"if you've never written a song you have no right to criticise"

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Should all voters be politicians? Should all cinema goers be film makers? Should everyone who eats at McDonalds be a chef? Are they even comparable?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

For what it's worth I wrote a song when I was 11. It was about angels. I got a 'B'.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You forgot "If you've never served in the military, you've no right to criticize the war you shit-eating leftist scumbag."

― George Smith, Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

YEAH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr Johnson once said something along the lines of: "I don't have to be a carpenter to recognise a crappy chair when I see one".

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

IF YOU'VE NEVER SOYBOMBED, ETC., ETC.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"if you've never transformed your gender you have no right to criticize"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't have to be a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows...

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

BUT YOU HAVE TO BE ONE TO BLOW UP A TOWNHOUSE ON 11th STREET!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the way people who say this think that writing a song is some big fucking deal.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Who says that?

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Your aunt Wendy.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Just after I asked her the identity of her paternal parent.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Wendy O. Williams?

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've never sodomized another man, you have no right to criticize the navy.

― Gilles Meloche (Gilles Meloche), Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Gilles wins.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 May 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Even Soy Bomb has written some great songs. More than one about Mary Timony.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've never milked a cow, you have no right to um I'll think of one in a minute

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've never written a song, you have no right to enjoy one.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've never written a song, you have no right to PRS payments.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've never written any thought-provoking poetry, your name is Donald Rumsfeld.

― Buster (mokey), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Donald Rumsfeld to haters: "Let's see you do it!"

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"If you've never written a song, you have no right to PRS payments."

What, even if you'd recorded loads of cover versions?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've never been in a war, you have no right to fund one through taxes.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've never written a song, you have no right to PRS payments."
What, even if you'd recorded loads of cover versions?

Yup. Although if you own a publishing company, you would...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Pauline Kael nailed it perfectly: "I don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one tastes bad."

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Pauline Kael nailed it perfectly: "You don't have to be able to lay an egg to know when one tastes bad."

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

And I'm as confused as you are as to why that showed up twice.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've never had a handlebar moustache, you have no right to criticize Husker Du.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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