Boring Folk Day

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,QWERTY
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 03:38 AM

I see Sally Pastyhead has got some more smilies.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/borodance/mud_e_ceilidh_tescos.htm#post10

Should keep Lizzie happy

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: melodeonboy
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 10:28 AM

That wouldn't surprise me. The buggers are taking over almost everything else!

(By the way, this is a colleague announcement!)

"It was a fine and a pleasant day
In a Tesco store I was faring
And I walked for miles up and down the aisles
As I hunted for the shelves of herring"

Every little helps, my a**e!

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Surreysinger
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 08:44 AM

Anybody noticed the dreadful rumour that Tescos is about to start taking over festivals ??

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Ron Davies
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 11:44 PM

Jan back again. I am so thrilled that you all remember and long for the good old dirge nights. But I thought it was Bristol Cream Sherry and cheese and onion crisps that was offered as the top prize. I got so discouraged because Anne and Chris always won. My favourite dirge had twenty deaths per verse and I always fell asleep in the middle of it, so I never found out how many verses there were. Does anyone remember that one. Can you help me out here?

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 04:02 AM

VP Sherry?
Blimey thats a bit upmarket, isn't it?
In my day it was Watneys Red Barrel.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: melodeonboy
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 03:57 AM

Dirge Night? Great!

Is there still the prize of a bottle of VP British Cream Sherry for whoever gets the greatest number of deaths into any one dirge?

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 03:35 AM

This thread is wonderful!!
Keep it up guys (Though I think I detect a bit of a sense of humour bypass going on in some quarters!)
I'm proud to be known by my new name of Harelip!
Not that I've posted anything recently. I was probably attending the ECMW event......(English Country Moaning Weekend)

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,Job-Lott
Date: 22 Jun 09 - 03:12 AM

Yeah, I miss Dirge Night too. It was a bit like Mudcat set to music!

;-)

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Ron Davies
Date: 21 Jun 09 - 10:44 PM

Hi this is Jan, and I want to know when the next Dirge Night will be held at Borfolk. I really miss Dirge Night. Does anyone else?

I mean you can't beat a good dirge can you? Especially when you're all sitting in a circle hoping your turn will never come because you enjoy hearing everyone else's wonderful dirges so much. Plus you can't really remember what your dirge was about anyway.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Ron Davies
Date: 19 Jun 09 - 07:29 AM

Anybody who doesn't think that Mud E Ceilidh is a delightful satire need only look at the opening page--even the type-face and font:

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Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Geoff Wallis
Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:07 PM

I've no idea why Dick has copied the text of a private message to me here or why he's unable to spell Néillidh Boyle's name correctly.

Is there any way of filtering private messages?

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Jun 09 - 02:02 PM

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Geoff Wallis         Re: thanks         17 Jun 2009 06:23 AM
        
                        
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thanks for putting up the recordings of neily boyle, on the session,much appreciated.Dick Miles

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Geoff Wallis
Date: 18 Jun 09 - 01:54 PM

Oh, but, Vic,

I think it helps a lot.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Vic Smith
Date: 18 Jun 09 - 01:42 PM

Geoff Wallis said:-

"presumably, you don't have to endure PMs from Captain......"

Not so - but the same advice and the same policy will apply with them.

(Didn't copy your insult as I don't think it helps.)

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Folknacious
Date: 18 Jun 09 - 07:05 AM

Vic - don't you mean

I think,you've forgotten the.First Commandment of MudcatDo not, try to argue with Captain Birdseye, foritwill end,in much wailing andgnashing of teethIt is easy,to gettempted, but better,to resist!

I think I'm getting the hang of it now but I will take your advice if you promise to take your own. A pact?

What's it they say on Froots? IAFWAFIAWMWQ isn't it?

Ken

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Vic Smith
Date: 18 Jun 09 - 06:56 AM

Folknacious,

A PM from another regular user of this forum received by me today says:-

Vic
I think you've forgotten the First Commandment of Mudcat.
"Do not try to argue with Captain Birdseye, for it will end in much wailing and gnashing of teeth"
It is easy to get tempted, but better to resist!

I think that this is good advice - for both you and me. I shall certainly be following it in future.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Folknacious
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 03:32 PM

Folknacious.Offence not offense. I am not humourless,my humour is diferent from yours,is that understood. if you cant stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Folknacious,your willing enough to take the piss,but dont seem to like it, when I give my opinion of your humour,if you give it out baby,you got to learn to take it. I dont find your humour offensive[apart from the big ed comment,just predictable],however you are a fine artist.

