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Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:16 am**

I love National Anthems and would place the French one as my favourite at tghis moment in time although it does change regularly

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:24 am**

Billy Connolly did a sketch about national anthems saying how dull and depressing western ones were, whereas you get some tin-pot little backwater in the middle of Africa where the people haven't got a pot to p*ss in and no food, jobs or money, and yet their anthem will be some mad little upbeat ditty something like "We're from Ungo Bungo land and we don't give a sh*t!!"

Gotta be the mad ones from little countries for me :cool:

God Save the Queen has gotta be even more depressing than the funeral march music. Utter bilge, should be replaced with Rule Brittannia/Land of Hope & Glory or something

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:40 am**

Or the theme tune from Steptoe and Son

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:44 am**

taff wrote:Or the theme tune from Steptoe and Son

Or Minder, Dennis Waterman could sing it, and write the feme tooon.....

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:00 pm**

if i rememebr right, from playing track and field, brazil had a fantastic one

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:14 pm**

i actually quite like the welsh one myself.

chorus:

wales, wales, what f#cking great fishes are wales?

they swim in the sea, and rise up to pee.

what f#cking great fishes are wales

(only kidding taff)

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:11 pm**

Actually try mammals

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:12 pm**

"Ireland, Ireland" is NOT the Irish national anthem. It is the rugby anthem. Its a soft focus air brush number from Phil Coulter as Unionists would find the South's national anthem offensive.

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:27 pm**

Still good mind you

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:28 pm**

Woollyback wrote:Billy Connolly did a sketch about national anthems saying how dull and depressing western ones were, whereas you get some tin-pot little backwater in the middle of Africa where the people haven't got a pot to p*ss in and no food, jobs or money, and yet their anthem will be some mad little upbeat ditty something like "We're from Ungo Bungo land and we don't give a sh*t!!"

I remember that sketch , he reckoned we should have the tune from the "Archers " dum de dum de dum de dum ,dum de diddly de

If i was welsh I'd go for "Men of Harlech" , Scots , "On the Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond", Irish ,Carrrickfergus . but being English I'd go for " My old man says follow the Van" and for all away sporting events "Zorba the Greek " (just to confuse the opposition)

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:31 pm**

Welsh anthems tend to be anything by Tom Jones

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:31 pm**

You have to love those away internationals in Eastern Europe where a god awful brass band plays an athemn for 25 minutes.....even the home support gets browned off. :laugh:

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:35 pm**

John Barnes' Granny wrote:You have to love those away internationals in Eastern Europe where a god awful brass band plays an athemn for 25 minutes.....even the home support gets browned off.

Count ourselves lucky they're only playin' the first verse .

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:36 pm**

When Wales beat Italy(in football) in the millenium stadium not too long ago the actually played Shaddapa your face half time

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:45 pm**

You're havin me on , please say it's true . :laugh:

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National anthems - Your favourite

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