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 Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:25 am
Save your own Queen. Don't always expect god to do everything for you. You'll overwork him.
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:46 am
Angilwingz Save your own Queen. Don't always expect god to do everything for you. You'll overwork him.
It doesn't look like he's been doing much these last few years..
rolleyes
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:04 am
New Zealand make a busy time for god by sharing both "God save the Queen" and "God defend New Zealand" as duel national anthems.
God of nations! at Thy feet
In the bonds of love we meet,
Hear our voices, we entreat,
God defend our Free Land.
Guard Pacific's triple star,
From the shafts of strife and war,
Make her praises heard afar,
God defend New Zealand
Why is it that any song sung en masse comes out flat?
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:01 pm
ficklefiend Why is it that any song sung en masse comes out flat? Weird isn't it?
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:35 pm
Foetus In Fetu Invictus_88 Foetus In Fetu I think it's crap and it makes me want to dethrone the monarchy to render it obselete. It's particularly humiliating in the context of international football matches when we're invariably up against a side with a better national anthem. We think singing it loudly and out of key with convince people we think it's good, but it's not and everybody knows it.
America: "Over the land of the free and the home of the brave!"
France: "Grab your weapons, citizens! Form up your batallions! Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood water our fields!"
China: "Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves."
Clearly, national anthems don't have to bear any relation to said nation. Indeed, it seems almost taboo..It's not its relevancy that offends me. It's its crapness. I like it.
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:41 am
I prefer singing/shouting the French one because it's bloody good fun and I don't feel very French so I don't feel I've any responsibility for it, but I think it's quite apt that we have an understated anthem. No U.S. self-flattery, 'Britain uber alles' or South American poncey opera. Just a slow little wander of a song, invoking a diety most of us don't believe in to save a monarch we are to a great extent not particularly fussed about.
It's nicely reliable. More of a quietly self-assured country tea than a compensatorily shouted warcry.
Besides, I don't want to have to sing 'Rule, Britannia'. I'd feel like I was rubbing other countries' noses in it. It's altogether safer to be superior without deigning to make an official song about it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:11 am
Invictus_88 I prefer singing/shouting the French one because it's bloody good fun and I don't feel very French so I don't feel I've any responsibility for it, but I think it's quite apt that we have an understated anthem. No U.S. self-flattery, 'Britain uber alles' or South American poncey opera. Just a slow little wander of a song, invoking a diety most of us don't believe in to save a monarch we are to a great extent not particularly fussed about.
It's nicely reliable. More of a quietly self-assured country tea than a compensatorily shouted warcry.
Besides, I don't want to have to sing 'Rule, Britannia'. I'd feel like I was rubbing other countries' noses in it. It's altogether safer to be superior without deigning to make an official song about it. Ahh, the grace that is Britain.
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:26 am
ficklefiend Why is it that any song sung en masse comes out flat? Interference?
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Foetus In Fetu Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:04 pm
ficklefiend Why is it that any song sung en masse comes out flat? Because people are singing in different keys, and most probably can't hit a note anyway.
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:25 am
Foetus In Fetu ficklefiend Why is it that any song sung en masse comes out flat? Because people are singing in different keys, and most probably can't hit a note anyway.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:53 pm
Invictus_88 Foetus In Fetu ficklefiend Why is it that any song sung en masse comes out flat? Because people are singing in different keys, and most probably can't hit a note anyway. That would be shocking!
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:26 pm
I stand by Terry Pratchett's theory that no-one can remember the second verse of their national anthem, and by Billy Connolly's theory that we should have a faster one.
So, by taking from both these theories, we end up with a sort of high-speed dum-de-dum. Or the Archer's theme.
'Dum-de-diddly-dum-de-dum, dum-de-diddly-dee-dee, dum-de-diddly-dum-de-dum, dum-de-diddly-dee-dee . . .'
What's Scotland's national anthem again . . . *feels a fool whilst looking on Wikipedia to find out*
EDIT: I feel less foolish, since there is no official Scottish national anthem:
"Some universally popular candidates for the role include; The Flower of Scotland, Scotland the Brave, Highland Cathedral, Scots Wha Hae, A Man's a Man for a' that, and Freedom Come-All-Ye."
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:09 am
Ugh. I am soooo bored with them trying to decide on one. The Scottish parliament want to get a new one written because all the others are outdated in their eyes.
That is a terrible idea as most people will realise since the very point of an anthem is that everyone knows it and can sing it and takes pride in it. They are supposed to be old and well known. Being boring and obscure just comes along with the territory.
"Flower of Scotland" for me. It may appear on the surface to be angry but it really is a soppy tune about loving your country and it's spirit. Awww.
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:38 am
I know the Scottish national anthem the flower of Scotland, and did you know that rule Britania was written by two Scots?
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:46 pm
How come the Scots get their own damn song but we don't?
And (yes, I'm starting to rant) The Scottish parliament voted against top up fees in Scotland, but without the Scottish vote they wouldn't have been introduced in England.
ONE PARLIAMENT OR 4 GOD-DAMNED PARLIAMENTS! MAKE UP YOUR MIND!
*realises he is shouting at a system of government*
ahem, yes.
We should have Scotland the brave as the British national anthem annd have nto sub-divisions. I just like that song.
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