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Americans and their national anthem
I must admit to warming to American sports more these days. Especially the baseball.
Game 5 of the World Series is about to start and they just had the anthem sung by a fella (a country singer i guess) but the crowd were silent.
Here the anthem is sung by all, the designated singer and the crowd. There it was the soloist only. Is there a reason for that?
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It's a hard song to sing so they don't bother (sounds messy).
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Michael Morris
I must admit to warming to American sports more these days. Especially the baseball.
Game 5 of the World Series is about to start and they just had the anthem sung by a fella (a country singer i guess) but the crowd were silent.
Here the anthem is sung by all, the designated singer and the crowd. There it was the soloist only. Is there a reason for that?
Too busy eating?
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Dr Lecter
Too busy eating?
Too much to learn?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...n_3880355.html
...32 million adults in the U.S. can’t read. That’s 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can’t read.
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I have attended a number of Native American pow-wows in the States, including the biggest one off all, the one at Window Rock, Arizona. Considering the cruel treatment to them by the American government in their history they still all rallied to the Star Spangled Banner at the end of the proceedings.
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Land of the free........and the home of the slave
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Yesterday at Twickenham in the American Football.
A Man singing a song about The Royal Navy not being able to capture Fort Mchenrey in 1812.
Immediately followed by a Crowd singing a song about the descendant of the guy who sent them there to do it.
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Taunton Blue Genie
I have attended a number of Native American pow-wows in the States, including the biggest one off all, the one at Window Rock, Arizona. Considering the cruel treatment to them by the American government in their history they still all rallied to the Star Spangled Banner at the end of the proceedings.
off = of :-)
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elytillidie
Too much to learn?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...n_3880355.html
...32 million adults in the U.S. can’t read. That’s 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can’t read.
How do you graduate and not be able to read?
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dembethewarrior
How do you graduate and not be able to read?
Adz will let you know in about three years.
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Dr Lecter
Adz will let you know in about three years.
Bit fik is e?
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dembethewarrior
Bit fik is e?
His spelling is bloody atrocious.
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dembethewarrior
How do you graduate and not be able to read?
In America, that's down to being good at sport and thus getting college scholarships which also include people doing your work for you to keep grades up so you're eligible to play sport. Any crimes will of course be covered up too.
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Bruce Parry
It's a hard song to sing so they don't bother (sounds messy).
Is the correct answer!
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Rock_Flock_of_Five
Is the correct answer!
How hard is it to learn how to sing your national anthem?
We know ours and 95% of us don’t even speak the language.
Thick and lazy if you ask me.
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Dr Lecter
How hard is it to learn how to sing your national anthem?
We know ours and 95% of us don’t even speak the language.
Thick and lazy if you ask me.
I think that the difficulty referred to may relate to the ability in singing the anthem in tune rather than reproducing the lyrics.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2...d-to-sing.html
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New version of the USA anthemn.
Donald Trump is a chump
Donald Trump is a chump
Donnnald Trump is a chump
Donald Trump is a chuump
Continue in this vein , it fits the whole song perfectly.
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Taunton Blue Genie
Yup!
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Why sing the anthem for a non international game anyway ?
The arrogance of Yanks calling a domestic competition " The World Series " is stupid enough to start with.
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Dr Lecter
Adz will let you know in about three years.
:hehe:
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BlueWales
Why sing the anthem for a non international game anyway ?
The arrogance of Yanks calling a domestic competition " The World Series " is stupid enough to start with.
A bit like cricket then.
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BlueWales
Why sing the anthem for a non international game anyway ?
The arrogance of Yanks calling a domestic competition " The World Series " is stupid enough to start with.
Wasn't that named after a newspaper?
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lardy
Wasn't that named after a newspaper?
Yes.
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lardy
Wasn't that named after a newspaper?
It was indeed rather than any claim to be a World Championship.
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Taunton Blue Genie
A bit like cricket then.
Clarify ?
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Since62
It was indeed rather than any claim to be a World Championship.
This is disputed on Wikepedia btw. The New York World newspaper went out of business in the 1930s.
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BlueWales
Clarify ?
I'll give you a clue. The answer is 12.
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BlueWales
This is disputed on Wikepedia btw. The New York World newspaper went out of business in the 1930s.
Just found the paragraph on wikipedia:
"In his book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, Simon Winchester mentions in passing that the World Series was named for the New York World newspaper,[6] but this view is disputed.[7]"
How on earth is a book on Krakatoa the only source on this? :hehe:
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lardy
Just found the paragraph on wikipedia:
"In his book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, Simon Winchester mentions in passing that the World Series was named for the New York World newspaper,[6] but this view is disputed.[7]"
How on earth is a book on Krakatoa the only source on this? :hehe:
Snopes is your friend:
https://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp
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BlueWales
Why sing the anthem for a non international game anyway ?
The arrogance of Yanks calling a domestic competition " The World Series " is stupid enough to start with.
