What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[petecarlton]

There is some very boutique bonkers-ness going on in this thread now.

 

Time for a reset?

[Elfrasho]

Folk that turn up to the local dive with 3k custom fenders and 8x10 cabs. Hate it. I absolutely love seeing top players or top bands sounding great using very much affordable gear. Seeing a bass playing a £300 yamaha bass that they;ve had for 20 years is something i love. 

[RhysP]

On 28/08/2025 at 20:38, bnt said:

I meant the f-hole shape specifically, not the general idea of a long & thin soundhole. I have one of these guitars and it’s no problem.

 

but this gives me the willies:

 

 

 

There are few things worse than being given the willies in your f hole.

[Judo Chop]

43 minutes ago, RhysP said:

There are few things worse than being given the willies in your f hole.

 

[Terry M.]

Aftermarket thumb-rests installed on non-Fender type basses ESPECIALLY on Stingrays.

[Minininjarob]

On 07/09/2025 at 18:07, Elfrasho said:

Folk that turn up to the local dive with 3k custom fenders and 8x10 cabs. Hate it. I absolutely love seeing top players or top bands sounding great using very much affordable gear. Seeing a bass playing a £300 yamaha bass that they;ve had for 20 years is something i love. 

Friend of mine has a custom Status Black Beauty with gold plated hardware and every conceivable option. Its amazing. He also has loads of other vintage Fenders and Stingrays.

He gigs mostly with a Yamaha 5 string which cost him £120 which just sounds amazing and is super reliable. Even with his slap technique which makes Flea look like Pino it still trucks on despite the abuse.

[Minininjarob]

On 31/08/2025 at 19:31, Marvin said:

Soapy looking maple necks. The ones that are light in colour and with very little grain.

Whereas I don't like roasted maple necks or weird woods...each to their own! My latest bass has a maple neck and is almost white... 😄

[LeftyJ]

On 08/08/2025 at 18:38, rushbo said:

 

Exhibit A: The two "extra" screws on some BBoT bridges. Why oh Lord, why?

Exhibit B: That bonus bit of wood at the dusty end of the neck, often shaped into a jaunty diagonal. I don't know what it's called, I just don't like it. 

 

The bass on the right has a far worse offense going on: laminations in the center of the body to imply a neck-through-body construction, when in reality there is a bolt-on neck - and it's not even laminated the same as the body core! Can't stand it. 

 

And relic jobs on bass models that weren't even around 40 years ago. OK, so your Ibanez Soundgear looks like it has an original 1950s nitro finish and 60+ years of wear. Just like the early ones that were still built by Leo Ibanez himself! I remember vividly. What a fitting tribute to the legend! 

Edited Tuesday at 15:28 by LeftyJ

[dclaassen]

Maple necks…just can’t do it

Single cutaways…ugly

Pedalboards…

Alternate tunings…

 

[Marvin]

White pickguards.

Gold pickguards 

[RhythmJunky]

Any 5 string with 4 tuners on one side of the headstock and 1 sticking out the other like the proverbial Friday afternoon after-thought. (Oh sh1t, where can we put this extra tuner ....)

 

Anything above a 4 string has to be as balanced as possible.

[skilamalink]

Roquefort blue. I don't mind the colour but when I see the words all I can think of is overpoweringly stinky cheese and it puts me off the thing that is that colour.

[Geek99]

I was in Morrisons and this geezer kept apologising for each time that he kept reaching in front of me. Polite… but he stank like a corpse dipped in brine and coated in liquid dead guitarist with chocolate sprinkles - my thought was “jeez, soap is neither expensive nor a second thought, dude”

 

Hang on .. you said “irrational”

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 23:15 by Geek99

[tegs07]

6 hours ago, skilamalink said:

Roquefort blue. I don't mind the colour but when I see the words all I can think of is overpoweringly stinky cheese and it puts me off the thing that is that colour.

Each to their own. Love Roquefort, the colour and the cheese. I could wander around those caves for hours.

[snorkie635]

9 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I was in Morrisons and this geezer kept apologising for each time that he kept reaching in front of me. Polite… but he stank like a corpse dipped in brine and coated in liquid dead guitarist with chocolate sprinkles - my thought was “jeez, soap is neither expensive nor a second thought, dude”

 

Hang on .. you said “irrational”

 

 

Well at least I apologised.

[kwmlondon]

3 hours ago, tegs07 said:

Each to their own. Love Roquefort, the colour and the cheese. I could wander around those caves for hours.

