National anthem

Advance Australia (War)Fair.
But none of us know the words, we all just lip sync.

 

Lets not forget the European anthem 'Ode to Joy'.

 

I'm still a bit curious to know how the melody of "I'm a little teapot" sounds...

 

The Swedish anthem is really called "Sang till Norden" (song for the North), but is always referred to as "Du gamla, du fria" (thou ancient, thou free) nowadays. It's an old folk tune which was adopted as a national anthem some 160 years ago, but never officially (just like there is no officially legislated Swedish language). Apparently, there is also a royal anthem, like in Denmark, but I'm not sure I have ever heard it. I certainly don't know what it sounds like... The Swedish anthem is one of the few national anthems without a patriotic theme in its lyrics (it's all about green fields and mountains), but the only times I ever hear it is in connection to sports events or neo-nazi demonstrations. Bit of a contradiction there, I think...

I'm curious; is it important in your respective countries to know the lyrics of your anthem? I never learnt the Swedish one, and I couldn't care less, but it seems like in some countries this is considered a major 'sin'. What is your take on this?

peace,
-Pat

 

"O Canada!"



in canada, as you might've guessed.

 

In a way yes, in a way no.
If you're working class, it's good manners to know "Der er et yndigt land" by heart. If you're upper class it's good manners to know the lyric of "Kong Christian" by heart.

-noose.


...p.s. that's at least the conditions here in Jutland. The tendency might be less extreme in Copenhagen.

 

It's kind of ironic how this is the anthem I know the best. Probably because of South Park. The American one is unavoidable to catch as well, but it doesn't have the 'nice tone' that O Canada has.

peace,
-Pat

 

i think that for the most part, people consider someone who doesn't know the lyrics to O Canada to be somewhat of an ass. i went to a hockey game last night and a couple kids in front of us didn't know the lyrics, and didn't take off their hats, and the guy sitting next to them told them it would be polite if they took them off, and stopped talking during the singing of the anthem. it was pretty cool.

 

I loved the episode when Eric Cartman drank the ashes of Kenny, because he thought it was chocolate powder.

 

I think that the Spanish anthem has no name, it's just the anthem, and it has no lyrics, and I hate all this shit about anthems, fuck the anthems, fuck the borders, fuck the countries, and FUCK the flags.

 

I hear ya.
How about, take down the flags, lay them on the borders, play the anthems, and then fuck on the flags? Sort of a cross border fuckathon. I think it would really help bring us all together. literally

 

Well not a but idea, but i would prefer to pee on your own country from the border and cum on the flag, it's like fuck your country in all the aspects.

 

haha, I must have missed that one.

 

"Einigkeit und recht auf freiheit"

Or better "Einigkeit und recht auf Haschisch!"

 

You missed an important episode, then. Cartman drank Kennys ashes, and then Kennys ghost took place in Cartman.
That's why Cartman is skizophrenic in all of the last episodes. Sometimes he's Eric, sometimes he's Kenny. He's like the excorcist.

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hmmm, I have a feeling our retarded tv channels didn't get that far into the series yet... Just reruns of old ones over and over again.

 

argh, damnit! TV4? (That stupid commercial channel! -It's just like the cheap commercial channels named TV-Danmark1 and TV-Danmark2 (recently changed name to TV5 and TV-Danmark.) -cheap, because they're channels on repeat - emptied by visions. :-/

-But in all the newer episodes, Kenny is permanently dead.
-Instead there's a new neurotic guy named 'Butters' and another boy in a wheel-chair.

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That's also the case where I live. People are expected to know their national anthem. In a way I understand why you say it's cool. Believe me. Something has becomed totally derailed.
The original idea about anarchism was about mutual respect. -The idea of "the free school" was definately not about that pupils should be allowed to call their teachers "hookers" and send sms's by their mobiles during the lesson. It's a hard job to be a teacher, and the teachers worst enemy is egocentric parents.
...Just like that the original idea about "free sexuality" was connected to love and sensuality... to be close to eachother physical, emotional and sexual...
-But today people has becomed so "free" and "individualized" (haha - what a fat lie!), so the sexuality in the society turn material and alienated from feelings/emotions.
Nowadays people simply can't have orgasm anylonger, unless the man and woman shit in eachothers mouths, or dress the man like a cat while the woman beat him up with a leather whip! Hey what is that about? What has becomed of the original idea of a revolution of freedom of mind and body? -I don't see it anywhere - do you?

Misinterpret me as "conservative" (you will make a big misunderstanding then), if you really want to, but please answer me: don't you honestly think it's a sad cultural development?


But as I wrote earlier, we've got two anthems, related to class. So I can't advocate people to know their national anthem by heart, bcuz that would be the same as to tell them keep to them class. And I want to get rid of the term "class".

But it might be different in other countries, where national anthems aren't class-related, but related to the land instead. Like in Canada.