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Soviet Commubot posted:I'm pretty sure Scotland is part of the UK, at least for the moment.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Hence "in a few years". And "  "
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I like the Turkish anthem where there's a verse where they tell the flag not to be sad, cause the crescent kind of makes it look like a sad face.
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Iprazochrome posted:I like the Turkish anthem where there's a verse where they tell the flag not to be sad, cause the crescent kind of makes it look like a sad face. A thing I feel we can all like how and also be the.
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And then there's La Marseillaise: And some maps I found by googling "national anthem map":  
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The irony is that Moldova, the one country in that map I see as having an anthem about their language, famously doesn't have its own language, it being just another name for Romanian. Also, Slovenia's is the most 
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Golbez posted:The irony is that Moldova, the one country in that map I see as having an anthem about their language, famously doesn't have its own language, it being just another name for Romanian. it's not ironic, it's sad.
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A lot of these maps make Slovenia look like a cool country but I know very little about it. Did they just get out of Yugoslavia relatively unscathed and instantly join the ranks of European countries that have a fairly good quality of life while being kind of cheap but are unexceptional in every other way? Or are they actually a bad country that looks good compared to the rest of the former Yugoslavia?
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:And " And "England".
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Chicken posted:A lot of these maps make Slovenia look like a cool country but I know very little about it. Did they just get out of Yugoslavia relatively unscathed and instantly join the ranks of European countries that have a fairly good quality of life while being kind of cheap but are unexceptional in every other way? Or are they actually a bad country that looks good compared to the rest of the former Yugoslavia? no country that produced žižek is free of blame
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Huh, never noticed that Spain and Bosnia has a purely instrumental anthem, that's cool. You'd think it would be popular with countries that have multiple national languages.
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mobby_6kl posted:Huh, never noticed that Spain and Bosnia has a purely instrumental anthem, that's cool. You'd think it would be popular with countries that have multiple national languages. Doesn't south africa have an anthem that changes language every couple of lines to fit them all in?
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Doesn't south africa have an anthem that changes language every couple of lines to fit them all in? Yes it's got 5, and it changes key too although it's not the only one that does
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Doesn't south africa have an anthem that changes language every couple of lines to fit them all in? And it completely changes musical style halfway through, from an African inspired backing to a European styled one (basically the same tune as Die Stem but with the 'Vaderland!  ' bits stripped out).And the last verse often just gets taken out entirely. That one's in English. 
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Golbez posted:The irony is that Moldova, the one country in that map I see as having an anthem about their language, famously doesn't have its own language, it being just another name for Romanian. If Serbian can be a language separate from Croatian, Moldovan can be separate from Romanian. Years ago Romanian politicians asked Moldovans to provide a dictionary of their language to prove it existed, and they did. Well, it was a dictionary composed of an arbitrary mixture of Romanian and Russian words, but Moldova still exists, and it has an army, so Moldovan language is legit, I think.
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The real German national anthem technically has words but is only played instrumentally because it mentions a united fatherland.
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Chicken posted:A lot of these maps make Slovenia look like a cool country but I know very little about it. Did they just get out of Yugoslavia relatively unscathed and instantly join the ranks of European countries that have a fairly good quality of life while being kind of cheap but are unexceptional in every other way? Or are they actually a bad country that looks good compared to the rest of the former Yugoslavia? As far as I can tell the answer is "basically, yeah"
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What the heck Slovenia. Also, of course Moldova's song is about its language.
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You could make a strong case that America's anthem is just as much about a battle as about a flag.
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The Swiss anthem doesn't have much to do with the flag either, it's meant to be an ode to God. It's literally called the Swiss Psalm. Also, having your anthem be about friendship is the most thing imaginable.
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Hawai'i should be color coded yellow.
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Slovenia's anthem is a call for international brotherhood and the end to all conflict. It's pretty rad.
