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

[prowla]

10 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Coincidence to be honest. But I liked it and sometimes find fewer limiting - especially lack of a top E. 

If you look at Yes songs, they often seem to be crafted to fit the Ric fretboard. 
It used to bug me, but actually I never want to go that high o a bass.

If I needed it I’d get a 5 or 6 string to add the extra (or a doubleneck or Stick).

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, prowla said:

Do you mean not enough frets?

 

 

Yes, not enough. I know the reason but it just feels a bit odd 

[prowla]

11 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Yes, not enough. I know the reason but it just feels a bit odd 

I get a bit dizzy at high altitudes.

[AndyTravis]

Cars with silly exhausts…

 

Sounds like they’re broken.

 

we have an industrial estate nearby and the local The Fast And The Furious tribute act met up last night…🙄

[prowla]

5 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Cars with silly exhausts…

 

Sounds like they’re broken.

 

we have an industrial estate nearby and the local The Fast And The Furious tribute act met up last night…🙄

 

Yep - there's one or two of those 'tards who drive along my road.

[PaulThePlug]

Waste-Gate w**kers...

[tauzero]

On 24/10/2025 at 17:27, Stub Mandrel said:

For thirty years, aside from my fretless, I only had 24-fret basses. How on earth did I survive?

 

Maybe you had the good taste not to slap.

[Stub Mandrel]

19 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Maybe you had the good taste not to slap.

 

I could barely slap back then. Never had any issues with fretboard length.

 

My Fender Performer was designed to meet the needs of 80s players, including slap. It has 24 frets and close string spacing.

[Woodinblack]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

My Fender Performer was designed to meet the needs of 80s players, including slap. It has 24 frets and close string spacing.

 

and a little ridge for cocaine!

[petecarlton]

On 24/10/2025 at 23:38, SimonK said:

better than breaking my whirlwind cables that are getting so expensive you can almost buy a bass for the same price!

Don't they have a lifetime guarantee?  Or is that just for wear and tear?

[petecarlton]

6 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Cars with silly exhausts…

 

Sounds like they’re broken.

 

we have an industrial estate nearby and the local The Fast And The Furious tribute act met up last night…🙄

I was in Nottingham city centre the night before last and it seemed that every third car - mostly small hatchbacks - had an over-excited exhaust.  Pretty daft, as they were reduced to about 5mph over the speed bumps by the tram track!  

[KingBollock]

4 minutes ago, petecarlton said:

I was in Nottingham city centre the night before last and it seemed that every third car - mostly small hatchbacks - had an over-excited exhaust.  Pretty daft, as they were reduced to about 5mph over the speed bumps by the tram track!  

That sounds like my youngest brother. He’s mad about cars and loves all that boy racer crap. He thinks he’s a brilliant driver, but he just shouldn’t be allowed near a motorised vehicle…

 

For his 16th birthday my parents bought him a scooter, a proper oldschool chicken chaser type thing, not one of those little electric things you get now. He promptly wrote it off by crashing it into the back of a parked car.

Later, once he learned to drive and got himself a car, he managed to crash it into a bridge. But my favourite was the time he drove through a bus station (that you’re not allowed to drive through), and managed to park it IN a kebab shop, having jumped up a curb and gone straight through the front window of the shop.

 

He’s a professional driver now…

[Lozz196]

And a queue jumper, going by the above

[StingRayBoy42]

Anyone who plays (or prefers) the single version of 'Heroes' by Derek Bowie (or the horrible version of 'I am the Resurrection' that's on the (laughably named) Complete Stone Roses) gets put in the stocks, then beaten, then tarred & feathered, then Hung, drawn & qaurtered, then their remains are fed to rabid dogs and the dogs' poop gets burnt.