You know what when I was growing up all teams played on Anzac Day and the day was not as celebrated as it is now, besides obviously ex servicemen and their families. The first Anzac Day game brought the day to thousands of more people so I don’t see it as “commercialism” but commemorating the day. Just like Collingwood and Essendon built Anzac Day and made it their own Richmond and Melbourne are doing the same with Anzac eve. Tremendous stuff.
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Birds of Tokyo to entertain pre-match at ANZAC Day game.
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Those numbers are interesting.
Compared to the Eastern European front the 6000 japanese troops in New Guinea is a rounding error
All these people offended, but so offended they will still attend to give the AFL the thumbs up.
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I’ll say it again, Anzac Day eve is not a thing. The Anzacs landed on Gallipoli Cove on April 25, not 24. The fact people a trying to create excitement around the eve of Anzac Day, as if it’s a celebration like Christmas and New Year’s Day, is exactly the commercialisation I was talking about.
And please don’t try to tell me it’s created awareness of the Anzacs. It’s created awareness of a myth, a legend, not reality. I’ve interviewed Anzacs and their relatives, many did not have a lot of love for the day.
i can easily imagine the afl in all their amazing initiative and sensiblity thinking that the birds of tokyo should play 'unbreakable' - a track already used as the theme song for the 2018 invictus games. it does signal a step away from their usual washed up 80's jukebox approach, though.
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Can't go to the movies most of Anzac Day. Do veterans parade through cinemas? https://www.business.vic.gov.au/vic...daylight-saving/operating-on-a-public-holiday
Army rock band currently performing on the big stage. In full fatigues. They don’t seem too concerned.
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I reckon a ww2 pow has been through more hardship than you could imagine so wouldn’t give two *s about the name of an Aussie band doing pregame at the Anzac footy game.
It’s you lunatics who finecomb through everything to try and find something that you think someone else might find offensive.
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what's more offensive, driving up the Hume and seeing an entire bunch of toilets named after VC winners or the name of a band playing at the MCG?
seriously, who gives a * about the name of the band? I can still rock up to Myer and buy a shirt, Chinatown for lunch, and just about anywhere else and get something, Anzac day has next to no real meaning anymore.
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Clearly not important if they don’t warrant being interviewed by BT.
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was watching these birds of tokyo...they didn't look japanese, and no birds.
seriously though, is this how you become a rock star these days? whiny s**t sung by 4 eyed and/or bearded emos? what have we all become. back in my day, bands used guitars and amps that had chunk, and their hair....their hair was glorious
seriously though, is this how you become a rock star these days? whiny s**t sung by 4 eyed and/or bearded emos? what have we all become. back in my day, bands used guitars and amps that had chunk, and their hair....their hair was glorious
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First time I heard this band today - they sound just like I thought they would. Watered down milquetoast Triple J vanilla crap. The stupid outrage over the band's name though is utterly ridiculous - no band should be playing at all. It's a reflective commemorative day FFS not a grand final or BBL match
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If I had a friend like this, my other friends and I would make fun of him for the rest of his life.
It would be like my friends and I discussing our favourite lines from Goodfellas, Casino, Pulp Fiction, etc and some fat dork in a Star Wars hat and Simpsons shirt elbows his way in saying 'Hey guys!!!!! How great was that scene in the Avengers Part 7 when Iron Man and the Hulk beat up this guy and that guy!!!'
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had no idea they sang that new song thats out, they sang it poorly but at least I learnt something
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Made me laugh !!!
Maybe not to sh1t stains like you.
Lol...but you didn't answer the question.
Completely agree with you, the whole idea of "what our diggers fought for" gets so completely misrepresented it's almost unusable.
The poster's point was that plenty of shops are still open, not that ANZAC Day itself is around a pointless purpose.
FWIW, just about every small business under the sun is still closed and most people have the day off.
JJJ doesn't play Birds of Tokyo, they're much more the kind of middle of the road new band that MMM plays... which really says it all I guess.
The first is more offensive. Completely irrelevant to whether or not the second is/isn't offensive though, isn't it?
FWIW, I'm not saying I found the name personally offensive either. My point was that my grandad, after 3 years of heinous torture in a POW concentration camp, would have. I know he would have. The man would throw a bowl of rice at the wall (literally) if someone served it up to him. I'm sure many of his cohorts would've been the same.
Doesn't even nearly make it right, but is completely understandable.
