If you had not been British you may have been French or German. If you vote to break up the Union between England and Scotland a nasty little man called Salmon will achieve what powerful Dictators with large armies failed to do!
These guys are great! I remember sitting with my parents, loving the jokes that I got and watching my parents roar with laughter at the ones I was too young to understand :D.
Proud to be english ...though self critical too, good old fashioned bluster still sounds and feels good, though the english no longer hold the monopoly on bluster; there is still a wealth of huberis here.
This is a good fun song a bit of a laugh and put together perfectly i have sung this at rugby matches and it got a laugh and on a St.George day parade... although i thought the organizers were going to cry...its a joke you humorless swines!
I really want to believe that all those people whining about how today we're too PC are being ironic because of that nature of this song, a piss take of national pride. I wish I could believe that...
Flanders adn Swann were true and hilariously funny entertainers. Sadly the likes of them are no longer and we are now subjected to filth and revolting debauchery. Wouldnt waste my time or money to go see these so called entertainers.
I wish I could have been alive during this time of true talent and comedy. Now comedy is more often dirty and inappropriate. You will never hear a song about a hippopotamus or a warthog anymore and I wish you could.
The song was pretty controversial when it was coined in 1963. They originally called it 'Anthem Anathema' - but that was too highbrow. Members of the audience would sidle up to them and say "We're so glad you feel this way too". So to make the satire totally explicit they renamed it 'Song of Patriotic Prejudice'. Some right-wingers still don't get it and trot it out as a quasi- national song. Twits!
@LeonPFB Leftist twit, obviously the song is satirical, but we like England only the better for laughing at her. It's a sympathic laughter in which Englishness is tumbled and tossed about in a sort of merry horseplay. It has an air of patriotism in spite of the intentions of the song writer.
@LeonPFB Hmm, i didn't know it was called that originally, interesting.
Although i'm of scotto-Irish Origins this song has always made me laugh, first heard it in 1994, still just as good as i remember it (as compared to present day Comedians which by in large just do not have the same knack as the classics).
@LeonPFB similar to neo-nazis appropriating 'Tommororw Belongs to Me', written by a homosexual for a play whose backdrop was the growing Nazi menace. :-/
Also notice how Flanders has to take huge breaths holding the sides of his chair. As a Doctor I will propose he is quite a high level paraplegic and lacks some of the full breathing mechanism. Makes it all the more impressive his abilities to sing !!
Was introduced to these guys on vinyl by an eccentric private school master in 1971. In love with them ever since. Genius like this is not repeated easily
I haven't heard this for about 40 years, and it's the first time i SEE them. That's lovely. I used to listen to the BFN in Germany as a schoolgirl and simply loved this song. I'm missing my favorite verse here: And all the world over each nation's the same, and they've simply no notion of playing the game. They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won, and they practice beforehand, which ruins the fun...
@2sepgorillas bollocks they would, they're mocking xenophobic attitudes, this is a piece of satire, and I think less people would mistake its meaning now than before. As for political correctness, well, if you search "stuart lee political correctness" on here, he gets the point accross rather well I think.
@2sepgorillas Ha ha ha ha haaaa! I quite agree with you!! I've just discovered Flanders and Swann on Youtube and am reliving some wonderful memories! I grew up with these songs - they made me laugh then and they make me laugh now!!! Bring back some good honest British (or should I say English??) humour, I say.
@2sepgorillas - I don't how this song clashes with the values of those who promote tolerance, diversity or political correctness, given that it's actually satirising nationalism and racism.
Yup, it's a brilliant piano track. Donald Swann was regarded as one of the finest pianists of his generation - he was a serious musician as well as incredibly inventive and funny.
@ravensmead About finding the song or about having a useless team in the World Cup?! ;)
Regarding the song, very happy, wanting more, and wishing I was old enough to have seen them live! World Cup - put it this way, I'm no longer singing the English are best!
And anyone who thinks this is a dig at anyone BUT the English should listen to Song for the Weather (a dig at English weather) or The Gasman Cometh (a dig at English workmanship!)
This song came on my ipod this morning & I thought what an excellent World Cup anthem it would make! I searched youtube not expecting to find anything, so was delighted when I found this!
It's amazing to see this, I've grown up listening to their songs and have most of them on my ipod still, but never thought I'd actually get to watch them - thank you so much for posting this!
