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    Default God Save The Queen? Why?

    To me this athemn sounds really stupid. I mean singing about one person is not what I'd call nation pride. How many English people actually sing this song? I wouldn't sing it. I'd rather sing about grass then Berthie Ahern. Thoughts?


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    A lot of English sing it. The Queen represents Britain.

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    But she's a old, lazy woman sitting in her palace. How those that represent Britian?


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    Leave our sovereign alone.
    According to the Theory of War, which teaches that the best way to avoid the inconvenience of war is to pursue it away from your own country, it is more sensible for us to fight our notorious enemy in his own realm, with the joint power of our allies, than it is to wait for him at our own doors.

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    Default Re: God Save The Queen? Why?

    Why she has no special immunity in this or any other forum, or anywhere in the world as far as I am concerned.

    They exist in the government that I accept, but I don't have to like them and what they have represented.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ccllnply View Post
    But she's a old, lazy woman sitting in her palace. How those that represent Britian?
    How many Kings in the world really do anything themselves anymore? Yet they still are there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seneca View Post
    but I don't have to like them
    Never said you had to like them.
    According to the Theory of War, which teaches that the best way to avoid the inconvenience of war is to pursue it away from your own country, it is more sensible for us to fight our notorious enemy in his own realm, with the joint power of our allies, than it is to wait for him at our own doors.

    - King Edward III, 1339

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    How many Kings in the world really do anything themselves anymore? Yet they still are there.
    But no one else sings about them


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    Quote Originally Posted by ccllnply View Post
    But no one else sings about them
    You might be wrong there.
    According to the Theory of War, which teaches that the best way to avoid the inconvenience of war is to pursue it away from your own country, it is more sensible for us to fight our notorious enemy in his own realm, with the joint power of our allies, than it is to wait for him at our own doors.

    - King Edward III, 1339

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    Just a tidbit.

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    Well no one has their national anthem, which is suppoes to be about their nation, about them


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    The only other song I like is Rule Britannia but thats not about England so I'm not sure if it would count.
    According to the Theory of War, which teaches that the best way to avoid the inconvenience of war is to pursue it away from your own country, it is more sensible for us to fight our notorious enemy in his own realm, with the joint power of our allies, than it is to wait for him at our own doors.

    - King Edward III, 1339

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    Quote Originally Posted by King Edward III View Post
    Never said you had to like them.
    You said I had to leave her alone, I don't.

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    I'm English, and I think it's a stupid anthem. It's the Queen's anthem, not the national anthem. It's not about the country, it's about a women who's ancestors deemed themselves most important and therefore in charge. An anthem should reflect the country, not the leader.

    And as usual, Bill Bailey has the right idea.

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    Its from the old days when the Monarchs actually mattered.
    As a Canadian she is my queen. But I have no respect for monarchs (they don't earn their wealth or status). You'd have to pay me to say "God save the Queen".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seneca View Post
    You said I had to leave her alone, I don't.
    I wasn't talk to you.
    According to the Theory of War, which teaches that the best way to avoid the inconvenience of war is to pursue it away from your own country, it is more sensible for us to fight our notorious enemy in his own realm, with the joint power of our allies, than it is to wait for him at our own doors.

    - King Edward III, 1339

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    Default Re: God Save The Queen? Why?

    Then why did you quote him?


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    Quote Originally Posted by King Edward III View Post
    I wasn't talk to you.
    Its more the general idea that anyone is immune to criticism from anyone else.

    For x amount of millions a year she should at least be up for sitting on a loosely balanced platform above a water tank while we throw melons at her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ccllnply View Post
    Then why did you quote him?
    Because he was talking to me?

    Quote Originally Posted by DarkProphet View Post
    Its from the old days when the Monarchs actually mattered.
    I'm not so sure. Surely the national anthem came in around the Victorian times? Or earlier? The monarchs were powerful up to Charles I, when their power was limited. I doubt England had a national anthem before or up to Charles I. I'd of though it came much later on.
    Last edited by King Edward III; October 22, 2007 at 03:48 PM.
    According to the Theory of War, which teaches that the best way to avoid the inconvenience of war is to pursue it away from your own country, it is more sensible for us to fight our notorious enemy in his own realm, with the joint power of our allies, than it is to wait for him at our own doors.

    - King Edward III, 1339

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    Default Re: God Save The Queen? Why?

    Well, it seem to have worked. Lizzie is quite old, isn't she?

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