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

[petecarlton]

On 09/09/2025 at 23:18, RhythmJunky said:

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.

Anything above a 4-string is weird.  There was a 12-string bass on No Treble the other day - NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[snorkie635]

11 minutes ago, petecarlton said:

Anything above a 4-string is weird.  There was a 12-string bass on No Treble the other day - NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

With eleven tuners on one side of the headstock and one hanging on for life on the other?

[tauzero]

1 hour ago, petecarlton said:

Anything above a 4-string is weird.  There was a 12-string bass on No Treble the other day - NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

 

You'd better not look in "Basses for sale" then.

[Terry M.]

3 hours ago, petecarlton said:

Anything above a 4-string is weird.  

I now find 4 strings weird.I skip over them in the classified ads for sale like you wouldn't believe. In fact I wish could filter them out of the search listings 😄 

[kwmlondon]

33 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

I now find 4 strings weird.I skip over them in the classified ads for sale like you wouldn't believe. In fact I wish could filter them out of the search listings 😄 

Ditto. My Dingwall has been off for a couple of days for a repair to the preamp and I’ve been mainly playing my old Stingray and it’s completely not me any more. Gonna be listing it for sale soon…

[Jackroadkill]

"Alot", instead of "a lot".

[rOB]

1 hour ago, Jackroadkill said:

"Alot", instead of "a lot".

This may help. Or maybe raise a chuckle.

 

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

[Terry M.]

On 09/09/2025 at 21:56, Marvin said:

White pickguards.

 

I mentioned this on my list posted a while back. I have a Fender Jazz that came with one and I bought it KNOWING the stock white pickguard wasn't going to last long on it. I just can't stand them 🤭

[bass_dinger]

People who buy a house, then put an extension up, or convert the loft, within six months of moving in.   

 

If they did it within a month, then it was clearly part of the plan when they purchased the place. 

 

If they did it within six years, then the family grew, and needs more space after they purchased the place. 

 

But six months just feels wrong. 

[TimR]

1 hour ago, bass_dinger said:

People who buy a house, then put an extension up, or convert the loft, within six months of moving in.   

 

If they did it within a month, then it was clearly part of the plan when they purchased the place. 

 

If they did it within six years, then the family grew, and needs more space after they purchased the place. 

 

But six months just feels wrong. 

 

Planning permission takes ages to get passed. 

[tegs07]

1 hour ago, bass_dinger said:

People who buy a house, then put an extension up, or convert the loft, within six months of moving in.   

 

If they did it within a month, then it was clearly part of the plan when they purchased the place. 

 

If they did it within six years, then the family grew, and needs more space after they purchased the place. 

 

But six months just feels wrong. 

Most decent building contractors have a waiting list of at least 6 months. 

 

A tax on property over £500K may sort this out though particularly in London and the South East.

Edited 8 hours ago by tegs07

[prowla]

22 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

Most decent building contractors have a waiting list of at least 6 months. 

 

A tax on property over £500K may sort this out though particularly in London and the South East.

Hi: We've just moved in to a house; I need you to build an extension within a month, starting with planning permission.

-or-

Hi: We've an offer on a house and if it's accepted I'll need you to commit to building an extension within a month of moving in, but we don't have a date for that and since we don't own the property we don't yet have planning permission.

[Si600]

17 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

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).

 

17 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

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.

 

Don't care.  It's irrational, remember?   I still hate regardless of what the dictionary says 😘

[Greg Edwards69]

• Non-standard tuners on mass-produced basses, that I can't simply drop a Hipshot XTender in without drilling (looking at you, Squier!).
• Pickup selector switches - give me a blend or two volume pots
• I prefer maple fretboards because I like the look - I don't buy into maple sounds brighter and rosewood sounds darker
• Boutique curly maple tops that look like the instrument has been smeared in poo (Cort GB Modern)
• When people say "it plays like butter". Sounds horrible to me - all greasy and slimy!