This advert is pointless, the thought of patriotism appauls me, some of the charachters on here would turn in their grave if they knew about how britain has became, we have become a bunch of gay loving, jihad loving pussys. I love my country and i always will but britain will never be what it once was
@TheDavynator0 I am well aware. Also, when Germany BECAME a "united country" spain was kaput. From about 1450-1600 all the gold coming in from Spanish exploration inflated their economy so that it collapsed until after WWII, pretty much the same thing happened to portugal.
@Kiariad I know, and that accured around the end of the fall of Spain. Even if the Spanish won, they never would've had enough soldiers, to completely invade England, and the supply lines are too long.
@spinynorman230 To be clear, I took it from your comment that you were talking about the war, rather than the Armada - quite the time difference! However, it has been far too long since I went of the Armada to have a debate with you, so shall accede gracefully to what seems like your superior knowledge!
For those wishing both to take lyrics in a po-faced manner wherever possible, and read unintended unpleasantness where none is implied, may I offer these lines from Michael and Donald elsewhere in "Another Hat".
I can see the one salvation of the poor old human race, in the bath.
Let the nations of the world all meet together face to face, in the bath. . . . .
Then we'll have some peace, perhaps,
provided Swann and Flander get the end without the taps, in the bath.
Good old days when the wonderfull lack of PC allowed us to laugh at each other without being called racist !......Flanders and Swan only missed out here with a lack of referance to us Welsh and Sheep !
Thanks for uploading this, I stumbled on to it! My Dad played their tapes over and over when I was a kid, I never thought I'd actually be able to SEE them. :)
I'm mixed English and Scottish. Born in Scotland, Raised in Scotland, Living in England. If the union breaks up I'm stuffed... And won't have a blanket term to describe myself to curious Americans. Lol.
I'll be stuffed too, because not only am I Scottish, Scotland is the only nice place in the country where I'll be able to afford to live when I disentangle myself from my mother, I wish my ancestors had stayed in Bonnie Scotland instead of upping sticks and moving to the vast toilet known as Manchester.
If you think you got problembs......my sons a mix of Welsh,Inuit ( Greenlandik Eskimo ) and Danish. !
Me...on my Dad's side Welsh, on Mams Welsh, Scottish ( Clan Gunn ) Anglo saxon Wostershire, Devon/ Somerset Celt.....Takes ALLSORTS to make Liquorice !
What can you expect? They are Americans listening to English humour! Americans do not know their own history,let alone English history - this is a lesson from Swann and Flanders on English history!
Although it's technically a parody, they aren't openly insulting Flanders and Swann. Their songs are funny, the link is obvious, and it gets people who don't know about F+S into them too. So I don't see anything bad about it ;)
I didn't say it wasn't a place, It is, the funny thing is that no one thinks Prussia is a country anymore, even though it was an independent state for a long time after England ceased to be.
(PS. Scotland took over England, not the other way around)
Of course - that'e why the Scots slaughtered so many Englishman taking over and the English spent so much time trying to bring back the "rightful king" from France.
Scotland signed up to be part of England's domain. Then, as a sign of sportsmanship and jolly good egg-edness, we let Scots be Prime Minister. I can't wait until Alec Salmond is replaced by an Englishman... that would be real fair-play!
Of course they did, thats why westminster owns 80% of scotlands national bank. England has propped up scotlands economy for years. Lets see what clout scotland would have with a population of 5m and a gdp of 194 billion compared to 2.2 trillion gdp in england. Scotland would be like Georgia.
James VI of Scotland became the English King in 1603. Neither country took over each other as it was only a personal union of the crowns of both nations.
In 1707 Scotland & England formally entered into an incorporating union. Legally both countries were abolished and replaced with a new nation - the United Kingdom of Great Britain & France.
In geography, a country is a geographical region. The term is often applied to a political division or the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. Usually, but not always, a country coincides with a sovereign territory and is associated with a state, nation and government.
What was Prussia now stretches across the borders of Modern Germany, including most of Poland. However; it was abolished de facto by the Nazis in 1934 and de jure by the Allies of World War II in 1947.
I support the union, I think it's been a great thing for both England and Scotland, just because a lot of Scots in positions of power aren't especially loveable doesn't mean we're all like that.
