IBBY IBBY IBBY !!!
Someday you may own a Yammie or Foddy, or a Sterlie !!!
Someday you may own a Yammie or Foddy, or a Sterlie !!!
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I agree.
Nobody actually works "24/7" all the time. Sure, some workers have to pull 24-hour or longer shifts from time to time, especially in a disaster, but everyone has to sleep some time.
Does that make a Dingwall a Dinghy?
Of course 24/7 is never used to refer to someone's work schedule. It is used to refer to a business or corporation's communication hours. It means they have a rotating staff of people able to communicate with you 24/7.
Actually, I've heard several individuals use "24/7" to illustrate their commitment to various endeavors, including work, music, fitness, etc.
I know they're just exaggerating for effect, but I still find it annoying. It's related to the phrases, "I'll sleep when I'm dead," or "I'll rest when I'm dead," which are equally hyperbolic. Nobody's so busy that they never sleep or rest.
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Self-appointment, in a self-righteously indignant manner, of the title “patriot”.
Golly! After reading these posts, I clearly have unacceptable phrases which I need to keep to myself. Oh well...It is what it is...
I must admit I do have one I hear often. When someone points out what they do they say, "I do do that sometimes." Just one "do" is enough...unless you're using the restroom.
I must admit I do have one I hear often. When someone points out what they do they say, "I do do that sometimes." Just one "do" is enough...unless you're using the restroom.
“Go big or go home”.... I mean, not leaving the house and taking naps used to be punishments when I was a kid... now they’re my main goals in life!!
This cracks me up, because this is exactly the one that gets to me the most, except it's the number of people playing bass guitars who want to insist that it's just some weird thing called a "bass," as though a "bass" can exist outside of an instrument category. It can't, unless you're talking about a fish.
You have bass saxophones, you have bass viols, you have bass clarinets, and we play bass guitars.
The fact that many people, including the person who sold you your first one, didn't bother to include the obvious instrument category in the name when you first heard it does not mean your instrument doesn't fall into that category. It is not in a category of its own named only for its playing register. No soprano sax player ever went around yelling at people that his instrument is just "a soprano."
I blame the poor state of music education for this mess, since once-upon-a-time our grade school music classes taught us about different kinds of instruments and the various registers they played in, but it's increasingly exacerbated by people who insist on clinging to this error even though it's been pointed out to them.
Bass guitar
Now, get off my lawn.
Agreed 100%. It's a bass guitar, and it's just silly to get bent out of shape about calling it what it is.
Of course, it's perfectly natural to refer to the instrument casually as a "bass" for short, in exactly the same way that a saxophonist might say that she plays "tenor" or "alto." But you're right, no saxophonist would ever get upset about referring to the instrument by its full and correct name.
If you look back in time (1950s-1960s) the instrument was commonly called the Fender bass, no matter who made it. “Fender bass” continued in common usage long after Carol Kaye published [probably] the first method book that was written specifically for this instrument. They knew they couldn’t use the trademarked name so they called it How to Play the Electric Bass, a name that, surprisingly, stuck.
For who knows what reason, some players insisted on distinguishing the bass version from the more common version of the instrument by refusing to call it a “bass guitar” as though “bass guitar” was somehow demeaning. I am mildly amused that, fifty years down the road, that peccadillo is still a thing.
Call it what you want, just don’t call it late for the downbeat.
For who knows what reason, some players insisted on distinguishing the bass version from the more common version of the instrument by refusing to call it a “bass guitar” as though “bass guitar” was somehow demeaning. I am mildly amused that, fifty years down the road, that peccadillo is still a thing.
Call it what you want, just don’t call it late for the downbeat.
"I know, right?" as a response. How should I know whether you know or not? Prove it either way, somehow.
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I have no love for YOLO, and there are probably about a billion Hindus that would have my back on this one.
Not sure if this happens elsewhere but lately in L.A. a common response to "How are you?" is "Good-good!" Twice. Just like that.
What in the f*#@ is that?
What in the f*#@ is that?
