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Calder calls for Flower of Scotland to be ditched
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<blockquote data-quote="g6mcg" data-source="post: 268717"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (An Tarbh @ Jun 21 2009, 01:19 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=401733" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>it's only been used for 20 years if memory serves hardly that long considering other countries anthems, you don't use Flower of Scotland at the Commonwealth Games so is that anthem popular enough to replace Flower of Scotland?</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I'm fairly certain we use Scotland the Brave at the Commonwealth Games, and many would like that to replace Flower of Scotland. Only problem is that it's hard to sing and could easily turn into a dirge...like Flower actually.</p><p></p><p><em>"This is a song that people think they know, but hardly anybody does. It very much has the feeling of a manufactured piece of tartan self-pride. It has little to do with real life in Scotland now or at any time in our history, and does not place us anywhere internationally except on the lid of the world's shortbread tin"</em></p><p></p><p>We introduced Flower of Scotland at sporting events due to the no entirely positive reception of God Save the Queen, but it is still entirely unofficial. It's unique amongst anthems, I would guess, having been written by a load of hippies on drugs.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="g6mcg, post: 268717"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (An Tarbh @ Jun 21 2009, 01:19 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=401733']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> it's only been used for 20 years if memory serves hardly that long considering other countries anthems, you don't use Flower of Scotland at the Commonwealth Games so is that anthem popular enough to replace Flower of Scotland? [/b][/quote] I'm fairly certain we use Scotland the Brave at the Commonwealth Games, and many would like that to replace Flower of Scotland. Only problem is that it's hard to sing and could easily turn into a dirge...like Flower actually. [i]"This is a song that people think they know, but hardly anybody does. It very much has the feeling of a manufactured piece of tartan self-pride. It has little to do with real life in Scotland now or at any time in our history, and does not place us anywhere internationally except on the lid of the world's shortbread tin"[/i] We introduced Flower of Scotland at sporting events due to the no entirely positive reception of God Save the Queen, but it is still entirely unofficial. It's unique amongst anthems, I would guess, having been written by a load of hippies on drugs. [/QUOTE]
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