This should be compulsory viewing for all foreign nationals as part of their citizenship test. A perfect example of English humour , don't be offended or we'll come and take our flag back!
Not only a great Flag starfishsuz....but not too shabby on the Castles...and the Vikings didn't mess with the Welsh as much as "all the rest"
Because The Vikings and would be Castle invaders weren't quite sure that dragon wasn't going to come out and light them up like a Stonehaven Fireball....
How did this get on the air? Because in those days people would have understood that this was a light hearted form of mockery (maybe even self mockery) that was not to be taken too seriously.
Sadly, todays intolerant PC zealots would not understand this style of humour and would be quick to 'be offended' and brand Flanders and swann racist xenophobes, which would be a serious injustice.
What a very lame-looking audience (sincere apologies to anyone who might recognize themselves) and how funny that the ladies in pink are sitting in one spot and the ladies in yellow in another!
That being said, absolutely brilliant to actually see F&S, whose music I have known and loved for decades. And performing what I think should be verse 2 of "God Save the Queen", to boot! Thanks for sharing!
It's a shame we are not allowed to be like this any more (respectfully of course!) I for one am damned proud to be english! english first brittish second :)
If you had not been British you may have been French or German. If you vote to break up the Union between England and Scotland a nasty little man called Salmon will achieve what powerful Dictators with large armies failed to do!
beliso36 1 week ago
These guys are great! I remember sitting with my parents, loving the jokes that I got and watching my parents roar with laughter at the ones I was too young to understand :D.
Sapphire848 2 months ago
If you hadn't been born English, you could all be Spanish and waiting for the Inquisition!
TheMimifur 2 months ago
Proud to be english ...though self critical too, good old fashioned bluster still sounds and feels good, though the english no longer hold the monopoly on bluster; there is still a wealth of huberis here.
temporaldisplacement 3 months ago
These people are geniuses, and I'm Welsh! :D
niceguy1068 3 months ago
I feel so foreign right now :)
Kwodlibet 4 months ago
A funny endearing song which in essence makes fun of the English
gordonsmith56 4 months ago
aaahh, Vote for Lloyd George. Yachi da!!
irkibby 5 months ago
LOL Good entertaining
oo0Dionysus0oo 6 months ago
I think this is absolutely hilarious! Even if it does call me "bony and blotchy and covered with hair!" I haven't laughed that hard in ages.
JediVulcanTimeLord 6 months ago
Geez, I laughed so hard I had to stop it in the middle and go potty!
rogerstill71 7 months ago
This is a good fun song a bit of a laugh and put together perfectly i have sung this at rugby matches and it got a laugh and on a St.George day parade... although i thought the organizers were going to cry...its a joke you humorless swines!
blackcountryme 7 months ago
Their song abot President de Gaulle was the first really amusing satire I remember.
It still has the power to amuse.
54mayford 8 months ago
I'd never heard of them until I saw the Armstrong and Miller parody of them.
SuzLa1 8 months ago
I am proud to say i am related to donald swann.
Bromosome 8 months ago 2
I really want to believe that all those people whining about how today we're too PC are being ironic because of that nature of this song, a piss take of national pride. I wish I could believe that...
MrDiggersam 9 months ago
Flanders adn Swann were true and hilariously funny entertainers. Sadly the likes of them are no longer and we are now subjected to filth and revolting debauchery. Wouldnt waste my time or money to go see these so called entertainers.
steinwaygrande1 10 months ago
@steinwaygrande1 - Amen! Thank you for saying what I feel in my heart.
Vieweracc99 7 months ago
I wish I could have been alive during this time of true talent and comedy. Now comedy is more often dirty and inappropriate. You will never hear a song about a hippopotamus or a warthog anymore and I wish you could.
Spidernonono 11 months ago
ten out of ten they should play this on the radio and tv once a day at least
rickydicky100 11 months ago
Absolutely priceless, and thank heavens they were able to record this before the Thought Police sank their ponderous weight onto us all..
cantleysugar 11 months ago 2
Flanders looks like he's having a bit of trouble breathing....
martythetickler 1 year ago
@martythetickler
He always had trouble breathing. It was part of the paralysis from polio that put him in the wheelchair.
peon47 1 year ago
The is the armstrong and miller parody of this "foreigners" is funny too
DRDFOX 1 year ago
The song was pretty controversial when it was coined in 1963. They originally called it 'Anthem Anathema' - but that was too highbrow. Members of the audience would sidle up to them and say "We're so glad you feel this way too". So to make the satire totally explicit they renamed it 'Song of Patriotic Prejudice'. Some right-wingers still don't get it and trot it out as a quasi- national song. Twits!
