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In reply to the discussion: What's your favorite national song? [View all]4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)42. Remember them playing that as well
I have hated that song ever since then. Not because of the song or the person but for the associated memory. After getting kicked in the nuts for weeks on end and just finishing Hell Week they played that song and it seem so out of place for me. It felt like such a contrived forced emotion that it had the opposite effect on me.
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The British Patriotic song, Jerusalem - is the most beautiful of all Patriotic songs in my opinion
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2014
#12
All social contracts are illusions - it's an illusion to imagine that by helping others I can
el_bryanto
Apr 2014
#19
I don't have one, so I'll go with one even more horrible than those ones...
Violet_Crumble
Apr 2014
#18
No, I meant horrible*, though there are some in that bunch I haven't heard of...
Violet_Crumble
Apr 2014
#25
It's a tie between Oh Canada and that French one from that Humphrey Bogart picture. (n/t)
Iggo
Apr 2014
#51
Lyrics which largely consist of a series of questions about one old obscure battle?
Paladin
Apr 2014
#66
National songs are unnecessary kitsch used to blind people to the ills of the state.
Gravitycollapse
Apr 2014
#88