Your Nation's Athem Broken Down Into Humanspeak™

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The Good Reverend Roger

September 16, 2013, 10:20:55 PM
We'll start with Canada:

O Canada! 
Our home and native land!  <--- Beothuks, lol.  Also, Saskatchawan.
True patriot love in all thy sons command. <--- May not apply outside of Hamilton.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise, <--- Rise what?  Where?  Its Goddamn Canada.
The True North strong and free! <--- Unlike the fake-ass North in Russia and Denmark, etc.
From far and wide, <--- Far and wide is their national product. Miles and miles of miles and miles.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. <--- Against WHO?  Are the Lapps invading again?
God keep our land glorious and free! <--- For a given value of "free".  IE, not offensive or anything.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. <--- See above.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. <--- See above.


" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#1
September 16, 2013, 10:24:20 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 16, 2013, 10:23:24 PM
Those fucking "Free" Canuckistani igloo-heads have a shitty postal service. Worse than ours. It took me 2 weeks to get in something from TORONTO. I could DRIVE to Toronto in 12 hours, damnit.

They should have put something in their anthem about that.
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:kojak:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#2
September 16, 2013, 10:26:53 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 16, 2013, 10:26:20 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 16, 2013, 10:24:20 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 16, 2013, 10:23:24 PM
Those fucking "Free" Canuckistani igloo-heads have a shitty postal service. Worse than ours. It took me 2 weeks to get in something from TORONTO. I could DRIVE to Toronto in 12 hours, damnit.

They should have put something in their anthem about that.
\
:kojak:

~_~

Continue.

Thanks.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#3
September 16, 2013, 10:28:13 PM
Can I get a thread split, please?  I wanted to have fun with this, not provide yet another fucking blog.

Goddammit.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#4
September 16, 2013, 10:34:34 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 16, 2013, 10:20:55 PM
We'll start with Canada:

O Canada! 
Our home and native land!  <--- Beothuks, lol.  Also, Saskatchawan.
True patriot love in all thy sons command. <--- May not apply outside of Hamilton.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise, <--- Rise what?  Where?  Its Goddamn Canada.
The True North strong and free! <--- Unlike the fake-ass North in Russia and Denmark, etc.
From far and wide, <--- Far and wide is their national product. Miles and miles of miles and miles.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. <--- Against WHO?  Are the Lapps invading again?
God keep our land glorious and free! <--- For a given value of "free".  IE, not offensive or anything.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. <--- See above.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. <--- See above.

:lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#5
September 16, 2013, 10:37:17 PM
Someone post their country's anthem's lyrics, and I'll explain things.

In English, please.  I don't understand Belgian.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#6
September 16, 2013, 10:38:40 PM
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Q. G. Pennyworth

#7
September 16, 2013, 10:40:08 PM
For the UK spags:

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!

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!

Nor on 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 o'er.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#8
September 16, 2013, 10:40:12 PM
Actually, reading it, I don't think it needs translating. It already pretty much literally explains America: We will bomb everything and fuck you up.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#9
September 16, 2013, 10:42:03 PM Last Edit: September 16, 2013, 10:45:52 PM by Dirty Old Uncle Roger
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 16, 2013, 10:38:40 PM
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

You left a verse out.  But hang on...

ETA:  Meeting in 10 minutes, but holy shit, can I do something with this.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#10
September 16, 2013, 10:43:08 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 16, 2013, 10:42:03 PM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 16, 2013, 10:38:40 PM
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

You left a verse out.  But hang on...

It's the 1904 version, which already seems quite long enough.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#11
September 16, 2013, 10:46:30 PM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 16, 2013, 10:40:12 PM
Actually, reading it, I don't think it needs translating. It already pretty much literally explains America: We will bomb everything and fuck you up.

And it was written by a non-combatant who was on a prison ship in the harbor, safely out of range.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#12
September 16, 2013, 10:47:14 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on September 16, 2013, 10:46:30 PM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 16, 2013, 10:40:12 PM
Actually, reading it, I don't think it needs translating. It already pretty much literally explains America: We will bomb everything and fuck you up.

And it was written by a non-combatant who was on a prison ship in the harbor, safely out of range.

Exactly.

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#13
September 16, 2013, 10:49:00 PM
Quote from: What The Fox Say on September 16, 2013, 10:43:08 PM
It's the 1904 version, which already seems quite long enough.

The last verse is ONLY sung at West Point.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Faust

#14
September 16, 2013, 11:30:29 PM
Soldiers are we, whose lives are pledged to Ireland
Some have come from a land beyond the wave,
Sworn to be free,
no more our ancient sireland
Shall shelter the despot or the slave;
tonight we man the Bearna Baoghal   <-- Gap of danger)
In Erin's cause.
come woe or weal;
'Mid cannon's roar and rifle's peal
We'll chant a soldier's song.
Sleepless nights at the chateau
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