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

[Jackroadkill]

3 minutes ago, p4ul said:

You had me at "oikish malevolence"

 

I've made a career from it.

[Stub Mandrel]

6 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

Playing a B string may give you the same notes as down-tuning, granted, but in no way whatsoever does it give you the groove, swagger or oikish malevolence that down-tuning until your strings rattle does; you're right, they just don't get it at all. 

 

Tonight I suggested we repeat the delicate ballad with harmonies that shares our band name as a more energetic encore.

 

I demonstrated what it  could be like by activating my octaver, brassmaster and mojo mojo simultaneously. 

 

Boy I got some swagger, enough to make your average death metal fan cry.

 

I convinced the band it was a good idea.

[tauzero]

8 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

Playing a B string may give you the same notes as down-tuning, granted, but in no way whatsoever does it give you the groove, swagger or oikish malevolence that down-tuning until your strings rattle does; you're right, they just don't get it at all. 

 

I've got a D-Tuner on the B string of my Sei 6-string (so maybe it should be an A-Tuner). Can I join your groove, swagger, and oikish malevolence club?

[kwmlondon]

14 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

Playing a B string may give you the same notes as down-tuning, granted, but in no way whatsoever does it give you the groove, swagger or oikish malevolence that down-tuning until your strings rattle does; you're right, they just don't get it at all. 

Detaining a Stingray instantly makes you play RATM basslines and strike very unwise poses.

[LeftyJ]

20 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

Detaining a Stingray instantly makes you play RATM basslines and strike very unwise poses.

 

Can confirm.

(I'm assuming autocorrect messed up the word "Detuning" here  - putting a Stingray in drop D definitely made me play RATM)

[Jack]

46 minutes ago, kwmlondon said:

Detaining a Stingray instantly makes you play RATM basslines and strike very unwise poses.

Edited Friday at 09:19 by Jack

[kwmlondon]

21 minutes ago, LeftyJ said:

 

Can confirm.

(I'm assuming autocorrect messed up the word "Detuning" here  - putting a Stingray in drop D definitely made me play RATM)

Autocorrect does not know about detuning a bass.

[Jackroadkill]

11 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Tonight I suggested we repeat the delicate ballad with harmonies that shares our band name as a more energetic encore.

 

I demonstrated what it  could be like by activating my octaver, brassmaster and mojo mojo simultaneously. 

 

Boy I got some swagger, enough to make your average death metal fan cry.

 

I convinced the band it was a good idea.

 

Gather here, ye converted, and weep!

 

10 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I've got a D-Tuner on the B string of my Sei 6-string (so maybe it should be an A-Tuner). Can I join your groove, swagger, and oikish malevolence club?

 

Even though we've never met I kind of assumed that you might enjoy a little oikishness, so yes, of course.

 

3 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

Detaining a Stingray instantly makes you play RATM basslines and strike very unwise poses.

 

It's an inevitability.

 

2 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

Autocorrect does not know about detuning a bass.

 

 

It's obviously not 'ard enough.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I don't know whether this is irrational, but where most people I've discussed this with tend to rate Japanese Fenders as second only to USA Fenders, I rate modern Mexico-made Fenders (eg vintera, JMJ mustang) higher than Japan-made ones. Having owned several of both, I'm not keen on the non-standard metric hardware of CIJ/MIJ, and the electronic components (no-name mini pots, flimsy output sockets) don't inspire confidence so I always replace them.

[petecarlton]

So that's why he wears shorts!

[tauzero]

6 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I don't know whether this is irrational, but where most people I've discussed this with tend to rate Japanese Fenders as second only to USA Fenders, I rate modern Mexico-made Fenders (eg vintera, JMJ mustang) higher than Japan-made ones. Having owned several of both, I'm not keen on the non-standard metric hardware of CIJ/MIJ, and the electronic components (no-name mini pots, flimsy output sockets) don't inspire confidence so I always replace them.

 

Non-standard by whose standards? The primitives of the USA? As this is an entirely rational prejudice I suppose it shouldn't be in here, but metric is a far superior measuring system to imperial (and which imperial are you using as the standard?), and the UK has been metric for 60 years, so why the f*ck do people still want o use imperial?

