IMPORTANT POLL: should the elderly be forced to use tambourines?

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"Expecting patients to use a tambourine to attract attention is inappropriate, patronising and it denies them the dignity we all deserve," said Victoria Lloyd, the charity's director of influencing and programme development.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Yes - the Lemon Pipers are a key component of successful convalescence 15
No - call buttons are patrician, tambourines are for the rabble 8


love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 July 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago)

i was more in love with the question before any explanation was offered tbh

Darranzhi MacKhakhala (darraghmac), Monday, 4 July 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago)

let's not let the specific example obscure the pressing importance of addressing the question in all contexts

love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 July 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago)

good attitude

Darranzhi MacKhakhala (darraghmac), Monday, 4 July 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago)

"These people are pensioners, not members of The Monkees or Mick Jagger."

Unlike some pensioners, amirite?

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 4 July 2011 14:34 (thirteen years ago)

hmmm poll tears me in two between my desire to give the elderly the dignity they deserve, and my undying fealty to the Lemon Pipers...

Last Friday Night (G.T.F.O.) (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 4 July 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago)

(not to mention Hart Crane)

Last Friday Night (G.T.F.O.) (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 4 July 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago)

"In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you with a bedpan"

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 4 July 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

the elderly have terrorized us long enough.

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, working in a care home with old people bashing tamborines isn't going to be annoying, is it?

Especially if (instead of call buttons which are mounted permanently behind beds or on the little cabinets), they take them into the TEA ROOM or to the DESk at RECEPTION while the staff are on the PHONE! or up to open WINDOWS where the staff are outside having a TAB, and BASHING THE TAMBOURINES to get attENTION!

Instead of going "ahem, excuse me..."

Mark G, Monday, 4 July 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago)

clearly the solution is to sequester the elderly in large unfurnished warehouses without central heating or proper plumbing, where food is dropped through a panel in the ceiling once a week. then their tambourines won't bother anyone.

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.oasisfanatic.com/gallery/images/liam/pictures/gallery_pic2747.jpg

"fookin' 'ell, where's that nurse? I've got fookin' keks like a dropped meat pie here"

cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Monday, 4 July 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago)

"use your call button please"
"eat fucking death, I have a tambourine now you heartless assholes"

love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 July 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago)

I also understand anecdotally that maracas were used which was unacceptable

C-L, Monday, 4 July 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago)

^^^ money line

love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 July 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago)

like a line from a lost d. barthelme story

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago)

I understand anecdotally that vuvuzelas were briefly considered, but were rejected due to concerns for patients with emphysema.

Aimless, Monday, 4 July 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago)

like a line from a lost d. barthelme story

looooooooooool

love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago)

best new thread for america

g++ (gbx), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago)

would be happy to be given a tambourine now tbh

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago)

plus i figure that gives me anywhere from 5 to 30 years to learn how to play it before my eventual competency trial and institutionalization

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago)

i don't have a tambourine, but i do have a bodhran (get over it) and i want to know if it's ok to bring it to a bbq on our nation's birthday

g++ (gbx), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago)

no way old ppl have terrible taste in music

google butt (Lamp), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago)

will you be barbecuing at a retirement home or state hospital?

if so: y
if no: n

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago)

i will be cuein in ne mpls which is sort of where hipsters go to retire so y i guess?

g++ (gbx), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago)

to be safe i'd go with castanets. nice middle ground, no one gets offended, you don't wind up in a place called "golden pines" bitching about your pudding cup being taken away fromy ou

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

get your mitts off my pudding cup or it's a vicious tambourine solo for u

love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 July 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago)

http://web.orange.co.uk/images/ice/quirkies/tambourine_photolibrary.jpg

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago)

"Sorry grandma; you're out of the band. Unless you can learn to play a synthesizer..."

Last Friday Night (G.T.F.O.) (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 4 July 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago)

i was there...when the old people traded in their tambourines for synthesizers...because they wanted to make something real...they wanted to make a yaz record...and i was there when they traded them back...because they didn't want get tied down to their beds by irritable orderlies who may or may not be hoarding their pudding cups

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago)

Make 'em all use vocoders.

Breezy Summer Jam (MintIce), Monday, 4 July 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

How did I miss this thread?

grey tambourine (wk), Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago)

distracted by rising tambourine drone uimmg

love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not reading any of this thread; it would only detract from the perfection of the title.

Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago)

first they came for the elderly, and i did not speak up, because tbh old people are fucking tedious

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago)

Missed u, strongo. Good to have u back.

manager expects you to work past 6PM but won't allow you to change into (Laurel), Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago)

when i turn 65 i fully expect to be turned into low-cost pet food and will i complain? no.

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago)

because that's gonna be life in jenna bush's america.

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago)

recorders are best for aggravating people, i saw one in a bookshop a couple of years ago so i bought it and hid it under a cushion on our couch and later that night for a surprise i whisked it out and piped along to the theme music of whatever show we were watching, i hit a lot of bum notes and also i laughed freely while i played knowing that would produce the high piercing squawks of yore.

estela, Thursday, 7 July 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago)

obviously the elderly should be forced to play bongos

Last Friday Night (G.T.F.O.) (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 July 2011 04:15 (thirteen years ago)


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