The Isolated Blurt Thread XXII: Let The Butthurt Commence.

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Nothing in my yard to attract the deer this year. They are snacking across the road. Drought killed some things. We are missing 8 inches!


I have never tasted caribou. At least, I can look the Santa reindeer in the eye, when I visit them at the zoo.
 
Musically, that song is absolutely beautiful. Lyrically, that song is absolutely horrifying.

"Patriotic" songs tend to be that way. The only exception that springs to mind is Jerusalem, and that took William Blake.
 
Well, it doesn't fit the tune consistently. And some of the sentiments are not wholly incompatible with fascism. And there is a chocolate box sentimentality to the vision of heaven.

But, you know, sometimes one is in chapel, and the nave is a hymn of stone, and several hundred English voices are raised together, and it seems just right.

Or Abide with Me at Wembley. There's nothing quite like eighty thousand hairy blokes belting that one out.
 
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"Patriotic" songs tend to be that way. The only exception that springs to mind is Jerusalem, and that took William Blake.

How true. I have always liked "Jerusalem". Musically, I just slightly prefer "I Vow to Thee My Country", but it's especially horrifying, even for a patriotic song.

Although I find it easier to like patriotic songs from other countries.

Well, it doesn't fit the tune consistently. And some of the sentiments are not wholly incompatible with fascism. And there is a chocolate box sentimentality to the vision of heaven.

But, you know, sometimes one is in chapel, and the nave is a hymn of stone, and several hundred English voices are raised together, and it seems just right.

Oh, certainly. If you don't pay close attention to the lyrics, it's an incredibly moving song—and sung properly, the power of the music itself can be so overwhelming that it doesn't even matter.
 
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Mmmm jerky. I will await mine in the mail. ;)

I'm ready for today to be over so I can curl up in bed with a book and get a good nights sleep.
 
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