yorolpal


What if someone had posted a picture of a penis that looked like a sausage? Would that have been less offensive?  It might've been just as funny.

How about a dog who looks like a penis? No apologies to anyone for this

mike_mccueI think the title of the thread where I posted the passage you quoted speaks for itself. I've been known to hang out with a fairly rough crowd... so I know what that word means. :-) I don't think any of us should presume to know what others should not be offended by and I think there are some fairly basic notions of what does and doesn't fly

 
All in all I do not have an issue with the folks in the forum, although I can't help thinking that some might not care, and will still give me a name or two. It doesn't matter to me, I love them all the same ... and I accept that at times, I stand up for my own Statue of Liberty! But, at times, it's like there can only be one "liberty", and other's views and opinions do not count or matter.
 
IN some ways, there are times when Bapu or Mooch, or others, break up the thread with something completely out of line, that belongs in Mars or Venus, or Pluto, and I have come to appreciate that ... because it lightens up the board and keeps the seriousness on its toes ... I'm ok with that now, though at one time I told off Bapu in private, and I will never do that again ... as I did not think that Bapu meant badly ... though I felt hurt by it.
 
There are some discussions that are more interesting and involve more study and research ... and if there is something I do not care for, and even Craig, Bapu, Mooch, and others do it ... is that they will make a point of breaking apart the thread ... and sadly, that hurts a lot of independent thinking and learning, that some folks, simply are not interested in.
 
I'm an artist, writer and poet ... and my work, just like the writings in progressive music, and record of my film reviews and music reviews, has always been about its history, and the different things out there ... sadly, and this is not a judgement on my part, too much of the work heard here is almost the same thing that has been done before, and ... when one really nice, and different thing comes around ... that person could not even understand my comments ... she knows who she is! But everyone said .... nice ... and dropped the conversation ... where others ignored it? ... I wrote a few poems and decided that I did not want to embarass her ... and promptly buried them ... they will never be read until after I'm gone!
 
Soem folks look at all this as "art" ... of the heart, the mind and the soul ... but for too many folks, there is only notes and scales ... they can not see the other side of the mechanics, and someone like me talking about it, is not fun, or enjoyable ... but it's like this ... do you really think that the famous stories of the Paris cafe's with the writers and artists there yapping, spent their time just masticating with their own curd? and not learn how to use it better, or create a new piece? Wel,, the CHB is not Paris, but the ability to help and discuss and learn ... is not appreciated except by a handful of folks and they know who they are!
 
So yeah, my apologies (nver got one of your emails), but I have used the French word for ____ a few times on purpose ... and will refrain from doing that again ... and yes, your points here are well taken ... in my book! But will a few folks that simply do not care ... ever bother to read it and pay attention to it? ... that is the question! If their song limit is 3 minutes, your post is longer than that! ... hehehe!!!!!

'Olpal, did you catch the new episodes on the Foster's YouTube channel last year? Some good stuff, all the regulars back except Mark Williams.

Here you go 'Ol Pal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib06Ury55s8

That's episode 1, and if I remember correctly you can link to the rest of them from there.

Is 'cough' sinful?

Lawd gawd how I love Rowley Birkin. 

I had found not too long back on YouTube most all the episodes of Paul and Chris Langham's show "Help".  Paul's multitude of characters were quite simply breathtaking.  I was completely crushed when I learned that due to Chris's dreadful and very disturbing downfall that the show ran only one season.  I've been trying in vain to find a DVD of all episodes but due to the nature of Chris's troubles it seems that no one sells it anywhere on planet Earth.  If any of you British chaps has any idea where such a thing might be available I would be forever in your debt.

Thanks again to all for the links!!  As they say at McDonalds, "I'm Lovin It!"

The Ted and Ralph sketches were also brilliant. Paul Whitehouse was a master of that very special kind of comedy which is both hilarious and touching. There was one where they buried groundskeeper Ted's wife and Ralph made a poignant although awkward speech about the circle of life before walking Ted back to the house. In the last scene they're walking away from camera, Ted stumbles a little and Ralph supports him, all the while Vaughan Williams' Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis is playing -- chokes me up every time, even though it's a comedy sketch. 

This is the weridest thread I have read in the coffee house, really.
Some people seem really stiff, others pointless. 

A chubby man lives in a bucolic setting where it rains a lot. He always keeps his rubbers handy for protection. No need to make a mess in the truck...

HTH,

J

foxwolfen

I find this thread oddly comforting. Perhaps it is a demonstration of consistency in a rapidly changing world that makes it so. Knowing that every couple of months, when I get the urge to see what is up down here, I will find that within the first ten thread will be a thread just like this. It is like a comfortable old shoe.

I have you blocked, but I had to take a peak at this because of the subject at hand.

I'm not going to sugar coat this ...

The atmosphere here today is a direct result of you and John.

The two of you destroyed this forum.

There's some newcomers like Sharke and Beepster that weren't here when it happened, or maybe they were just observers at the time, but let me tell you guys, this was a completely different place until this guy and John came down here one time and started a thread that totally ruined this place.

And then ... to top it all off ... when the forum changed the way they wanted it to, the only time they come back here is to dig at people, like with this post.

What cheeses me off, ever so slightly, is that I am seeing strangeness from peeps who have been helpful to me in the past and I wonder now why I ever bothered coming into the coffee house. It could sour the whole experience, if I let it.

I think the wisest thing to do, for me at least, would be to ignore all this, pretend it never happened and move on. And in future, just lurk around, and post when I feel I can help, in the music specific forums.

I've hardly had anything to do with anything in here anyways, just adding a comment here and there in an attempt to fit in and be funny :-)

I like it when we can lighten up a tad.

And CH is still good for that...

You're a good guy Bub

zungle

Likewise, I always say exactly what and who is on my mind and there's never any doubt .

JonBouy,


I do appreciate that as well.......................

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