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Standing For the National Anthem

  • 17-11-2010 11:35AM
    #1
    cyrusdvirus
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    This is an aside from the Things you Refuse to do thread.

    I have to say I'm appalled at the amount of people who refuse to stand for the National Anthem.

    Honestly, what are your reasons for not standing? Is it cos you think you are quirky and cool and just want to be different?? I just don't understand it. One poster said it's cos they have no interest in the army So the National Anthem is more to do with the army, than the nation?? Here's a clue. NATIONal Anthem.....


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  • #2
    starbelgrade
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    I like to breakdance to Amhrán na bhFiann.


  • #3
    Bookworm85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭Bookworm85


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg9n3ypN9i8
    :D


  • #4
    enda1
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    gatecrash wrote: »
    This is an aside from the Things you Refuse to do thread.

    I have to say I'm appalled at the amount of people who refuse to stand for the National Anthem.

    Honestly, what are your reasons for not standing? Is it cos you think you are quirky and cool and just want to be different?? I just don't understand it. One poster said it's cos they have no interest in the army So the National Anthem is more to do with the army, than the nation?? Here's a clue. NATIONal Anthem.....

    How about that some people don't feel particularly patriotic.
    Some have sore legs.
    Some are afraid they'll lose their seats in a sly game of musical chairs.
    Some are deaf.
    Some are not Irish.
    Some want to cause disrespect.
    and on, and on


  • #5
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Why should someone stand for the national anthem? It's a piece of music. And not a particularly good one at that. It's not like remaining seated is the same as burning a flag. Something which is also baffling in how it incenses some people. This whole sense of national pride and being beholden to the past is just tedious. Bollocks to standing for a song.


  • #6
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Sinne Fianna Fáil, Atá fá gheall ag Éirinn.


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  • #7
    Adam
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    it's too much effort, and i never know where to look...


  • #8
    jimthemental
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    I was the first to question this and was genuinely surprised to see this attitude.

    It honors those who died for our freedom and is even more poignant today as we seem to be relinquishing that freedom due to the shambles that are the government and the banks. I don't know much Irish but you can be sure I know and stand for this song, be it in Croke Park or a nightclub.


  • #9
    Sunnyisland
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    I stand for the nation anthem as i am proud to be Irish and salute the people who done there best to make this country a better place to live and lest we not forget them and us.


  • #10
    enda1
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    realies wrote: »
    I stand for the nation anthem as i am proud to be Irish and salute the people who done there best to make this country a better place to live and lest we not forget them and us.

    did their best

    Your salutation is accepted. :cool::P


  • #11
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    gatecrash wrote: »
    This is an aside from the Things you Refuse to do thread.

    I have to say I'm appalled at the amount of people who refuse to stand for the National Anthem.
    ..

    Don't mind them, they just say it for the internet.

    I seen the thread too, and the one about playing it in nightclubs - BS. I've worked in just about most major nightclubs in Dublin over the last 20 years and I've never heard it played.

    In pubs I've only seen it once or twice where people didn't show their respect for the anthem, usually "Here, show a little fvcking respect" gets 'em up off their lazy good for nothing hole.

    Like I said, its mostly internet bullsh*t talk out of 'em.


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  • #12
    Renn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭Renn


    I'd rather stand for the Deutschlandlied tbh.


  • #13
    cyrusdvirus
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    How about that some people don't feel particularly patriotic.
    If it's a sporting event, then why would you be there supporting your team?
    Some have sore legs.
    And standing for 3 minutes os gonna knock 3 years off their lives??
    Some are afraid they'll lose their seats in a sly game of musical chairs.

    In a night out situation it's normally played at the end of the night... Loosing your seat shouldn't really be a problem. At a sporting event, you have an assigned seat.
    Some are deaf.
    Fair enough.
    Some are not Irish.

    In a civilised country most people will have the respect to stand for that nations Anthem. I'd stand for GSTQ or Rule Britannia or whatever is the anthem of our neighbours if i was there.

    Some want to cause disrespect.
    They are the ones i understand least


  • #14
    Adam
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    realies wrote: »
    I stand for the nation anthem as i am proud to be Irish and salute the people who done there best to make this country a better place to live and lest we not forget them and us.
    derp?


  • #15
    Renn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭Renn


    In pubs I've only seen it once or twice where people didn't show their respect for the anthem, usually "Here, show a little fvcking respect" gets 'em up off their lazy good for nothing hole.

