Social Science Unpopular Opinions you have (non-football) Part II

[PT Bar None]

I have memories of singing AAF at primary school too. Including 2nd verse. What's weird though is this link says it was 1984 when AAF became the official national anthem. http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs251.aspx
And I was in high school by 1984

Have no memory of singing God Save the Queen at school though. So I dunno. Memory can screw with you. Maybe schools started signing it before the final ruling? Maybe I'm imagining the memory. Wouldn't be the first time. Maybe it's merging memories? Dunno. I'm gonna stop talking now

 

[Quivorir]

I remember knowing the second verse back in primary school. Don't think we actually sung it though, I was just a nerd.

 

[raskolnikov]

New Zealand's is so much better than ours. When they play them side by side at the Anzac Day match the difference is striking.

 

[Mofra]

New Zealand's is so much better than ours.

Yeah. "I still call Australia home" Plugger35

 

[Gralin]

I have memories of singing AAF at primary school too. Including 2nd verse. What's weird though is this link says it was 1984 when AAF became the official national anthem. http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs251.aspx
And I was in high school by 1984

Have no memory of singing God Save the Queen at school though. So I dunno. Memory can screw with you. Maybe schools started signing it before the final ruling? Maybe I'm imagining the memory. Wouldn't be the first time. Maybe it's merging memories? Dunno. I'm gonna stop talking now

I remember singing God Save the Queen in primary school

 

[iluvparis]

New Zealand's is so much better than ours. When they play them side by side at the Anzac Day match the difference is striking.

Not really - there's is a complete wet blanket for mine.

Basically if you weren't a major combatant in WW2 your anthem sucks.

 

[gaskin]

Never had to learn or sing the 2nd verse. Thankfully.

 

[Shell]

I remember singing God Save the Queen in primary school

Damn you're old

 

[Gralin]

Damn you're old

my wife keeps telling me that too

 

[Run n Spread]

Beneath our radiant southern cross.. we'll toil with hearts and hands.. to make this commonwealth of ours.. something something..

renowed for all the lands. For those who've come across the sea we've boundless planes to share In history's page let every stage Advance Australia Fair?????

 

[Run n Spread]

Not really - there's is a complete wet blanket for mine.

Basically if you weren't a major combatant in WW2 your anthem sucks.

Nah there's is crap as well. Most AFL teams theme songs offer more emotion than those 2.

Best national anthem is the French. US isn't bad but drones on a bit.

 

[Run n Spread]

renowed for all the lands. For those who've come across the sea we've boundless planes to share In history's page let every stage Advance Australia Fair?????

"In history's page, let every stage Advance Australia Fair. ... Beneath our radiant Southern Cross We'll toil with hearts and hands; To make this Commonwealth of ours Renowned of all the lands; For those who've come across the seas We've boundless plains to share; With courage let us all combine To Advance Australia Fair. "

Was close.

 

[JackOutback]

renowed for all the lands. For those who've come across the sea we've boundless plains to share In history's page let every stage Advance Australia Fair?????

Ironic, given the current political climate.

 

[Scotland]

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Some things are best not analysed too closely.

 

[Shell]

my wife keeps telling me that too

How old are you? And how young is she?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Yep, I grew up in an era when the only time you heard it was on memorial days and when you were begrudgingly had to sing it at school.

Now my son's school sings the second ******* verse.

Every bloody high school assembly, two verses. At least until I changed schools. Turgid piece of s**t mumbled by the most braindead *s ever put on this planet at the behest of a redneck campaigner of a principal.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Ironic, given the current political climate.

Dutton misheard the lyrics:
For those who've come across the seas, We've visas for au pairs

 

[raskolnikov]

Damn you're old

Gralin's a spring chicken.I remember singing it at high school.

 

[MWPP]

I love New Zealand’s national Anthem but I’m biased
As noted above - France has one of the best ones in the world.
I really like Russia’s too but I rarely hear it - thoughts raskolnikov

 

[raskolnikov]

I really like Russia’s too but I rarely hear it - thoughts raskolnikov

Why don't we ask GWS fans?

Not too taken with it tbh. A bit too dirgy.

 

[MWPP]

I remember singing God Save the Queen in primary school

Me too . We sang it alongside the *real* New Zealand national anthem at every assembly . Ok I’m a bit of an anglophile and royalist , but it’s funny that in this day and age, God Save Our Queen is still considered one of the 2 official national anthems of New Zealand

 

[iluvparis]

Russian one is good under the WW2 rule - so is Germany actually

 

[Gough]

I could put up with the Pistols version of God Save The Queen as our national anthem.

 

[WCErevival]

Queensland should be seperated from Australia into it's own country. Pauline Hanson, Bob Katter and Clive Palmer, all the bogans that keep coming up in the news doing stupid s**t, rugby neanderthals, natural disasters being a drain on tax payers, cane toads, Warick Capper etc just put a fence around it, cut it off and be done with it.

 

[Ok Boomer]

The concept of a national anthem is a load of crap.

You don't have to sing a song or wave a bit of cloth to be proud of your country. Soldiers didn't die for a bit of cloth.