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

[HeadlessBassist]

23 hours 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

 

Definitely not an 'SSG', then?

[HeadlessBassist]

On 19/09/2025 at 09:01, SimonK said:

If we are talking about finishes, and maybe this is more of a guitar issue, but mismatched tops really get to me. While I understand it is difficult to predict how the stain will take surely it's possible to do better given the price of these things? PRS & Gibson seem to be the main transgressors:

 

 

 

Interesting point in question - if the grain pattern doesn't actually line up, why do they call it "bookmatched"?!

[Geek99]

52 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I guess you're referring to the type in gentleman's special interest films?

Yes

[kwmlondon]

5 hours ago, Terry M. said:

I've yet to hear a bad sound out of it.19mm bridge string spacing too to top it off.

Does it just have a two-band  EQ? Personally, I prefer not having a mid - just works better for me.

[Terry M.]

2 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

Does it just have a two-band  EQ? Personally, I prefer not having a mid - just works better for me.

It does indeed. Yet another reason it followed me home 👍

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

Big key changes.

 

Tonight we will rehearse Boys of Summer. All straightforward except timing is critical with long pauses as a twiddle or two in the bridge.

 

So it's all about tone. We've been debating... singer offered us two choices: A or E (in which case he sings an octave down).

 

Original sounds huge in D# and even E sounds lightweight to me. I tjink A would be worst of all possible options.

 

I want to dig my heels in for E at least.

[Lozz196]

If anything I’d drop to D if the guitarist is finding Eb awkward, as agree upping to E makes it sound a lot lighter.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

If anything I’d drop to D if the guitarist is finding Eb awkward, as agree upping to E makes it sound a lot lighter.

 

Apparently the original was in F#, but they re-recorded it a tone and a half lower, Don Henley would agree!

[Lozz196]

Ah, I suppose as I’ve only ever played along to The Ataris version I thought the original was also Eb. Hot-dang pop-punkers!

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Ah, I suppose as I’ve only ever played along to The Ataris version I thought the original was also Eb. Hot-dang pop-punkers!

 

It is (D#m technically) 

 

We've settled on Bm 😁😁😁

[bnt]

I get annoyed by unnecessary hyphen-

ation in books or articles. My understand-

ing is that it happens when your soft-

ware is set to use paragraph justifi-

cation, so it tries to squeeze a per-

fact number of words in to each para-

graph so that the right margins are ex-

actly level. I sometimes convert art-

icles in to e-books, but never use Just-

ified mode, and don’t care if the right mar-

gins are ragged. I’ll always prefer read-

ability over some arbitrary desire for straight-

ness of margins. 

[Stub Mandrel]

4 minutes ago, bnt said:

I get annoyed by unnecessary hyphen-

ation in books or articles. My understand-

ing is that it happens when your soft-

ware is set to use paragraph justifi-

cation, so it tries to squeeze a per-

fact number of words in to each para-

graph so that the right margins are ex-

actly level. I sometimes convert art-

icles in to e-books, but never use Just-

ified mode, and don’t care if the right mar-

gins are ragged. I’ll always prefer read-

ability over some arbitrary desire for straight-

ness of margins. 

 

It's more sophisticated than that. Letter and word spacing are increased up to a limit, beyond which longer words are hyphenated. 

[tauzero]

6 hours ago, bnt said:

I get annoyed by unnecessary hyphen-

ation in books or articles. My understand-

ing is that it happens when your soft-

ware is set to use paragraph justifi-

cation, so it tries to squeeze a per-

fact number of words in to each para-

graph so that the right margins are ex-

actly level. I sometimes convert art-

icles in to e-books, but never use Just-

ified mode, and don’t care if the right mar-

gins are ragged. I’ll always prefer read-

ability over some arbitrary desire for straight-

ness of margins. 

 

I remember reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time and something about it seemed odd, and I realised it was the first book I'd read with ragged right justification.

[RhythmJunky]

19 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I remember reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time and something about it seemed odd, and I realised it was the first book I'd read with ragged right justification.

 

It wasn't the only thing odd about that book. 😀

 

I was an avid fan of it when I was a teenager. I remember the TV series coming out. Am I right in thinking it'd been a radio series first ? I seem to recall surreptitiously listening to it under the bedcovers. 

 

 

[Lozz196]

It was on the radio in the 70s, I never listened to it but my best mate at school loved it.

[Stub Mandrel]

The first episode I heard was wherecthe Golgafrinchans arrived on Earth. The Captain was in a bath and autumn caused a run on the leaf-currency.

 

I was lying in the endless sun with other scouts listening to it on a portable radio. 

[prowla]

2 hours ago, RhythmJunky said:

 

It wasn't the only thing odd about that book. 😀

 

I was an avid fan of it when I was a teenager. I remember the TV series coming out. Am I right in thinking it'd been a radio series first ? I seem to recall surreptitiously listening to it under the bedcovers. 

 

 

Yep - radio first. 
All the diodes down my left side are aching. 

[tauzero]

12 hours ago, RhythmJunky said:

 

It wasn't the only thing odd about that book. 😀

 

I was an avid fan of it when I was a teenager. I remember the TV series coming out. Am I right in thinking it'd been a radio series first ? I seem to recall surreptitiously listening to it under the bedcovers. 

 

Radio series (since repeated), then book, then TV series, and eventually a terrible film. There is a book of the radio scripts available too, there are five books in the original trilogy, and there's a quite poor sixth book by Eoin Colfer with an accompanying not terribly good radio series.

[Jack]

33 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

... there are five books in the original trilogy,... 

How very on brand.