[Misc] The National Anthem ?
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Live by the sea
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- Oct 21, 2016
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I think the English one is quite nice ,
Bob!
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- Jul 5, 2003
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clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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We don't have one, quite famously.
SeagullinExile
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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!
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
GOSBTS
I prefer ours. GOSBTS
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
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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.
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
As you say, it's all about opinions. Mine is, f*** off and go and live somewhere that's a republic.
BadFish
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. . . And count your self lucky that GT49er isn't King
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ManOfSussex
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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
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- Aug 20, 2003
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"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
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A divided nation where opposing ideas will not be tolerated. Maybe someone should write a song about that?
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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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
“I think everyone who disagrees with me should be deported” is an unusual take, I’ll give you that
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'..................................................
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
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- Aug 15, 2014
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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!
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!