LeonPFB 1 year ago 38
@LeonPFB Leftist twit, obviously the song is satirical, but we like England only the better for laughing at her. It's a sympathic laughter in which Englishness is tumbled and tossed about in a sort of merry horseplay. It has an air of patriotism in spite of the intentions of the song writer.
Bregowald 1 year ago
@LeonPFB Hmm, i didn't know it was called that originally, interesting.
Although i'm of scotto-Irish Origins this song has always made me laugh, first heard it in 1994, still just as good as i remember it (as compared to present day Comedians which by in large just do not have the same knack as the classics).
TSR1989FF 7 months ago
@LeonPFB similar to neo-nazis appropriating 'Tommororw Belongs to Me', written by a homosexual for a play whose backdrop was the growing Nazi menace. :-/
prothonotar 1 week ago
Also notice how Flanders has to take huge breaths holding the sides of his chair. As a Doctor I will propose he is quite a high level paraplegic and lacks some of the full breathing mechanism. Makes it all the more impressive his abilities to sing !!
fordlandau 1 year ago 2
@fordlandau
I think I read somewhere that he only had one lung. It's an impressive effort!
irkibby 1 year ago
Brilliant. But today, I wonder how many would actually be offended? Probably quite a few!
Offshoreorganbuilder 1 year ago
Was introduced to these guys on vinyl by an eccentric private school master in 1971. In love with them ever since. Genius like this is not repeated easily
fordlandau 1 year ago
"If it hadn't been for the English, you'd all be Spanish."
Brilliant.
ishtarg8 1 year ago 2
I haven't heard this for about 40 years, and it's the first time i SEE them. That's lovely. I used to listen to the BFN in Germany as a schoolgirl and simply loved this song. I'm missing my favorite verse here: And all the world over each nation's the same, and they've simply no notion of playing the game. They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won, and they practice beforehand, which ruins the fun...
blessall4ever 1 year ago 5
"You know that bit between your testicles and your anus..."
magicmarc101 1 year ago 5
@magicmarc101 the bit that's sometimes covered in downy hair??
wotucudavwon 1 year ago
These chaps are Brilliant!
Witty!
Musical!
And Entertaining!
And if they were alive today they would be flogged, crucified and ritualistically disembowelled.
Figuratively speaking, of course.
And then sent on a compulsory 3 month 'diversity' course, so they'd know more about 'tolerance'.
God, I hate political correctness!
I may be a one legged, mixed race Irish satanist (of indeterminate sexual orientation!)
But I will lay down my life for someone's right to have a laugh.
2sepgorillas 1 year ago 48
@2sepgorillas Amen.
myasmate 10 months ago
@2sepgorillas bollocks they would, they're mocking xenophobic attitudes, this is a piece of satire, and I think less people would mistake its meaning now than before. As for political correctness, well, if you search "stuart lee political correctness" on here, he gets the point accross rather well I think.
Amosral 10 months ago 6
@2sepgorillas When I get very tired of PC I play my old Tom Lehrer vinyls. They remind me of Flanders & Swann.
ewenicorn115 10 months ago
@2sepgorillas Ha ha ha ha haaaa! I quite agree with you!! I've just discovered Flanders and Swann on Youtube and am reliving some wonderful memories! I grew up with these songs - they made me laugh then and they make me laugh now!!! Bring back some good honest British (or should I say English??) humour, I say.
shoshiplatypus 6 months ago
@2sepgorillas - I don't how this song clashes with the values of those who promote tolerance, diversity or political correctness, given that it's actually satirising nationalism and racism.
PuissantAlgernon 4 months ago 4
video clip youtube watch?v=BSF8OUyuldc
typesoontv 1 year ago
Hooray!!
basstrom188 1 year ago
Why is Flanders so out of breath?
ghtjdjdhfjeosnvcurth 1 year ago
@ghtjdjdhfjeosnvcurth
I believe he contracted polio whilst in the navy, and it resulted in him losing a lung and being confined to a wheelchair.
killcrazy26 1 year ago
That's the worst Welsh accent I've ever heard...
howling100 1 year ago
@howling100 Thumbs up if you read that with a Welsh accent!
