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Well the Japanese sympathizing with Nazis isn’t exactly without precedent
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La Marseillaise and the Soviet hymn are the only good national anthems to ever exist. Oh Canada bilingually gets an honourable mention.
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oldpainless posted:Well the Japanese sympathizing with Nazis isn’t exactly without precedent oof, though true
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:La Marseillaise and the Soviet hymn are the only good national anthems to ever exist. Oh Canada bilingually gets an honourable mention. Uruguay's sounds like it fell off the back of Rossini's truck and it rules.
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Humerus posted:Florida's state song, Old Folks at Home, is a minstrel song originally performed in blackface written by a man who had never been to Florida, but used the name of one of our rivers because it would fit the pace of his song about how slaves miss their plantations. That reminded me of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, which Virginia dropped as its state song in 1997. Until reading about it, I didn't know the lyrics were apparently revised in 1878 to make it even more racist.
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The Icelandic national anthem is about Iceland as a ,,eternal small-flower that worships it's God and dies". Which isn't really very rousing or inspiring. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 10:06 on Nov 2, 2020 |
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GrandpaPants posted:I'm watching part 2 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure since it gets fawned about pretty regularly and it sure was weird when Jojo took a moment from a life and death struggle to appreciate a Nazi. And then in the next few episodes, there was another Nazi the characters were sympathizing with. When you're fighting omnicidal vampire gods you'll take all the help you can get.
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It's kinda weird given the Nazis are shown as committing horrible crimes against humanity and most of their whole deal is closer to opening the Ark of the Covenant, but some of the soldiers are still treated sympathetically? Clean Werhmacht myth I guess.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's kinda weird given the Nazis are shown as committing horrible crimes against humanity and most of their whole deal is closer to opening the Ark of the Covenant, but some of the soldiers are still treated sympathetically? Clean Werhmacht myth I guess. It probably gets mistaken for complex writing and deep characterization in the author's mind.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Uruguay's sounds like it fell off the back of Rossini's truck and it rules. I am so glad you introduced me to this. The Swedish Nation anthem COULD be good if they just played it a bit faster.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Which isn't really very rousing or inspiring. No disrespect intended, but this seems on-brand for Iceland. It’ll do until ‘Immigrant Song’ passes into the public domain.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:La Marseillaise and the Soviet hymn are the only good national anthems to ever exist. Oh Canada bilingually gets an honourable mention. South Africa's is also legit. "gently caress you, we're using all our languages, go learn how to pronounce Xhosa words."
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Torquemada posted:No disrespect intended, but this seems on-brand for Iceland. It’ll do until ‘Immigrant Song’ passes into the public domain. I’d vote for Isobel by Bjork Also if I could get citizenship to vote that would be cool You can keep the idea
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Whybird posted:Let's not forget the lyrical chronicling of the many and varied crimes against humanity that took place at the German Nick. Does that song even exist past the second line? I knew someone who claimed the third line was "And the Nazis play snooker with your balls", but I never heard any more beyond that.
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Trump appears on Tiny Toons https://youtu.be/VhLNyLGJIYU
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Joseph is pretty racist, especially to the Japanese.
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I recently passed the 700 episode mark in my Dark Shadows watch. Two new characters were introduced: Sandor & Magda Rakosi  They were referred to by the now unacceptable name of Gypsies. Yeah... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErCkdI9ZjA8 (the audio is out of sync) Definitely would not fly today.
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'Episode 700' oh this must be one of those really long running soaps 'aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971' what the gently caress?  what the gently caress?
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Garrand posted:'Episode 700' oh this must be one of those really long running soaps It's one of the few soaps where all the episodes are intact. Well, except one which exists in an audio format only (thanks to a hardcore fan). The video was recreated by using still photos and credits from other episodes.
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I had heard about soaps like guiding light that ran for decades but they were never my thing. I didn't realize they absolutely pumped out episodes. Guiding light has 57 seasons and 15,762 episodes these episode counts are insane 
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Trump appears on Tiny Toons See, this is a valuable life lesson Tiny Toons was teaching us all. You can be known well enough for panhandling and tax avoidance to be a punchline in a 1992 children’s cartoon, but still go on to be the President of the United States of America. The American Dream, ladies and gentlemen.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Trump appears on Tiny Toons And The Drew Carey Show. 
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Garrand posted:I had heard about soaps like guiding light that ran for decades but they were never my thing. I didn't realize they absolutely pumped out episodes. Guiding light has 57 seasons and 15,762 episodes Soaps are year-round and only rarely do reruns. The Young and the Restless would sometimes replay a Christmas episode, but it wasn't until this summer that had to do weeks of replays because production had shut down. As far as I know, Days of Our Lives has never done a rerun. They had filmed so far in advance earlier this year that they had enough material to get through months of not being in a studio. Guiding Light started on radio in 1937 and moved to TV in 1952. Both radio and TV were kept up until 1956 and the TV series kept up into 2009. Soaps are a fascinating medium. For as low-rent as they've always been seen (and currently are), they've had massive influence from primetime series, to shopping, to the music charts. An extended documentary series would be extremely fun, but I don't think there is anyone out there to give the genre proper attention.
