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. 

[tauzero]

9 hours ago, Jack said:

How very on brand. 

 

   

[Shaggy]

On 12/10/2025 at 21:36, Lozz196 said:

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

 

My roommate at Uni (1979) had the entire radio series on cassette - I think we pretty much listened to them back to back whilst indulging in a bit of wacky backy

 

As soon as I saw it mentioned here, I heard the theme music in my head...... 

 

 

 

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, Shaggy said:

As soon as I saw it mentioned here, I heard the theme music in my head...... 

 

Mrs Zero and I used that for our wedding walk down the aisle at the registry office.

[RhythmJunky]

Wow, that theme tune really brought back nights hiding under the sheets as a kid with a small transistor radio pressed to my ear. Terrified (totally unnecessarily) that my mum would come in.

 

One night it was Hitchhiker's guide, the next, Tommy Vance "TV On The Radio" with The Friday Rock Show. 

 

Teenagers today have pr0n. We had Hitchhikers Guide. 

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, RhythmJunky said:

Wow, that theme tune really brought back nights hiding under the sheets as a kid with a small transistor radio pressed to my ear. Terrified (totally unnecessarily) that my mum would come in.

 

One night it was Hitchhiker's guide, the next, Tommy Vance "TV On The Radio" with The Friday Rock Show. 

 

Teenagers today have pr0n. We had Hitchhikers Guide. 

 

 

 

And Dr Snuggles. Watch to the very end 😁

 

 

 

[petecarlton]

18 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

And Dr Snuggles. Watch to the very end 😁

 

 

 

Wow! John Lloyd may want to forget that one!