TigerAmongstMen 1 year ago
@howling100 I don't know. I've heard some pretty bad ones in Wales.
dfarmbrough 1 year ago
@howling100
it was quite a dreadful Welsh accent wasn't it? On the CD I have they do it much better.
SpocksSister08 1 year ago
The piano is funny
TigerAmongstMen 1 year ago
@TigerAmongstMen
Yup, it's a brilliant piano track. Donald Swann was regarded as one of the finest pianists of his generation - he was a serious musician as well as incredibly inventive and funny.
WriterWench 1 year ago
This should be our National anthem
toppaz79 1 year ago 3
I'm for Scotland, and whoever's playing England.
ianjcameron 1 year ago 2
@ianjcameron Haha mate I totally agree
AngMeister 1 year ago
I didn't know about that last last verse, these guys are so funny even now!
LJBLeicester 1 year ago
Am from there
328chula 1 year ago
@ravensmead About finding the song or about having a useless team in the World Cup?! ;)
Regarding the song, very happy, wanting more, and wishing I was old enough to have seen them live! World Cup - put it this way, I'm no longer singing the English are best!
And anyone who thinks this is a dig at anyone BUT the English should listen to Song for the Weather (a dig at English weather) or The Gasman Cometh (a dig at English workmanship!)
NicolaSyms 1 year ago 2
This song came on my ipod this morning & I thought what an excellent World Cup anthem it would make! I searched youtube not expecting to find anything, so was delighted when I found this!
It's amazing to see this, I've grown up listening to their songs and have most of them on my ipod still, but never thought I'd actually get to watch them - thank you so much for posting this!
NicolaSyms 1 year ago
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@NicolaSyms and how do you feel now ?
ravensmead 1 year ago
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This advert is pointless, the thought of patriotism appauls me, some of the charachters on here would turn in their grave if they knew about how britain has became, we have become a bunch of gay loving, jihad loving pussys. I love my country and i always will but britain will never be what it once was
jointopsvet 1 year ago
Great song - and every word of it is true!
AngusPruneTune 1 year ago
im scottish and im not offended lol, funny song!
banndersnatch 1 year ago
actually, we'd all be German, but oh well.
spinynorman230 1 year ago
@spinynorman230 the Spanish were vying for an empire before Germany was a united country.
TheDavynator0 1 year ago
@TheDavynator0 I am well aware. Also, when Germany BECAME a "united country" spain was kaput. From about 1450-1600 all the gold coming in from Spanish exploration inflated their economy so that it collapsed until after WWII, pretty much the same thing happened to portugal.
spinynorman230 1 year ago
@spinynorman230 I dunno, Spain were neutral during the war, so maybe we'd have been safe :P
Booshman 1 year ago
@Booshman they aren't talking about ww1 or ww2 they mean the spanish armada vs the english rose
IidoliseJohnnyDepp 1 year ago
@spinynorman230 lmao, he means the Spanish Armada v. the English Rose XD
Kiariad 1 year ago
@Kiariad I know, and that accured around the end of the fall of Spain. Even if the Spanish won, they never would've had enough soldiers, to completely invade England, and the supply lines are too long.
spinynorman230 1 year ago
@spinynorman230 To be clear, I took it from your comment that you were talking about the war, rather than the Armada - quite the time difference! However, it has been far too long since I went of the Armada to have a debate with you, so shall accede gracefully to what seems like your superior knowledge!
Kiariad 1 year ago
@spinynorman230 ...I meant 'over the Armada', pardon the typos.
Kiariad 1 year ago
For those wishing both to take lyrics in a po-faced manner wherever possible, and read unintended unpleasantness where none is implied, may I offer these lines from Michael and Donald elsewhere in "Another Hat".
I can see the one salvation of the poor old human race, in the bath.
Let the nations of the world all meet together face to face, in the bath. . . . .
Then we'll have some peace, perhaps,
provided Swann and Flander get the end without the taps, in the bath.
Alcagaur 1 year ago
Ironic song- they were both French, don;t you nkow? ;)
cataloguetown 1 year ago
@cataloguetown
are you sure?
