Google Doodles Guthrie; What Do You Think of "This Land is Your Land"?

[Borachio]

Nice guitar riff towards the end.

 

[_random_]

At the end of the day national anthems are about sport. I'm a big Woodie Guthrie fan but if I won gold in the hammer throw for the USA, I'd want to hear the big numbers.

The tune to which Mr. Keys' poem was set was initially that of a British drinking song, oddly enough.

No, the Welch masterminded putting cranberry juice in everything. We're talking about the Welsh.

Since I'm in the trivia mood, Thomas Welch started making pasteurized grape juice as an alternative to wine for his church's communion, since he was a strict teetotaler and apparently wanted to out-holy Jesus.

 

[Traitorfish]

That looks suspiciously like the British Empire. I had no idea it was all a plot masterminded by the Welch.

If you see how that works.

 

[Borachio]

From that map, it is clear that Wales is red, while the rest is only slightly pink.

I don't see how it could be any plainer than that.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Not true! The noble Welsh people had long been oppressed by the bloodthirsty English! They are just another victim of the Brutish British Empire

 

[downtown]

I agree, the Star Spangled Banner is way too hard to sing. America, the Beautiful is much better (I sometimes tear up a little in the second verse, not gonna lie).

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is the best US Patriotic song though, bar none.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I always loved seeing Dubya, shoulders back, full swagger, trying to look serious whilst rockin' a "Hail to the Chief"

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

If you see how that works.

Dude, ssh. He's giving the Scots a get-out clause with this logic as well.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Exactly. I don't really blame the Welch, Scots, and Irish for looting and pillaging enough foreign countries to fill the British Museum with really cool stuff. Much of it occurred before the UK was formed, and the rest seems to be more of a continuation of already existing English imperialism than anything else. It is like trying to blame Oregon and Idaho and for the extinction of the American Indians, or Estonia and Hungary for the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union.

 

[Dachs]

Exactly. I don't really blame the Welch, Scots, and Irish for looting and pillaging enough foreign countries to fill the British Museum with really cool stuff. Much of it occurred before the UK was formed, and the rest seems to be more of a continuation of already existing English imperialism than anything else. It is like trying to blame Alaska and Hawaii for the extinction of the American Indians.

I wasn't aware that the English were in the habit of conquering India and Africa in the medieval period.

I guess Longshanks' expedition to Mysore just slipped my mind.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I wasn't aware that the English were in the habit of conquering India and Africa in the medieval period.

I guess Longshanks' expedition to Mysore just slipped my mind.

I think they did it around the time Niall O'Neil invaded Switzerland.

 

[Borachio]

Was that a son of Niall Glundub? They seem to get everywhere. Irish themed pubs, and all.

 

[holy king]

i think this map should clear things up:

 

[Traitorfish]

Exactly. I don't really blame the Welch, Scots, and Irish for looting and pillaging enough foreign countries to fill the British Museum with really cool stuff. Much of it occurred before the UK was formed, and the rest seems to be more of a continuation of already existing English imperialism than anything else. It is like trying to blame Oregon and Idaho and for the extinction of the American Indians, or Estonia and Hungary for the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union.

Maybe your problem is thinking that you "blame" entire countries, rather than the countries which you chose to blame. I don't really get the logic by which, for example, the Duke of Wellington is excused for for his participation in the British conquest of India because he was Irish, but Jim the Horribly Impoverished Weaver is held responsible because he happened to be English. It seems arbitrary to me.

 

[Borachio]

i think this map should clear things up:

Are you crazy?

By all that's logical, Australia should be green on that map. (Except for the drought, of course.)

(Oh yes, and Japan.)

 

[BvBPL]

That map is really beyond the Pale.

 

[Flying Pig]

Oh Jesus, that's awful

I think it's great.

But, really, the whole map, including the sea, should be green.

I meant the pun.

 

[Borachio]

I think it's great.

But, really, the whole map, including the sea, should be green.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Maybe your problem is thinking that you "blame" entire countries, rather than the countries which you chose to blame. I don't really get the logic by which, for example, the Duke of Wellington is excused for for his participation in the British conquest of India because he was Irish, but Jim the Horribly Impoverished Weaver is held responsible because he happened to be English. It seems arbitrary to me.

Maybe your problem is reading far too much into others' posts.

I certainly don't perceive the Welch, Irish, or Scots as being very imperialistic and expansionist on their own prior to joining the UK, as England clearly was and as the US continues to be, at least as far as the former is concerned. YMMV.

 

[Borachio]

Strange, though, that the Irish, Welsh and Scots should fight so vigorously for the British Empire.