folk music is for grumpy stinky old men

Subject: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,your grandchildren
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 10:35 PM

your beards smell of tobacco and sick
and your saggy old arse dirty jeans smell of wee and poo.

that old folk music of yours smells like a sack of festering cat diarrhea.

Its summer now, get your sounds sorted grandad and learn some Lady Gaga songs.

and no, I don't want Sunday dinner at your horrible favourite pensioners pub.

I want to see my friends and set fire to old cars under the railway bridge.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Ole Juul
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 11:17 PM

With you all the way! However, you give yourself away when you mention "railway bridge". I'm old enough to remember, but they're pretty rare in this century, and younguns probably have never seen one. Who is Lady Gaga anyway? I don't watch opera.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,999
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 11:56 PM

Mom, is that you?

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Beer
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 11:58 PM

Grandpa love's you just the same.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 12:13 AM

On the other hand some of us have learned to spell.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,your grandchildren
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 12:19 AM

learned to smell more like...


something crawled into a medieval midden and decomposed

that's how folk music started.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 12:27 AM

I think he's onto something. That would explain the Dorian mode.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 01:37 AM

I refuse to be outragwed by anyone who doesn't use the terms 'piss' and 'shit'.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Ernest
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 02:00 AM

at least the grandkids are still able to smell other things than glue!

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Skivee
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 02:02 AM

Ai, I don't think that he's out-ragweding you. You're firming in the lead of the ragweding department
I on the other hand
know a Lady Gaga song.I pop my collar like a hipster. I also don't think my pants smell as much as they have in the past. Depending.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 03:17 AM

I object to the stinky bit, however I'm fine with grumpy (aren't all granddads?)

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 03:55 AM

Very well said young sir, it keeps you little bastards out of the pub though, you're probably not old enough anyway innit.

Dave [ grumpy ] H

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 04:21 AM

Lady Gaga is an utterly tedious Madonna clone (who was, God knoweth, tedious enough). In my Young Day we had immediate recompence for such trivia (for me it was Magma and Evan Parker) but today, it seems, we must dig just that little bit deeper.

Anyway, we can't get near the Folk Midden for the young who have claimed it as their own, for good or ill (though festering cat diarrhoea seems about right, especially in sessions). I blame all these Mudcat threads about attracting the young to folk clubs (which always sounded like the most perverse sort of grooming) but I hear tell that there are folk families in which kids go straight from Johnny Seven to Melodeon without once screaming at their parents that they didn't ask to be born.

So - more likely it will be the bearded old folkies setting fire to cars beneath the arches of the railway bridge (erstwhile or otherwise) if only to keep the chill from their bones, forever singing about how good the old one used to be.

Sair Fyeld Hinney!

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,John I
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 04:37 AM

OK guys, we need to cut this young chap some slack. It's obviously passed his bedtime and he's tired, also his teddy is still in the corner, where he threw it :)

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Noreen
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 04:45 AM

'...something crawled into a medieval midden and decomposed...'

Not the vocabulary of a youngster.

This is one of the usual suspects trying to get a rise out of you...

Have fun all! (those with nothing better to do. I'm off to Warwick Folk Festival)

:)

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Chris Partington
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 05:34 AM

We're not short of a fair few grumpy stinky old women too I'd like to point out, with my feminist hat on.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 05:44 AM

I think, in all fairness, that one should point out the smell of the young after a weekend in the mud at a typical British "summer" rock festival - or even smellier but less grubby - one of the very rare truly British SUMMER rock festivals. How I remember the corrugated iron fences around the arena area - rotted right through for about a foot off the ground from blokes pissing on them rather than hold their breath while using one of the fetid portaloos (the few left standing).

Folk has absolutely NOTHING on rock festivals for mank. Or skank.


And we properly understand the grumpy artform.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Joe Nicholson
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 06:24 AM

I do grumpy because it is expected of me but I do shower and change now and the

Joe Nicholson

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 06:30 AM

This young whippersnapper obviously has no sense of smell, otherwise he/she/it? would know that nothing can rival the smell of a high school classroom on a rainy day.

A mixture of non existent personal hygiene with overtones of wet labrador.

Don T.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,John I
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 06:34 AM

That's an insult to wet Labrador's !!!

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 06:54 AM

This is a good example of why we call folk music "Heavy MENTAL".It takes a mature brain to understand it.

By the way, I know many adults that would have to look up "midden" in the dictionary.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: treewind
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 06:57 AM

Earlier this morning, I was highly amused to see the title of this thread right next to "Silly ideas about folk singers".

(yes, I know there's another thread for playing that game...)

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: G-Force
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 07:10 AM

We had a young person turn up at our grumpy old folk club last night. She obviously hadn't a clue what it was all about, still less how to behave, but she sat through two guitar-based songs. Then I got my concertina out and she was out of there. Probably best result for all concerned.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 08:14 AM

What is the point of this thread and what is it about?

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 08:22 AM

Go back to sleep, Shimrod - it's just a bad dream. It'll be alright in the morning...

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 08:27 AM

Guest, use your brain. You can't set fire to the cars under the railway bridge because someone might be living in them. Judging from your usage or spelling, you are British. So you might not care about the homeless, but keep in mind that there might be PETS hidden in those cars.