Michael Flanders - born 1922 in London - died 1975, Betws-y-Coed, Wales
Donald Swann - born 1923, Llanelli, Wales - died 1994, London
*Note - this is not directed as a hate comment towards anyone, simply as a helpful bit of information :)
Sad that one feels the need to put that bit!
Flutician91 1 year ago
@Flutician91 you are very sad I agree.
toyoboe 1 year ago
Delicious, intelligent satire!
DaveHorse1 1 year ago 2
I think he had only one working lung at this time due to his polio, which is why he had to breathe so much.
ChildOfTheWilderness 1 year ago
Hilarious! My English boyfriend gave me a soundfile of this a long time ago. Just great!
Neashadia 1 year ago
Why is Flanders heaving all through this like he has Parkinson's or something?
levanyzzuf 1 year ago
I think it's from his polio, which put him in the wheelchair.
Rockdoc2174 1 year ago
He just looks very sickly, like he's trying to escape from his own body.
levanyzzuf 1 year ago
It probably doesn't help him any that he only had one working lung.
gogmorgoaway 1 year ago
haha.. this is priceless
lechicken 1 year ago
although I am Welsh(and proud of it) I thought that was really funny
winxger 1 year ago
Good old days when the wonderfull lack of PC allowed us to laugh at each other without being called racist !......Flanders and Swan only missed out here with a lack of referance to us Welsh and Sheep !
mush1955 1 year ago 2
never knew what they looked like till recently...it is nice to be able to put a face to a voice :p
Thank you for putting them up!!!
NextTimeYouFall 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this, I stumbled on to it! My Dad played their tapes over and over when I was a kid, I never thought I'd actually be able to SEE them. :)
Gledster 1 year ago
I'm so glad I stumbled on to this. I grew up with these guys. They were priceless and are missed. Thanks LeonPFB for posting!
waldofj 2 years ago
haha i love the '60s audience!
cashford2 2 years ago
Magnificent, except for the unfortunate flutter. Still, good to be able to see this at all!
I think there's a verse missing/replaced: something like:
"And all the world over, each nation's the same
They've simply no notion of playing the game.
They argue with umpires; they cheer when they've won;
And they practise beforehand, which ruins the fun!"
I always liked that verse, because it added a little self-deprecation, in a roundabout way :)
macronencer 2 years ago 4
I'm mixed English and Scottish. Born in Scotland, Raised in Scotland, Living in England. If the union breaks up I'm stuffed... And won't have a blanket term to describe myself to curious Americans. Lol.
Faliat 2 years ago
I'll be stuffed too, because not only am I Scottish, Scotland is the only nice place in the country where I'll be able to afford to live when I disentangle myself from my mother, I wish my ancestors had stayed in Bonnie Scotland instead of upping sticks and moving to the vast toilet known as Manchester.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
manchester was only a toilet when those turds from glasgow rangers entered her.
adger42 2 years ago
If you think you got problembs......my sons a mix of Welsh,Inuit ( Greenlandik Eskimo ) and Danish. !
Me...on my Dad's side Welsh, on Mams Welsh, Scottish ( Clan Gunn ) Anglo saxon Wostershire, Devon/ Somerset Celt.....Takes ALLSORTS to make Liquorice !
mush1955 1 year ago
greatness.
didn't know them but now I know whom armstrong and miller are paying tribute to.
wizztay 2 years ago
"If it wasn't for the English, we'd all be Spanish!"
Bladethepokefreak 2 years ago 3
Love the faces of the audience at the end!
Were they amused, or not?
Ambiguity takes a nod.
andreaprodan 2 years ago
What can you expect? They are Americans listening to English humour! Americans do not know their own history,let alone English history - this is a lesson from Swann and Flanders on English history!
jonjamg 2 years ago 3
Constipated wasp audience.
nilbud 2 years ago
Assimilating something SO british has never been easy. Think of British CUISINE.... hardly a great ambassador for its country.
But the Noel Cowardesque whimsy IS quite fetching. I LOVED their childish THE BESTIARY.
andreaprodan 2 years ago
I feel that the great affection in the Armstrong and Miller parody is pretty obvious, and that's the main reason that it works so well.
Stevensonnnnnn 2 years ago
Any Ideas where the dvd of this is available, in great britain if possible?
somwright 2 years ago
Try HMV music stores
mush1955 1 year ago
I think its rather a highbrow parody, and definitely quite reverential, I get the feeling that Armstrong and Miller are quite the fan.