Edited 7 hours ago by Greg Edwards69

[TimR]

1 hour ago, Si600 said:

 

 

Don't care.  It's irrational, remember?   I still hate regardless of what the dictionary says 😘

 

I don't think it's right. You can use 'it looks a bit thirsty' for a lot of things, including wood. But I don't think I'd say it needs a drink. 

[tegs07]

1 hour ago, prowla said:

Hi: We've just moved in to a house; I need you to build an extension within a month, starting with planning permission.

-or-

Hi: We've an offer on a house and if it's accepted I'll need you to commit to building an extension within a month of moving in, but we don't have a date for that and since we don't own the property we don't yet have planning permission.

And back on planet earth. Building contractor sorry guv we are booked solid for the next 8 months with actual real jobs that we have been to the property and provided a quote for.

 

Edit: I don’t know your area but the building contractor guys i know doing big jobs like lofts and extensions don’t work on ifs and maybe. There are too many third parties to keep on the right side of and permanent staff to pay to do this.

 

In addition the stamp duty bracket has got so high that people extend rather than move and they have more work than they can handle already without a tepid maybe.

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by tegs07

[bnt]

I have a prejudice against "the street" as a place. To me the "street" isn't a place itself, it's what you use to get to places. I don't have time for "street culture", but then I don't think the label is helpful. So I roll my eyes when I see food advertised as "street food", even though I sometimes enjoy some. The food itself isn't "street" by nature, it's just a label. 

[ezbass]

22 minutes ago, bnt said:

I have a prejudice against "the street" as a place. To me the "street" isn't a place itself, it's what you use to get to places. I don't have time for "street culture", but then I don't think the label is helpful. So I roll my eyes when I see food advertised as "street food", even though I sometimes enjoy some. The food itself isn't "street" by nature, it's just a label. 

And streets don’t need nourishment, so feeding them is pointless. However, I have seen some awful things growing on some streets, definitely a culture of some description 🤢  .

[bass_dinger]

4 hours ago, TimR said:

 

Planning permission takes ages to get passed. 

 

2 hours ago, tegs07 said:

And back on planet earth. Building contractor sorry guv we are booked solid for the next 8 months with actual real jobs that we have been to the property and provided a quote for.

 

Edit: I don’t know your area but the building contractor guys i know doing big jobs like lofts and extensions don’t work on ifs and maybe. There are too many third parties to keep on the right side of and permanent staff to pay to do this.

 

In addition the stamp duty bracket has got so high that people extend rather than move and they have more work than they can handle already without a tepid maybe.

 

 

 

Thus, my prejudice is provably irrational, and I have met the requirements of this thread.  Hurrah for me!

 

[bass_dinger]

4 hours ago, Si600 said:

 

 

Don't care.  It's irrational, remember?   I still hate regardless of what the dictionary says 😘

Hurrah for @Si600's admission of irrationality!

Edited 3 hours ago by bass_dinger
Typo.

[tauzero]

π, although I'm comfortable with the square root of 2. π is just such an awkward number.

[TheLowDown]

33 minutes ago, tauzero said:

π, although I'm comfortable with the square root of 2. π is just such an awkward number.

Quite tasty, though.

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, bnt said:

I have a prejudice against "the street" as a place. To me the "street" isn't a place itself, it's what you use to get to places. I don't have time for "street culture", but then I don't think the label is helpful. So I roll my eyes when I see food advertised as "street food", even though I sometimes enjoy some. The food itself isn't "street" by nature, it's just a label. 

 

A road is for getting to places. Streets are for getting around places (in broad terms).

[tegs07]

4 hours ago, bnt said:

I have a prejudice against "the street" as a place. To me the "street" isn't a place itself, it's what you use to get to places. I don't have time for "street culture", but then I don't think the label is helpful. So I roll my eyes when I see food advertised as "street food", even though I sometimes enjoy some. The food itself isn't "street" by nature, it's just a label. 

When I think of street food I primarily think of Asia where eating can often be a communal, low cost, shared experience rather than the UK where unfortunately the street can be just for getting to shops or trying to avoid piss heads.

[TimR]

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

π, although I'm comfortable with the square root of 2. π is just such an awkward number.

 

Anything divided by 7...