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Wok'n'roll! That was what yesterday's chicken wok at the main campus canteen caused in my stomach.

But now, life is good. A bright blue morning sky and a big cup of coffee ... mmm.
 
Not even going to lie, I don't understand why you Scandinavians call a stirfry "wok". Sara does the same, and it's always made me wonder how that happened.

Also, TSN just replayed Christina Aguilera cocking up The Star-Spangled Banner. That made me cringe...
 
LooseCannon said:
Also, TSN just replayed Christina Aguilera cocking up The Star-Spangled Banner. That made me cringe...
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I'm German and I know the words by heart.

I also know the Canadian anthem, but then, I did sing it every morning for three years.
 
I'm gonna hafta watch some of those.

This weekend, my goal is to finally uninstall and re-install iTunes properly on my Win7 box........
 
LooseCannon said:
The Duke knows the old Soviet anthem by heart.
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V Sayuz nyeroshimi, respublik svobodnik

I used to know an English translation by heart, but that was back when I was a Communist.
 
When singing God Save The Queen it's very difficult not to add your own "dur dur dur dur" before "Send her victorious..", it's just so natural whether there's music or not. I'd really like a footballer to do it during the national anthems before a match, but he'd probably be blasted for 'disrespecting the Queen!'
 
Wasted CLV said:
How many semesters back was that?   ;)
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That was back in school. There is a saying that, if you are eighteen and not a Communist, you have no heart. If you are forty and still a Communist, you have no brain.
 
Ha! I like that. I went from anarchist to libertarian, and now I live in a Socialist-Democratic America and have a hard time finding a political home.
 
I dig that. I can't really identify with any of the political camps in this country, or with any political ideology. The Green party comes closest to what I believe, and that's why I vote for them. But if you asked me if I was conservative, liberal, libertarian, socialist, anarchist or whatever, I can tell you, "no, I'm not". I'm Perunist as far as I am concerned. ;)
 
Exactly!! If there was a 'centrist' I'd be more likely to be there. It seems that the US parties split farther apart all the time and 80% of the nation is somewhere inbetween.
 
national acrobat said:
When singing God Save The Queen it's very difficult not to add your own "dur dur dur dur" before "Send her victorious..", it's just so natural whether there's music or not. I'd really like a footballer to do it during the national anthems before a match, but he'd probably be blasted for 'disrespecting the Queen!'
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I'd really like a footballer to actually bother to sing it in the first place. There are the odd exception (Terry, Beckham, etc) bit the rest barely move their lips. And yes, the "dur dur dur dur" is like second nature for us plebs in the stands.
 
Perun said:
That was back in school. There is a saying that, if you are eighteen and not a Communist, you have no heart. If you are forty and still a Communist, you have no brain.
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Very Churchillian of you.
 
national acrobat said:
When singing God Save The Queen it's very difficult not to add your own "dur dur dur dur" before "Send her victorious..", it's just so natural whether there's music or not. I'd really like a footballer to do it during the national anthems before a match, but he'd probably be blasted for 'disrespecting the Queen!'
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Haha, I've actually done that. But then, I like to hum along to any national anthem when I'm watching sports. At least if it's a national anthem with a melody that invites to singing along, and the English one surely does (it should be mentioned that we actually use the same melody as a song to the King at occasions, but we have another song for national anthem ...)
 
I only hum/sing along with the best national anthem. ;)

Thank God not at school.

Eddies Wingman said:
(it should be mentioned that we actually use the same melody as a song to the King at occasions, but we have another song for national anthem ...)
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Interesting:

(source: http://www.nationalanthems.info/ )
Norway (royal anthem) - "Kongesangen" (Royal Song)
Adopted the year of Norwegian independence, the words are set to a recognizable monarchial piece of music, the same anthem as that of the United Kingdom and it's royal family, "God Save the Queen". (This choice may have been influenced by the royal anthem of Sweden, its neighbour from which it won independence; as its royal anthem before 1893 was also to the same tune.)
 
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