    :D

    F*ck, that's the most cringeworthy thing I've read in AH in a while.


  • #16
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    people who do stand dont bother me. people who get high and mighty about it can fcuk off.


  • #17
    R P McMurphy
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    In some pubs you don't have the option as could get a slap/lots of abuse if you don't. Is just easier to go with the flow.


  • #18
    Professional Griefer
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    Sanjuro wrote: »
    Why should someone stand for the national anthem? It's a piece of music. And not a particularly good one at that. It's not like remaining seated is the same as burning a flag. Something which is also baffling in how it incenses some people. This whole sense of national pride and being beholden to the past is just tedious. Bollocks to standing for a song.

    I actually like our national anthem, and don't like any others, except the French.


  • #19
    Run_to_da_hills
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    There is some excuse for people that don't stand for Amhran Na Bfiann, ie, they may be crippled, but there is absolutly no excuse for those that keep on talking and drinking.

    If I was in the UK I would shut up and respect their anthem likewise foreigners in our country should respect ours.

    I was at a function in Tipperary where the DJ was requested to play the anthem 3 times in a row until people finally got the message to STFU. Proper order.


  • #20
    Jesus Wept
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    It's comical that it is most often played in pubs and nightclubs at the end of the night when people have a feed of drink in them, swaying happily from side to side with a moronic look of vacant pride on their faces.

    Sometimes there'll be a few over enthusiastic Wolfe Tones fans who get verbally aggressive and many more dirty looks from other old people.

    One messy drunk old coot was actually fist pumping along to the national anthem such was her enthusiasm/inebriation.


  • #21
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Ix Deadmau5 wrote: »
    I actually like our national anthem, and don't like any others, except the French.
    The last two lines of the national anthem are pretty good. But the rest of it is pretty dull. It should start off more bombastically.


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  • #22
    Guill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    Op, CAn you explain why i should stand to this music?


  • #23
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    This occasion still makes my hair stand on edge with pride..



  • #24
    Adam
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    There is some excuse for people that don't stand for Amhran Na Bfiann, ie, they may be crippled, but there is absolutly no excuse for those that keep on talking and drinking.

    If I was in the UK I would shut up and respect their anthem likewise foreigners in our country should respect ours.

    I was at a function in Tipperary where the DJ was requested to play the anthem 3 times in a row until people finally got the message to STFU. Proper order.
    i'd have kept quiet the first time, and left the second time.


  • #25
    sensibleken
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    The only time I come accross it is at ****e weddings or some such crap night out where the DJ will play rock the boat or the macarena. I don't do them either.

    What has the war of independance got to do with a night like that?


  • #26
    Guill
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    Sanjuro wrote: »
    The last two lines of the national anthem are pretty good. But the rest of it is pretty dull. It should start off more bombastically.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W5pq4bIzIw

    Like this?


  • #27
    enda1
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    I think its more disrespectful TO our National Anthem to play it in a pub than any level of disrespect shown by not standing when its played in a pub.

    Not standing is usually more a sign of the idiocy and disrespect shown by the DJ, management and participants of the pub who see fit to play the anthem in honour of their nights boozing.


  • #28
    Run_to_da_hills
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    Adam wrote: »
    i'd have kept quiet the first time, and left the second time.

    It was actually stopped half way through and then started from the beginning again.


  • #29
    Fighting Irish
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    gatecrash wrote: »
    This is an aside from the Things you Refuse to do thread.

    I have to say I'm appalled at the amount of people who refuse to stand for the National Anthem.

    Honestly, what are your reasons for not standing? Is it cos you think you are quirky and cool and just want to be different?? I just don't understand it. One poster said it's cos they have no interest in the army So the National Anthem is more to do with the army, than the nation?? Here's a clue. NATIONal Anthem.....

    I usually always stand but in all honesty, i couldn't give a fook about the national anthem


  • #30
    jimthemental
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    gatecrash wrote: »

    In a civilised country most people will have the respect to stand for that nations Anthem. I'd stand for GSTQ or Rule Britannia or whatever is the anthem of our neighbours if i was there.

    Hold your horses there a second lad! I wouldn't go talking over it but by Jesus I would not stand for it unless it was at a match or something, and even then I'm not sure if I could. That goes for any country's anthem not just the British. I'd show respectful silence but I wouldn't stand.


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  • #31
    AnonoBoy
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    The National Anthem should be played at appropriate times, not at the end of a night in a pub where half the people are hammered off their faces.

    Where's the respect in that?


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