(Should I type, "Y'all are British" because you claim to be more than one person?)

However that may be, your failure to think this through makes my blood run cold.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 08:41 AM

In certain regions of UK and USA (since when were American more likely to give care about anyone but themselves, homeless or othewise?) cars would be more likely to be set alight if people were living in them. And not just by kids. Sad but true. But even back in the Depression years of the thirties, Hobos and other vagrants faced the violence of an intolerent society which all migrants (individuals & cultures) have faced over the millenia.

Mostly though, people are okay. As ever, exceptions prove rules.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: TheSnail
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 09:18 AM

Grandchild clearly hasn't seen my rendition of Lady Gaga's "I want to ride on your Morris stick"

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 09:47 AM

'and your saggy old arse dirty jeans smell of wee and poo.'

A more polite way of saying that would be "and your saggy old arse dirty jeans smell of poo and wee."

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 11:26 AM

Surely he's talking about Chongo? In which case every word is true!

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 11:38 AM

Last I knew, America has given more foreign aid and other charity to the have nots than any other country.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 11:46 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/business_aid_and_development/html/2.stm

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Artful Codger
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 11:54 AM

Surely this is a below-the-line BS thread?

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 12:39 PM

Hahaha - best response yet Artful, and quite right too!

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 12:43 PM

Oh, and ditto the comments about Lady Gaga - her music is so bland and outdated even old folkies like it!

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 12:43 PM

More like below the belt.
We folkies may be auld and fetid but we are leaving you whippersnappers something. Global warming, massive debt, a jobless economy...(not funny, I know, but I'm proud of my personal hygiene.)

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 12:58 PM

Last week I went to a performance by 8 drum & bugle corps, and one corps did a number by Lady Gaga. Surely this is evidence that Lady Gaga is washed up among the young and hip.
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I realize I'm not supposed to point this out, but the joke has gone on long enough, I think. The original poster is obviously not a young person, because a young person wouldn't write "I want to see my friends and set fire to old cars.."

A young person would write "I wnt 2 C my frends & set fire 2 old cars." It's subtle, but it's a dead giveaway.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 01:30 PM

"the joke has gone on long enough, I think. "

It may be some stinky old get what started it, but it's still the best thread for ages!

Artful's faintly perturbed enquiry "Surely this is a below-the-line BS thread?" was too perfect! So Mudcat.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 01:43 PM

I for one can't stop laughing ... I needed that, thank you ...

I am on record , I like lady gaga, but if you want to burn a car under a bridge, please take mine, the damn thing hasn't run right in years and I can use the insurance :-)

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 01:43 PM

Every genre of music eventually acquires a fan base of grumpy, stinky old men. You just have to wait about 50 or so years. Wait and see, young fella, cos it will happen with your favorite brand of music too! ;-)

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 01:49 PM

And what the young person isn't thinking. stinky grumpy old people have great meds in the cabinet that they can steal for their lady gaga concert LOL

can't stop laughing priceless

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Ole Juul
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 02:03 PM

"Every genre of music eventually acquires a fan base of grumpy, stinky old men."

Is "Elvis Impersonator" a genre? If so I expect to see a fan base that goes way beyond "stinky old men" and into the slightly carrion.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,Sweaty Norman
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 02:24 PM

"your beards smell of tobacco and sick
and your saggy old arse dirty jeans smell of wee and poo"

Why, thank you, kind sir. I was beginning to think that my body odor had acquired a fragrance to it that was becoming somewhat inoffensive.

Glad to know that I'm still getting up someone's nose.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: johncharles
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 02:35 PM

the way of all things I am afraid.
"his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 02:43 PM

Best and funniest thread for ages, guest your grandchildren should be elevated to the aristocracy, or perhaps hanged.

Dave H

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 03:47 PM

Thank you johncharles. I recall hearing that delivered by Jaques when it was first out in about 1600. Elizabeth was still queen and James I was in Scotland with only three years before he was promoted to James VI and moved to England. As a side note, the jaques was a reference also to the toilet. Brings back fond memories.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 07:06 PM

Hey, hang on a bit! We were once grumpy, stinky young men.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 07:50 PM

From Grade 9 biology: Cell theory: all cells come from previously existing cells.

From wikipedia:

The generally accepted parts of modern cell theory include:

All known living things are made up of one or more cells.
All living cells arise from pre-existing cells by division.
The cell is the fundamental unit of structure and function in all living organisms.
The activity of an organism depends on the total activity of independent cells.
Energy flow (metabolism and biochemistry) occurs within cells.
Cells contain hereditary information (DNA) which is passed from cell to cell during cell division.
All cells are basically the same in chemical composition in organisms of similar species.

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 08:03 PM

You say I smell of poo and wee
And tobacco in my beard--
I only have a small goatee
Otherwise, it would be weird!
They soon fill up with hungry fleas
So we women find a full beard itchy,
But can someone out there tell me please--
Why are men deemed "grumpy" while women are called "bitchy"?

Subject: RE: folk music is for grumpy stinky old men
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 09:54 PM

We folk musicians; when we go, we're taking our audience with us.