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

[RhythmJunky]

11 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Classic rock radio stations who play "all the classic hits from the 60's, 70's and 80's"

All of those stations have around a dozen songs they play on repeat and all of them have the same dozen songs. There are hundreds of songs they could play that fit their description but nope, they're all playing that same dozen songs over and over again only broken up by adverts for funeral plans, over 60's cruises and incontinence pants because they know their listeners aren't young.

 

They know that all their listeners have reached the age that by the time they've played a dozen songs, we've forgotten what the first one was anyway. Buying any more than a dozen would just be a waste of money.

 

Now what were we talking about again ? 

[SteveXFR]

3 hours ago, snorkie635 said:

But would people shell out money to buy that music?

 

Every year I go to a progressive metal festival along with 9,999 other weirdos who can headbang perfectly in time to constantly changing time signatures. Im positive 95% play at least one instrument. 

There's definitely a market for prog music made for musicians. 

[KingBollock]

14 hours ago, lozkerr said:

White Egg Terror might have some mileage as a band name...

Made me think of a couple of songs by the utterly bonkers and amazing Oaf: The Terrors, and Eggbound.

 

https://oafmusic.bandcamp.com/album/birth-school-oaf-death

[KingBollock]

Sorry, double post.

Edited 14 hours ago by KingBollock

[musicbassman]

Celebrities who applaud themselves on quiz shows, or on chat shows when they are introduced.

 

Seems to be more and more common.

 

I mean, where the hell did this ultimate expression of vanity first become acceptable ???

 

Rant over. Happy New Year everyone.

[petecarlton]

New Year.

[ASW]

I've not read all of the posts, but the vast majority of them seem to be about things people do not like rather than prejudices. The definition of a prejudice is "opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience." 

 

Here's mine. Bass players have poor reading comprehension ...🫣

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by ASW

[bass_dinger]

Sliced Ham tastes better in a sandwich when it is all crumpled and rumpled up, rather than laid flat.

 

   

[bass_dinger]

19 hours ago, RhythmJunky said:

Classic rock radio stations who play "all the classic hits from the 60's, 70's and 80's"

 

"Classic rock radio stations play all 60 classic hits for people in their 70's and 80's"

 

Fixed it for you . . . .  

 

[Leonard Smalls]

Talking of irrational prejudices, I remember talking to my Mrs about someone or other on't telly (can't remember who).

We both said we didn't like her for some unfathomable reason - we couldn't work out what it was until my Mrs said "she's got an annoying chin!". 

And that's what it was!

[tauzero]

Thinking of telly, I have an irrational prejudice against people who comment on TV adverts when I am the only other person in the room. When watching live TV on a channel with adverts (it does happen), I completely ignore the TV during advert breaks, but frequently Mrs Zero (with whom I have been living since Christmas Day 2005[1], so you'd think she knows that I ignore adverts by now) will start going on about the content of an advert that is either showing or has just ended.

 

[1] That's another story

[RhythmJunky]

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

...... Mrs Zero (with whom I have been living since Christmas Day 2005[1] .....

 

[1] That's another story

 

That was an interesting Christmas present. Was she under the tree or wrapped separately ?  

[Chienmortbb]

On 07/08/2025 at 15:34, itu said:

terms "passive" and "active, when they most likely describe only the output of a bass: hi-Z, or lo-

This one I don’t get.

 

[ghostwheel]

10 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

This one I don’t get.

 

@itu might have meant basses without active tone control (that being part of the preamp instead of "cut only" tone control of a P-bass), but merely with a sort of buffer (call it transparent preamp if you will) being described as active (like L-2000 apart from treble boost).

[itu]

Usually only some part of the electronics is battery powered, like the tone stack. Therefore the only "active" part of the system is the tone, while everything else, pickups, vol, and blend is hi-Z. 

 

There are very few systems that are active from pickups to the output. 

 

As an example, systems that have an active mixing instead of plain blend pot are very few: John East, some EMG sets, Noll... 

[Stub Mandrel]

24 minutes ago, itu said:

Usually only some part of the electronics is battery powered, like the tone stack. Therefore the only "active" part of the system is the tone, while everything else, pickups, vol, and blend is hi-Z. 

 

There are very few systems that are active from pickups to the output. 

 

As an example, systems that have an active mixing instead of plain blend pot are very few: John East, some EMG sets, Noll... 

 

From an electronic perspective having preamps in low-z pickups or having low-z passive pickups with an on-board preamp makes no significant difference. 

[ghostwheel]

2 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

From an electronic perspective having preamps in low-z pickups or having low-z passive pickups with an on-board preamp makes no significant difference. 

Depending on circuitry mixing the signals it could. 

On the other hand, even L-2000 should be allowed to be called active because of its preamp's ability to shape the tone when the treble booster is switched on.