UKCasual @lemmy.world Sun-Spider @lemmy.world 1y ago

What icon should we have?

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

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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.
- Ooh, I love it! I'm inclined to go with the banner already. Any objections?
  
  Make it so (please)
- Gotta be between this and top hat lemming. Does Lemmy do polls, yet? 🤔
- This has got to be it, it's perfect
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
- A quick image search for "union jack rubber duck" shows some contenders...
- I approve of duck. Everyone likes duck
- I was thinking something Greggs based as well. I was just going to say the logo though 😂
  
  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)
A buttery crumpet?
- Mmmm
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)
- Ugh the hands. Always the hands.
An imposing picture of Mr Blobby
- So, just a picture of Mr. Blobby?
  
  Honestly that diseased penis looking fucker haunts my nightmares.
Lemming wearing a top hat and monicle. Drinking a cuppa
- Something like this?
  
  What a dapper fella
  
  Is that AI?
  
  Love it.
  
  This is brilliant! How'd you come up with it so quickly?
- How about a lemming sipping tea like the Kermit the frog meme?
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.)
A deckchair? A pub sign?
- A pubsign for a pub called The Deckchair?
The Alonso Deckchair image with the Union Flag as the background. Also give Alonso a Top Hat plus Monacle
I propose this cute rubber ducky! All hail the duckies!
I now think a duck would be the funniest. Obviously, the ultimate "middle-finger" to the old regime.
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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