BS: There is to much BS

Subject: BS: There is to much BS
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 08:24 PM

hEloo, there is far to mutch BS, i just licked at the forum and there is loods of it, this sposed to be a a music site, but lately it seems to be a meeting place for trainspotters & DIY enthoosiasts, its ridiculos and a bloody sisgrace.john

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: khandu
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 08:26 PM

And you just added to it!

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 08:29 PM

Oh, no! This is terrible! We should do something about it right away! What's your plan, John?

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: smallpiper
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 08:31 PM

Oh my god what can we do? I know we must assassssinnnatte oaklet now its all his fault!9alidgidliy)

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: khandu
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 08:33 PM

LISTEN UP YOU MISCREANTS! THIS BS MUST STOP NOW!!

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 08:34 PM

BS is fun. Where would Mr. Happy, Artbrooks and I go, without it?
Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: smallpiper
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 08:38 PM

Yeah what exactly is wrong with being Brilliantly Sophisticated anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 08:50 PM

This is AN OUTRAGE! The BS must stop!!! I say that we all buy Winston Wellington-Jones a ticket to Hull. He can thrash Oakley, and put an end to at least 15% of it...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Art Thieme
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 09:00 PM

John,

I'm with ya. No amount of logic will change anything unless...

It just aint worth fighting. This is what the powers-that-be want. I quit fighting it ---- and now I get the sleep I wasn't getting. As Leadbelly said, "Relax Your Mind" --- getting too bent out o' shape warps and turns us into Gargaoyles. One of those is plenty around here.

All the best to you,

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 09:46 PM

Way back in 1997, in the early pioneering days of Mudcat when we used horse-drawn computers, we had a Mudcatter named Elsie (click here for her posts). If somebody posted something that didn't fit her definition of folk music, she jumped all over the person. She clobbered me for simply mentioning Cole Porter.
Then Max developed a search utility and I did a search under her name. I found out she had never once posted any information about music herself, and I said so. Poor Elsie. She never posted anything again.
BS is good.
In moderation.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 09:49 PM

It's kinda like an abortion, you don't like them, don't have one.

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 09:59 PM

I was getting ready to complain about all these music threads clutterin' up the joint but I guess this wouldn't be a good time for that.... would it?

Bobert

p.s. And while we're on the subject, who ever is leaving those old guitar strings in the Catbox I'd appreciate it if you'd quit it. Last night I fumbled my way in there and one poked a big old hole in my paw when I was doing to cover up thing, thank you....

Geeze....

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Nov 02 - 10:18 PM

Here's some more BS: read the "File Not Found" message. At least it's not parroting all those other boring "404" messages!

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 08:53 AM

Hi, John:

This morning when I turned on Mudcat, I took a moment to check to see how we're doing on BS threads vs. music related threads. Out of first 15 threads, two were BS. You want there should only be one?
Seems like there's still mostly music threads... even now when the elections are just over in the US, and folks want to talk about that.
Mudcat feels suspiciously like real life. When I meet Catters in person and spend some time with them, we don't just talk about music.
We enjoy each other as people, with all that goes with that. Admittedly, this is a music site, but it's musicians who come here, and they have lives and interests beyond music. At least, I sure hope so..

Someone commented that after the number of years that Mudcat has been on, it's understandable if there aren't as many lyric requests. Often new requests are referred back to existing threads.

Maybe Mudchat will fill some of the desire just to talk about things other than music... as well as music. It's always great to catch you in the room...

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: rock chick
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 08:54 AM

BS lightens up the day which could otherwise be very boring at work, if it makes you laugh then there an't nought wrong with that, where's your sense of fun John from Dull? if you don't want to play then stay in your pram, don't get out your rattle.

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:11 AM

It hurts my head when I think of all the man-hours we must have spent responding to this issue............ - tiz a collossal waste of lives.
:>)

Kris

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:14 AM

Nice one, John!

rock chick, can't you recognize a tongue-in-cheek posting when you see one?

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:14 AM

Folk music, in it's nature, is music that comes from the joys and struggles of the common man. It isn't high brow in it's nature. It is driven by stories less of nobility and more of serfs. Alot of the BS threads are of those same struggles. One could think of the BS threads as inspirational fuel stops.

Another aspect of folk music is sharing and Though it gets a tad heated occasionally, folks are morew than willing to share.

I guess lastly, think of the forum as a menu in a resturant. If you don't like beets, don't order the danged things.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:21 AM

To - prep, used for expressing motion or direction toward a point.

Too - adv, to an excessive extent or degree

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:26 AM

I could understand the past arguments when it was difficult to do anything about it. Now it is easy for people to filter BS, I'm surprised this issue gets debated. If you don't like it and are a member, set the filter in membership. If you are a guest, just put BS: in the forum filter and click the little checkbox. Make the choice and either way, don't complain - the reasons for complaint have finally been eliminated.