As a general rule Americans only give a shit about sports that they’re the best at/they’re the only ones who care about it.
That’s why they love American football, basketball, baseball and shooting each other but don’t care about football rugby or cricket.
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Canada here, but before Toronto FC matches most of the stadium joins in with the Canadian anthem. Since the team has been around (11 years now) the singer generally sings the first few words and turns it over to the crowd much like what happened in the recent Wales match.
Personally, I hate the anthems before every event. We generally have to stand through the American one and then the Canadian one. It's more of a spectacle really usually with the Armed Forces/Air Force involved, hell it's been found out in recent years that they pay money to have these displays during the anthems, good recruitment I suppose which is why all this business with players protesting during the anthem caused such a big uproar.
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Dr Lecter
As a general rule Americans only give a shit about sports that they’re the best at/they’re the only ones who care about it.
That’s why they love American football, basketball, baseball and shooting each other but don’t care about football rugby or cricket.
The vast majority of countries around the world do not seriously engage in rugby and cricket!
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Dr Lecter
As a general rule Americans only give a shit about sports that they’re the best at/they’re the only ones who care about it.
That’s why they love American football, basketball, baseball and shooting each other but don’t care about football rugby or cricket.
Worked in the USA quite a bit, used to slag their sports off big time, occasionally one of them would reply with cricket which usually shut me up. Hard to defend. They've got to have plenty of scoring, couldn't comprehend how a football game could end 0-0 and still be entertaining.
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elytillidie
Worked in the USA quite a bit, used to slag their sports off big time, occasionally one of them would reply with cricket which usually shut me up. Hard to defend. They've got to have plenty of scoring, couldn't comprehend how a football game could end 0-0 and still be entertaining.
I get your point, incredibly frustrating how people with no knowledge of the sport (football) just dismiss it over here. However, in all fairness about 70,000 people just watched a 0-0 match between Atlanta and Columbus in MLS playoffs that was one of the more exciting matches I have seen in quite some time. It's slowly catching on in the right markets considering MLS itself is only 20+ years old.
In Canada curling sometimes outdraws most sports in terms of television viewership.. strange world or perhaps older people watch more tv.
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Re: Americans and their national anthem
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Michael Morris
I must admit to warming to American sports more these days. Especially the baseball.
Game 5 of the World Series is about to start and they just had the anthem sung by a fella (a country singer i guess) but the crowd were silent.
Here the anthem is sung by all, the designated singer and the crowd. There it was the soloist only. Is there a reason for that?
You're supposed to listen with your hand on your heart and look in the direction of the flag. There's no rule that you can't sing along, but it's not supposed to be a giant sing along, and as others have mentioned it's not an easy tune. It could easily fall apart at the "and the rocket's red glare..." bit
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elytillidie
Worked in the USA quite a bit, used to slag their sports off big time, occasionally one of them would reply with cricket which usually shut me up. Hard to defend. They've got to have plenty of scoring, couldn't comprehend how a football game could end 0-0 and still be entertaining.
Ridiculous, but symptomatic of a culture/society that has evidently f*cked itself up. No doubt the same will be true of UK soon enough.
TBH I find 'American' sports - presented in the American way - almost impossible to relate to, nor enjoy.
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Dr Lecter
How hard is it to learn how to sing your national anthem?
We know ours and 95% of us don’t even speak the language.
Thick and lazy if you ask me.
I don't know 'our' national anthem if you're referring to GSTQ. I could just about manage the first verse but after that I'm lost.
God Save the Queen
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen!
O lord God arise,
Scatter our enemies,
And make them fall!
Confound their knavish tricks,
Confuse their politics,
On you our hopes we fix,
God save the Queen!
Not in this land alone,
But be God's mercies known,
From shore to shore!
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be,
And form one family,
The wide world ov'er
From every latent foe,
From the assassin's blow,
God save the Queen!
O'er her thine arm extend,
For Britain's sake defend,
Our mother, prince, and friend,
God save the Queen!
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour,
Long may she reign!
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!
source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nat...hemlyrics.html
It is still a bag of miserable imperialist doggerel set to the most depressing dirge in the history of music, but at least the powers that be have stopped explicitly abusing the Scots in the current version.
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Basketball.
Now there's a sport I can't get my head around.
Team gets ball, runs down the other end, scores.
Other team gets ball, runs down the other end, scores.
Common sort of score is 120-118
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Taunton Blue Genie
The vast majority of countries around the world do not seriously engage in rugby and cricket!
Cricket must be one of the most popular sports in the world though, because of its dominance in the Indian subcontinent.
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Taunton Blue Genie
I'll give you a clue. The answer is 12.
So only 12 nations teams in the world play cricket ?
That's 11 more nations than play in the " World Series " which is just one yank leagues winners
playing another yank leagues winners in a play off. Just like American football bullshit " Superbowl ".