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May 10, 2016 1:00pm by David Farrar

Once again flag confusion strikes

Media coverage of the Invictus Games.

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Jack5

Well it is NZ’s West Island.
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May 10, 2016 1:02pm
Kimbo

Don’t worry. the ever-irascible Chris Diack will be along shortly to explain why the confusion doesn’t matter…at all and it’s just a beat-up.
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May 10, 2016 1:11pm
2boyz

I think it’s time to spend another $26 Million, well it isn’t.

Recently voted on, not going to change anytime soon, let’s move on shall we!
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May 10, 2016 1:14pm
Don the Kiwi

Obviously the Aussies don’t know their own flag.

Let them change – but that is OUR FLAG. Maybe they prefer it to theirs. 🙂
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May 10, 2016 1:14pm
waikatogirl

Clever Aussie’s knowing their own country’s flag 😉
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May 10, 2016 1:14pm
mikemikemikemike

NZ been seen as a tax haven…not important
Baby gets beaten to death over 60 days…..nothing to see here
Surprise Surplus for the govt……hayl no!

But someone unimportant reporting on a non-event endorsed by a revered Ginga incorrectly identifies the flag and you think that is worthy of a post……the democratic process had its say, and your paymaster lost, so sad – pick something new to try and manipulate the press/public into thinking dude.
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May 10, 2016 1:16pm
calendar girl

Time to give the ‘flag debate’ a rest. It’s over for a generation. Let it be.
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May 10, 2016 1:18pm
Adolf Fiinkensein

Hey come on David. Not just the flag. What about the black uniforms with large kiwis on the chest?

Would you like a referendum to change the colour of your national rugby sides uniform?
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May 10, 2016 1:21pm
Boris Piscina

There are two types of people who can’t tell the New Zealand and Australian flags apart; those who are colour blind, and those who can’t count the difference between four stars and six.

Just saying.
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May 10, 2016 1:21pm
simpleton1

Adolf, maybe like an ostrich relative that buries its head 😉 an emu? cassowary?
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May 10, 2016 1:27pm
iMP

Let’s ban our accint as will as foreign peoples mistake us constantly for Aussies despite well-rounded vowels
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May 10, 2016 1:29pm
Fentex

The confusion was by the DailyMail.

I’m not sure – is that irony because they’re a bit rah rah imperialist and can’t deal properly with it’s symbols or just arrogance that they don’t care, presumably as long as it’s a Union Ensign?
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May 10, 2016 1:32pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

As dead topic as Labour party of NZ. Moving on bros…NZ has already spoken….
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May 10, 2016 1:34pm
RRM

Change it to a picture of a dead rat.

Works on many levels.
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May 10, 2016 1:35pm
RRM

We won, you lost, eat that.
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May 10, 2016 1:36pm
flipper

Thanks T U Little and (EDIT – Shithouse) poo Peters.

Just arseholes… arseholes that have also sold out on the Kiwi.

Why ????
Take a look at their T Shirts. (EDIT: Just spotted Adolf’s comment.)
Richie McCaw was right, but the effete snob dickheads dumped on him….
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May 10, 2016 1:36pm
Nukuleka

You’re as sad on this issue, DPF as the folks round the road from me who continue to fly the Lockwood flag forlornly from their pre-referendum- purchased flagpole. Move on, for heaven’s sake! Most of us just don’t care.
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May 10, 2016 1:37pm
mikenmild

Why are those Australians carrying a New Zealand flag?
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May 10, 2016 1:38pm
Satantango

Sadly, I agree with those who say it is time to move on. The people have spoken, and while I am disappointed in what they said,in a democracy that’s it, done and dusted.
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May 10, 2016 1:45pm
ciaron

The problem is not the flag, or the other giveaway symbols in the image.

The problem is lazy, stupid journalists and editors, and you can’t fix them with a referendum.
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May 10, 2016 2:03pm
Michael

Here is a classic example of the Australian flag being mistaken for ours.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/sport/hayden-paddon-all-for-nz-flag-change-2016021719#axzz48HyB3LEH
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May 10, 2016 2:04pm
Longknives

“Richie McCaw was right,”

That “The All Blacks ‘ARE New Zealand”??
Thankfully rolling out McCaw to arrogantly pontificate to us all backfired badly on the Government- and the Nation democratically voted against the change..

*I wasn’t always opposed to flag change but that Lockwood ‘All Black teatowel’ thing was freaking awful!
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May 10, 2016 2:13pm
JMS

Move on, for heaven’s sake! Most of us just don’t care.

Clearly you do care, or you wouldn’t have commented.
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May 10, 2016 2:27pm
Manolo

Are you starting to promote a new flag referendum, DPF?
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May 10, 2016 2:31pm
James Stephenson

The confusion was by the DailyMail.

I’m not sure – is that irony because they’re a bit rah rah imperialist and can’t deal properly with it’s symbols or just arrogance that they don’t care, presumably as long as it’s a Union Ensign?

Wonder no more, why that rag is known as “The Daily Fail”.
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May 10, 2016 2:32pm
Gulag1917

First time I have ever seen a photograph like this. A once in a lifetime mistake and could be a prank at that.
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May 10, 2016 3:01pm
Sam

Of all the reasons for changing the flag, and there are some valid ones, this is perhaps the lamest.

I get Russia’s and Netherlands’ flags mixed up too, but my deficiencies aren’t a good reason for either one of those nations to change their flag.

As a ‘told-you-so’, this is pretty weak stuff.

[edit – also try Chad and Romania 🙂 ]
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May 10, 2016 3:13pm
rangitoto

But that is the Aussie team. The rotters have stolen the kiwi as well as our flag!
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May 10, 2016 3:23pm
deadrightkev

Good old DPF

No confusion to me. But then I always did notice a difference between Kiwis and Aussies.
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May 10, 2016 3:28pm
Shunda barunda

Do you think this is the only time the American media makes a mistake?
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May 10, 2016 3:28pm
rangitoto

@Shunda. I believe it was from the DM.
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May 10, 2016 3:42pm
slightlyrighty

My Brother is in the Kiwi Team, they are amusingly annoyed….or annoyingly amused….
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May 10, 2016 6:53pm
V

And here we are as the United Kingdom. Guess all those Kiwi’s and black uniforms don’t help.
Good thing they’re not on the flag!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141718240@N05/26812481032/

Moral of the story, if people want to be pig ignorant, they will be pig ignorant. Why try and cater to it?
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