"You're", not "your". Nobody who has heard my singing, mostly restricted to the shower, or indeed seen my paintings would ever describe me as a "fine artist", or probably any kind of artist at all other than the p*** variety! I didn't bother to reply to your incomprehensible PM banging on about Mud-e-ceilidh's "Big Ed" creation (apologies if you're dyslexic, but why on earth can't you learn to do simple punctuation and message quoting like everybody else over age 5 on here?) but I am beginning to suspect that you've deluded yourself that I'm somebody I'm not. No wonder you were allegedly accused by somebody else of being on drugs!! And by the way, I think we've worked out that you don't like Borfolk, but please feel free to tell us again if it amuses you.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 02:53 PM

From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 10:02 AM

Sadly, kids are very cruel and no matter what you do, there will always be bullying to some degree. The victim does not need to have any form of 'difference', just having an unusual name is enough.

They usually come through OK though.


Unless they arm themselves to the teeth and kill 31 of their schoolmates. The most unfunny thing I've ever seen. And its not true that there's nothing we can do. If reasoning adults can't lead the way on this then what good are we. I was never so proud as when one of my kids would come to the defense of someone who was being bullied.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Leadfingers
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 01:47 PM

AND I didnt claim the 100th post !! I must be losing it !!

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Leadfingers
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 01:39 PM

Dick - I put that link up because someone was looking for the bloody song , NOT because I thought it was funny !
Incidentally , its Ronnie Barker's song requested in the thread
http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=9974

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,baz parkes
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 01:09 PM

Sorry...Coming back late to this

Dick says I compared Joe Stead to Bernard Manning...I didn't.

The point I was making was I didn't find him (Manning) funny, therefore didn't watch/listen to him...suggesting,perhaps naively that people who don't find the whole Borfolk word funny should do the same.

Then lo and behold,Upspoke the Captain..."but each to their own,so have fun with Lawrence."

I really don't know why I let myself bedragged into all this....

Baz

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Scotsman Over The Border
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 01:05 PM

Folknacious, please excuse me, I'm new to mudcat, if I'm cast as one of your cap wearing, humourless, axegrinding, professional offense takers with the hair-trigger knee, etc etc, then so be it, but my motivation was purely against what I saw to be a discriminatory prejudice.

I appologise profusely for hijaking your thread. If it's worth anything I find Borefolk very funny.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 01:05 PM

Folknacious.Offence not offense.
I am not humourless,my humour is diferent from yours,is that understood.
if you cant stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Folknacious,your willing enough to take the piss,but dont seem to like it, when I give my opinion of your humour,if you give it out baby,you got to learn to take it.
I dont find your humour offensive[apart from the big ed comment,just predictable],however you are a fine artist.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Folknacious
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 11:05 AM

I find it extraordinary how nearly every topic on this board which starts out as a lighthearted one inevitably gets sidetracked, hi-jacked or whatever you care to call it by the humourless, the professional takers of offense, the grinders of axes, the wilfully uncomprehending and the knee-jerk combatants who will always disagree with what certain other posters say.

And if the cap fits any of those, feel free to wear it!

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Scotsman Over The Border
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 10:31 AM

Your post was done whilst I was writing, Captain, I don't know how to edit on this board, so my previous comment was submitted before reading yours. :-)

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Scotsman Over The Border
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 10:27 AM

"Sadly, kids are very cruel and no matter what you do, there will always be bullying to some degree. The victim does not need to have any form of 'difference', just having an unusual name is enough.

They usually come through OK though"

Well chidren's charities and the education authorities see things differently. There is a 'zero tolerence' policy to bullying at the schools my children go to, as there is Nationwide. This is not a comment on the efficacy of that policy, I don't know how well it works, but I've seen it work really well with a friend's child.

I don't know where you are Silas, but have you come across Bill Bailey or Harry Hill? They don't need victims for their humour, so victimless humour is possible.

At the risk of labouring a point, I still don't see the difference between mocking someone's race and mocking a disability, and I still do not understand why Captain Birdseye posted that link.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 10:27 AM

Scotsman,it illustrates this point,there are many on mudcat with different senses of humour.
Leadfingers,put that clip up originally[on a different mudcat thread].
I believe in tolerance,as regarding humour,I do not find it funny,but Leadfingers presumably does[I am prepared to live and let live].
I do not find Lawrences humour funny,although it is not offensive,in the same way,as that clip is.
I have a right to say that I do not find something funny,without being attacked,as I have been on this forum in the past[by guestRalphie],perhaps the same tolerance can be shown to me as I extend towars Leadfingers.
I do not find Lawrence funny[he does not seem to have progressed from thirty years ago],neither do I find being called big ed amusing,as I am sure you Scotsman over the border would either.Ihave no objection to childish anagrams ,but I do object to the inference of big ed
.I will now let you carry on with your carry on up the folk world.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 10:02 AM

Sadly, kids are very cruel and no matter what you do, there will always be bullying to some degree. The victim does not need to have any form of 'difference', just having an unusual name is enough.

