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

[ped]

Jad Freer, just because he sounds like someone I’d get really annoyed by. I’m not even sure he’s a person or not but if he was I bet he’d drive either a Tesla, Juke or a VW camper van

[prowla]

56 minutes ago, Cornwall Steve said:

* Headstocks that don't match the body

* Headstocks the size of match boxes

* Amps the size of a paperback

* Amps the size of a suitcase

* Knobs and switches on basses pointless because they do nothing

* Knobs and switches on amps pointless because they do nothing

* Pick- Ups that are weak and ineffective

* White pick guards 

* Scratch plates referred to as Pickguards

* Refering to plectrums as picks

* Explaining to my grandsons what a plectrum is

* Bass players spending too much time fiddling with their pedals

* Bass players affected by GAS (I mean Gear Affected Syndrome - not the baked bean issue) - I think I have over 30 basses, I must do a role call sometime 🤔 

* Guitar Techs who think they're Luthiers

* Luthiers who consider themselves Gods

* Music stores/suppliers stocked floor to ceiling with budget basses with white scratch plates 

* Basschat members who reply to Posts using asterisk bullet points

My Rics have white pickguards to protect them when I'm playing with a pick; I mostly don't use the controls and sometimes play them through a Trace Elliot Elf... oops!

 

 

However, I do agree on the techs are not luthiers thing ("My luthier changed the pickups").

[prowla]

9 minutes ago, ped said:

Jad Freer, just because he sounds like someone I’d get really annoyed by. I’m not even sure he’s a person or not but if he was I bet he’d drive either a Tesla, Juke or a VW camper van

 

Teslas and Jukes on the road: I often wish I had an RPG to blast them off the roads.

Also, over the weekend I've three times been stuck behind dullards in Volvos, who probably think they are being safe drivers when they're doing 10mph below the speed limit ("no, it's 'up to' 60mph") (actually, one of them was doing 35 in the 60 road and then sped up to 37 at the next 30 sign - go figure).

[ped]

4 minutes ago, prowla said:

 

Teslas and Jukes on the road: I often wish I had an RPG to blast them off the roads.

Also, over the weekend I've three times been stuck behind dullards in Volvos, who probably think they are being safe drivers when they're doing 10mph below the speed limit ("no, it's 'up to' 60mph") (actually, one of them was doing 35 in the 60 road and then sped up to 37 at the next 30 sign - go figure).

Yeah we get that a lot around here. Very long road with bits that are 50/60/40 and most people just do the whole thing at 47ish (including the 40)

[SteveXFR]

9 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

People who have two first names, eg Benjamin Sebastian. That gets really confusing when you read their names in a surname first list and then ring them up and call them by their surnames.

 

Thats every redneck woman in the deep south. To make it more simple,  their second first name is nearly always Lynn (Amber-Lynn, Tammy-Lynn, Christi-Lynn etc, etc). I believe there was a whole bit about this in the film Ted

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, prowla said:

My Rics have white pickguards to protect them when I'm playing with a pick; I mostly don't use the controls and sometimes play them through a Trace Elliot Elf... oops!

 

 

However, I do agree on the techs are not luthiers thing ("My luthier changed the pickups").

 

Two of my irrational prejudices right there...

[prowla]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Two of my irrational prejudices right there...

Only two?

I'm disappointed! 🙂

[Jack]

Visually out of place basses and guitars. I was in a pop punk band for about 9 months and I played a sea foam green, maple necked G&L SB2 because that looked great. My replacement (who does an otherwise fantastic job) plays a sunburst jazz with a rosewood board. I wouldn't play my purple Spector in a blues band, I wouldn't play my sunburst scpb in a doom metal band (although that's not as egregious and you arguably could because p basses go with everything).

 

If you only have one or two basses then crack on, but if you have a collection and you bring the Musicman Bongo to an indie rock gig then more fool you. And I should know, because I did and I felt silly doing it. 

 

[Woodinblack]

16 minutes ago, Jack said:

but if you have a collection and you bring the Musicman Bongo to an indie rock gig then more fool you. And I should know, because I did and I felt silly doing it. 

 

I have, I didn't and I would be happy to do it again!