Which phrase annoys you the most?

[Relayer71]

Best bass I've ever played, but selling it to fund another bass.

This one irritates me as well. There's nothing wrong with mentioning a negative point about a bass, especially if it's totally subjective. And, to be fair (probably another phrase that irritates, haha), maybe you're selling it to obtain a dream bass or something you think is better, but then don't praise it to high heaven because then I wonder if you're lying to sell the bass or covering something up (like it neck-dives so much the headstock hits the ground).

We're a bunch of cranky old men (and women!), are we not? (Even the young'uns!)

 

[bassfuser]

Came for the poll, stayed for the replies.
Phrases that annoy me most are used in classified ads for used gear, like "used only 3 times", or "brand new strings"...ugh...

The one that annoys me the most for used/old gear is "Vintage". Okay if it's a classic but some people will say something is vintage when it's really an old piece of crap.

 

[bassfuser]

Referring to musicians as "Cats".

 

[FilterFunk]

"Sounds amazing!"

It's a cheap, halfway-decent, run-of-the-mill overdrive. Even taking subjectivity and individual rigs into account, that pedal does not sound "amazing."

 

[Son of Wobble]

Referring to musicians as "Cats".

Agree, although I make an exception if they're real gone.

 

[FilterFunk]

Agree, although I make an exception if they're real gone.

Yes, but was listening to them or playing with them a gas, or a stone groove, or right on time, or did it really cook?

 

[TheLowDown33]

Some of these responses are hysterical, for both reasons of genuine comedy and sheer ridiculousness. I think the one that gets me the most is when I read something (usually amps/pedals/electronics, but strings and basses get it too) with the descriptor of "warm, vintage tone". It's practically chumming the waters for the geriatric side of talkbass, and to me reads as X piece of equipment has limited frequency response and probably not enough presence for anything other than thumping Jamerson lines. There's nothing wrong with wanting a classic sound, or playing older music but that particular description just irks me.

 

[Son of Wobble]

Then read it that way!!!!!!!

 

[Son of Wobble]

Yes, but was listening to them or playing with them a gas, or a stone groove, or right on time, or did it really cook?

Your post is fire

(likewise won't age well)

 

[Playbyear]

Agree, although I make an exception if they're real gone.

"That'll flat git it"

 

[Son of Wobble]

"That'll flat git it"

You stumped me, had to look that one up!
I know "real gone" from Elvis's Sun Session recordings, so I guess both expressions have a rockabilly origin.

 

[Son of Wobble]

This one was annoying and thankfully disappeared from common parlance

 

[Son of Wobble]

It just occurred to me that we could improve these scintillating discussions with a little exercise befitting our age bracket

 

[JackyOranges]

What are carrots?

 

[Groove Doctor]

“I could care less”.

It should be “I couldn’t care less”

(....unless of course they’re trying to be ironic, but reading the rest of their comment clearly demonstrates irony eludes them. Oh, the irony).

 

[Son of Wobble]

Rolling OG style

"Take that, old @Peteyboy "

 

[Son of Wobble]

HERE IS MY OG SELF-PORTRAIT

 

[andare]

That’s going to make using certain languages really difficult.

Ich habe eine Gitarre und sie ist rot.

Literally: I have a guitar and she is red. If I said, “Ich habe ein Gitarre und es ist rot” that would be incorrect, as Gitarre is a feminine noun in German.

Of course, I know you’re talking about English, but there’s a precedent for using genders with inanimate objects.

Most language have genders but obviously we're talking about English here

You wouldn't expect it, but there are other languages besides English. In many of these languages, nouns have a gender, either masculine, feminine or neuter. In French, Dutch and Spanish a musical instrument is considered feminine.
As a Dutch speaker I sometimes dare to make this mistake, when translating to English.

Why assume I only speak English though? I know quite a bit about languages.

 

[Peteyboy]

Rolling OG style

"Take that, old @Peteyboy "

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Some of these old Bocce boys may BE literally OG!

 

[andare]

"Road worn", "relic" and "relicing", and so forth.

I treat my instruments like family treasures. I keep them clean and polished. At most, they might get a few scratches in their time with me; when I sell a bass, I can honestly say it's in great shape. How the hell some people can beat their basses into a dirty, dented, missing paint condition that looks like they were used as a shovel in an archaeological dig, much less why anybody would want to do so deliberately and prematurely, is completely beyond me.

Not everyone cares about their instruments. I wouldn't even put my Squiers on the floor or lean them against a wall yet my friends just put them anywhere. Their fretboards are Petri dishes of mutant DNA. Just awful.