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Chicken posted:A lot of these maps make Slovenia look like a cool country but I know very little about it. Did they just get out of Yugoslavia relatively unscathed and instantly join the ranks of European countries that have a fairly good quality of life while being kind of cheap but are unexceptional in every other way? Or are they actually a bad country that looks good compared to the rest of the former Yugoslavia? Pretty much, yeah. I visited Slovenia for the first time a month ago and it is hands down the most underrated part of Europe. Amazing people, not completely overrun by tourists, gorgeous capital city, amazing countryside, just there are literally no downsides to Slovenia. The lady at the bakery down the street from where we were staying gave me free treats the day I left
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Lord Hydronium posted:And some maps I found by googling "national anthem map": Peanut President posted:Imagined? Could be The Revolution, could be The Eschaton, could be Finally Dealing With Those Jerks Who Have Tried To Roll Over Us For A Millennium, whatever.
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Who the hell puts lyrics about bombs and rockets into their anthem? The US that's who. How gauche. Finnish one is about how the land is in the north, and is nice, and will be successful in the future. Basic stuff but the sentiment is 
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HookShot posted:Pretty much, yeah. Slovenia is an unimpeachably wonderful country to visit. Awesome people, lovely land, lots of cool stuff, lots of things to do, plus also really good food wherever you go. The impression I get about actually living in Slovenia is that it's a good country that is also dealing with a lot of problems. Just like every other country out there, obviously, just with their own added wrinkles. Their economy had a meteoric rise until 2008, when it got body-checked by reality, and since then they've been healing. While the standard of living has remained quite high, the rise-crash-heal narrative has made life pretty stressful for many people. Uncertainty is no fun, even if you're not literally starving.
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Yeah, I definitely didn't mean to imply that it was an amazing place to live, I have no idea on that front. Just that it's a great place to visit.
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HookShot posted:Yeah, I definitely didn't mean to imply that it was an amazing place to live, I have no idea on that front. Just that it's a great place to visit. No worries, I wasn't implying that that was what you're implying. I was just seconding that it's a great place to visit, while also trying to give my impression of what some of the troubles have been over there.
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TheWeepingHorse posted:No worries, I wasn't implying that that was what you're implying. I was just seconding that it's a great place to visit, while also trying to give my impression of what some of the troubles have been over there. 
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Yeah one of my more successful fuckups was boarding a train to Venice and somehow ending up in Ljubljana instead. Beautiful place.
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Chicken posted:A lot of these maps make Slovenia look like a cool country but I know very little about it. Did they just get out of Yugoslavia relatively unscathed and instantly join the ranks of European countries that have a fairly good quality of life while being kind of cheap but are unexceptional in every other way? Or are they actually a bad country that looks good compared to the rest of the former Yugoslavia? Slovenia was by far the richest of the Yugoslav republics before the breakup, just by historical virtue of being nearest Italy and Austria and because a lot of Yugoslav industrialization money got spent there. They aren't a bad country but they also aren't some amazing success story. They were something like 2+ times as rich as the Yugoslav average even before the breakup.
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doverhog posted:Who the hell puts lyrics about bombs and rockets into their anthem? The US that's who. How gauche. Being on the receiving end of them even. It's like the Rocky of national anthems
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Anos posted:Yeah one of my more successful fuckups was boarding a train to Venice and somehow ending up in Ljubljana instead. Beautiful place. James Joyce once accidentally took the train to Ljubljana. He spent the night at the railway station as a result. There is now a monument to him there, for that reason.
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Lord Hydronium posted:And some maps I found by googling "national anthem map": Spain don't have lyrics for his anthem, because we are scare of nationalism and we can't agree on one.
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Haha the Carlist version has a line about masons
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Tei posted:Spain don't have lyrics for his anthem, because we are scare of nationalism and we can't agree on one. I'd recommend something about English grammar, maybe lift a bit from Open Sesame?
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Phlegmish posted:Haha the Carlist version has a line about masons I'm guessing it's not the labourer sort
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Tei posted:Spain don't have lyrics for his anthem, because we are scare of nationalism and we can't agree on one. Do it in Moroccan Arabic
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