Angustein 2 years ago
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Rather sad that Armstrong and who-is it have nothing else to parody
barpypardlo 2 years ago
Although it's technically a parody, they aren't openly insulting Flanders and Swann. Their songs are funny, the link is obvious, and it gets people who don't know about F+S into them too. So I don't see anything bad about it ;)
SakitoHalcali 2 years ago 2
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Farfrae1 2 years ago
**giggles** The English equivalent of Naziism and xenophobia!!
CaitlinBrooksMusic 2 years ago
The most ironic thing about this is the fact that England hasn't been a country for over 300 years.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
Strange. I live in England.
xenaphon1 2 years ago
Because it Eh Decided to take over all the Other countries around it It. You wouldn't say rome wasn't a place becasue it had an empire.
SomeIrishGuy19 2 years ago
I didn't say it wasn't a place, It is, the funny thing is that no one thinks Prussia is a country anymore, even though it was an independent state for a long time after England ceased to be.
(PS. Scotland took over England, not the other way around)
TashkentFox 2 years ago
Of course - that'e why the Scots slaughtered so many Englishman taking over and the English spent so much time trying to bring back the "rightful king" from France.
And bombing Edinburgh police stations.
fairportfan2 2 years ago
Scotland signed up to be part of England's domain. Then, as a sign of sportsmanship and jolly good egg-edness, we let Scots be Prime Minister. I can't wait until Alec Salmond is replaced by an Englishman... that would be real fair-play!
donkmeister 2 years ago 31
Of course they did, thats why westminster owns 80% of scotlands national bank. England has propped up scotlands economy for years. Lets see what clout scotland would have with a population of 5m and a gdp of 194 billion compared to 2.2 trillion gdp in england. Scotland would be like Georgia.
hermankatnip 2 years ago
James VI of Scotland became the English King in 1603. Neither country took over each other as it was only a personal union of the crowns of both nations.
In 1707 Scotland & England formally entered into an incorporating union. Legally both countries were abolished and replaced with a new nation - the United Kingdom of Great Britain & France.
In 1801 Ireland was incorporated into the UK.
reb0118 1 year ago
England is a country.
RJMoxey 2 years ago 6
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Filled with cunts.
nilbud 2 years ago
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Wyrdtimes 2 years ago
Probably no fun for them to have to live near something like you either!
francovance1 2 years ago
England is definitely a country.
RJMoxey 2 years ago 45
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Define a country.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
From Wikipedia;
In geography, a country is a geographical region. The term is often applied to a political division or the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. Usually, but not always, a country coincides with a sovereign territory and is associated with a state, nation and government.
RJMoxey 2 years ago 6
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If you think England is a country then you should think Prussia is a country too.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
What was Prussia now stretches across the borders of Modern Germany, including most of Poland. However; it was abolished de facto by the Nazis in 1934 and de jure by the Allies of World War II in 1947.
RJMoxey 2 years ago 3
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I know that.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
@RJMoxey NOOOO REALLY?!!!
MegaAntMan1 1 year ago
Technically this is correct. England has not been a country since the act of Union.
Even Scotland is more of a nation than England as it has it's own parliament. No parliament - no nation.
Westminster is the UK parliament not England's parliament - hence it being overrun by patriotic Scotsmen that can't stand living in Scotland.
However that need not always be the case. Join the fight for English independence.
A just cause for the 21st century.
Wyrdtimes 2 years ago
I'm Scottish, so I have somewhat different opinions.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
That's fine - what part do you disagree with?
Wyrdtimes 2 years ago
I support the union, I think it's been a great thing for both England and Scotland, just because a lot of Scots in positions of power aren't especially loveable doesn't mean we're all like that.
TashkentFox 2 years ago 6
Join the fight for English independence. ! Yep vote SNP, Plaid Cymru or
Mebyon Kernow. Freedom for The English people who are ruled by a Scottish Priminister and a german Royal family
mush1955 1 year ago
"He sleeps in his boots and he lies in his teeth"
:o)
ShoeiBoy 2 years ago
Brilliant, I'd forgotten all about these two until I saw Amstrong and Miller doing a skit on them.
boundsie99 2 years ago
Brilliant comedy that is denied to future generations by political correctness
leoseries 2 years ago
Amen to that Butty !
mush1955 1 year ago
Total Class- oh for the days when we used wit and satire to make points.........Nowadays it's all " f..... you, you idiot", especially on Youtube
elephantbarbiegirl 2 years ago 5
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I wouldn't give tuppence for this song.
