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

[Shaggy]

10 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

As a biker, the same goes for motorbikes. They are machines, they may have some character but they do not need a name. 

I used to be in a Jaguar car owners group. One lady referred to her Jag as her growler. I suggested she might want to look up what growler can also mean. She never called it that again. 

 

I must be naïve, as I've only ever known "growler" as slang for a pork pie.....

[SteveXFR]

24 minutes ago, Shaggy said:

 

I must be naïve, as I've only ever known "growler" as slang for a pork pie.....

 

Also slang for the lady garden. Not a word I'd choose to use myself. 

[RhythmJunky]

49 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Also slang for the lady garden. Not a word I'd choose to use myself. 

I'll never be able to eat another growler....er...I mean....pork pie...for as long as I live without thinking about that...

[lozkerr]

2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Also slang for the lady garden. Not a word I'd choose to use myself. 

Nor me, even though I have one. And I suspect female membership of this is a bit thin on the ground:

 

http://thegrowlergroup.org.uk/

 

Quite SFW, in case you were wondering.

 

[MichaelDean]

2 minutes ago, lozkerr said:

Nor me, even though I have one. And I suspect female membership of this is a bit thin on the ground:

 

http://thegrowlergroup.org.uk/

 

Quite SFW, in case you were wondering.

 

What were you Googling when you found that? 😂

Edited September 15 by MichaelDean

[lozkerr]

Just now, MichaelDean said:

What were you Googling when you found that? 😂

I used to be a railway modeller and I'd heard of the Growler Group long before now. Sorry!

[TimR]

There is no official character named "Growler" in the Thomas the Tank Engine series; however, the term "Growler" is sometimes used by fans to describe the sounds a diesel engine makes or in unofficial fan creations, such as the "Growler the Goods Diesel" fan character found on platforms like DeviantArt.  

 

google AI. 🤣

[prowla]

https://www.growlerstore.co.uk/collections/glass-beer-growlers

[bnt]

^ beat me to it. (Wait ... what?)

[Steve Browning]

Another thread reminds me of two. White guys calling each other 'man' or referring to someone as a 'cat'.

 

Actually, add 'dude' to that list. 

[petecarlton]

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

White guys calling each other 'man'

Not around in the early 70s then!

[kwmlondon]

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

Another thread reminds me of two. White guys calling each other 'man' or referring to someone as a 'cat'.

 

Actually, add 'dude' to that list. 

Cat? Hey daddy-o where all the hip cats at?

[casapete]

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

Actually, add 'dude' to that list. 

Absolutely - when did this start? Only had this said to me on a few occasions, and each time

by either a young person or ( even worse ) someone nearer my age who thought they were

still ‘hip’. 

[SteveXFR]

I used to work with an aussie who just called everyone by the C word. "Hey, do you c**ts want to come to the pub. Im meeting a bunch of c**it's to watch some c**t sing some old s**t" 

Translation- "Would you gentlemen care to join me at the hostelry to spend time with my family and I as we enjoy a fine singer performing the classics?"

Edited September 16 by SteveXFR

[Grooverjr]

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

Another thread reminds me of two. White guys calling each other 'man' or referring to someone as a 'cat'.

 

Actually, add 'dude' to that list. 

So very much this. SBL (which I like overall) is awful for it, with Scott the main culprit although the absolute worst is a reggae mini course which is excruciating. Old white bloke playing bass with a Jamaican (from memory) drummer and dropping the "Ya man" like someone from a 1980s comedy sketch show with blackface and one of those dreadlock hats on. It's not even a particularly informative course. Literally any of the Donstrumental YouTube videos has so much more value in a tenth of the time. 

 

[Steve Browning]

11 minutes ago, petecarlton said:

Not around in the early 70s then!

Of course I was. It's always seemed ridicuous to me. Not entirely sure what point you make here?

[petecarlton]

8 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

Of course I was. It's always seemed ridicuous to me. Not entirely sure what point you make here?

Us "heads" called each other "man" all the time.

 

Till we grew up.

[Terry M.]

1 hour ago, casapete said:

Absolutely - when did this start? Only had this said to me on a few occasions, and each time

by either a young person or ( even worse ) someone nearer my age who thought they were

still ‘hip’. 

Late 1800s apparently. 

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, casapete said:

Absolutely - when did this start? Only had this said to me on a few occasions, and each time

by either a young person or ( even worse ) someone nearer my age who thought they were

still ‘hip’. 

 

Sub Zero (29) litters his speech with it. I remember it being in vogue in the 70s, along with flares. I'd rather have the flares.

[Leonard Smalls]

1 hour ago, petecarlton said:

Us "heads" called each other "man" all the time.

I lived with a bunch of Boro-lads for about 4 years - all that "was us fookin wentin or fookin gannin man" sort of rubbed off on me and I occasionally tag it on the end of a sentence.

It's not maaan, though!

[Terry M.]

On 09/09/2025 at 21:56, Marvin said:

White pickguards.

Gold pickguards 

Bass Direct have two used 5 string Maruszczyk basses @£950 each currently. Guess which two colours each pickguard is? 🤣

[asingardenof]

On 16/09/2025 at 16:44, Leonard Smalls said:

I lived with a bunch of Boro-lads for about 4 years - all that "was us fookin wentin or fookin gannin man" sort of rubbed off on me and I occasionally tag it on the end of a sentence.

It's not maaan, though!

Man alive man!

[MichaelDean]

Those fades from the bottom to the top. Really don't understand why anyone would think this looks good. 

 

[iamtheelvy]

1 hour ago, MichaelDean said:

Those fades from the bottom to the top. Really don't understand why anyone would think this looks good. 

 

Not sure that the fade is the main reason why this bass looks iffy…

[Stub Mandrel]

3 hours ago, MichaelDean said:

Those fades from the bottom to the top. Really don't understand why anyone would think this looks good. 

 

 

And yet... it does.