It's like a Editors song - a boring, funeral dirge. No interesting chordal progressions, a rhythmic pace to die to rather than for, and we have to change it everytime the monarch switches gender. What bollocks. It's why England lose at everything!
We need something new and fresh.
slap bass solo?
You'd prefer something like this?
Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.
Kazakhstan home of Tinshein swimming pool.
It’s length thirty meter and width six meter.
Filtration system a marvel to behold.
It remove 80 percent of human solid waste.
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Northern fence of Jewtown.
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan.
They very nosey people with bone in their brain.
Kazakhstan industry best in world.
We invented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstan’s prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course for Turkmenistan’s.
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Come grasp the mighty penis of our leader.
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!
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I'd prefer a slap bass solo
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i wanted france to win after the anthems.
we are really shown up every time it is played.
the order of rugby world cup national anthems:
france
italy
argentina
I <3 the Marseillaise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g
I am also muchly amused by the comments on that video.
*insert generic Radiohead comment here*
who are Radiohead ?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odNNgEn5l6s
did we lose ??
NO !!
And what other national anthem cazn you take the piss out of by going ... BA BA BA BA SEND HER .... or just emphasise the Queen on the end !!
I think I realised tonight whiy I have such
low patriotism or love for this country. Listening to Le Marseilles (a song about getting really pissed off and going mental on rich people who are pissing all over you) compared with ours, about some ethereal being saving (from what?) some woman I've never met who is apparently the best woman in our country, because her dad was the most important, because his dad (repeat).
Pisses me off.
sooooo ...
youd rather us do a new zealand and do a tribal dance that basically translates into we'll kill your wives and rape all your children ?
tho id rather not praise the queen but no matter what the anthem is about people will argue so i reckon we should just have the theme tune to chucklevison as the anthem .. CHU CHU CHUCKLEVISION .. i mean, we chuckle at mosts of englands sporting attempts
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I'm saying I'd feel more pride in my country if we had (or sang about) something to be proud of, rather than worshipping some 80 year old nobody.
The haka isn't about rape and murder
It's actually the opposite, it's roughly about the triumph of life over death.
But NZ have a dirge of
a national anthem too.
The haka's nothing like that
The rough translation is:
We are the All Blacks, of the New Zealand people.
We stand on this field arrayed for battle.
At our backs we feel the might of tradition wrought by those who have gone before.
Over our hearts we bear the Silver Fern, emblem of mana to die for.
This challenge is now thrown out to you. Take it if you dare for we will not withold ourselves this day and the faint of heart will surely be lost.
Whiti te ra! Hi!
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I preferred it when I thought it was "We are New Zealand/Make it easy on yourself/Get down on all fours/And try to relax while we fuck your shit up..."
That's the new one (Kapa O Pango)
that was written specifically for the All Blacks, but Ka Mate, which I'm assuming is the one he was referring to, is the traditional haka they perform which is literally about a chief who survives by escaping his enemies and emerges into the light. Nothing to do murder
It should be 'I vow to thee my country'.
^^ this ^^
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why would we evoke
a nonspecific deity to bail out these unelected spungers?
as bill baily once said
shit national anthem, i hate it. we have to change it, the french and italy anthems are much better.
also we should have a traditional dance like the all blacks before rugby games,
the fearsome 'MORRIS DANCE'
My uncle used to do this
after about 9 pints of ale. Insane.
Land of Hope and Glory
would be the choice of retired colonels and scoutleaders everywhere, I think.
True, it's not stirring in the least
I think South Africa has one of the best. Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika is lovely, it makes you well up.
What we need is
a drum and bass/techno remix. I think it would sound great