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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2008-08-09 10:37 am

So glad I don't have a TV, but the internets are bad enough

I am already sick of hearing about the Olympics.

[identity profile] hopita.livejournal.com 2008-08-09 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Meh. That was disappointing.

I'm still partial to Hatikvah, the Israeli National Anthem. Not getting into the politics or anything else, it really is a beautiful song.

[identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com 2008-08-09 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, as a song, that is a beautiful song.

Oh, I thought of another national anthem I like: I do rather love the Welsh one, Hen Wlad fy Nhadau. FWIW, there isn't a national anthem for England, although for sporting events they rather need one, so sometimes people use the god-awful Land of Hope and Glory (not even dignifying that bollocks with a link) or the actually surprisingly good Jerusalem.

I can imagine it might be fun to do an anthems version of that page that went round a while ago which ranked the flags of the world and gave them letter grades, with points on for good use of colour and points off for cliche.

[identity profile] dmlaenker.livejournal.com 2008-08-09 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I was under the impression that God Save the King/Queen was the anthem of Britain.

[identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com 2008-08-09 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It is (well, the United Kingdom; islands don't generally have anthems). I didn't mention Britain.