Which song means more to you?

[fatbadger]

SM - despite the ravings of the right-wing fringe on this thread, it IS a dirge. Listen to it. Listen to other national anthems. And try and tell me it isn't a dirge.

Oh, and I know you can only work with simplistic labelling, but there is such a thing as a republican right, you know.

 

[SM BHAFC]

It's down to personal opinion I think you will find, your is it's a dirge, mine is it's a rousing patriotic song.

Republican right well done you identified a whole US political party you are a clever badger here is a simple label for you, Jambo and Brovian and the rest

God Save The Queen

 

[fatbadger]

well done you identified a whole US political party you are a clever badger

well done you completely misunderstood you are a stupid rodger

 

[SM BHAFC]

Nope I think you will find that the US Republican party is to the right and that there ain't that many right wing republicans in this country apart from the odd idiotic Nazi obviously. But lets face it they are a joke anyway so who takes notice of thier views apart from Searchlight of course.

 

[fatbadger]

Nope I think you will find that the US Republican party is to the right

Er... yeeeees ... I know that.

When I said you misunderstood, I meant you misunderstood who I was talking about. Clearly you still do.

If, as you seem to be suggesting, republicanism is a position held only by 'the left wing fringe' and 'the odd idiotic Nazi', the latter of which 'ain't that many', then the left-wing fringe makes up roughly a third of the country. Hardly a 'fringe', really, is it? Or could it be that there are republicans who are neither left-wing nor far right? Hm, I wonder...

 

[Skintagain 1983]

Get some work done Badger... you've got a degree to get.

 

[fatbadger]

Get off the computer skintagain ... you've got a wife to cuddle up on the sofa with

 

[Archieleggatt]

I quite liked the Pistols version of GOSBTS.

Anyone got it as a ringtone for a Nikia?

 

[Fran Hagarty]

GOSBTS - no contest.. I hate the national anthem.. it sounds like a load of old dirge.. Even Germany's anthem sounds better than ours IMHO

How right you are! Ours must be one of the worst national anthems going.

 

[Strike]

I like both although I think Sussex by the sea is better.

 

[Rambo]

I would have always said GOSBTS, however after watching the veterans singing the anthem in the D-Day celebrations it gave an overwhelming sense of national pride.
We should see it more as national homage to our people and not associate it with the royal family, where I believe is why most people tend to dislike it.

 

[saltash seagull]

gosbts everytime no competition

 

[Jambo Seagull]

I would have always said GOSBTS, however after watching the veterans singing the anthem in the D-Day celebrations it gave an overwhelming sense of national pride.
We should see it more as national homage to our people and not associate it with the royal family, where I believe is why most people tend to dislike it.

I agree entirely that the British National anthem should be a national homage to the British people and that an English national anthem should be a national homage to the English national homage. However it's pretty difficult not to associate it with the royal family given that it is called "God Save the Queen!". The bottom line is that GSTQ should be consigned to the dustbin of history. It has no place in a modern progressive society.

 

[SM BHAFC]

Jambo you really are aren't you, you are one of the worst types of tossers that are around I can here your nasally twine now, "GSTQ really has no place in a modern progresive society" yeah man right on!

What a comlpete ring piece you sound, as for your point about a third of the country obviousely not just the left wing fringe but many left wingers to, however you were saying that there are republican right wingers that was your first point, despite me not understanding your in depth analysis obviously because I am a dunce you have not really explained yourself.

Mate go and ask your average right winger or maybe even just right of centre what they think about the Royal Family you may be disamally suprised, in that little world of right on politics that is moving this modern progressive world forward people may not like the history and pagentry of the Royals well it is 'so un-cool man it like a reminder of all the bad things we like did in the past man'.

 

[Bwian]

I would rather be shot dead than sing that aristocratic arse-licking tripe called the National Anthem .... sorry if that sounds un-Christian, but I can't stand royalty nor the archaic class system it represents

Not much more to add to that

However, I did sing the "God save our team" version..."send them victorious, happy and glorious" etc

That is the only version of that bloody awful dirge I will ever sing.

 

[Yorkie]

However, I did sing the "God save our team" version..."send them victorious, happy and glorious" etc

So that's how we did it.

 

[Bwian]

So that's how we did it.

That and my lucky hat

 

[Simster]

Jambo you really are aren't you, you are one of the worst types of tossers that are around I can here your nasally twine now, "GSTQ really has no place in a modern progresive society" yeah man right on!

What a comlpete ring piece you sound, as for your point about a third of the country obviousely not just the left wing fringe but many left wingers to, however you were saying that there are republican right wingers that was your first point, despite me not understanding your in depth analysis obviously because I am a dunce you have not really explained yourself.

Mate go and ask your average right winger or maybe even just right of centre what they think about the Royal Family you may be disamally suprised, in that little world of right on politics that is moving this modern progressive world forward people may not like the history and pagentry of the Royals well it is 'so un-cool man it like a reminder of all the bad things we like did in the past man'.

On the other hand, it doesn't bother you in the slightest that 17 million Brits feel alienated by the fact that the Royals are still held up in such esteem through an accident of birth, and that you'd rather have a national anthem that embodies your own beliefs than an anthem that might actually mean something to almost everybody. You'd rather a privelaged monarch wasn't offended than 17 million of your own countrymen - I find that rather sad.

Perhaps South Africa should have kept "De Stem" after the fall of apartheid? Another harmless song that associated with past "traditions".

 

[Hungry Joe.]

The easiset poll I've had to answer yet; GOSBTS by a country mile.

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

Politics don't even come into it for me. I just find the National Anthem a load of bollocks. I'm not in any way religious so singing "God Save" anything is completely ridiculous to me, and I have no love or time for the Royal Family. To paraphrase The Smiths they mean nothing to me or to my life.

A national anthem should be something the whole nation is proud to sing and be associated with. I know that this is pretty much unachievable anyway, but I'm sure that there are better songs out there that could be adopted instead of the shite we have at the moment.