 Flashman14  | 23 Nov 2015 6:42 a.m. PST |
How about an optional flag icon denoting your home country on your name line when you post? I said optional. Here's what sparked it – folks ask, "what's the best range for period x?" The British pop in with their favored and locally available ranges and the Yanks do the same – each aware of the relative ease of acquisition, but maybe unaware of the reluctance for ordering across the pond. A flag icon might clue someone in that the recommendations offered might reflect local and not internatuonal availability. Whenever there is a brand name I don't recognize, it ends up being a European thing. If I had seen the flag I might have divined the fact up front. Even if you think this is a solution to a non-problem it certainly wouldn't hurt anything. |
| John the OFM | 23 Nov 2015 7:44 a.m. PST |
It is certainly a solution in search of a problem, but I would proudly wave the Stars and Stripes. Just because. |
| Martin Rapier | 23 Nov 2015 7:53 a.m. PST |
Location is already part of member profiles. Home country or country of residence? What about people who identify with countries which don't even exist. Kurds? Basques? The words, 'worm' and 'can' spring to mind. |
| Weasel | 23 Nov 2015 8:22 a.m. PST |
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| Mute Bystander | 23 Nov 2015 8:22 a.m. PST |
The Country you indicated when you joined TMP? Non-problem if you can find the company online. That said, postage concerns is why I own so little… I mean few… Baccus, Brigade Models, and GZG miniatures… |
| Cerdic | 23 Nov 2015 8:33 a.m. PST |
On other forums I find this sort of thing adds to the confusion. Some people use the flag of the country they are in, and others the flag of the country they are from. Discussing, for example, TV coverage of motor racing with an Englishman living in Texas, a Frenchman living in London, and an American living in the Czech Republic gets very complicated very quickly when they all display 'national' flags…. |
 miniMo | 23 Nov 2015 9:51 a.m. PST |
Years ago on the BKC forum, an entertaining flag thing happened, and I wound up in the Luxembourg flag flying camp =^,^= |
| Random Die Roll | 23 Nov 2015 10:09 a.m. PST |
If you open up a flag icon…please have available all flags….I prefer an international distress flag or possibly a pirate flag |
| Winston Smith | 23 Nov 2015 11:12 a.m. PST |
Using today's vernacular, with which flag do you self identify?
This allows turncoats, emigrants, immigrants, workers in far off foreign lands, adventurers, soldiers of fortune, traitors, and the undecided to express themselves.
There is already one flag in use by a TMPer of a flag for a nation that no longer exists but has dubious "modern" symbolism. Let him fly it proudly and deal with what it represents. As the OFM says I would fly the Stars and Stripes and deal with that. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 23 Nov 2015 12:53 p.m. PST |
we'd still need a drunkard's flag, |
| skippy0001 | 23 Nov 2015 3:48 p.m. PST |
Don't forget ImagiNation flags. |
 enfant perdus | 23 Nov 2015 4:04 p.m. PST |
Hard to choose between Juliette and Uniform for me. Although totally coincidental, I've always thought it pretty badass that the Polish Air Force's national markings indicate "You are running into danger." |
| Old Contemptibles | 23 Nov 2015 4:40 p.m. PST |
There is this thing called "on-line shopping." I can order anything from anywhere and have it delivered to my front door. I hear you can actually order stuff from the UK. |
 etotheipi  | 25 Nov 2015 7:00 a.m. PST |
That's the whole point of the post. You can't order anything from anywhere. You can only order stuff online if it is available online, and only from places that will ship to your location, or you can get to the location to pick it up. Then it comes down to the potential transportation costs and pricing options for the retailers from whom you can get it. |
