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Most nationalistic National Anthem?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 854 ✭✭✭dubscottie


    This post has been deleted.

    Really? Its no wonder they failed.

    Some of the left-wingers in Ireland should watch this also..

    It was unsustainable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Non existent? :)

    Why do athiests have their own forum when they can't resist bringing it up in nearly every other forum?

    So you have proof that "God" exists? :confused:

    It's relevant to the discussion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭wilhelm roentgen


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Its' title proposes that a non-existent religious deity saves the unelected head of state.

    Already excluding atheists and democrats.

    and Republicans


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭sonny.knowles


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    So you have proof that "God" exists? :confused:

    It's relevant to the discussion.

    Yes, it's in the bible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭mackerski


    Yes, it's in the bible.

    Has that been peer reviewed by some similarly ranking deities?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Yes, it's in the bible.

    Still waiting on actual proof.

    The big book of nonsense doesn't count.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭sonny.knowles


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Still waiting on actual proof.

    The big book of nonsense doesn't count.

    Get a life. Or a vocation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 607 ✭✭✭sonny.knowles


    That ain't proof.

    You lads are out in force tonight. Have you ever met an atheist with a sense of humour? Didn't think so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,426 ✭✭✭testicle


    mackerski wrote: »
    Has that been peer reviewed by some similarly ranking deities?

    It has. The same chap is mentioned in the Koran & the Torah.


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  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So.

    National anthems, then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    While I haven't an iota what their saying...the welsh national anthem sounds insane

    It's mostly about sheep.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    Yes, it's in the bible.

    ha ha ha class,

    so is this line:
    When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Deuteronomy 25:11-12

    and this:
    You may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT


    oh and this one is very important this time of year:

    Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. Leviticus 19:19



    What a truly morally repugnant baseless set of tripe to be using as an argument of the existence of anything.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    MOD

    A thread about national anthems and is turns into religious ****e!?

    Move on please.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Tried to find the East German Anthem from Top Secret. Can't find it, so here are the words

    Hail, hail East Germany / Land of fruit and grape / Land where you'll regret / If you try to escape / No matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at the wall / Forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn't first.

    Probably least funny bit of the film, so here's another clip as an apology



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
    Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
    Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr* tra mad,
    Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.
    Cytgan:
    Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad,
    Tra môr yn fur
    I'r bur hoff bau,
    O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.
    2. Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd,
    Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i'm golwg sydd hardd;
    Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
    Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi.
    Cytgan:

    3. Os treisiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad dan ei droed,
    Mae hen iaith y Gymry mor fyw ag erioed,
    Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad,
    Na thelyn berseiniol fy ngwlad.
    Cytgan:

    O land of my fathers, O land of my love,
    Dear mother of minstrels who kindle and move,
    And hero on hero, who at honour's proud call,
    For freedom their lifeblood let fall.
    Chorus:
    Wales! Wales! O but my heart is with you!
    And long as the sea
    Your bulwark shall be,
    To Cymru my heart shall be true.
    2. O land of the mountains, the bard's paradise,
    Whose precipice, valleys lone as the skies,
    Green murmuring forest, far echoing flood
    Fire the fancy and quicken the blood.
    Chorus:

    3. For tho' the fierce foeman has ravaged your realm,
    The old speech of Cymru he cannot o'erwhelm,
    Our passionate poets to silence command
    Or banish the harp from your strand.
    Chorus:

    P.S. Not a mention of sheep.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭mackerski


    It's mostly about sheep.

    Are you thinking of this little ditty by Handel?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    The Soviet anthem makes me want to pick up arms to defend Mother Russia from the capitalist pigs. And I'm not even Russian at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    The Klingon Anthem, of course!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,772 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    seamus wrote: »
    The actual UK national anthem, despite being called, "God Save the Queen", is a surprisingly open song more about worldly brotherhood and togetherness rather than being about how great the UK is.
    It was actually used, with different words, as the anthem for numerous nations, back when the whole anthem thing was new, including Germany (the present one they actually pinched off Austria-Hungary after WWI), Russia and it is still used by Lichtenstein (making the start of any football match between them and a UK team very confusing).
    murpho999 wrote: »
    It does, and the first line says that they are of German blood. The Dutch don't like that.
    For much of history the Dutch were considered a German people - their language is essentially a German dialect (as removed from High German as many other German dialects) and at least one recognized 'German' pope prior to Paparazzi was technically Dutch, if I remember correctly.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    God Save Ireland which was used as a unofficial national anthem before dominion status was granted to us was pretty nationalistic. It celebrated the Manchester Martyrs & other Fenians & about how great dying for Ireland is. It actually saved Cathal Brugha's life during the Rising.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65




    We swear by the lightning that destroys,
    By the streams of generous blood being shed,
    By the bright flags that wave,
    Flying proudly on the high mountains,
    That we have risen up, and whether we live or die,
    We are resolved that Algeria shall live -
    So be our witness -be our witness - be our witness!

