Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: open mike
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 03:49 PM

MUSIC content related to that song posted at 1:11 pm by Giok
"I know a song that'll get on your nerves"
seems as if it would be sung to the tune of
Buffalo Gals won't you come out tonight....
and dance by the light of the moon."

herding cats http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7635587316493151891
or slugs (could not find an action shot of this)
or walking stick insects--http://home.planet.nl/~herwa073/phasmida/
all are past times that might be avoided

to retain your sanity and that of those around you

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 04:12 PM

That's the tune right enough OM
G.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: BuckMulligan
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 06:14 PM

I consider that "my work here is done" in the classic B-movie phrase. For those who thought I was trying to impose order or rules, please take the trouble to re-read my opening post, and its sources. My point was, and is, and ever shall be, just as most herein have posted (and as I posted in the thread opener, for those who care to find it): "it is what it is" - the "point" of mudcat is not a destination, it's the journey.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 06:19 PM

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive!

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 06:28 PM

If your hopes are realised when you arrive...then what....may be even better than hoped for.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 09 Jul 06 - 06:31 PM

One of the stated aims is on the opening website page.

"To make sure that the spirit and knowledge of traditional music be passed down from generation to generation"

Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 03:10 AM

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive!

It is also better to travel without one's fellow passengers feeling they have some right to throw you off the bus.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 03:16 AM

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive!

It is also better to travel without one's fellow passengers feeling they have some right to throw you off the bus

It is also better to travel without one of your fellow passengers acting like a twit all the time and boring the entire bus with his paranoid bullshit.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 04:33 AM

And always remember, ' it's better to have loved and lost. '

eric

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 07:31 AM

It is also better to travel without one of your fellow passengers acting like a twit all the time and boring the entire bus with his paranoid bullshit.

Thanks. I can always rely on you to demonstrate my point.

If you do not wish to be bored (or worse) by your fellow travellers - you are always welcome to get off the bus yourself. Perhaps it would be a good idea if you now did this - rather than feel you have some right to judge the right of others to travel as they wish....?

Mudcat the Community deserves to be celebrated, because it manages to survive and be a useful source despite (because of?) the diversity of its membership in everything including manners and behaviours.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: kendall
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 07:45 AM

The Mudcat community is just like any other community. There are those who seem to have all the answers, who seem to be in some sort of "inner circle", and there are those who just need to stir the pot and keep old bullshit going.

It seems to me that any community has "clans" made up of like minded folks who agree on most things, yet they don't start endless wars over nothing. Then there are those who come across as social misfits who could start a row in an empty house. These are the ones who are on the outside because of THEIR behavior, yet, they are blind to that fact, and they must blame someone else to avoid looking at their own crap.

rant over.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 10:10 AM

Ya' know Roger, I always wonder that you don't see we ALL have the right to judge others and even if we don't, we still do it all the time......yourself included! I mean, read your own posts.......You just made some value judgements including one about me. Its a natural act.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 11:33 AM

Ya' know Roger, I always wonder that you don't see we ALL have the right to judge others and even if we don't, we still do it all the time......yourself included! I mean, read your own posts.......You just made some value judgements including one about me. Its a natural act.

The idea is now encouraged that it is acceptable to post only to moan about and make personal judgements of your fellow posters and in the expectation that it is they who should leave because of your public judgement of their worth.

When the only option open on any form of public transport - if you judge your fellow travellers not to your taste - is for you to get off the bus.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 11:37 AM

Nobody forced you to get ON the bus in the first place!
G.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: Alba
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 11:58 AM

Ah I have a feeling of Deja Vu....
Kind of like....

"It seems to me I've heard that song before
It's from an old familiar score
I know it well, that melody"

I remember a Public Service Commercial in Scotland, the subject is unimportant but one of the Lines that was said was "That's handy, open Windae"....seems any open window brings about a perceived oppertunity for certain Folks to vomit up and rehash what was has already been 'brought up' again and again and again with ZERO result! Damn but it gets to be tedious seeing the same BLAH after 1,000 times of saying that BLAH 1,000 ways.

MAX please come tell us what you are going to be changing here on Your Site, seems some Folk are biting at the bit and waiting to see if you have followed "Their" particular vision (LOL). So Max can you make your announcement....Sooooon....pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze:)!

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: kendall
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 12:11 PM

I rest my case. There are none so blind etc.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 01:43 PM

What is there to change Jude. It's not so bad with less aggro at the moment, it will come back again fear not, and the gripes will start all over again, so why worry.
My motto in life is this.

You die if you worry, you die if you don't worry.
So why worry?

Giok

Here's tae us wha's like us?

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: Alba
Date: 10 Jul 06 - 02:04 PM

* smile*
Och Giok. Am as happy wi this place jist as it is...always huv been.
I wiz jist trying to accomodate those Folk that seem to want to run the Mudcat and whip it into shape on Max's behalf..:)
As Kendall says "There are none so blind"

...and your seldom wrang but yir right again Mr.Mac Kenzie.... "Here's tae us wha's like us"

There will always be Folk that want to fix something that is not broken or worse, organise something that is no theirs tae organise!
Maybe it is ego thing, maybe it's attention seeking..who knows, who cares...from the time you understand that kind of thinking, your thinking like that. Pass.
Power Trips are just that...Trips...whenever someone goes away on a wee Trip they always have tae come back.
I never been tae 'Power' masel, couldnae even tell yi where it is but I hope I get a stock a rock and postcard fae there sometime...*giggle*

;>)
Jude

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 01:57 PM

I believe that the site runs regularly well and that occasionally when things are not running so well, the team attempt to make corrections which do not always draw approval from everyone. Such is the nature of the beast. You can't control it so live with it or leave it.

So why then have this team at all?

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: MMario
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 02:06 PM

different day, different title - same old qoutes. Same insistence that a private, privately run site is in actuality a public resource; which it is not; same insistence that he doesn't want to tell anyone what to do, though he constantly does.

Subject: RE: Mudcat's 'Stated' Goals
From: BuckMulligan
Date: 13 Jul 06 - 02:40 PM

and apparently hasn't noticed that the thread is "over."