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[Collombin]

Shame the footage of that ceremony doesn't quite tally with Alan's recollections!

[hlz15]

Now you're talking mun!

 

 

Up there with the Haka for an opposing team to deal with!

     

And performed how an anthem should be.  None of your hired/zelebrity anthem warbler nonsense.

Can we persuade Liberty to have a street race round Cardiff Bay based just on the prospect of 120,000 or so people singing this? 

[TecnoRacing]

One of the highlights of Miguel Olivera winning races in the MotoGP support classes is hearing the excellent Portuguese National Anthem...one of the best imo...

 

Edited by fer312t, 30 April 2018 - 11:18.

[Tim Murray]

Shame the footage of that ceremony doesn't quite tally with Alan's recollections!

Indeed. The trumpeter in the crowd could be heard playing several tunes during the podium ceremony, including snatches of ‘Ein Prosit, ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit' and ‘La Cucaracha’, but not Happy Birthday. The organisers then played ‘Advance Australia Fair’ (although as this wasn’t officially adopted as the Australian national anthem until 1984, technically Jones is correct).

[Gary Davies]

Shame the footage of that ceremony doesn't quite tally with Alan's recollections!

And to follow up... 

 

[maverick69]

I think Land of Hope and Glory should be the NA for the UK.

 

But you have to hand it to the Welsh. Land of my Fathers being sung out at a rugby match is hard to beat....... And that's coming from an Englishman.

 

Flower of Scotland? They're just taking the mickey really - and I don't see any real offence TBH. Pass me the Buckie........

[ensign14]

Flower Of Scotland, to celebrate an occasion when the Scots nobility wiped itself out by getting stuck in a bog.

 

And the one member of the nobility that actually succeeded against the English at that battle was executed for leaving the scene when it was obviously hopeless.

[Albaforever]

Flower Of Scotland, to celebrate an occasion when the Scots nobility wiped itself out by getting stuck in a bog.

 

And the one member of the nobility that actually succeeded against the English at that battle was executed for leaving the scene when it was obviously hopeless.

 

Sorry mods for going off subject.

 

Really.

 

Flower of Scotland is about the Battle of Bannockburn and it was the English that got stuck in the mud and King Robert the Bruce sent the English homeward to think again.

 

Brave William Wallace was never at Bannockburn because the English had already executed him in the City of London a few years before the battle of Bannockburn in a horrible execution.   

 

Has for Land of Hope and Glory it is a English anthem, so no thanks.    

Edited by Albaforever, 30 April 2018 - 10:41.

[Currahee]

"Flower of Scotland" is my favourite.

It's an absolute dirge. Scotland the Brave is much better.

The French is by far the best and I also like the German and US.

GSTQ is awful too.

[ensign14]

Sorry mods for going off subject.
 
Really.
 
Flower of Scotland is about the Battle of Bannockburn and it was the English that got stuck in the mud and King Robert the Bruce sent the English homeward to think again.

Sorry - thought it was after Flodden.

Of course the by-then ex-King Edward II died with a red hot poker up his whoopsie. If we had to commemorate that in an anthem it would probably be "Disco Inferno".

[PalaceNick]

GSTQ can be good if you bin the music/opera singer/general turgidness and it has he benefit of being extremely short!

 

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=Yr__-KqnfQM

 

Of course the real anthem should be I Vow To Thee My Country. Catchy as hell!

[milestone 11]

One of the better non turgid national anthems.

 

[JHSingo]

Umm...what has any of this got to do with racing comments?

[maverick69]

Sorry mods for going off subject.

 

Really.

 

Flower of Scotland is about the Battle of Bannockburn and it was the English that got stuck in the mud and King Robert the Bruce sent the English homeward to think again.

 

Brave William Wallace was never at Bannockburn because the English had already executed him in the City of London a few years before the battle of Bannockburn in a horrible execution.   

 

Has for Land of Hope and Glory it is a English anthem, so no thanks.    

See quite a few Scottish flags out there........

 

[milestone 11]

Umm...what has any of this got to do with racing comments?

 

Nothing. It's a great interlude though dontcha think.

[Albaforever]

See quite a few Scottish flags out there........

 

 

I also see a heck of a lot English flag's there a along the Welsh flags and other nations. 

 

Commonwealth Games[edit]

"Land of Hope and Glory" was the England team's victory anthem at the Commonwealth Games until 2010, when the public rejected it in a poll in favour of "Jerusalem". ^[8]

Edited by Albaforever, 30 April 2018 - 16:28.

[P123]

Umm...what has any of this got to do with racing comments?

Well, we have to suffer them before and after races.

[Sterzo]

 

...while Rule Britannia, my favourite musically, comes across a bit imperialistic in today’s world.

 

And those stirring words "Britannia rule the waves" were written overlooking the Thames in west London, at a point where the brown water trickles between mud flats when the tide's out, so Thomas Arne certainly used his imagination.

[robefc]

I love God Save the Queen plus those of the US, France and Italy.

 

Sorry   

[Vettelari]

As an American, I can safely say that I have no idea what half of the words in this thread mean.

 

Turgid? Dirge? Mickey? Buckie? Mun?

 

I will go drink a Budweiser and watch some NASCAR. Stick to what I know...

Edited by Vettelari, 30 April 2018 - 12:50.

[BRG]

As an American, I can safely say that I have no idea what half of the words in this thread mean.

Ah yes, two great nations divided by a common language, as someone once said (allegedly).

[milestone 11]

As an American, I can safely say that I have no idea what half of the words in this thread mean.
 
Turgid? Dirge? Mickey? Buckie? Mun?
 
I will go drink a Budweiser and watch some NASCAR. Stick to what I know...

Ah, don't feel left out Vettelari, you've got burglarize and bleachers, druthers and cleats, I even read somewhere recently that you have shyte as a candy bar.

[Clatter]

And those stirring words "Britannia rule the waves" were written overlooking the Thames in west London, at a point where the brown water trickles between mud flats when the tide's out, so Thomas Arne certainly used his imagination.

May look like that now, but was it like that when he wrote it?

[Counterbalance]

Sorry - thought it was after Flodden.

Of course the by-then ex-King Edward II died with a red hot poker up his whoopsie. If we had to commemorate that in an anthem it would probably be "Disco Inferno".

I have to disagree with you there, this would be much more appropriate.

Edited by Counterbalance, 30 April 2018 - 15:55.

[BRG]

May look like that now, but was it like that when he wrote it?

Yes, the Thames is naturally tidal as far upstream as the wondrously named Staines-upon-Thames, home of Ali G and the Staines Massive. After weirs and locks were built over the centuries, the tidal stretch now starts at Teddington but below there, it can drain away almost completely at low water during neap tides. So Mr Arne could indeed have seen more mud than water.

[Dutchrudder]

Turgidness turned up to 11 for the full anthem ahead of the Spanish GP.

[Dutchrudder]

Can’t believe it’s been 2 years. One of the most turgid anthems of the year.