    We are soldiers in revolt for truth
    And we have fought for our independence.
    When we spoke, none listened to us,
    So we have taken the noise of gunpowder as our rhythm
    And the sound of machine guns as our melody,
    We are resolved that Algeria shall live -
    So be our witness -be our witness -be our witness!

    O France, the time of reproof is over
    And we have ended it as a book is ended;
    O France, this is the day of reckoning
    So prepare to receive from us our answer!
    In our revolution is the end of empty talk;
    We are resolved that Algeria shall live -
    So be our witness -be our witness -be our witness!

    From our heroes we shall make an army come to being,
    From our dead we shall build up a glory,
    Our spirits shall ascend to immortality
    And on our shoulders we shall raise the standard.
    To the nation's Liberation Front we have sworn an oath,
    We are resolved that Algeria shall live -
    So be our witness -be our witness -be our witness!

    The cry of the Fatherland sounds from the battlefields.
    Listen to it and answer the call!
    Let it be written with the blood of martyrs
    And be read to future generations.
    Oh, Glory, we have held out our hand to you,
    We are resolved that Algeria shall live -
    So be our witness -be our witness -be our witness!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Orangebrigade


    seamus wrote: »
    Not the national anthem, but I saw some British people singing "Rule, Britannia" on TV a few weeks back. There is one scary-ass brainwashing song if ever I heard one.

    The actual UK national anthem, despite being called, "God Save the Queen", is a surprisingly open song more about worldly brotherhood and togetherness rather than being about how great the UK is.

    The Star-Spangled Banner is pretty bad too, though the actual lyrics are a bit too wordy and inaccessible for it to be useful as propaganda.
    The UK is great though. Rule Britannia speaks of a time when Empire ruled. I only wish I was alive in them days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    The UK is great though. Rule Britannia speaks of a time when Empire ruled. I only wish I was alive in them days.

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    Faith Of Our Fathers ........... (for the Catholic nation of heaven).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    The UK is great though. Rule Britannia speaks of a time when Empire ruled. I only wish I was alive in them days.

    Rereg Orangebrigade ......... your power, as John Bulls, is on the wane. Look back on your halcyon days prior to the late 60s. In today's enlightened viewpoint, you must feel very proud of your ancestor's racist thinking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Orangebrigade


    Rereg Orangebrigade ......... your power, as John Bulls, is on the wane. Look back on your halcyon days prior to the late 60s. In today's enlightened viewpoint, you must feel very proud of your ancestor's racist thinking.
    Should people not know when they are conquered?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The Chinese anthem March of the Volunteers is fairly out there, with its lines about building a new Great Wall with their flesh and blood ...

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Should people not know when they are conquered?
    http://www.thejournal.ie/northern-ireland-census-religion-national-identity-710758-Dec2012/

    Food for thought considering you are technically boxed in by your perceived enemy up there in the six north east counties of this island & the majority of the UK populace would gladly disregard you all in a heart beat ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Orangebrigade clearly enjoys trying to rise people. That kind of yobbery is not unknown in Boards.ie. There must be very little in the way of stimulation where he lives if he feels the need to rub shoulders with a community he clearly despises. In one way I can sympathise with him because I have been to many strange places in his neck of the woods, and I have witnessed the breadth of culture in those places, where an orchestra is a fellow with a flute and another with a drum playing the same two tunes over and over, art is the same picture at every street corner i.e. a depiction of a royal paedophile on a white horse, and proof of one's educational accomplishments is provided not by a degree parchment, but by a tattoo on one's buttocks. But you need that kind of uplifting when you live in a slum.
    On the other hand, I have no interest in golf ( each to his own, a concept that he probably needs explained to him ) but I have better things to do than go into premises frequented by golfers to tell them what a terrible game golf is.
    Now fellow boardsies can I suggest that you all activate the ignore button in the face of his ignorant posts and get back to talking about anthems.


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