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Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Long before SSB became the US national anthem, back in the 1830s the abolitionists were pointing out the hypocrisy in the song.

What’s wrong with Sousa’s Liberty Bell March? - that’s a good tune and has the advantage if making us lose the plot laughing when we hear it. Here’s a piano tutorial - let’s turn this into a movement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXg8rY1HInc
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Pies4shaw wrote:I suppose I should add that addressing the need to fix that anthem isn’t a new thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAwPA14Ni4
Jimi does it far better than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ygwuf4XldA
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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I can't stand the song "imagine", it shits me
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stui magpie wrote:I can't stand the song "imagine", it shits me
It's total shit.
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It’s the only song by any of the Beatles I like!
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stui magpie wrote:I can't stand the song "imagine", it shits me
It says a lot about the quality of the existing anthem (unmitigated puke that it is) that people would even contemplate replacing it with a bad pop song.

It should be Free Bird.
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Born in the USA would be the ironic choice
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stui magpie wrote:Born in the USA would be the ironic choice
And at least we all know the words: “Drunk at the MCG, I was ....”
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think positive wrote:It’s the only song by any of the Beatles I like!
Not a Beatles ong. Lennon solo. Ironically he was killed in the USA thanks to idiotic gun laws.
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Replacing an anthem written by a slave-owner with one written by a serial wife-beater would be, if nothing else, an amusing development.
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ronrat wrote:
think positive wrote:It’s the only song by any of the Beatles I like!
Not a Beatles ong. Lennon solo. Ironically he was killed in the USA thanks to idiotic gun laws.
i know, i dont like the music of the beatles or any of the band members!!



i like them as people, but not singers!
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Couldn’t decide between the WTF or made me laugh thread. Surely no one is really this stupid?

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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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