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

[p4ul]

"UK Doctors Hate this"
"40,000 UK home have this heater"
"The inventor is a 20 year old jet engine technician"

Using Farm vehicles to get your kids to school

5 year old tiktokers who play Jaco licks better than Jaco when he was 5

[bnt]

2 hours ago, p4ul said:

"UK Doctors Hate this"
"40,000 UK home have this heater"
"The inventor is a 20 year old jet engine technician"

Using Farm vehicles to get your kids to school

5 year old tiktokers who play Jaco licks better than Jaco when he was 5

Thing is … hating that 💩 is entirely rational! 

[SteveXFR]

Celebrities who are famous for being famous and nothing else. Ive had the misfortune of meeting a few and my daughter met several when she worked in a posh restaurant. What a bunch of entitled butt holes. They expect everyone to know them and worship their talentless, cosmeticaly enhanced air headed wonder.

[prowla]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

Celebrities who are famous for being famous and nothing else. Ive had the misfortune of meeting a few and my daughter met several when she worked in a posh restaurant. What a bunch of entitled butt holes. They expect everyone to know them and worship their talentless, cosmeticaly enhanced air headed wonder.

Sounds perfectly rational to me.

 

Oh, and bloody "influencers"!

[SteveXFR]

14 hours ago, prowla said:

Sounds perfectly rational to me.

 

Oh, and bloody "influencers"!

 

I still don't know what an influencer is

[Osiris]

2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I still don't know what an influencer is

 

As far as I can tell, they err... inform those people who lack the ability to form their own opinions what to think and believe. Think of them a bit like a gen Z version of Joseph Goebbels only with somewhat more inclusive agenda. 

[Lozz196]

My Mums friends granddaughter does this, she gets sent let’s say a coffee machine and has to extol its virtues on various social media forums, essentially influencing peoples minds/choices. Gets paid a staggering amount to do it as well.

[petecarlton]

30 minutes ago, Osiris said:

a bit like a gen Z version of Joseph Goebbels only with somewhat more inclusive agenda

Really?

Edited November 22, 2025 by petecarlton

[Woodinblack]

3 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I still don't know what an influencer is

 

Someone who does an advert without saying they are doing an advert.

[SteveXFR]

5 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Someone who does an advert without saying they are doing an advert.

 

You mean like every to Scott Devine picks up a Fender or his mate, Ian with a Spector?

[Jack]

6 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Someone who does an advert without saying they are doing an advert.

This is the only thing that YouTube gets right. You have to disclose if you're being paid to shill something. Other social media sites either have looser policies or don't enforce the ones they do have.

 

Both my wife (who's into witchy stuff) and her sister (who's a piercer) have been approached multiple times for sponsored posts by companies and said no every time. We do have a friend (a female warhammer player) who started saying yes to offers. Oh to be a gorgeous goth woman like those three. Meanwhile I'd happily lie about anything for 50p but as an ugly bloke my options for 'collabs' (shudder) are somewhat more limited. 

 

I'm joking, as business owners they work really hard and are at the top of their games, they deserve all the success they are getting. God knows we're not retiring on my salary. 

Edited November 22, 2025 by Jack

[Geek99]

7 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

My Mums friends granddaughter does this, she gets sent let’s say a coffee machine and has to extol its virtues on various social media forums, essentially influencing peoples minds/choices. Gets paid a staggering amount to do it as well.

I’m in the wrong business 

all I need now is to become female, young and passably pretty with at least average presentational skills and I’ve got it made 

💰

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

 

You mean like every to Scott Devine picks up a Fender or his mate, Ian with a Spector?

 

Are they though? Ian isn't on the spector featured artists lists (I notice that guy pratt is, and I have only seen him once play a spector, its normally his pink fender). Scott has a signature overwater. Also both of them are already working for his company and it is quite clear they are working for that.

[SteveXFR]

3 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Are they though? Ian isn't on the spector featured artists lists (I notice that guy pratt is, and I have only seen him once play a spector, its normally his pink fender). Scott has a signature overwater. Also both of them are already working for his company and it is quite clear they are working for that.

 

Ian did a series of videos promoting Spectors and then did a few videos about Spector players for SBL and spent quite a bit of time talking about how amazing the Spector tone is.

Scott regularly talks about how amazing Fenders are, especially precision basses.

[prowla]

3 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

You mean like every to Scott Devine picks up a Fender or his mate, Ian with a Spector?

But he said that the Rickenbacker is the best bass. 

[prowla]

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Are they though? Ian isn't on the spector featured artists lists (I notice that guy pratt is, and I have only seen him once play a spector, its normally his pink fender). Scott has a signature overwater. Also both of them are already working for his company and it is quite clear they are working for that.

I’ve seen Guy Pratt with his Spector. 
And his pink Fender. 

[kwmlondon]

11 minutes ago, prowla said:

I’ve seen Guy Pratt with his Spector. 
And his pink Fender. 

He played a Spector on Madonna’s Like A Prayer so… I mean… in terms of big hits!

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

Ian did a series of videos promoting Spectors and then did a few videos about Spector players for SBL and spent quite a bit of time talking about how amazing the Spector tone is.

 

Well, yes, he likes them. He also did videos on the top tracks done with a wal, and the last video of him was songs recorded on the rickenbacker

 

[tauzero]

On 22/11/2025 at 08:11, SteveXFR said:

 

I still don't know what an influencer is

 

Someone you've never heard of who appears in a TV programme with "Celebrity" in the title.

[tauzero]

On 22/11/2025 at 18:08, Geek99 said:

I’m in the wrong business 

all I need now is to identify as female, young and passably pretty with at least average presentational skills and I’ve got it made 

💰

 

FTFY

[Dad3353]

32 minutes ago, tauzero said:

FTFY

 

Cue H.J.Freaks..? 

[p4ul]

Busking (not buskers, but the idea of busking fills me with an irrational dread.

Stages, venues, pubs, studios no problem but busking 😱😱😱😱 and I need to do some as I'm skint)

Edited November 24, 2025 by p4ul

[kwmlondon]

20 hours ago, p4ul said:

Busking (not buskers, but the idea of busking fills me with an irrational dread.

Stages, venues, pubs, studios no problem but busking 😱😱😱😱 and I need to do some as I'm skint)

Good luck!

[SimonK]

21 hours ago, p4ul said:

Busking (not buskers, but the idea of busking fills me with an irrational dread.

Stages, venues, pubs, studios no problem but busking 😱😱😱😱 and I need to do some as I'm skint)

 

I busked between the ages of 16 and about 20, earning loads more than many of my friends working in shops etc. We actually used it as much for practicing as a band as well so figured better to get paid to practice than not! For me it was perhaps the only time in my life where being a musician made economic sense. It's been almost thirty years since I last did this, but I suspect with the decline of cash it may have become less lucrative.

[tegs07]

I have heard really positive things about this:

 

https://buskersbern.ch/en