whiney posts on other forums

[Col Mustard]

I confess, I do go onto other forums than this. but when I come back here, it seems like a breath of fresh air. I have very little patience for whiney posts by people who buy very expensive and desirable guitars and then find fault with them.

seems like there's nothing to say except, "you idjit..."
so I don't.

 

[iblive]

I refer to that as a I.D.One.Zero.T error.... (ID10T)

 

[Cranky Old Man]

Something that always gives me a chuckle are those guys. You know the kind I'm talking about. The kind that go on and on about how their new guitar is the greatest guitar ev4r, it plays like warm butter, sings like an angel, growls like a panther, how this is the one soulmate that they've looked for all their lives and how it farts rose petals, and...

...then a month later, they put it up for sale because this time they have truly found their true heart's one delight, the greatest guitar ev4r, that plays like warm butter, sings like...

Repeat several times a year.

 

[Biddlin]

Amen . I love each and everyone one of mine, belt rash, tool marks and all !

 

[Cranky Old Man]

That reminds me of another one, similar to what I just posted. Those for sale posts. You know the type. You can find them on internet forums, ebay, etc., anywhere people sell their guitars online.

In the for sale posting, they go on and on about how this is the greatest guitar they've ever played in their life, how "it plays like buttah." For some reason, they always have that exact quote, with that exact spelling: "it plays like buttah."

They go on and on about how they went on the quest for the perfect guitar, how they climbed the highest mountain, swam the deepest ocean, and slew the fiercest dragon just to obtain this perfect guitar that they are now trying to sell.

 

[thinkgreen]

I just like to laugh at treads like that.
I have not much money to indulge in to guitars. So I have to choose wisely. I cherish the guitars I have and feel privileged to own them. Maybe these people sometimes need to love life a little more and be thankful for what they have.

 

[javamagic]

I thought perhaps you were going to complain about the bad grammar, poor spelling and lack of punctuation that is so common these days.

 

[Tony M]

On February 1, 1969 I bought a used SG Custom for $350.00.
I still have it. If I could only keep 1 guitar, there would be
zero time spent on a decision. It would be that one.

It does not play like "buttah". It plays like it has been with me for
almost 44 years now. Sometimes it almost seems to anticipate
what I am looking to do. The guitar is not for sale at any price.

I guess I was lucky. I found "my guitar" fairly
early, unlike those guys that are still looking.

 

[Alex_SG]

Well said Tony. Glad you found "The One" and will never part with it.

 

[mrk]

As a matter of very happy coincidence, my wife ("the one") gave me my favorite guitar ("the one"). I wouldn't part with either for any price.

MRK

 

[dbb]

I have very little patience for whiney posts by people who buy very expensive and desirable guitars and then find fault with them.

Tiny faults? Also these guys are sometimes bitching about set-up, too.

 

[dbb]

The kind that go on and on about how their new guitar is the greatest guitar ev4r, it plays like warm butter, sings like an angel, growls like a panther, how this is the one soulmate that they've looked for all their lives and how it farts rose petals, and...

...then a month later, they put it up for sale because this time they have truly found their true heart's one delight, the greatest guitar ev4r, that plays like warm butter, sings like...

Repeat several times a year.

Do they treat their wives/girlfriends whatever in a similar manner?

 

[dbb]

I thought perhaps you were going to complain about the bad grammar, poor spelling and lack of punctuation that is so common these days.

Bad spelling is hard to justify when the computers all have a spell-check function. Somehow that doesn't seem to matter to a lot of folks.

 

[Biddlin]

Too Air iz Hoomen

Bad spelling is hard to justify when the computers all have a spell-check function. Somehow that doesn't seem to matter to a lot of folks.

:)The grammar is forgivable if the content has any depth . English spelling and grammar are always evolving( I learned to read and write in pastoral N.W. Canada and write in a hybrid of British and American spelling ) and God knows how the poor kids at the cafe I haunt understand my abysmal Spanish . But if one snivels about a streak of finish on the back of one's new Robbie Krieger's headstock,there are some working players here that may thoughtlessly make mocking remarks . I try to be very thoughtful when I do . Biddlin

 

[Tobacco Worm]

Thinking in two languages, it's often a challenge for this old fart to form proper and correct phrases....Doesn't help that the other language is not a written one, and the words are spoken often 180 degrees out from english! So I try to be extra careful to do things right when posting...Now when I get real excited, I break into Lakota and folks around me think I'm "Speaking in Tongues" and start looking for a miracle to occur right then and there!

