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Like it's played before debates and baseball games and every one seems to go wild for it at the end whooping and cheering like Iron Maiden just started playing but it's a pretty boring song. I don't get it.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:04
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It's cool that our American national anthem has a built in fireworks cue.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:05
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No, OP. Observe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhbpeL-8sY
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Dec 23, 2015 16:06
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I do.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:08
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gently caress YEAH!! Not only is it a song about the greatest country in the history of the world (suck it ancient rome!) but it signifies sports is about to happen! Also I am drunk when they play it.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:11
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Its a good song, but most female singers ruin it with that opera bullshit.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:12
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I recommend listening to God Save the Queen instead OP.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:12
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ElectricSheep posted:No, OP. I still want to know who was in charge of that decision. "Hey, you know who has a beautiful voice? Well...."
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Dec 23, 2015 16:13
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not really but since nationalism is hammered into you at every turn in the greatest country on earth it's just a thing that happens over and over and over and over and over until you are numb to it
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Dec 23, 2015 16:15
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A moot point as our national anthem is not intended to be entertaining. It's a song meant to embody the spirit of what it is to be an American and remind us of our origin as a revolutionary state that overcame the greatest empire in the world in order to be born.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:16
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It's really loving creepy that we play it before every sporting event, like really loving creepy. I take my hat off or whatever just so people won't freak out, but I don't think people should be pressured into being a nationalist every time they want to watch a baseball game. America loving sucks, deal with it.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:19
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Good national anthems: Italian. German. British. Mexican. French. The rest are bad.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:21
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Bonus points if this precedes it
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Dec 23, 2015 16:21
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yeah, best track on Kid A
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Dec 23, 2015 16:22
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The national anthem of Uruguay is the best in the world by a mile and so was their former president, José Mujica. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Azx7dcS0lFA
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Dec 23, 2015 16:22
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One time after the national anthem at a Rockies game the guy next to me turned to me and was like "Those kids down there were on their phones the whole time, they have no respect for this country I fought for!" And I just kind of turned into Hank Hill and was like "Boy, I, um, I don't think they do, I'll tell you what." Then I went and sat somewhere else.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:25
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The song is about night battles and explosions what's not to like idiot?
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Dec 23, 2015 16:27
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OctoberBlues posted:One time after the national anthem at a Rockies game the guy next to me turned to me and was like "Those kids down there were on their phones the whole time, they have no respect for this country I fought for!" that doesnt sound like something hank hill would do
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Dec 23, 2015 16:29
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It's already pretty long and boring and people like to draw it out even longer when they sing. So no.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:30
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OctoberBlues posted:It's really loving creepy that we play it before every sporting event, like really loving creepy. I take my hat off or whatever just so people won't freak out, but I don't think people should be pressured into being a nationalist every time they want to watch a baseball game. I'm also a huge milquetoast bitchboi who thinks being pressured into singing a song is just one step away from living in fear of the secret police.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:31
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Enfield posted:that doesnt sound like something hank hill would do Sorry, I meant my speaking voice turned into Hank Hill. Hank Hill would kick my rear end if he knew my thoughts on the national anthem. Applewhite posted:I'm also a huge milquetoast bitchboi who thinks being pressured into singing a song is just one step away from living in fear of the secret police. Cool, can we start a lunch club? Bitchbois for the Denationalization of America??
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Dec 23, 2015 16:32
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1500quidporsche posted:Good national anthems: You missed the USSR who had the best anthem.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:32
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NihilismNow posted:You missed the USSR who had the best anthem. Is it still their anthem? I was going to include it but just wanted to keep it to active ones.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:34
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You know who else had a national anthem? Hitler. Think about it.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:34
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You know what's fuckin rad? Droppin bombs and poo poo.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:41
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1500quidporsche posted:Is it still their anthem? I was going to include it but just wanted to keep it to active ones. More or less, i think they changed the lyrics about great Lenin inspiring the people towards labour and valourous deed and towards the final victory of communism. I think countries without a annual military parade to play their national anthem at are slacking.
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Dec 23, 2015 16:41
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Compared to other national anthems it kinda sucks tbh, esp compared to tunes like La Marseillaise or Hatikvah...we could do much better imo I also think the national symbol should have been a wild turkey instead of the bald eagle per what Benjamin Franklin said. 
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Dec 23, 2015 16:51
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frytechnician posted:The national anthem of Uruguay is the best in the world by a mile and so was their former president, José Mujica. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Azx7dcS0lFA That is a heck of an anthem. I do not know any Mujica but did he design the silly little teletubbies sun flag they have? I like it.
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Dec 23, 2015 17:21
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The only national anthem I love is the one that ends with "Gentlemen, start your engines!"
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Dec 23, 2015 17:24
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I like it as a song but 99% of the renditions you hear are weak and lame.
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Dec 23, 2015 17:25
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Mariana Horchata posted:
“For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping & robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our country… “I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” I think he was joking about the turkey? I don't know, I hear a lot of people talking about Franklin and his turkey love and it seems like one of those historical old wives tales.
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Dec 23, 2015 17:25
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ElectricSheep posted:No, OP. lol this is a pro move by rosie o donnel
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Dec 23, 2015 17:26
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Mariana Horchata posted:Compared to other national anthems it kinda sucks tbh, esp compared to tunes like La Marseillaise or Hatikvah...we could do much better imo a more majestic yet delicious creature has yet to be discovered
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Dec 23, 2015 17:26
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This is the only version we should use. https://vimeo.com/5446117
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Dec 23, 2015 17:52
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i enjoy that it's long and at the olympics we make everyone sit through it a hundred times
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Dec 23, 2015 17:53
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I can't start my day off right without a strong whole hearted performance of Oh Canada!
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Dec 23, 2015 18:00
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I don't like the tendency of public performers to try to personalise the everloving gently caress out of it. Stop trying to use the the goddamn national anthem as a vanity piece and have some reverence for your loving state. That being said, when I hear the anthem properly performed it always brings a little patriotic tear to my eye. That also being said, I maintain that America the Beautiful would be a better anthem.
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Dec 23, 2015 18:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qb8Ce6HNHc
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Dec 23, 2015 18:05
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1500quidporsche posted:Good national anthems: lol
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Dec 23, 2015 18:08
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Our national anthem should've been The Battle Hymn of The Republic.
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Dec 23, 2015 18:14
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