XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.politics.scorched-earth, uk.politics.misc   
   XPost: uk.legal, alt.politics.uk   
   From: hex@unseen.ac.am   
      
   On 05/04/2017 20:54, Graham T wrote:   
   > On 05/04/2017 20:22, Norman Wells wrote:   
   >> On 05/04/2017 10:41, burfordTjustice wrote:   
   >>> Canada’s National Anthem May Go Gender-Neutral   
   >>>   
   >>> A bill is advancing through the Canadian Parliament to alter the words   
   >>> of the Canadian national anthem to be more “inclusive” by stripping it   
   >>> of gendered language.   
   >>   
   >> Good.  With luck we'll be next to improve our dreadful dirge.  Maybe we   
   >> should also introduce some political correctness, and remove outdated   
   >> concepts, inaccuracies and debatable points:   
   >>   
   >> Someone save our possibly gracious monarch   
   >> Long live our possibly noble monarch   
   >> Someone save the monarch   
   >> Send himherit victorious, happy and glorious   
   >> Long to live beside us   
   >> Someone save the monarch.   
   >>   
   >> There.  It may need a bit more work, but it's a definite improvement   
   >> already.   
   >   
   > Can we keep the verses which go on about kicking the shit out of the Scots?   
      
   You mean the bit about 'may he sedition hush and like a torrent rush,   
   rebellious Scots to crush'?   
      
   Only if you think it has resonance today.   
      
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