 

I will make certain exemptions - tyres, loudspeakers, and televisions have become standardised as measured in inches. Nothing else should be. I'm just off to play my 865mm scale bass.

[prowla]

11 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I don't know whether this is irrational, but where most people I've discussed this with tend to rate Japanese Fenders as second only to USA Fenders, I rate modern Mexico-made Fenders (eg vintera, JMJ mustang) higher than Japan-made ones. Having owned several of both, I'm not keen on the non-standard metric hardware of CIJ/MIJ, and the electronic components (no-name mini pots, flimsy output sockets) don't inspire confidence so I always replace them.

I've got some very good MIM Fenders.

No Japanese ones though, but I'm not sure that the factories they came from were pushing out the world's finest instruments at the time; mostly midrange stuff.

[bnt]

I really do not like a warm toilet seat. If I have to use a public toilet, I like to use some tissue wet with cold water to wipe the seat. All to maintain the illusion that someone else’s bum wasn’t just on the same seat.

[Leonard Smalls]

Journalists seem to have Tourette's Syndrome...

I was watching BBC Breakfast yesterday while doing my ever-lengthening stretching routine (it's got to be done!), and for some reason one of the presenters was in Downing Street (why? what will that accomplish?) when he said "we have here our political correspondent Ooglie (could be!) Zefferman", and sure enough, there he was. So they started with the usual wild speculation when in the background David Lammy could be seen sauntering towards No.10. Mr Zefferman was in the middle of a sentence to Presenter-Man when he broke off, shouted to Mr Lammy across the road "Mr Lammy, how long has Keir Starmer got left as Prime Mincer?" and immediately continued with his interview.

Lammy, as one would expect, completely ignored him.

Now this isn't just Zefferman, it's reporters in general of all stripes. They shout at their intended target as soon as they're in eye-shot, and never get an answer. It's a complete waste of time, and annoying for anyone who hasn't got this affliction.

 

[Woodinblack]

5 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

and for some reason one of the presenters was in Downing Street (why? what will that accomplish?)

 

 

Actually one of my peeves there - "Fred Smith got stabbed yesterday in Biggleswade high street, we now go to our reporter standing in the street in Biggleswade' - "Hi, Im reporter, and I am standing in a street in Biggleswade where yesterday someone was stabbed, somewhere down there". Why did they need to be there? "Big change in government policy, going to our reporter live on the roof near parliament' - "Hi, yes, I am standing on the roof of a building in the cold to tell you something that happened in one of the rooms near here".

[Leonard Smalls]

1 minute ago, Woodinblack said:

one of my peeves there

Or even worse, when they're waiting for something to happen, the whole channel has programmes cancelled while a news anchor says "from our correspondent at... What's happening there?" and correspondent says "we're expecting that X or Y might happen, and here's the building it might happen in, and there may be some people in there who it will happen to or will do the happening".

Then it's back to anchor who calls up an expert to do some vaguely informed speculating on whether the thing is going to happen. This is repeated until News can no longer justify taking over the channel for no good reason*. And meanwhile, we're all missing Bargain Hunt!

 

*when I worked for Auntie Beeb, News were incredibly arrogant - they felt that all the other programmes were just filler between news. I'm sure that's true of all news organisations!

[SteveXFR]

Im sure they just make stuff up. Any time they quote an anonymous source or "insiders tell us" that just means theyre making it up. 

And then there's the shouting a question that they know the target would never answer and do it at the same time as a dozen other journalists are shouting equally pointless questions just so they can say "Mr Bottomflaps has refused to comment about the situation involving the Chancellor and a hamster"

[tegs07]

Even with 24 hour rolling news muppets the stories break first on social media anyway. Some one will already have filmed it and posted it on toktik or instascam with whatever interpretation they wish to convey.

[SteveXFR]

Its not really news anymore. Its all opinion reporting. You can have two different outlets reporting the same story with the same facts and while one portrays it as a great thing, the other portrays it as utter failure. I don't want opinion, just fact me and fact me hard. There was better reporting on Not The Nine o'clock News