Christina Aguilera Botches National Anthem At Super Bowl

Afro_D-Shak · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:40 pm

Her voice... holy shit, talk about over-singing. She jumped around so much that someone unfamiliar with the anthem would have no idea what it sounds like. Don't really care that she screwed up one word though.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:41 pm

Goat wrote:

traptunderice wrote:

a beautiful country

cry of the banshee wrote:

If that is too harsh, yer can taking a flying fuck at a rolling donut a wee, laddie. Aye.

This actually sounds more Scottish than Fridge does.

What gets me is how he's (claimed to have) adopted a local accent in so short a time. I'd have thought you have to live in a country for quite a few years before picking up a local accent - my beautiful purist southern English is slowly gaining a mild northern tint, but I've been living in Manchester for over fifteen years. I imagine it'd take even longer to change if I, say, moved to Texas.

I've explained this. You had your own, home, regional accent. I never had that. I wasn't raised in a single language group, let alone somewhere with a defined English variant. Picking up accents comes quite easily to me, and I assure you that I know sound distinctly doric.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:00 pm

I was noticing that I picked up English emphasis on certain words after only being there for two weeks. Not a full blown accent but just talking to people all day you pick it up. It's also a bigger change from American to English than Northern English to Southern English. Not sure of the technical linguistic names for the business.

MetalStorm · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:24 pm

Holy smokes my thread went off on a tangent :omfg:

GeneralDiomedes · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:56 pm

Some people actually pick up accents rather quickly.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7931299/Humans-subconsciously-mimic-other-accents-psychologists-claim.html

Some of the hostility on these boards is rather pathetic.

huskerc7 · **Joined:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:58 am **Posts:** 17558

I've watched so many Norwegian black metal interviews that I talk like I'm from norway now.

cry of the banshee · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:53 pm

If you behave twattishly, you're liable to get called on it.
If that's "hostility", so be it.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:59 pm

How am I behaving twattishly?

cry of the banshee · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:17 am

FrigidSymphony wrote:

How am I behaving twattishly?

In this thread?

Quote:

Yawn... Shite anthem anyway. Let's make this thread worthwhile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfRQDIEXxc

Oh, I know you will say it was merely a facetious remark, but don't insult our intelligence, please.
Not that I give a fuck whether or not you think it is "shite" or not, but show some tact, and if that is not possible, a little respect.
And, as has been so astutely observed you're not even a Scot.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:26 am

Right, because no one here ever makes incendiary posts just for the sake of it. Right.

cry of the banshee · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:30 am

FrigidSymphony wrote:

Right, because no one here ever makes incendiary posts just for the sake of it. Right.

\

They do, and they get called on it. You've been here how long now?

I've had it happen, why should anyone else be immune from it?

And besides, you have a history of Eurocentric posts, which is fine, but it gets annoying after awhile.

Rhys · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:07 am

IMO national anthems are generally pretty crappy. I hate the Australian one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Uy3je6WDk&feature=fvst

Speedyjx · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:47 pm

cry of the banshee wrote:

FrigidSymphony wrote:

How am I behaving twattishly?

In this thread?

Quote:

Yawn... Shite anthem anyway. Let's make this thread worthwhile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfRQDIEXxc

Oh, I know you will say it was merely a facetious remark, but don't insult our intelligence, please.
Not that I give a fuck whether or not you think it is "shite" or not, but show some tact, and if that is not possible, a little respect.
And, as has been so astutely observed you're not even a Scot.

Flower of Scotland is a fucking dirge anyway.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:46 pm

I'd be in favour of switching the anthem to Scots Wha Hae, but for now, the Flower is absolutely brilliant.
Speedy, you should come up to Aberdeen some time, we'd have a great criac.

Speedyjx · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:13 am

FrigidSymphony wrote:

I'd be in favour of switching the anthem to Scots Wha Hae, but for now, the Flower is absolutely brilliant.
Speedy, you should come up to Aberdeen some time, we'd have a great criac.

Scots Wha Hae would be better, pretty sure there were plans to actually have that as the anthem but it came to nowt. I'll no doubt end up back up there at somepoint gigging ha ha.

Goat · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:38 am

Speaking of anthems, I'd be in favour of adopting Jerusalem as the English national anthem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_th ... cient_time

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