On 3/7/2023 at 9:22 PM, Ray Proudfoot said:

They’re the King’s Guards now. 😉

My bad, she's held that title my entire life it will probably be a few years of me making that mistake 

5 minutes ago, Matthew Kane said:

My bad, she's held that title my entire life it will probably be a few years of me making that mistake 

You were correct Matthew. The video was shot in December 2021 when the Queen was still our monarch. I was 9 months old when she became Queen. I understand completely how you feel. God Save The King still sounds wrong.

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

God Save The King still sounds wrong.

When I was still a wee lad, we colonials would sing "God Save The King"... 

...this ended after the revolution began in earnest of course! 🤣

You need to go one step further Fr Bill.  After the revolution the song 'America', better known as 'My Country Tis of Thee' became our de facto national anthem.  The melody is exactly the same as the melody of 'God Save the King'.

'Amerca' was out defacto national anthem until sometime in the 1930s when the 'Star Spangled Banner' became our official national anthem.

Noel

The Star Spangle Banner isn't original either, it was rewritten from an older English song called 'The Anaceontic Song'

 

 

Edited March 9, 20233 yr by Matthew Kane

On 3/7/2023 at 12:27 AM, Ray Proudfoot said:

A parent shouldn’t be distracted in those circumstances. Personal responsibility seems to be lacking with some people. Imagine if those soldiers reacted every time someone moved in front of them?

With a wild rattle and clatter, and an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to be understood in these days, the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way. At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt, and there was a loud cry from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged.
...
  “What has gone wrong?” said Monsieur, calmly looking out.      
...  
  “Pardon, Monsieur the Marquis!” said a ragged and submissive man, “it is a child.”     
...
  He took out his purse.

  “It is extraordinary to me,” said he, “that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is for ever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done my horses. See! Give him that.”

  He threw out a gold coin for the valet to pick up, and all the heads craned forward that all the eyes might look down at it as it fell.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

From the NTSB: One in five children (20.4%) under the age of 15 killed in crashes were pedestrians in 2020.

Noel

On 3/8/2023 at 7:37 PM, birdguy said:

'America', better known as 'My Country Tis of Thee' became our de facto national anthem.  The melody is exactly the same as the melody of 'God Save the King'.

That was our way to "stick it to the Brits," by borrowing the cool tune!

On 3/8/2023 at 8:59 PM, Matthew Kane said:

The Star Spangle Banner isn't original either, it was rewritten from an older English song called 'The Anaceontic Song'

Well, a few notes were changed and the rhythm slightly altered to better fit the syllabic change from the words.