That said, like Murray, I do believe John's comments were made with tongue firmly in cheek.

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:27 AM

I used to frequent a more music-centered site but got bored--except for the occassional query, I have as much music info as I have time to make use of, and yet there aren't many questions someone else couldn't answer better than I. But it is odd how folk music seems to have a particularly attractive culture--I like all kinds of music, but for b.s. and general culture, folk is the zone.

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:29 AM

Cheers Murray!

John

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: leprechaun
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:44 AM

Don't you hate it when somebody starts a good controversial BS thread and then some troll goes and tries to inject music into it?

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:45 AM

Well, Murray, you'd have to know this comes from John - "Mr. Punch-the-'9rse, Cara:-Between-the-Cushions, Hamsters-Can-Save-the-World" - in Hull!

And we don't want to irritate the Hull crowd - there's about 50 of 'em here now!

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: SharonA
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 11:55 AM

I'm not disgusted by all the BS at Mudcat, but I am disgusted to read that John from Hull has been licking at the Forum. Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!!!! *G*

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 12:49 PM

The mistake being made here is in thinking that either side of the debate is "right". Those on the "This is a music forum" side of the debate are not right. Those on the "This is a forum for people who enjoy music" are not right.

This place is what you make of it. Manage your *own* experience here by giving a miss to any thread you don't want to read. It really is that simple. Years of complaining from both camps have produced nothing more than increasingly more numerous threads on the subject.
It certainly has not produced any change.

So, my question is, "Why bother?" It's a heck of a lot easier to change ones perception and experience of a thing than it is to change the thing.

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 06:39 PM

I want to know who's tongue and who's cheek John had it in!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Snuffy
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 06:53 PM

HAmsters keep lots of things in their cheeks

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 06:56 PM

looking back at the petulant post, maybe I should have written "tongue in chick" ....

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: reggie miles
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 07:35 PM

Joe, (when we used horse-drawn computers,) LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 02 - 10:03 PM

jophn thak you fir comn bak to why we are her from

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: smallpiper
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 05:58 AM

Are we here? Where is here? HELLO PLANET EARTH!!

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: leprechaun
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 11:42 AM

I had horse chestnuts in my cheeks.

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: smallpiper
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 11:44 AM

And you didn't get trampled!

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: chip a
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 11:56 AM

pity the poor horse!

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Nov 02 - 12:47 PM

That's really asking for a nasty kick...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 09:23 PM

heloo, there is to much bs again, and why is there nothing about hamsters here/ there is always loads of stuff about cats, but nothing about hamsters.john

Subject: RE: BS: There is too much BS
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 09:34 PM

John, I do sincerely hope that someone gives you a regular computer for christmas! It will make your browsing more enjoyable and place more diacritical characters on a normal keyboard at your disposal. (Or are the odd characters we see now the result of typos and not web tv?)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: CarolC
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 09:43 PM

Well, this isn't hamsters, but...

Countdown to MonkeyJam!!!!!

(Also known as Southeastern Gathering, starting tomorrow afternoon in beautiful Columbus, Georgia, with lots of fine people and great music... and some georgeous hadmade guitars.)

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Amos
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 09:43 PM

Teaching John to spell, Wesley, is akin to teaching the proverbial pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the pig.

Let us desist from idle brainless chatter. Has it occurred to you layabouts that the time you spend thinking up clever things to say to each other, you could earn enough money to buy a WHOLE SET OF MUDCAT RAINBOW CDS????


Hmmmmmmmmmm?

A

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 09:46 PM

some of us ARE earning money while doing idle chatter here....BG

Subject: RE: BS: There is to much BS
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 10:37 PM

I regularly attend a Folk Club Which has become a Folk and debating society.I find a strong similarity to Mudcat in this in that Folkies are NOT just interested in Folk Music ,but in a number of other issues,both frivolous and serious in context.While agreeing that this is primarily a Music Based Forum , to bar any non music based talk or discussion would be detrimental to the whole site.The more BS oriented
threads also give the Mudcat wits an opportunity to display their odd
or otherwise talents to the full.I personally have learnt quite a lot
of probably totally useless facts from these threads,which some people
apparently would like to ban totally.If you wish to Filter out the BS
from your screen the facility is available to you.Otherwise do as I do (bearing in mind what a smart arse i am ) and dont bother to look at a thread that does not immediately grab your attention.If you look and are offended,C'est La guerre.If you look and are informed,great.
I find that I look at around a third of the threads available,and
ignore the ones I feel are of no interest to me,This is with out any
of the Filters available to all members.Dont stop any of the BS threads,its an outlet for all sorts of repressed urges if nothing else