done as a rush job from a Wikipedia article. Maybe the UN has their buttons on, but at the Olympics, displaying the wrong flag, an incorrect flag or the right flag upside-down happens now and then.

lolinder 3y ago
I imagine so, but in this instance the flag is a big stinking deal because the UN had just allowed the flags of Palestine and the Vatican (Observer States) to be flown for the very first time. This wasn't a case of "we've got to print out flags for every single country and fly them all at once", these two flags were given special attention. Also note my edit: the Twitter thread zokier found shows Benedict XVI seated next to a red-tiara'd flag in 2005, as well as the one that was sent to the moon in 1969.
msla 3y ago
Oh, the Olympics has done worse: https://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/149244038/ceremony-plays-borat-kazakhstan-anthem-by-mistake https://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/149244038/ceremony-plays-bora... > Kazakhstan won the game but lost the award ceremony. A parody of the country's national anthem was played by mistake after a Kazakh athlete won a gold medal. Organizers of the shooting competition in Kuwait are apologizing for playing the Kazakhstan anthem from the comedy movie Borat.
- ytdytvhxgydvhh 3y ago
  Maybe the Olympics have done worse but your link isn’t Olympic-related.
  - operatingthetan 3y ago
    Whoever is downvoting this please ask yourself when the last time Kuwait hosted the Olympics was...
    - msla 3y ago
      The next time it does, it has the opportunity to do something extremely funny.
    - irrational 3y ago
      No idea, but I’ll guess the answer is never?
      - operatingthetan 3y ago
        That's a bingo!
    - wombatpm 3y ago
      That was right after Nelson Mandela died in prison
  - msla 3y ago
    Oh, damn. I Googled for Olympics wrong anthem and that came up. It's a meta-screw up. Apt.
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
    - zeven7 3y ago
      Next Bard will read the comment, repeat it as fact, and it will make it into the history books.

lolinder 3y ago

I imagine so, but in this instance the flag is a big stinking deal because the UN had just allowed the flags of Palestine and the Vatican (Observer States) to be flown for the very first time. This wasn't a case of "we've got to print out flags for every single country and fly them all at once", these two flags were given special attention. Also note my edit: the Twitter thread zokier found shows Benedict XVI seated next to a red-tiara'd flag in 2005, as well as the one that was sent to the moon in 1969.

msla 3y ago

Oh, the Olympics has done worse: https://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/149244038/ceremony-plays-borat-kazakhstan-anthem-by-mistake https://www.npr.org/2012/03/23/149244038/ceremony-plays-bora... > Kazakhstan won the game but lost the award ceremony. A parody of the country's national anthem was played by mistake after a Kazakh athlete won a gold medal. Organizers of the shooting competition in Kuwait are apologizing for playing the Kazakhstan anthem from the comedy movie Borat.

ytdytvhxgydvhh 3y ago
Maybe the Olympics have done worse but your link isn’t Olympic-related.
- operatingthetan 3y ago
  Whoever is downvoting this please ask yourself when the last time Kuwait hosted the Olympics was...
  - msla 3y ago
    The next time it does, it has the opportunity to do something extremely funny.
  - irrational 3y ago
    No idea, but I’ll guess the answer is never?
    - operatingthetan 3y ago
      That's a bingo!
  - wombatpm 3y ago
    That was right after Nelson Mandela died in prison
- msla 3y ago
  Oh, damn. I Googled for Olympics wrong anthem and that came up. It's a meta-screw up. Apt.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - zeven7 3y ago
    Next Bard will read the comment, repeat it as fact, and it will make it into the history books.