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QUESTION: What crazy arguments occur in your other hobbies?

I thought of wine right away re: pure-ism. The whole "natural" wine ethos drives me crazy. What is "un-natural" wine . . . ?
I mean... carbonic maceration, maybe?
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ooh! I know! I know!!

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Come to think of it -- along these lines, back in the day, we'd often combine two favorite hobbies: juvenile delinquency and fishing.
This was sometimes involved, e.g.,

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Knitting, double point needles or circular. Bamboo, birch, or carbon fibre, aluminum, steel needles. Environmentally friendly yarn or synthetic. These are just friendly differences nothing like audio.
 
wit' 'n' wit'-out in Philly
 
I believe that pineapple on pizza is a killing offense. I mean rope, tree, horse.

LOL.

I literally just finished ordering a Hawaiian pizza with pineapple for delivery on Uber eats, swiped back to this thread and saw your post.

I write this with the bravery of distance :)

And Chicago-style tomato pie is not pizza.

Dammit, not on my watch! Love Chicago style pizza!
 
As a saxophonist, everything from mouthpiece to reed… I had one of my bell joints soldered at the bottom of my Tenor to increase possible resonance of the whole instrument. Hell, some folk even swapped goosenecks looking for just the right…

And that’s nothing compared to when flautists argued about the best head joint and lip plate…

Yes, many jokes were made about what tube a flute player blew on…

And then, to top it all off, are the bassoon and oboe players. Making reeds for themselves is akin to satanic ritual and sorcery!
 
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Any guitarists here? Care to explain whether trimming your strings at the pegs affects the way you play? :p
 
I didn't say it isn't good (I'm a Lou fan), but it's NOT PIZZA.


Reported to Moderation. May God have mercy on your black, withered soul.
There is not one pixel of that reply not worthy of being hexed with pigs blood and pineapple juice and a generous smear of red sauce and melted mozzarella!

:p

I take my ham and pineapple pizza with added bacon and a Hawaiian / Polynesian Bbq sauce! Perhaps with some pickled jalepeno, too!!!

*drools a bit down my shirt
 
Sewing machines invite the same level and kind of discussion as amplifiers and DACs.

Including: the fact that sewing hobbiests are getting old and dying off, leaving retail stores in bankruptcy.

From the earliest days, manufacturers sold their machines under many brands or badges.

Manufacturing moved from the US and Europe, first to Japan, then to China. A few companies own all the brand names.

There are insane discussions of every aspect of quality.
 
In bicycling, frame material. Steel, al, carbon, ti. People hate some materials, love others.

A few voices will point out that design can make a supposedly stiff material compliant, and vice versa.

Very much mirrors driver material "debates" in hifi.
 
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