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Thread #110424   Message #2459522
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
07-Oct-08 - 03:19 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
The perform your own national culture/they show us theirs; we show them ours way of English folk clubs of old, Don, was a good one, that should be brought back in England and beyond

Grammatical eccentricity notwithstanding, just how on earth do you envisage this perform-your-own policy being implemented? And if you, as a naturalised Australian with as much understanding of English culture as I have of ancient Egyptian mathematical theorems feels himself somehow justified in performing E. Trads, then how on earth can you possibly object to anyone singing anything?

I stuck my neck a while back in the face of the various levels of flack you were getting, but as Stu points out, I was sorely mistaken with respect to your quiet dignity. Overweening arrogance in a set of bizarre beliefs sums it up perfectly.