Maybe I should start stuff like: And that last guitar I got was perfect then in a day it was the worst I ever played. The action rose 2" above the fretboard overnight. Looked like a boomerang with frets....The amp was a sonic delight at the store, then it sounded like geese breaking wind on a muggy day the next day,,,,oh, and the no slip picks I used felt like putty between my fingers and I kept loosing my grip on 'em, then I remembered I had just sneezed! But I really could believe it wasn't buttah...

 

[Col Mustard]

language morphing

I thought perhaps you were going to complain about the bad grammar, poor spelling and lack of punctuation that is so common these days.

That too! Although I don't believe that the English Language is meant to remain static. And I don't think that it would even if some Oxford Scholars meant for it to remain as established. What we call "English' is really a patchwork of languages, created as wave after wave of invasions assaulted the blood soaked merrie auld Isle... Celts invaded and partially conquered "the old people' who are lost in the mists of Avalon... Then bloody Romans invaded and partially conquered the Celts, mixing Latin into the Gaelic... Then Anglo-Saxon barbarians invaded, partially conquered and pillaged the civilized (Romanized) Celts, mixing their language into the stew, and giving it an official name. Angle-land. Then Danes invaded and partially conquered the (now civilized) Anglo-Saxons, and left their marks in the language and the place names of Britain. Then Bloody Normans (who were partially French) invaded and nearly conquered the hodge-podge of bloodlines and language roots we now call Great Britain. And the cauldron is still bubbling as we can tell here in the States by reading about all the immigration issues in the UK. "Double Double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble..." --Wm Shakespeare

and the young people are changing the language as we speak... by using their thumbs to communicate so much. That's were some of the morphing comes from, Texting shorthand IMHO... see what I mean? The young people are creating the world and the language they will pass into the future. Those of us who aspire to 'elder stateman' status need to know when to just get out of the way. Creating the word "imhoe" which means "in my humble opinion," and isn't English as we know it, but say it in conversation and most people will know what you mean. so off they go, leaving us scratching our heads or our backsides in befuddlement and maybe admiration.

Military acronyms are also morphing the language. Tell someone your amp is Foobar and they'll mostly get it, knowing it's verbal shorthand for "F*CKED UP BEYOND ALL RECOGNiTION..." and on and on. spelling in "English' was pretty casual not very long ago, on both sides of the Atlantic.

so that part of the whiney posts doesn't affect me as much as the ignorance and arrogance, neither of which is anything to be proud of. ah me... I try not to sound like some kinda curmudgeon... but I wanted to say how much I like this community because that kind of nonsense has been fairly well contained or disarmed by various members efforts and example. Well done.

 

[Biddlin]

"I break into Lakota and folks around me think I'm "Speaking in Tongues""

With my Dad, it was West Texas German, until he realised that all his kids were becoming bilingual !

Biddlin ;>)/

 

[Col Mustard]

Thinking in two languages, it's often a challenge for this old fart to form proper and correct phrases....Doesn't help that the other language is not a written one, and the words are spoken often 180 degrees out from english! So I try to be extra careful to do things right when posting...Now when I get real excited, I break into Lakota and folks around me think I'm "Speaking in Tongues" and start looking for a miracle to occur right then and there!

Maybe I should start stuff like: And that last guitar I got was perfect then in a day it was the worst I ever played. The action rose 2" above the fretboard overnight. Looked like a boomerang with frets....The amp was a sonic delight at the store, then it sounded like geese breaking wind on a muggy day the next day,,,,oh, and the no slip picks I used felt like putty between my fingers and I kept loosing my grip on 'em, then I remembered I had just sneezed! But I really could believe it wasn't buttah...

Love it! Thinking outside of the Box we call the English language. Many of our traditions from our tribal ancestors have been lost, crushed under this English box. Native Americans are not alone in this. My ancestry goes back to Celtic Ireland and Scotland as well as Saxon England and Germany. So the tribal thing (in me) is a little more distant and was rubbed out a little more vigorously by goons from the castle or the Cathedral. (doesn't matter which). But the sound of a woman's voice singing in Gaelic can bring me to tears that I can't explain. And I wouldn't explain it. don't f*ck with me at times like that, that's fair warning. *grins I'd just deck you with a shilleilagh or a Claymore. Temporary insanity, it's a fine tribal tradition... my berserker ancestors nod approvingly from Valhalla. ...Megwetch...

 

[WavMixer]

Great Guitars...
Some people imagine that they have one...
Some people know that they have one...
I don't wonder anymore.

 

[sgtbeefheart]

Bad spelling is hard to justify when the computers all have a spell-check function. Somehow that doesn't seem to matter to a lot of folks.

i no wot yoo meen i yoosed too get anoid butt ive gave up cairing or id go mad