08-06-2010, 11:19 AM
Oh this would make a fantastic anthem for the US! Has there ever been a campaign to achieve this?
Our anthem should have been Waltzing Matilda. Or at least the music with new words as the music is recognisable by any Australian. Though the description of the class struggle of a unemployed proletarian man who steals a sheep for food and his death by drowning by the state police authorities is a perfectly apt description of Australia's history and present. I don't even know the words to our anthem. My generation grew up with 'God Save the Queen' and the current one was foisted on us from almost nowhere. It is a dreadful dull dirge about Australians all ringing Joyce because she's young and free. Even those that know the anthem only know the first verse. And just as well because it is really racist and sexist and would make a White Supremacist proud.
Our anthem should have been Waltzing Matilda. Or at least the music with new words as the music is recognisable by any Australian. Though the description of the class struggle of a unemployed proletarian man who steals a sheep for food and his death by drowning by the state police authorities is a perfectly apt description of Australia's history and present. I don't even know the words to our anthem. My generation grew up with 'God Save the Queen' and the current one was foisted on us from almost nowhere. It is a dreadful dull dirge about Australians all ringing Joyce because she's young and free. Even those that know the anthem only know the first verse. And just as well because it is really racist and sexist and would make a White Supremacist proud.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.