My partner likes stinky cheese. When visiting Maastricht I went to a cheese shop and asked for their stinkiest cheese and was told that airlines would refuse to take it in the cabin. I was returning by train so that was fine! I got in late and the smell was so rank I had to put a note on the fridge to warn the other half and the lodger that it was the cheese and to be prepared before opening the door.

[Leonard Smalls]

2 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

stinky cheese

I remember back in the early 90s I walked the Tour de Mont Blanc with my girlfriend... We carried a tent, and food/clothes for 7 days - being fit we managed the 100+ miles in 4 days but we'd sweated like pigs as it was also warm.

When we got back to Chamonix we looked for gifts for folks, a friend of ours was well into Reblochon so we bought her a decent lump.

As we were going home on the coach I'd put on my lightweight shoes for the journey back so the only safe place to put the Reblochon was in my mountain boot (the one I'd been wearing for 25+ very sweaty miles per day) in my pack.

The nearly 24 hour journey was accomplished in sweltering heat - 30+C - so we naturally worried a bit about the cheese.

However, there was nothing we could do...

When we got back the cheese had melted into the shape of my boot, but we stuck it in the fridge and gave it to our friend the following day.

A week later we saw her and she thanked us effusively for the cheese- "it's the best I've ever had!" she said.

[TimR]

Wasps in jam jars.

 

More specificly wasps in marmalade jars. 

And wasps in lager.

 

Actually...

 

...just wasps. 

[Lozz196]

19 minutes ago, TimR said:

Wasps in jam jars.

 

More specificly wasps in marmalade jars. 

And wasps in lager.

 

Actually...

 

...just wasps. 

The nazi of the insect world, mindlessly violent for no other reason than that they just are

[bnt]

10 hours ago, tegs07 said:

Each to their own. Love Roquefort, the colour and the cheese. I could wander around those caves for hours.

There’s an Irish cheese called Ardrahan that totally reeks but tastes very good indeed. I used to work DSL broadband support here, and once had their office manager on the line for support. He was kind-of surprised when I told him how much I liked their cheese. 🧀 

[prowla]

3 hours ago, TimR said:

Wasps in jam jars.

 

More specificly wasps in marmalade jars. 

And wasps in lager.

 

Actually...

 

...just wasps. 

Tell them to buzz off!

[Si600]

Drink as a synonym for absorb.  e.g. "I oiled the fretboard and it drank all the oil immediately." 

 

It's an inanimate object, it can't f'ing drink.  

 

 

Really gets on my wick for some reason.

 

David Gemmell also had a phrase, which crops up in every book he ever wrote (cloned in some cases, but not as badly as David Eddings who wrote the Belgariad three times) where every time a character takes a break they have a "drink of the cool, clear, water"  I hate it, and I can't tell you why.

Edited 8 hours ago by Si600

[tauzero]

5 hours ago, Si600 said:

Drink as a synonym for absorb.  e.g. "I oiled the fretboard and it drank all the oil immediately." 

 

It's an inanimate object, it can't f'ing drink.  

 

 

Really gets on my wick for some reason.

 

Different online dictionaries have differing opinions on that - dictionary.com and thefreedictionary.com say it also means absorb, as does Merriam-Webster <spit>, the Cambridge dictionary and Collins both just give putting liquid in your mouth and swallowing it as the meaning. So fretboards can drink oil in the USA but not in the UK (or EU).

[tauzero]

"ect" instead of "etc". Whatever happened to basic literacy. Oh yes, and confusing "ie" and "eg" - I assumed that somebody knew what they meant in a spec once and that led to some wasted time.

[Stub Mandrel]

Origin and history of drink

drink(v.)

Old English drincan "to swallow water or other fluid," also "to swallow up, engulf" (class III strong verb; past tense dranc, past participle druncen), from Proto-Germanic *drenkanan (source also of Old Saxon drinkan, Old Frisian drinka, Dutch drinken, Old High German trinkan, German trinken, Old Norse drekka, Gothic drigkan "to drink"), which is of uncertain origin or connections, perhaps from a root meaning "to draw."

Most Indo-European words for this trace to PIE *po(i)- (source of Greek pino, Latin biber, Irish ibim, Old Church Slavonic piti, Russian pit'; see imbibe).

Figurative meaning "take in through the senses" is from late 12c. Especially "to imbibe spiritous liquors" from mid-15c. To drink to "salute in drinking" is by mid-13c. To drink like a fish is recorded from 1744. To drink (someone) under the table "continue drinking and remain (comparatively) sober after others have passed out" is by 1909.

drink(n.)

"beverage," often especially "alcoholic beverage," late Old English drinc, drync, from drink (v.). Meaning "as much of any liquid as is or may be taken at a time" is from c. 1300.