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Why even have this if you can't vote for your own country?
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Any national anthem that comes out of a country formed by violent revolution is always awesome. France's national anthem in particular is... surprisingly bloody actually.
and for a national anthem duel thread, the duel of anthems scene from Casablance seems appropriate:
Fun fact, the German national anthem wasn't used in the film (they substituted Der Wacht Am Rhein a WW1 marching song) because they would have had to pay royalties to the German government... in 1941.
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
It is a ropey folk song from the 60s though so thats not that suprising.
The older one is much better
I don't generally like national anthems but the USSR's is/was pretty good.
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RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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But thats not our Anthem Ouze
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Seaward wrote: RAW seem to suggest I can vote for my country's as long as my reason isn't that I live here.
This is correct, i don't not want people voting for there country because they live their, but i do want a thought process rather than just for the sake of being a "patriot" to one's country.
"They can't say no when they are stunned "- Taric
SINCE I STARTED KEEPING TRACK
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I know that, as does every schoolchild - I realized this when I was listening to God save the Queen, which I had never heard before. For a song I'd never before heard, it sounded.... awfully familiar
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Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
I'm partial to the US one (imagine that ). Nothing quite like a stadium full of people signing The Star Spangled Banner when 2 F-18Es do a flyover at the end
I'm partial to the US one (imagine that ). Nothing quite like a stadium full of people signing The Star Spangled Banner when 2 F-18Es do a flyover at the end
If my granpa was still alive he'd probably cane me for not remembering "A Soldier's Song" in the full Irish Gaelic. XD
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
The USSR doesn't exist any more, America isn't a country, 'hey' not 'hay', 'there' not 'their', we NEVER keep the debate civilised and I'm picking fething 'God Save the Queen' anyway. Or 'Jerusalem'.
KalashnikovMarine wrote: If my granpa was still alive he'd probably cane me for not remembering "A Soldier's Song" in the full Irish Gaelic. XD
With my parent's experiences during The Troubles neither of them wanted anything in the house that might be taken the wrong way (especially when it was common for them growing up to be arrested on suspicion of being Irish)
SilverMK2 wrote: Because most people would automatically vote for their own without consideration that it may not actually be any good?
Australians wouldn't. Our anthem sucks. Dreary, outdated song that's incredibly difficult to sing in key.
Really? I happen to think "Waltzing Matilda" is a great song.
/trollface
In all seriousness, I can't recall any national anthems other than the USA's, Canada's, and UK's off the top of my head so I'm going to have to go listen to the other ones.
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SilverMK2 wrote: Because most people would automatically vote for their own without consideration that it may not actually be any good?
Australians wouldn't. Our anthem sucks. Dreary, outdated song that's incredibly difficult to sing in key.
Not that it stops anyone. Although finding people who know more than the first part is hard. I don't remember when it changed, but I can recall having to sing "god save the queen" at school as a young'un.
@Ratot: ... and the alternative is about a sheep-thief who kills himself rather than face the music.
Can't say that I like ANY of the options presented, though. Gotta admit the Roseanne Barr version of the US anthem was amusing. Purely for the bile and hate levelled at it.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
chromedog wrote: Not that it stops anyone. Although finding people who know more than the first part is hard.
I only know the second verse because we had to learn it when I joined the army...
Although it turns out there are a couple of other verses floating around that most people have never heard of... We got a shock at the first school function for my wife's little brothers, as they were at a Christian school that uses one of the 'alternate' verses. So halfway through the anthem it cuts into this verse that we had never heard before, and all of the parents carried on singing it as if this was perfectly normal. It was like slipping into some weird alternate dimension...
I don't remember when it changed, but I can recall having to sing "god save the queen" at school as a young'un.
1984. Although the first couple of schools I went to weren't big on singing the anthem, so I never actually learnt God Save The Queen until well after it was no longer the anthem...
KalashnikovMarine wrote: If my granpa was still alive he'd probably cane me for not remembering "A Soldier's Song" in the full Irish Gaelic. XD
With my parent's experiences during The Troubles neither of them wanted anything in the house that might be taken the wrong way (especially when it was common for them growing up to be arrested on suspicion of being Irish)
My great grandparents and granpa were forced from Ireland as things started ramping up towards '16, settled in a Irish neighborhood in New York, Great Grandpa went back to Europe with the US Marines for WW1, Granpa went to the Pacific for WW2, otherwise, same Irish neighborhood in New York with all the rest of the FOBs.
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I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
KalashnikovMarine wrote: My great grandparents and granpa were forced from Ireland as things started ramping up towards '16, settled in a Irish neighborhood in New York, Great Grandpa went back to Europe with the US Marines for WW1, Granpa went to the Pacific for WW2, otherwise, same Irish neighborhood in New York with all the rest of the FOBs.
My wife's grandfather moved to the US from Germany as a child and ended up in WW2 in the US army, must have been fun knowing that if he was captured the Germans would have tried him as a traitor
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
The sad part is during the Olympics, when a Kazak althlete won a medal in one of the competitions they played that instead of the real Anthem. The Kazak government was none too pleased.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Cheesecat wrote: Why isn't there over 198 options why did you not supply every choice?
Well, I don't know that he needed to include all of them, but at least the big ones, like the G-8 - especially when there was room for a country that doesn't exist anymore.
lord_blackfang wrote: Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
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