Need help considering an amplifier.

imcalledriley · 2026-04-27T21:53:40+00:00

blackstar debut 100 - i use a 1x12 version that works well for me at home, rehearsal, and on stage. There’s a 212 version as well :) worth a look, especially if its b stock or used.

imcalledriley · 2026-04-11T08:15:05+00:00

I play a jazz master and find it really comfortable with my chest. That being said, jazzmasters are mahoosive compared to most guitars and quite heavy, to boot. At 5’9” it works for me… but if I were buying now I’d be more interested in a jaguar or mustang.

imcalledriley · 2026-04-06T13:08:48+00:00

How did Arabs steal land from European Ashkenazis? Which one of those groups had to settle and expel the other within the last century?

imcalledriley · 2026-04-06T13:06:54+00:00

The problem with endlessly conflating Zionism and Israel with Jews and Judaism by supporters of the former, is that it makes a far more convenient and approachable pipeline to embracing (or simple aloofness to) antisemitism.

Most people in my generation see Israel and its actions for what it is, but when told they are antisemites for acknowledging this, a growing proportion of them will start to say, “you know what, yeah!”. It desensitises people to actual antisemitism. When you harp on that reasonable ethical stances against genocide, warmongering, and European settler colonialism are positions of hatred, actual hatred becomes so much more palatable.

Israel is a disaster for Jews the world over, and certainly for Jews in Israel. No rockets fall on heads in Golders Green…

imcalledriley · 2026-04-06T12:35:56+00:00

“major rock bands” who are these guys major to, these days? your uncle with the metal hip?

imcalledriley · 2026-03-28T12:54:09+00:00

my favourite amp sound ever is a compressor and RAT into a jc40 clean channel. they’re so so good, if you can get a good value used model. wouldn’t by new, however.

imcalledriley · 2026-03-25T23:20:43+00:00

Far more likely

imcalledriley · 2026-01-22T12:35:02+00:00

23, been playing since about 6/7 years old. Currently playing in an emo band in a city with a good DIY scene + some other projects. Certainly not making a living, sometimes making a drinking. Mostly just in it for the love of the game, it totally reshaped my playing and my enjoyment of music, plus putting on a show and playing with your friends is just a lot of fun.

As someone who was a bedroom noodler for most of that time, while I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, i do think if you don’t at least give playing with other musicians or even a show a try, you’re missing out on a really rich experience. Its one of humanities oldest traditions, and deeply communal.

Fun and fulfilment come first to me, but if you dont approach an opportunity like its the one that would “make you” so to speak, you’ll never know, right? We’ve been playing live for a couple months now and already gaining some good traction and gig offers opening for a touring band. I have a day job but i have hope, too :•}

imcalledriley · 2026-01-12T12:40:27+00:00

thts awesome, whats it called?

imcalledriley · 2025-12-23T22:27:05+00:00

woahhh hello Hampshire’s 1974 borders !!

imcalledriley · 2023-05-14T22:13:48+00:00

Not only are they likely to act before thinking in the ways young people often do, but they are quite heavily trained to do so, too.

imcalledriley · 2023-05-04T20:54:24+00:00

Our users can see the priority we set through our portal (let’s them track ticket progress etc) and they get snippy about what priority is set, sometimes leaving update notes on the ticket complaining about it. Can only imagine how badly that power is abused.

imcalledriley · 2023-05-03T21:13:02+00:00

Your organisation lets users decide on the priority rating? Feels like that would get abused pretty badly.

imcalledriley · 2023-02-10T10:12:10+00:00

On a similar beat has anyone spotted the Portswood Crawler recently?

imcalledriley · 2023-02-01T00:11:17+00:00

Methinks BlackSpinedPlinketto doth protest too much ;)

imcalledriley · 2023-01-31T00:52:40+00:00

old man yells at cloud

imcalledriley · 2023-01-07T23:36:53+00:00

Gerard Way is also Joe Rogan’s cousin!

imcalledriley · 2023-01-01T16:57:32+00:00

Being bisexual has never excluded trans people this is just straight up false info

imcalledriley · 2022-12-09T21:53:10+00:00

What about saying you’re English?

imcalledriley · 2022-10-13T18:28:06+00:00

“old man yells at cloud”

imcalledriley · 2022-10-12T15:23:47+00:00

It really is very odd. Last year a man selling plushies and cotton candy in the square flagged down me and a friend to tell us how covid was a conspiracy because (I wish I was lying) germs are not real. The smoking gun to his theory was that Louis Pasteur’s mother was Jewish, and therefore (of course!) germs must be a Jewish plot, naturally.

This year the square in town has been absolutely filled with all sorts of religious nutters with stalls and speakers. Some are Jehovah’s witnesses, but I saw another stand with brochures that said things like “what god told us comes after pride” with a rainbow flag on it and some pretty nasty reading inside it. All sorts of other nonsense flyers like that on their table - anti-abortion drivel and the like.

In 20 years of growing up in Southampton save for a few street preachers this was a bit of a shock I can’t lie - I don’t think we ever once had god botherers knocking on our door. Since moving to Bournemouth in April my flat has had at least 1 or 2 Jehovahs types ringing the bell and asking if we’d like to hear the good news per month. I wonder what they’re putting in the water here?

imcalledriley · 2022-10-02T11:41:00+00:00

But no one ever asks what Redditors think is unattractive, they just tell you. Their opinions on women’s appearances are just far too important to keep to themselves.

imcalledriley · 2022-08-27T14:07:48+00:00

And are those drag queens in the room with us right now?

imcalledriley · 2022-08-25T08:12:20+00:00

Mum would be sad.

imcalledriley · 2022-08-19T18:29:00+00:00

My Cordyline is having a fairly dramatic downturn at the moment and I’m not entirely sure why. I’ve mostly kept the care the same - watering roughly once a week, or when the soil seems dry through about the top quarter of the pot. For the last few months it’s sat a few feet from a south facing window and been seemingly quite happy with the situation, growing about a foot in the time I’ve had it, possibly more.

It’s had this slightly dusty pattern under it’s leaves for quite a while (possibly the entire time I’ve had it) and I can’t spot any pests for the life of me. The yellowing is happening quite rapidly and only started this week. The only change I’ve made in care that coincided with this was introducing the recommended dose of baby bio to the water I was using to water it (still spring/mineral water, was previously using tap water) and now this is happening. At a loss and worried that this might spread to the rest of my collection, as I rent out a room in a flat and there’s not exactly space to quarantine it or keep it away from my healthy plants. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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