# I have a miniature UN of Flags in my bedroom... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922 "2007-08-17T12:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/1 "2007-08-17T12:29:37Z")
And I’m adding more today. They hang from the wall. I already have Croatia, Greece, Mexico, The UK, and the Republic of Ireland. As I said, I’m buying more today. What should I buy? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/2 "2007-08-17T13:40:20Z")
I may get Spain or Italy, or possibly France, endless possibilities! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/3 "2007-08-17T14:39:51Z")
Oh, I forgot, I have the state of West Virginia too, but that’s not in my UN. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/4 "2007-08-17T15:22:06Z")
I have about 25 flags, ranging from my hometown and county flag to US states, current and no-longer-extant foreign countries, and even a Soviet naval high command flag. Vexiphilia rules. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/5 "2007-08-17T18:26:08Z")
Yes it does. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/6 "2007-08-17T18:42:03Z")
Nepal. That’s a cool flag. Or you could specialize in flags of controversial countries / noncountries like Chechnya, Basque Country, Tibet, and the like. 🙂 Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/7 "2007-08-17T18:48:54Z")
Now the Ikurriña (Basque flag) would look EXCELLENT right next to the Union Flag. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/8 "2007-08-17T20:27:00Z")
When I was six years old, I got to visit the United Nations headquarters when my family went to visit my mother’s parents at their Manhattan apartment. For my souvenir, I bought a box which contained miniature paper flags of all then-current UN members, plus the flag of the organization itself. For my sister (who was too young to go on the tour), I picked out a book which depicted and briefly described each of the flags. I ended up getting more use out of that little paperback than she did, and ended up “permanently borrowing” the book. Both souvenirs are still around after over forty years, although the flags are still in my old bedroom at my parents’ house in Ohio. I should bring them back to Indiana the next time I have occasion to “go back home”. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/9 "2007-08-17T22:01:42Z")
Oh, I bought the flags. I got the US, France, and Italy. I was going to get Spain but they didn’t have it. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/10 "2007-08-18T05:45:21Z")
I am in the process of designing my own flag, and hope to have it flying on my birthday, right next to the flag of the US Marine Corps, with which I share a birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/11 "2007-08-18T15:33:48Z")
I think you should start a sub-collection of former Eastern Bloc countries: The USSR Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia East and West Germany ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-miniature-un-of-flags-in-my-bedroom/415922/12 "2007-08-18T22:34:35Z")
I have the East German flag, but isn’t the west German flag still being used as the plain ol’ German flag now? Also, W. Germany was hardly Eastern Block. I should see aobut getting some of those fromer Balkan Flags though.