The United Kingdom Gets Complicated

Some Kingdom Kingdom of Great Britain The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland The United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland The United Realm ruled by a king or queen regnant of South East, London, North West, East of England, West Midlands, South West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, North East, Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone, Borders, Central, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Grampian, Highland, Lothian, Strathclyde, Tayside and Wales

The image shows a progression of increasingly elaborate British flags, beginning with the flag of England and adding the components of the United Kingdom until the final design becomes an absurdly dense burst of Union Jack patterns. The joke exaggerates the complexity of the United Kingdom’s name and constituent regions, making it useful as a reaction to something needlessly complicated or overexplained. EN: The image shows a progression of increasingly elaborate British flags, beginning with the flag of England and adding the components of the United Kingdom until the final design becomes an absurdly dense burst of Union Jack patterns. The joke exaggerates the complexity of the United Kingdom’s name and constituent regions, making it useful as a reaction to something needlessly complicated or overexplained.

• @afrosidemoon / 9752 2019-02-28
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