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KyleTheGhost
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12 Apr 2016, 4:31 am

^mörkö? What is THAT?


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13 Apr 2016, 3:07 am

Mörkö is the original name for the Groke, a character from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. It's eerie and monster-like.


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13 Apr 2016, 4:02 am

Yes, Skilpadde. I couldn't have expressed it more clearly myself.


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13 Apr 2016, 5:24 am

It looks like that McDonald's character, Grimace.

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13 Apr 2016, 5:32 am

Hello, Murihiku. Looks like the NZ chose to stick to the old flag.


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13 Apr 2016, 6:24 am

Yeah, they did. There was a clear majority favouring the old flag over the new one in the lead-up to the referendum, although the final result was a lot closer than I expected: 56.73% supporting the old (current) flag, and 43.27% for the new design.

I didn't mind one way or the other, although if another referendum is held in the future I'll submit a new design of my own. When that might be is anyone's guess. I'd say after Queen Elizabeth II's reign ends, when the idea of New Zealand becoming a republic will probably start gaining a lot more support.


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14 Apr 2016, 1:54 am

yeesh, that is close. that's the one in your avatar?

i dunno, man. i'm pretty sure liz is immortal.


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15 Apr 2016, 1:57 am

^ Prince Charles probably thinks that way. :P Even the former King of Spain abdicated so that his son wouldn't have to wait as long as Prince Charles has.

And yeah, my current avatar is adapted from a flag design that I never got to submit (I only came up with it well after the deadline). Ah well, maybe next time.


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15 Apr 2016, 1:59 am

Hello, Mrihiku :D
You mean you designed it?


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15 Apr 2016, 2:38 am

yeah did you design it??

it makes many a vexillologist happy.


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15 Apr 2016, 8:56 am

Yeah, I made a flag design mid-last year using Inkscape (although the fern I used for it was a Bezier trace from an image I found online). Then a few months afterwards I adapted the flag design to make my current avatar (conversion to squares, made the watermark designs).

I'll probably keep it for some time.


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15 Apr 2016, 3:22 pm

Very artistic of you, Murihiku. :)


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15 Apr 2016, 7:02 pm

^ More mathematical than anything. I actually learned how to construct the Union Jack, which was interesting (I wonder if they make high school maths students do it in the UK). But then I modified it for my square avatar; I think I ended up using high school trigonometry and Cartesian coordinates for it. It's certainly been a while. :P

But speaking of becoming a republic ... I just read this morning that Jamaica is thinking of doing that very same thing. And it was announced by none other than their own Governor-General. How's that for talking yourself out of a job?


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16 Apr 2016, 2:17 am

i remember in high school geometry they taught us howot make origami ninja stars. 8) the kind that can transform into a ring. i still have mine.


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16 Apr 2016, 10:38 am

8O You got to do cool stuff in high school!


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17 Apr 2016, 1:58 am

aside from the social situation, things in high school were okay. green chemistry class was one of my favorites even if i did fail it once.

we also made crepes and putty!


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