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Honestly there’s something I can respect about that insane consistency to pump something serviceable out day after day for decades without fail
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Humerus posted:Florida's state song, Old Folks at Home, is a minstrel song originally performed in blackface written by a man who had never been to Florida, but used the name of one of our rivers because it would fit the pace of his song about how slaves miss their plantations. It was adopted in 1939.
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Mister Kingdom posted:And The Drew Carey Show. And the Fresh Prince! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZPrrLve2Eo "Everyone's always blaming me for everything." Gee, I wonder why?
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Garrand posted:I had heard about soaps like guiding light that ran for decades but they were never my thing. I didn't realize they absolutely pumped out episodes. Guiding light has 57 seasons and 15,762 episodes The longest running soap in the UK is Coronation Street, which celebrates its 60th anniversary on December 9th. It's only had 10,152 episodes though, as it aired only twice a week for much of its run (it currently airs six times a week, two 30-minute episodes three days a week). If you want astonishing, Bill Roache has played Ken Barlow on the show since the first episode.
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hyperhazard posted:The Jim Crow era gave us so many terrible, racist, state songs. "Maryland, My Maryland" (sung to the tune of Oh Christmas Tree/O Tannenbaum) is entirely about how glorious it would be to die on the battlefield fighting against the North. It tastefully includes a verse about how Lincoln was a tyrant and it was great that he was assassinated. It also contains the phrase "spurn the Northern scum" which sounds like something an anime villain would say. Encouraging racists to die is something we can all get behind. Jedit posted:The longest running soap in the UK is Coronation Street, which celebrates its 60th anniversary on December 9th. It's only had 10,152 episodes though, as it aired only twice a week for much of its run (it currently airs six times a week, two 30-minute episodes three days a week). If you want astonishing, Bill Roache has played Ken Barlow on the show since the first episode.
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Jedit posted:The longest running soap in the UK is Coronation Street, which celebrates its 60th anniversary on December 9th. It's only had 10,152 episodes though, as it aired only twice a week for much of its run (it currently airs six times a week, two 30-minute episodes three days a week). If you want astonishing, Bill Roache has played Ken Barlow on the show since the first episode. Bill Roache is 88 years old, has been an actor for 64 years and has played a total of... 9 roles, 7 of them very minor. He has played Ken Barlow for 59 goddamn years.
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Pookah posted:Bill Roache is 88 years old, has been an actor for 64 years and has played a total of... 9 roles, 7 of them very minor. He has played Ken Barlow for 59 goddamn years. He's said many times that as an actor the most important thing to him is the steady income.
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Jedit posted:He's said many times that as an actor the most important thing to him is the steady income. Oh I'm not knocking him or his career - I'd adore to have a gig as sweet as that.
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Pookah posted:Oh I'm not knocking him or his career - I'd adore to have a gig as sweet as that. Oh, heck, it's a family benefit. One of Linus Roache's first roles was as Ken Barlow's son Peter, and James Roache not only appeared on the show as Ken's grandson (he's 20 years younger than his brother) but also as his own father in a documentary about the creation of the show.
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If we are still doing National Anthem chat: I can't listen to The Marseilles, (The French National Anthem) without thinking of defunct footy team Fitzroy's theme song. Because they share the same tune. If we have moved on from Anthem chat, then forgive me and my useless factoid.
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BrigadierSensible posted:If we are still doing National Anthem chat: The Adelaide Crows uses the US Marines battle hymn with different lyrics, iirc. Guessing a lot of sports team themes are along similar lines.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Adelaide Crows uses the US Marines battle hymn with different lyrics, iirc. Guessing a lot of sports team themes are along similar lines. This made playing Fallout 3 VERY weird for someone from Adelaide. But also weirdly appropriate, with the uber-patriotic Enclave Radio playing your local sports team's song.
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christmas boots posted:Honestly there’s something I can respect about that insane consistency to pump something serviceable out day after day for decades without fail It's because it's the same storyline over and over in 3 to 4 year cycles. Characters hook up, get engaged, married, something terrible happens on their wedding day and they either split or stick it out and have a baby who 3 years later dies or gets age progression to a teenager and then dies. I think Susan Lucci's character was married like 8 times or something. Soap fans love a loving wedding, but they hate marriage. Also you intermarry to the point of near incest. On the soap my wife watches a 70 year old guy married his daughter-in-law. It didn't last though. It never does.
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Soap operas have their own weird storytelling conventions as a result of their format, like a lot of long-running media that doesn't actually expect the audience to remember the plotlines from seven years ago. (see also: wrestling, comic books, shonen anime)
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Jedit posted:Does that song even exist past the second line? I knew someone who claimed the third line was "And the Nazis play snooker with your balls", but I never heard any more beyond that. Sure, although like anything in its vein there are a thousand and one variations: the schoolyard posted:In the German Nick
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