alt Hacker NewsThe government of New South Wales (the Australian state of which Sydney is the capital) commissioned a corporate logo depicting a waratah (the NSW state flower) and got one showing a lotus. They still use it on everything.
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crabmusket • today at 1:41 PM
Wow, that always confused me since moving here. I thought I didn't know what a Waratah was, but no, it's the logo that's wrong.
jhy • today at 12:42 PM
And they just flat out told everyone who pointed it out -- nope, you're looking at it wrong; and anyway we already paid those consultants so we'd better use it, what?
"Good enough for Australia" is a phrase I frequently heard from Aussies. There seems to be this attitude there that they're a frontier country where one improvises (half asses?) everything.