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Thread ID: 121313	2011-10-20 05:52:00	Ban Kamate? No way, it's pussy cat stuff compared with La Marseillaise	WalOne (4202)	PC World Chat

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1238789	2011-10-20 05:52:00	Shock, Horror. On Sunday, we'll politely listen to the French rendering their National Anthem, us n o doubt thinking what stirring music, what passion, why can't we have something like that? But beware the veiled intent of the French, the bloodthirsty La Marseillaise: Arise children of the fatherland The day of glory has arrived Against us tyranny's Bloody standard is raised Listen to the sound in the fields The howling of these fearsome soldiers They are coming into our midst To cut the throats of your sons and consorts To arms citizens Form your battalions March, march Let impure blood Water our furrows What do they want this horde of slaves Of traitors and conspiratorial kings? For whom these vile chains These long-prepared irons? Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage What methods must be taken? It is us they dare plan To return to the old slavery! What! These foreign cohorts! They would make laws in our courts! What! These mercenary phalanxes Would cut down our warrior sons Good Lord! By chained hands Our brow would yield under the yoke The vile despots would have themselves be The masters of destiny Tremble, tyrants and traitors The shame of all good men Tremble! Your parricidal schemes Will receive their just reward Against you we are all soldiers If they fall, our young heros France will bear new ones Ready to join the fight against you Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors Bear or hold back your blows Spare these sad victims That they regret taking up arms against us But not these bloody despots These accomplices of Bouillé All these tigers who pitilessly Ripped out their mothers' wombs We shall enter into the pit When our elders will no longer be there There we shall find their ashes And the mark of their virtues We are much less jealous of surviving them Than of sharing their coffins Pretty violent stuff. And the best we can do in reply is to pussy foot around with Kamate. Kamate, designed to strike fear in the hearts of impudent Northern Hemisphere pretenders to the World Cup. Kamate, the one that celebrates Te Rauparaha hiding (!) in a kumara pit with his wahine sitting on his face (!!) .... OK, enough, enough, we've been there already :lol:	WalOne (4202)
1238790	2011-10-20 06:00:00	Yes but everyone knows the French run away and hide too when faced by the enemy, admittedly their not as quick with the white flag as the Italians but they are not that far behind	gary67 (56)
1238791	2011-10-20 07:55:00	It sounds like a very catchy song when hearing the French version. I wonder who dreamed up the lyrics.	Bobh (5192)
1238792	2011-10-20 09:35:00	QUOTE=Bobh;1055349]It sounds like a very catchy song when hearing the French version. I wonder who dreamed up the lyrics.[/QUOTE] See here:- en.wikipedia.org	Snorkbox (15764)
1238793	2011-10-20 10:29:00	Their anthem is pretty epic. Yes but everyone knows the French run away and hide too when faced by the enemy, admittedly their not as quick with the white flag as the Italians but they are not that far behind Oh, were the Emperor alive!	Cato (6936)
1238794	2011-10-20 20:01:00	Knowing that you are a second rate country is hard to live with, so I think a bit of slack is called for.	Cicero (40)
1238795	2011-10-20 20:04:00	Probably took them so long to sing the song, they were overwhelmed by the enemy before they finished.	Richard (739)
1238796	2011-10-20 21:12:00	Have a look at the Italian anthem as well. Also kind of bloodthirsty... en.wikipedia.org	John H (8)
1238797	2011-10-20 23:36:00	Louis XVIII, and Napoleon III banned the song outright. I think that they showed sound judgement.	Bobh (5192)
1238798	2011-10-21 02:14:00	The French ran Europe for several hundred years. And in Napoleon's time they always went forward. But that aside I still think that new haka with the throat cutting is totally out of line in a modern world. The whole thing is too long, and if they must keep it, why not rewrite the throat slitting out of it.	Digby (677)
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