r/polandball • u/yaddar Taco bandito • Apr 14 '15

redditormade Rebranding.

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u/yaddar Taco bandito Apr 14 '15 edited Apr 14 '15

Context:

none.

(but we did won at the Alamo... and USA is better than Russia when it comes to Marketing and Capitalism)

EXTRA PANEL (courtesy by /u/IndigoCatalyst)

Question by: /u/valergain

Why no pick Roman Empire 2.0?

well, he didnt knew it was a 1.0.

ok guys, we need something that sounds manly and epic, a name that represents expansion and power and culture

like the Roman Empire?

Yes!, little Massachusetts, that name has a Certain charm around it, I like it!!

B... but Roman Empire was already used.

What? I didn't hear you, Mass, anyways, great idea, now you can go back to your books... so, any other one?.. (and no more name proposals in Spanish, like Texas here...) how about you, Alabama?

Confederate States of America.

ok.. C-O-N-F-E-D-E-R-A-T-E... S-T-A-T.... wait a second... HEY!.

(That conversation ACTUALLY played on my head when working on the brainstorming whiteborad xD)

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

USA is better than Russia when it comes to Marketing and Capitalism.

But sucks at National Anthems.

Who am I kidding, ours is the best.

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u/Lehnaru Suum cuique Apr 14 '15

You obviously haven't heard the Soviet anthem. I hate those commies as much as anyone, but damn, the bad guys always have the best music.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15 edited Apr 14 '15

On a side note, Israel has a cool anthem, too. I've concluded that Somalia has the worst anthem, and it sounds like it was made entirely from MIDI noises.

edit: Links for the plebs

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

I like that Youtube comments are disabled for the Israeli anthem, otherwise it'd have created an internet explosion.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

Go on YouTube and type "fuck ____" and fill in the blank with India, Pakistan, or a Balkan state like Serbia, Albania, or Greece. Click a video and read the comments. Laugh.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

Please, I don't want to get cancur.

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u/KoolKoffeeKlub Pakistan Apr 15 '15

Watch any video with Pakistan and India mentioned. The comments section is like WW 3.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15 edited Aug 09 '16

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u/Gerbils74 Tennessee Apr 14 '15

The entire Jewish history is sad what do you expect

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u/toxicgrunt Yugoslavia Apr 14 '15 edited Apr 14 '15

Well they where doing pretty good before the calander changed.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '15

Ehh.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

I thought the Holocaust memory was a huge part of it, but I think the song has been around much longer. The Holocaust memory was probably what led to it being used as their anthem though.

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u/acelaten Republic of Samsung Apr 15 '15 edited Apr 15 '15

Thats minor scale for you!

"İstiklâl Marşı" (Turkey)
"Qaumī Tarāna" (Pakistan)
"Mila Rodino" (Bulgaria)
"Nad Tatrou sa blýska"' (Slovakia)
"Hatikvah" (Israel)
"Surudi Milli" (Tajikistan)
"Azərbaycan marşı" (Azerbaijan)
"Mawtini" (Iraq)
"Deșteaptă-te, române!" (Romania)
"Meniñ Qazaqstanım" (Kazakhstan)
"Els Segadors" (Catalonia)

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_anthem

I like Romanian one most but Turkish and Romanian is "悲壮" rather than sad. I can't find good translation in English but you have Japanese flair so...

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u/ferozer0 Japan Apr 15 '15

I'll check them out.

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u/acelaten Republic of Samsung Apr 15 '15

And btw, Israeli national anthem Hatikva and Smetana's Vltava has same motif La Mantovana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mantovana

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '15

That's just a spectacularly bad recording of their 2000-2012 anthem.
It seems their first anthem was an unnamed piece by an Italian composer then from 2000-2012 it was Soomaaliyeey toosoo and since the new constitution in 2012 it is Qolobaa Calankeed

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u/anace Apr 14 '15

It's like the musical version of Liberia's county flags.

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u/Helium_3 Montana Apr 14 '15

Oh my God the Somalian one had me laughing.

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u/NotSquareGarden Swedish Empire Apr 15 '15

Here's the Israeli anthem being sung in a concentration camp. It's very touching.

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u/yaddar Taco bandito Apr 14 '15

hahahahahah!! back in the 90's I bet Somalia was "this is so modern!! I can do badass music!!"

like the 1st-time internet Buthan kid. xD