TheAbrogator 2 years ago
absoulty brilliant this should be britains new national anthem
joeiznang 2 years ago 4
Anybody else see the simialrity between him and John Cleese? In the way they speak
michaelcharnley1 2 years ago
The English, the English, the English are best.
JediSlayer22 2 years ago 5
So deliciously non PC.
missgreeneyes56 2 years ago 6
tell you what m8 thats what we do best, I.E. geting Worket up,Ijust got a cd of theres from asda its good
Hello2you69 2 years ago
I often wondered who Armstrong and Miller were making fun of
CloudedBuff 2 years ago 8
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kakkermachavvy 2 years ago
This should be compulsory viewing for all foreign nationals as part of their citizenship test. A perfect example of English humour , don't be offended or we'll come and take our flag back!
brainsquashed 2 years ago 7
looooooooooooooool
joeiznang 2 years ago
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Udontnohoo 2 years ago
Great fun reading all the comments - almost as funny as F & S! Some of you do get worked up, don't you?
Udontnohoo 2 years ago
Not only a great Flag starfishsuz....but not too shabby on the Castles...and the Vikings didn't mess with the Welsh as much as "all the rest"
Because The Vikings and would be Castle invaders weren't quite sure that dragon wasn't going to come out and light them up like a Stonehaven Fireball....
WhiteWizard44 2 years ago
Flanders and Swann are awesome! "If we weren't English we'd be Spanish" - lol!
busybee720 2 years ago 2
Being a Scot...well, yes, I do like salted porridge every day. :)
MikeSabot 2 years ago 2
Maybe so.....but the Welsh have a far more interesting flag....Considering the large red heraldic dragon and dual colored field.....LOL
WhiteWizard44 2 years ago 4
Starkey the xenophobe would have loved this, if only that "historian" had a sense of humour
pattymkirkwood 2 years ago
hilarious!!
liz768 2 years ago 3
As a Welshman, I must say, this is wonderful! :)
rbdaviesTB3 2 years ago 8
Speaking seriously and sincerely as a Welshie, I'd just like to say..... LMFAO!
Shindai 2 years ago 6
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how did this get on the air? I'm proud of being english, but this is taking the piss!
sherriffflood 2 years ago
How did this get on the air? Because in those days people would have understood that this was a light hearted form of mockery (maybe even self mockery) that was not to be taken too seriously.
Sadly, todays intolerant PC zealots would not understand this style of humour and would be quick to 'be offended' and brand Flanders and swann racist xenophobes, which would be a serious injustice.
I85PIES 2 years ago 23
HOLY SHIT!?! TAKING THE PISS?!?
flamingopie 2 years ago
What a very lame-looking audience (sincere apologies to anyone who might recognize themselves) and how funny that the ladies in pink are sitting in one spot and the ladies in yellow in another!
That being said, absolutely brilliant to actually see F&S, whose music I have known and loved for decades. And performing what I think should be verse 2 of "God Save the Queen", to boot! Thanks for sharing!
JeffMontreal 2 years ago
It's a shame we are not allowed to be like this any more (respectfully of course!) I for one am damned proud to be english! english first brittish second :)
asmorrey1 2 years ago 3
Epic
Emikero 2 years ago 2
i love these guys and great in the car
ZzzannizzZ 2 years ago 3
hi dad
chelehanley 2 years ago
we rule the waves forever !!!!
go us english
fencingbros 2 years ago 5
Go England! We rule the world!
triggerchelsea1 2 years ago 8
I think you've missed the point.
huwlemmey 2 years ago
No I haven't
triggerchelsea1 2 years ago
Actually you might be right.
huwlemmey 2 years ago
Excellent.
humphriedboswell 2 years ago 7
Splendid.
humphriedboswell 2 years ago 7
Brilliant.
humphriedboswell 2 years ago 7
Excellent.
humphriedboswell 2 years ago 8
Excellent.
humphriedboswell 2 years ago 7
Excellent.
humphriedboswell 2 years ago 8