[Misc] The National Anthem ?

[Questions]

What a dirge ?
Makes you a wanna go Republican surely ?

 

[Live by the sea]

I think the English one is quite nice ,

 

[Flagship]

Perhaps the English should adopt the Welsh one.

 

[Bob!]

I think the English one is quite nice ,

There isn't an English National Anthem.

Apart from GSTK by default.

 

[clapham_gull]

I think the English one is quite nice ,

We don't have one, quite famously.

 

[SeagullinExile]

I prefer the Lichtenstein version.....

High above the young Rhine

Lies Liechtenstein, resting

On Alpine heights.

This beloved homeland,

This dear fatherland

Was chosen for us by

God's wise hand.


Long live Liechtenstein,

Blossoming on the young Rhine,

Happy and faithful!

Long live the Prince of the Land,

Long live our fatherland,

United by brotherly bonds and free!

 

[banjo]

I prefer ours. GOSBTS

 

[GT49er]

What a dirge ?
Makes you a wanna go Republican surely ?

F*** off, it's fine. Republican wannabees and other clowns (and miserable turds) can just get on and accept it, or - as already stated - f*** off.



I'm sure there's a country that's anything but British for you somewhere. Why not try Ruanda?

 

[BadFish]

F*** off, it's fine. Republican wannabees and other clowns (and miserable turds) can just get on and accept it, or - as already stated - f*** off.



I'm sure there's a country that's anything but British for you somewhere. Why not try Ruanda?

Or they can hold a different opinion to you and it's all fine, no one needs to f*** off or get sweary about it.

It's a dirge about a god who doesn't exist saving a King who shouldn't exist.

A no from me.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

F*** off, it's fine. Republican wannabees and other clowns (and miserable turds) can just get on and accept it, or - as already stated - f*** off.



I'm sure there's a country that's anything but British for you somewhere. Why not try Ruanda?

Or, indeed Rwanda.

Calm down old boy. @Questions is simply full of questions today.

Here are some more to ponder.

Pope, or Popeye?
Which way is up?
Guess what I'm thinking right now?

You see, it is a glorious world of unresolved conundrums out there and @Questions brings us some of the biggies by virtue of his inquiring mind.

Don't knock it

 

[GT49er]

Or they can hold a different opinion to you and it's all fine, no one needs to f*** off or get sweary about it.

It's a dirge about a god who doesn't exist saving a King who shouldn't exist.

A no from me.

As you say, it's all about opinions. Mine is, f*** off and go and live somewhere that's a republic.

 

[BadFish]

As you say, it's all about opinions. Mine is, f*** off and go and live somewhere that's a republic.

. . . And count your self lucky that GT49er isn't King

 

[ManOfSussex]

Or they can hold a different opinion to you and it's all fine, no one needs to f*** off or get sweary about it.

It's a dirge about a god who doesn't exist saving a King who shouldn't exist.

A no from me.

But when I crawled out of bed earlier in the year the morning of the coronation and put it on TV whilst having a coffee and reading the paper, the King was definitely on his knees with his shirt undone paying homage to God, because God appointed him, much like Rob Andrew and Keith Greenfield appointed Paul Fabrace to be coach of Sussex CCC this season. Are you seriously telling me it's all a load bollocks?

 

[clapham_gull]

F*** off, it's fine. Republican wannabees and other clowns (and miserable turds) can just get on and accept it, or - as already stated - f*** off.



I'm sure there's a country that's anything but British for you somewhere. Why not try Ruanda?

"I don't like the National Anthem". For years the subject of great comedy routines, famously the great Billy Connolly. Many questions over the years about what should be played at England national sports events. Good old and very English debate, akin with the issue the Church of England with George as a patron saint.

What is it to be English, when we don't have a nation anthem ? What is it to be English when we celebrate a non national mythical figure, who clearly didn't kill a dragon.

Response ? Go and live in Ruanda.

The utter state of this country post Brexit.

 

[BadFish]

"I don't like the National Anthem". For years the subject of comedy routines, famously the great Billy Connolly. Much debate over the years about what should be played at England national sports events.

Response ? Go and live in Ruanda.

The utter state of this country post Brexit.

A divided nation where opposing ideas will not be tolerated. Maybe someone should write a song about that?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

F*** off, it's fine. Republican wannabees and other clowns (and miserable turds) can just get on and accept it, or - as already stated - f*** off.



I'm sure there's a country that's anything but British for you somewhere. Why not try Ruanda?

Eh? I'm pretty sure you can be a royalist but still think the anthem is gash?!

Me, I can't contain my indifference about either of them. I'm not quite sure why that means I should move to Africa though

 

[A1X]

F*** off, it's fine. Republican wannabees and other clowns (and miserable turds) can just get on and accept it, or - as already stated - f*** off.



I'm sure there's a country that's anything but British for you somewhere. Why not try Ruanda?

“I think everyone who disagrees with me should be deported” is an unusual take, I’ll give you that

 

[GT49er]

Eh? I'm pretty sure you can be a royalist but still think the anthem is gash?!

Well yes, so long as you don't satrt bemoaning it and burbling on about what a terrible place Engand is and all that, I suppose. TBF, the second and third verses are pretty awful! (and I guess that's why they're never sung!)

....and anyway, it's not nearly such a dirge as 'Flower of Scotland'..................................................

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

It is shite of the highest order. But so is anything to do with the Royal Family TBH so it’s probably quite fitting.

 

[dsr-burnley]

All national anthems are rubbish. It's like the best man's speech at a wedding - you expect it to be rubbish, you just hope it's short rubbish not everlasting rubbish. At least ours is short.

If people don't like God Save The King because it mentions a God in whom they don't believe and a King who they would rather replace, then would Jerusalem be any better? It mentions the same God, in the form of Jesus, and the foreign capital of a nation that they probably hate. Not much improvement there!