What a joy - No BS Threads

Subject: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: Brakn
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 08:00 PM

I'm not a great poster, but will help those that I can.

It's a joy to get on to the Mudcat and see no Bollix.

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: DougR
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 08:34 PM

Hmmm. Brakn,maybe you just haven't been dropping in often enough.

DougR

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: rpm
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 08:40 PM

Double Hmmm, as a newbie I hope I'm not responsible for Brakn's consternation. -Bob

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: Duane D.
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 10:48 PM

It sounded too good to be true...then I woke up. Again, the reality of how it is now. I really miss the way it was when I first visited. At least back then, when there was BS, it was constructive and intellectual, and NOT the continuous hit and run flaming and taunting. I've even found some of it to be morally and ethically offensive (and that's quite a feat, considering I'm not particularly shockable). Where will it all end? What can we do about it? Perhaps we should collectively and deliberately creep the BS threads into music threads, a direct turnaround from the present methods.

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: rangeroger
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 10:57 PM

Would that turnaround be on the F or the Bb?
rr

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 11:07 PM

This is just another BS thread.

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: DougR
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 11:19 PM

Yep Guest, you're right. Very perceptive.

DougR

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: GUEST,Bert.
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 11:41 PM

Brakn,
I did a count on Friday, there were 16 BS threads to 88 music threads. Now just WHAT is your problem?

BTW, Doug, Did you ever get to meet Gargoyle last Wednesday?

Bert.

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 02:37 AM

Good advice. Have you ever seen a song?

By the side of the road last week, and waiting to cross to the field on the other side was, a man, his mower and a dog.

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 07:24 AM

What was the dog called then?

I saw a song a while back, well, a tune anyway. My stupid cat, the little white one, he of the malodourous and flaming arse, was asleep on the piano keys....

LTS

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: GUEST,John in Brisbane
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 08:02 AM

Mike, you'll be able to make your own observations about the current state of BullShit threads. I'm really not that concerned about them, how many there are, how many hundred trivial posts there are, how vehemently posters defend their right to express themselves or who wins awards for loquacity.

What I do appreciate though is that more often than not these threads are labelled as BS: and this gives me an easy mechanism to ignore them. In fact Max has even given us a simple tool to make them invisible - unfortunately it only works until you refresh your view. But for those regulars who are sufficiently considerate to start BullShit threads with the BS label, I thank you.

Welcome back and looking forward to your solid contributions in music threads. Regards, John

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 02:22 PM

"Thank the Lord - there are no BS treads - so I'll start one up"... Somehow the logic of that position eludes me.

Putting a song into a discussion thread is a sensible and "proper" thing to do, when it carries the discussion forward, or helps the tone of the tread or whatever. And discussing some idea that gets thrown up by a song is a perfectly sensible and "proper" thing to do as well.

Songs aren't something separate from communication, they are a major part of how we communicate. The same way that jokes are - can you imagine someone complaining because you used a joke in a discussion? "This isn't a jokes website, bugger off somewhere else." Or if you had a joke in a song, and someone said "this is a serious site about folkmusic. We are not amused. Wash your mouth out with soap!"

Actually I can imagine that. They'd probably sign in as "GUESTtheindisputablytruespiritofMudcat" or something like that, and then sit back giggling while we ran round in circles. (And that wasn't a reference to anybody in particular - because the kind of poster I might be referring to does not exist. Anonymous=invisible.)

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 05:39 PM

People whining again about what the cat used to be... Get over it folks! Ya can't control evoloution...

May as well, suck it up, walk it off, and get back in the game!

{~`

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 08:29 PM

Change always happens - but there are good changes and bad changes. Saying "be a friend to change" is as bad as saying "resist all change". You have to choose wich changes to support, which changes to accept, and which changes to fight.

When it starts raining, it's no good complaining that the weather's not as fine as it was yesterday. But it is worth getting an umbrella so as not to get wet.

Subject: RE: What a joy - No BS Threads
From: Duane D.
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 09:15 PM

This isn't evolution. It's a disease out of control.