The one thing I’m confused about is: why play the national anthem (or any patriotic song) at ballgames in the first place ? I mean, we do it too, for international matches. Because then it’s not soccer, it’s WAR.
But since your World Series only has American teams on it…
I want THIS to be our national anthem.
Well, here’s a first draft:
God Bless America
Is a great song.
The pathetic
Say “unaesthetic”
But fuck those traitor’s asses all night long.
So take your hat off
Or you can fuck off
Back to Russia
Where you belong!
God Bless America!
Is the bestest song!
LOL, needs more typos and cowbell.
I’m waiting with bated breath for you to finish this sentence.
It’s a horrible damned song and I never stood up for it until going to Dodger games with my fiance because it would bother him if I didn’t and it’s not worth bothering him over. But if I were there by myself, I wouldn’t stand.
It started during World War I.
And Americans are insecure, so we have to constantly show each other how American we are. Once one of these things gets started, there’s no stopping it.
You tell 'em Major —— de Coverley! I too am tired of these petty loyalty oaths to prove I’m a good American.
I am hereby announcing my membership in the retard scrotebag segment of the population. Thanks for helping me figure out where I belong. Just as long as I don’t have to stand for GBA. (And just as long as I don’t have to format my posts like you.)
Why you gotta hate on Canada?
The whole concept of a mandated “national anthem” is scary, and it’s equally scary to have sports arena announcers create ad hoc an atmosphere of “join us or die” during an event. You can try to sit through it and deal with the narrowed eyes and scowls all around you, and maybe later when the drunken loudmouthed beerbelly behind you dumps his leftover nachos in your hair it was just an “accident.” You can hear the muttering and snide comments, and at one point I even heard outright muttered threats, one time an actual death threat. Just like Jesus would have done, if he had been American!
Old people are almost as bad - all of a sudden they get full of piss and vinegar, not having really done anything worthwhile in their lives, and they stand before you, stinking of Old Spice and human outrage, to wave a finger in your face to tell you “Look here missy, OUR SAINTED BOYS IN THE MILITARY DIED FOR YOU…” and similar claptrap. At least you don’t expect them to take a swing at you. You can’t win an argument with them; past age 70 the ability to reason and change one’s mind is irretrievably lost for almost everyone.
So yes, I stand like an idiot and look at the God of cloth on the pole and try to send my mind to a better place - sometimes I review exciting spreadsheets I’ve worked with - because to do otherwise, especially when you’re in a place which is off the CCW list, is too hazardous.
What’s this “if” bullshit?
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Jesus rode a stegosaurus. Unless he was a Native American, he’s not American.
Pledge of Alligence, Star Spangled Banner and porn.
You know, I recently read a historical mystery, Dead and Buried by Barbara Hambly (who has a Master’s in History and researches the shit out of her stories) in which the main character was working a second job by playing piano in a whorehouse.
At some point, a fight broke out among the patrons, and he immediately began playing the chorus to “Anacreon in Heaven” (the original tune for “The Star Spangled Banner”) because that was, apparently, the song all the whorehouse piano players used to get the bouncers to break up the violence.
So while the lyrics make a decent, if pedestrian, poem, and the melody is insanely difficult for those without vocal training, at least it got played in whorehouses to break up fights between the johns.
Not every country can say that, you know.
Didn’t Bush make him a citizen posthumously and give him the Medal of Freedom?
eta: I think they’re making a new dollar coin with Jesus riding a stegosaurus on it, gunning down Arabs and Commies.
pps: Is that post-posthumously or ex-posthumously, or something? Not sure how that would work…
(typos corrected by author)
Thanks, but we are well served by what we already have.
See post #57.
You said it, I didn’t.
YVW.
Suit yourself.
Ditto.
So, then we really don’t need an unofficial alternative national anthem, right?
CMC fnord!