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

[Shaggy]

10 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

As a biker, the same goes for motorbikes. They are machines, they may have some character but they do not need a name. 

I used to be in a Jaguar car owners group. One lady referred to her Jag as her growler. I suggested she might want to look up what growler can also mean. She never called it that again. 

 

I must be naïve, as I've only ever known "growler" as slang for a pork pie.....

[SteveXFR]

24 minutes ago, Shaggy said:

 

I must be naïve, as I've only ever known "growler" as slang for a pork pie.....

 

Also slang for the lady garden. Not a word I'd choose to use myself. 

[RhythmJunky]

49 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Also slang for the lady garden. Not a word I'd choose to use myself. 

I'll never be able to eat another growler....er...I mean....pork pie...for as long as I live without thinking about that...

[lozkerr]

2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Also slang for the lady garden. Not a word I'd choose to use myself. 

Nor me, even though I have one. And I suspect female membership of this is a bit thin on the ground:

 

http://thegrowlergroup.org.uk/

 

Quite SFW, in case you were wondering.

 

[MichaelDean]

2 minutes ago, lozkerr said:

Nor me, even though I have one. And I suspect female membership of this is a bit thin on the ground:

 

http://thegrowlergroup.org.uk/

 

Quite SFW, in case you were wondering.

 

What were you Googling when you found that? 😂

Edited Monday at 21:02 by MichaelDean

[lozkerr]

Just now, MichaelDean said:

What were you Googling when you found that? 😂

I used to be a railway modeller and I'd heard of the Growler Group long before now. Sorry!

[TimR]

There is no official character named "Growler" in the Thomas the Tank Engine series; however, the term "Growler" is sometimes used by fans to describe the sounds a diesel engine makes or in unofficial fan creations, such as the "Growler the Goods Diesel" fan character found on platforms like DeviantArt.  

 

google AI. 🤣

[prowla]

https://www.growlerstore.co.uk/collections/glass-beer-growlers

[bnt]

^ beat me to it. (Wait ... what?)

[Steve Browning]

Another thread reminds me of two. White guys calling each other 'man' or referring to someone as a 'cat'.

 

Actually, add 'dude' to that list. 

[petecarlton]

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

White guys calling each other 'man'

Not around in the early 70s then!

[kwmlondon]

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

Another thread reminds me of two. White guys calling each other 'man' or referring to someone as a 'cat'.

 

Actually, add 'dude' to that list. 

Cat? Hey daddy-o where all the hip cats at?

[casapete]

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

Actually, add 'dude' to that list. 

Absolutely - when did this start? Only had this said to me on a few occasions, and each time

by either a young person or ( even worse ) someone nearer my age who thought they were

still ‘hip’. 

[SteveXFR]

I used to work with an aussie who just called everyone by the C word. "Hey, do you c**ts want to come to the pub. Im meeting a bunch of c**it's to watch some c**t sing some old s**t" 

Translation- "Would you gentlemen care to join me at the hostelry to spend time with my family and I as we enjoy a fine singer performing the classics?"

Edited yesterday at 13:35 by SteveXFR

[Grooverjr]

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

Another thread reminds me of two. White guys calling each other 'man' or referring to someone as a 'cat'.

 

Actually, add 'dude' to that list. 

So very much this. SBL (which I like overall) is awful for it, with Scott the main culprit although the absolute worst is a reggae mini course which is excruciating. Old white bloke playing bass with a Jamaican (from memory) drummer and dropping the "Ya man" like someone from a 1980s comedy sketch show with blackface and one of those dreadlock hats on. It's not even a particularly informative course. Literally any of the Donstrumental YouTube videos has so much more value in a tenth of the time. 

 

[Steve Browning]

11 minutes ago, petecarlton said:

Not around in the early 70s then!

Of course I was. It's always seemed ridicuous to me. Not entirely sure what point you make here?

[petecarlton]

8 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

Of course I was. It's always seemed ridicuous to me. Not entirely sure what point you make here?

Us "heads" called each other "man" all the time.

 

Till we grew up.

[Terry M.]

1 hour ago, casapete said:

Absolutely - when did this start? Only had this said to me on a few occasions, and each time

by either a young person or ( even worse ) someone nearer my age who thought they were

still ‘hip’. 

Late 1800s apparently. 

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, casapete said:

Absolutely - when did this start? Only had this said to me on a few occasions, and each time

by either a young person or ( even worse ) someone nearer my age who thought they were

still ‘hip’. 

 

Sub Zero (29) litters his speech with it. I remember it being in vogue in the 70s, along with flares. I'd rather have the flares.

[Leonard Smalls]

1 hour ago, petecarlton said:

Us "heads" called each other "man" all the time.

I lived with a bunch of Boro-lads for about 4 years - all that "was us fookin wentin or fookin gannin man" sort of rubbed off on me and I occasionally tag it on the end of a sentence.

It's not maaan, though!

[Terry M.]

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

White pickguards.

Gold pickguards 

Bass Direct have two used 5 string Maruszczyk basses @£950 each currently. Guess which two colours each pickguard is? 🤣