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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Being a proud maritime nation, sure we should be celebrating this by having each denomination of note show a different famous vessel?

£5 is Boaty McBoatface.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Keir eagerly awaiting Trump's load? Farage wiping his arse with the country?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Oh the options are endless...Liz Kendall in an SS uniform machine-gunning a load of disabled people, Yvette Cooper in a Suffragette tee laughing as a load of anti-genocide supporters get arrested for holding signs, Keir Starmer taking a shit on the UK whilst Farage stands off to one side loosening his belt ready to go next.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

83 year old priest arrested

How about this priest they arrested for attending a pro-Palesitian protest?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

how about the peace flag of northern ireland?

oh no wait a minute, that's right, the palestinians haven't wanted peace for 100 years; not appropriate

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not a uk citizen but i wanna say shopping trolley in the canal

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Me neither, but that just provides us with an objective look at what's clearly best, free of encumbering sentiment.

I like the Bermudian idea of using flora and fauna to capture a country’s distinctive identity. A shift like this would show that we’re not trapped in tradition.

Exactly. A spectral lion, dragon, and unicorn in the background. In the foreground, a bulldog wearing mirrored steampunk goggles on a surfboard doing an aerial off a cresting wave with a fancy caption beneath him reading "Britannia rules the waves!" The mirrored goggle lenses are where the shiny anti-counterfeiting hologram goes.

Also, get Jessica Borutski to do the draft. She did a Canada logo a while back.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/fe8755cc-eb0c-4f0d-9ead-8dee2cc5c33e.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I think they should hire Jim'll Paint It for the job

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Chicken Tikka Masala for the win!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Dog shit in a plastic bag, tied to a tree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Paddington, and David Tennant as Doctor Who.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

David Tennant as paddington might be more fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Paddington as Dr Who could breathe new life into the franchise

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Bude Tunnel surely, who could deny that pinnacle of human achievement?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A true marvel of 20th Century engineering.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

a stabbing outside a ladbrokes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

JK Rowling hate-tweeting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Sycamore Gap?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That accidental renaissance picture outside the Printworks in Manchester

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

How about renditions of the movie Threads? That seems the most optimistic projection for the UK's future on its current path.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A turd floating down a river?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

How about this? On the front, an image of Charles signing a decree condemning trans women as pedophiles. On the back, a painting of an obese King Charles furiously masturbating to child pornography while an anti-genocide protester is chained naked in the same bed. That's the truest representation of the UK I can think of right now.