So how do your kids school Celebrates the Russian revolution - Page 4

Hottentot · 09-27-12, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by CCIP

...I seriously don't even understand what you're even on about!

The Righteous Rage (tm) just took this form this time.

AVGWarhawk · 09-27-12, 10:50 AM

Whether these kids were wearing something that would been seen in Russia or not is immaterial to my comment. Band uniforms are band uniforms and should be worn. As far as school songs, my HS(Dulaney) performed "My Maryland" at every game. I attended the University of MD College Park. This school also played "My Maryland" at every sporting event. Performed in the band uniforms. I graduated HS 1984. U. of MD. 1988. U of MD still plays "My Maryland" to this day.

09-27-12, 10:53 AM

If the band played the Imperial March does that mean the evil conspiracy is indoctrinating them to the way of the Sith?

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The Righteous Rage (tm) just took this form this time.

Is that the new version of the cwazy conpiwacy?

soopaman2 · 09-27-12, 10:57 AM

On my 8th grade graduation we marched out to the Tannhauser March by Wagner.

Catchy tune!

I found out later it was one of Hitlers favorites.

Does that make me a nazi?

My extremism is from eating crap all my life, not from my schooling.

AVGWarhawk · 09-27-12, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

If the band played the Imperial March does that mean the evil conspiracy is indoctrinating them to the way of the Sith?

I do not see this incident as some sort of indoctrination. What I see is something best left to the theater depart at the HS. This performance is not relative to a football game.

AVGWarhawk · 09-27-12, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

On my 8th grade graduation we marched out to the Tannhauser March by Wagner.

I found out later it was one of Hitlers favorites.

Does that make me a nazi?

My extremism is from eating crap all my life, not from my schooling.

Yes.

Takeda Shingen · 09-27-12, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Whether these kids were wearing something that would been seen in Russia or not is immaterial to my comment. Band uniforms are band uniforms and should be worn.

Then I don't understand your complaint about those uniforms. They are wearing what are very typical marching band uniforms. They are likely the same ones that they have been wearing for years. The style is what they call 'futuristic military', which is very popular among bands today.

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As far as school songs, my HS(Dulaney) performed "My Maryland" at every game. I attended the University of MD College Park. This school also played "My Maryland" at every sporting event. Performed in the band uniforms. I graduated HS 1984. U. of MD. 1988. U of MD still plays "My Maryland" to this day.

That depends on the type of program. It sounds like your high school band was a 'football band'; ie a band that does not compete. This band pictured is a 'competition band', which adopts the drum and bugle corp style. College bands rarely adopt that style.

Hottentot · 09-27-12, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

Is that the new version of the cwazy conpiwacy?

Not at all. The Righteous Rage (tm) is a phenomenon often observed both in the internet as well as in the real life. We, for example, had a case of The Righteous Rage in Finland recently when we heard there would be a film about Marshal Mannerheim in which he would be portrayed by a black actor. There was a thread about it in Subsim too, so I'm not going to recap further.

It's basically people feeling overly enraged over fairly silly stuff that's more often than not, as CCIP so well put it, "big deal". The Righteous part comes from people feeling that something sacred (and often unwritten) has been violated and therefore everyone should be enraged. That's what makes it different from just being upset.

It's a force that just manifests every now and then gets directed at some direction and then fades away to emerge again somewhere else. One of its favorite targets seems to be the American foreign politics and the other is, as in this case, history.

09-27-12, 11:06 AM

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I do not see this incident as some sort of indoctrination.

That is because you are not from the world of yubba

AVGWarhawk · 09-27-12, 11:07 AM

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Then I don't understand your complaint about those uniforms. They are wearing what are very typical marching band uniforms. They are likely the same ones that they have been wearing for years. The style is what they call 'futuristic military', which is very popular among bands today.

I do not believe the gold color overcoat with red belt is the regular attire.

AVGWarhawk · 09-27-12, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

That is because you are not from the world of yubba

Some get a bit overzealous. Some call it a passion. Other call it lunacy.

Hottentot · 09-27-12, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

On my 8th grade graduation we marched out to the Tannhauser March by Wagner.

Catchy tune!

I found out later it was one of Hitlers favorites.

Does that make me a nazi?

Personally I would be very careful with what you eat. (Not Totally Safe For Work But Pretty Mild)

soopaman2 · 09-27-12, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Yes.

Thanks, just checking.

All jokes aside, I do not understand why this would take place.

I am left leaning,(though I am listed as independant on my voter registration) and abhor outright communism.

Although what is implied is that this is some sort of lefty conspiracy, to indoctrinate, and I am not buying it.

Take it from someone who has been known to strap on a tinfoil hat, and discuss congressional lobbyists and our energy (oil) companies.

But you know, a fake threat is always better, and the cold war has never ended for some, just as the the Civil War never ended for others.

Takeda Shingen · 09-27-12, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I do not believe the gold color overcoat with red belt is the regular attire.

Those are color guard uniforms. They are made by the parents themselves.

AVGWarhawk · 09-27-12, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Those are color guard uniforms. They are made by the parents themselves.

In this particular case I do not believe it.

09-27-12, 10:50 AM	#47
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,261 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Whether these kids were wearing something that would been seen in Russia or not is immaterial to my comment. Band uniforms are band uniforms and should be worn. As far as school songs, my HS(Dulaney) performed "My Maryland" at every game. I attended the University of MD College Park. This school also played "My Maryland" at every sporting event. Performed in the band uniforms. I graduated HS 1984. U. of MD. 1988. U of MD still plays "My Maryland" to this day. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

09-27-12, 10:57 AM	#49
soopaman2 Der Alte Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 3,316 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	On my 8th grade graduation we marched out to the Tannhauser March by Wagner. Catchy tune! I found out later it was one of Hitlers favorites. Does that make me a nazi? My extremism is from eating crap all my life, not from my schooling. __________________ If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. -Winston Churchill- The most fascinating man in the world.