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

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

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

good attitude

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

Unlike some pensioners, amirite?

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...

(not to mention Hart Crane)

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

the elderly have terrorized us long enough.

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..."

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.

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"

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

I also understand anecdotally that maracas were used which was unacceptable

^^^ money line

like a line from a lost d. barthelme story

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

like a line from a lost d. barthelme story

looooooooooool

best new thread for america

would be happy to be given a tambourine now tbh

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

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

no way old ppl have terrible taste in music

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

if so: y
if no: n

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

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

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

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

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

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

Make 'em all use vocoders.

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How did I miss this thread?

distracted by rising tambourine drone uimmg

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

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

Missed u, strongo. Good to have u back.

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

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

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.

obviously the elderly should be forced to play bongos