They usually come through OK though.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Scotsman Over The Border
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 09:57 AM

Silas, Good for you, you've moved on. That does not give you the right to belittle what others go through. I'm not speaking about myself, I'm a big boy and can look after myself, I'm talking about the kids going through what I did.
I am not playing the race card, I asked what the difference between taking the piss out of someone's disability and someone's race is.
You said that was pathetic, I already intimated what I think of sympathy in these circumstances, but I'd still like to know what the difference is.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 09:52 AM

Hmmm...

we should really try to be a little less senstive.

There is almost no such thing as victimless humour and trying to play the race card is pathetic. I have been and still am ridiculed for the appearance of a certain part of my anatomy (!), just grow up and get over it.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Scotsman Over The Border
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 09:46 AM

"Perhaps we should be slightly less sensitive. "

Replace the 'disability' with race. Do you still think peole should be less sensitive? What's the difference? It's that 'otherness' that makes some target others by way of their "humour".
Humour that needs a victim is not humour, it's an ignorant cheap shot, and so is being an appologist for it.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 09:39 AM

Well, unfortunate as it is, people with disabilities and afflictions have always been at the mercy of 'comedians', songwriters and performers.

Cosmotheka used to sing a song called 'Only come down for the day' that managed to encompass stuttering, diasblement and mental illnes. Can but say that it was an incredibly funny song though, and, as Al Sealy used to say "We make a point of not apologising for any of the material that we do, no matter how offensive it is - sorry about that, but there we are"

Most of us have something that someone can take the piss out of, wether it be ginger hair, being fat,, short, tall,bald, deaf, short sighted etc.

Perhaps we should be slightly less sensitive.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Scotsman Over The Border
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 09:18 AM

So what was the point in posting that link then, Captain Birdseye? I had a bad stutter until my early/mid twenties. I suffered the humiliation of being mocked and imitated throughout school, and then, even worse, the patronising sympathy of others when they grew up enough to realise that my speech impediment didn't make me 'fair game'.

It saddens me to see that some don't even grow up that much.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Jun 09 - 08:33 AM

I agree Surrey singer.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Surreysinger
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 06:41 PM

Dick - that certainly is not only less funny than Borfolk, it's not funny at all. I've never found acts that mock someone's disability to be in the least amusing.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Folknacious
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 05:23 PM

something that is much less funny than borfolk

buzzz buzzz bonnety buzzzz

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 05:09 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM6UdvpaLcc&feature=related
here is something that is much less funny than borfolk.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 04:29 PM

But where do we buy tickets ??

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Surreysinger
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 10:01 AM

Sorry - should have said - that's part of the Boring Folk Day which Frank is arranging...

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Surreysinger
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 10:01 AM

David .... you need to go to BARN DANCE - 8.00pm - 11.00pm
at Boring-On-Thames Church Hall, with the Ardent Ceilidh Boys and Angie Whirlsmania ... that should be Mud-e-ceilidh enough for you, shouldn't it???

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 09:28 AM

I am stunted by all this as well. But the Boring folk day looks just my cup of traditional Darjeeling and where do I go for a Mud-e-celidh?

DeG

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,dillie the oast ouse opper
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 09:10 AM

I am stunned by all of this....

and I agree with melodeon boy above :0) x

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: melodeonboy
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:56 AM

"Whisper again . . .

shouldn't all this be on the FAF thread, or should this one now be retitled Boring All Day?

Dick'n'Vic please take this somewhere else where it belongs!!"

Yes, indeed! Let's get back to frothing tankards! Fol-de-rol-di-da!

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Vic Smith
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:30 AM

Black belt caterpillar wrestler wrote:-

"Now you have quoted it as well! "

Sorry - you are entirely right. I took to be something that Dick said because he does not use quotation marks, italics etc.

Apologies to Dick over that one as well.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:30 AM

"here is one suggestion that I think would use music in a progressive way.
the English government should subsidise English /Asian music clubs, which have a booking policy of equally shared TRADITIONAL OR CONTEMPORARY music,from English and Asian backgrounds.
music can be a great way of breaking down barriers. "

Completely bonkers. Are you being serious?

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:25 AM

here is one suggestion that I think would use music in a progressive way.
the English government should subsidise English /Asian music clubs, which have a booking policy of equally shared TRADITIONAL OR CONTEMPORARY music,from English and Asian backgrounds.
music can be a great way of breaking down barriers.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:21 AM

Vic,
As I read it that is what Joe said and Dick quoted.

Now you have quoted it as well!

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Folknacious
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:15 AM

Whisper again . . .

shouldn't all this be on the FAF thread, or should this one now be retitled Boring All Day?

Dick'n'Vic please take this somewhere else where it belongs!!

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Vic Smith
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:11 AM

Dick said:-
" Over 8 million people have viewed it already and the statistics make chilling reading if, like me, you are of non-Muslim persuasion."

Please, please be careful, Dick. You are now getting into dangerous territory yourself.

Subject: RE: Boring Folk Day
From: Folknacious
Date: 16 Jun 09 - 07:11 AM

Whisper . . .

Shouldn't all this be in the FAF thread