You guys ready for a ass-kickin' at the hands of the Commonwealth?

[HEyHEY]

God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.


O Lord, our God, arise,
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall.
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On thee our hopes we fix:
God save the Queen!

[Blue-Jay]

1. Is there some kind of cricket tournament happening?

[HEyHEY]

3. volley ball with two nets or something

[Seneca]

2. The Spirit of 1950 shall never die!

Or as we like to say, "Bring it." :D

[petronius]

4. When does Canada play?

:shrug:

[HEyHEY]

5. You propose we get Canadians and ask them to run around in the heat of Africa?

Yeah, that'll last about ten minutes before they collapse from heat stroke.

[SoxFan]

6. ...

God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb

God save the queen
She ain't no human being
There is no future
In England's dreaming

Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need
There's no future, no future,
No future for you

God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves

God save the queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems

Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid

When there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers in the dustbin
We're the poison in your human machine
We're the future, your future

God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves

God save the queen
We mean it man
And there is no future
In England's dreaming

No future, no future,
No future for you
No future, no future,
No future for me

No future, no future,
No future for you
No future, no future
For you

[RandomThoughts]

7. What make a person noble?

Braveheart.

Princess Isabelle: The king desires peace.
William Wallace: Longshanks desires peace?
Princess Isabelle: He declares it to me, I swear it. He proposes that you withdraw your attack. In return he grants you title, estates, and this chest of gold which I am to pay to you personally.
William Wallace: A lordship and titles. Gold. That I should become Judas?
Princess Isabelle: Peace is made in such ways.
William Wallace: Slaves are made in such ways. The last time Longshanks spoke of peace I was a boy. And many Scottish nobles, who would not be slaves, were lured by him under a flag of truce to a barn, where he had them hanged. I was very young, but I remember Longshanks' notion of peace.


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Robert the Bruce: Lands, titles, men, power, nothing.
Robert's Father: Nothing?
Robert the Bruce: I have nothing. Men fight for me because if they do not, I throw them off my land and I starve their wives and their children. Those men who bled the ground red at Falkirk, they fought for William Wallace, and he fights for something that I never had. And I took it from him, when I betrayed him. I saw it in his face on the battlefield and it's tearing me apart.
Robert's Father: All men betray. All lose heart.
Robert the Bruce: I don't wanna lose heart. I wanna believe as he does.


William Wallace: There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it.


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William Wallace: Lower your flags and march straight back to England, stopping at every home you pass by to beg forgiveness for a hundred years of theft, rape, and murder. Do that and your men shall live. Do it not, and every one of you will die today.

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Mother MacClannough: In this? You're out of your mind!
William Wallace: Oh, it's good Scottish weather, madam. The rain is falling straight down. Well, slightly to the side like.


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William Wallace: Why do you help me?
Princess Isabelle: Because of the way you are looking at me now.

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Robert the Bruce: I'm not a coward. I want what you want, but we need the nobles.
William Wallace: We need them?
Robert the Bruce: Aye.
William Wallace: Nobles.

William Wallace: Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I


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William Wallace: In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland - starving and outnumbered - charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom.

[Kajsa]

8. What is that constant sound in the background?

It sounds like a million bees buzzing.
Does anyone else hear it?

- and yes, I've watched soccer matches on TV before.
I've never heard this before.

[flvegan]

9. Horns.

[Kajsa]

12. Thanks!

:)

[HEyHEY]

19. yeah, they're pretty cool

[kiva]

11. Vuvuzelas.

It's a South African thing, according to FIFA.

[Kajsa]

13. Thanks for the info.

I've never heard them before.

:)

[scarletlib]

10. So far not too much of an asskicking.

[backwoodsbob]

14. as we say here in the states

dont sing it..bring it

tie

[Xipe Totec]

15. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts says bring it on!

If buttercups buzz'd after the bee,
If boats were on land, churches on sea,
If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows,
And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse,
If the mamas sold their babies
To the gypsies for half a crown;
If summer were spring and the other way round,
Then all the world would be upside down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6TiooNqPmE

[GoCubsGo]

16. Is that what that was?

Could've had me fooled.

[UTUSN]

17. The Brit goalie was on our side. n/t

[gratuitous]

18. I don't think "ass-kickin'" has quite the same meaning there

Here in the U.S., it usually means someone's ass gets kicked. This looked more like a sales slip snafu at Lord & Taylor's returns desk.

[david13]

20. I wonder if Green will ever again be able to return to England.

Anyway, usa only tied on a flukey error. But it was the type of error to end a professional career.
dc