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This community still needs an icon, and just the flag is boring. What does the community want to see?

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[-] meejle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Never forget that the classic video game Lemmings is itself a British creation.

This would be my pitch:

Alternate version and transparent PNG


Still an official™️ Lemmings skin tone, but one from a later game I guess, in the interest of inclusivity:

Transparent PNG in case anyone wants to remix it:

Easy, relevant banner idea


Use a screenshot like this one, but decide what they're queueing for. Greggs? Woolies? Half-price biscuits? The possibilities are endless.

[-] sunspider@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Ooh, I love it! I'm inclined to go with the banner already. Any objections?

[-] sideone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Make it so (please)

[-] thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta be between this and top hat lemming. Does Lemmy do polls, yet? 🤔

[-] Fishbulb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This has got to be it, it's perfect

[-] thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Greggs pasty, or a nice cuppa (pending inevitable bickering over exactly what shade of tea)

Edit: Differentiate ourselves from the other place with an icon of a duck

[-] rubikfrog@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A quick image search for "union jack rubber duck" shows some contenders...

[-] LillianVS@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I approve of duck. Everyone likes duck

[-] Speckle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I was thinking something Greggs based as well. I was just going to say the logo though 😂

[-] sideone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was thinking something Greggs based as well

I know this is a safe space, so I'm going to say something controversial. I don't like anything Greggs make (apart from the jammie dodger biscuit)

[-] thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

... There's a limit to how safe a space gets you know

[-] sideone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's fair. I'll take it on the chin!

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

What's your local alternative? There's a chain in the North-West called Greenhalch's that's solid, or Cooplands in the Midlands is good too.

[-] sideone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We have Parsons which is OK. Plenty of independent bakeries but all quite expensive (think £2.60 for a plain croissant). I don't tend to bother.

[-] TheFriendless@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I was always fond of this image, but am loving the lemming top hat.

[-] Repulsa@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 1 year ago
[-] alibloke@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago
[-] chaosppe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just for fun I asked gpt-4 what the most British thing is, I then asked it to make a prompt for midjourney. Here is the result. (Don't question the alien hand)

[-] GuinnessChocolates@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Ugh the hands. Always the hands.

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

Lemming wearing a top hat and monicle. Drinking a cuppa

[-] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago
[-] thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

What a dapper fella

[-] charred@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Is that AI?

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Speckle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is brilliant! How'd you come up with it so quickly?

[-] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Speckle@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Bruv I tried AI and got this, not quite the same lol

[-] RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This was my go, love how we're all getting totally different styles!

[-] Speckle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This one is great! I love how gentlemanly he is

[-] RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

He's a dapper chap isn't he

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Looks lime a winner to me.

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe more suited to UKFormal?

[-] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I honestly prefer yours. It's adorable!

[-] Speckle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh thanks! Well seems like there might be a couple of options then 😊

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And yet so charming in its way!

[-] dimspace@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I actually love this.. lemming in bowler hat sat in a cup of tea.. very british

[-] andypiper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

this is the best :-)

[-] Speckle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

How about a lemming sipping tea like the Kermit the frog meme?

[-] GoingMenthol@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

An imposing picture of Mr Blobby

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

So, just a picture of Mr. Blobby?

Honestly that diseased penis looking fucker haunts my nightmares.

[-] GreyShuck@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago
[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

A pubsign for a pub called The Deckchair?

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Angry woman looking at sausage

How about this most British of pictures? Angry person, reactolite glasses, a sausage ready for the back garden barbecue and even a sneaky garden fence. If there was a wheelie bin in there it would cover 90% of normal chat :-)

(Edit: and please for the love of all that is holy do not use a top-hat or a monocle. Those are lazy parodies of Britishness used mainly by Americans whose idea of the UK comes from The Crown and Downton Abbey. There's only one person who I can even imagine wearing either item regularly and I would probably get banned for saying what I think of him.)

[-] TSMKFail@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The Alonso Deckchair image with the Union Flag as the background. Also give Alonso a Top Hat plus Monacle

[-] LillianVS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I propose this cute rubber ducky! All hail the duckies!

[-] Mane25@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I now think a duck would be the funniest. Obviously, the ultimate "middle-finger" to the old regime.

[-] jerome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Spotted dick and tea.

America gets gun and hamburders.

India gets many phone icons.

Australia gets scary spider on a dingo.

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