stingrayPete1977

I don't know what was wrong with a firm pat on the bottom if an employee did a good job, world's gone mad I tell ya.

That's a pretty bass razze, lovely.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1487348822' post='3239218'] I've heard that in the days when electronics manufacturing was still a decent sized industry in the UK, the assembly line tasks mostly employed women, as that was the norm for lighter duty factory work. My mum had a job soldering PCBs for TV sets in her youth. Probably not massively relevant to the discussion, but there you go... [/quote] Yes my mom was a solderer too making missiles of all things, fifty years later she still knows which bit of a soldering iron you hold it by

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1487334479' post='3239048'] That reminds me of when I was in college doing electronics. They were doing some publicity thing with a local news paper and they chose me for the photos to go in the paper. I can't remember what I was working on, but I was using a soldering iron. The photographer didn't like the iron and had me hold a pair of pliers, as though they were a soldering iron, instead. [/quote] At least she has safety glasses on to protect her burnt hand, lol.

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My last three bands have had a female front man

If there's a skills shortage in one area EVERYONE should be encouraged to have a look to see if they fancy it, if not I don't see why it matters.

That's my point, as long as she's allowed to why does it matter?

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1487325163' post='3238911'] That's because they are all fur coat and no knickers. [/quote] Badum tish!

If one is a factory making welded metal products and the other is a telesales business they are unlikely to have staff from similar groups, as long as a middle class girl isn't turned away from applying to be a welder and a hairy arsed bloke is allowed to work in the office I don't have a problem with it, as Skank says making a young girl be a welder just to massage the figures would be wrong.

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1487284186' post='3238722'] With you on that, my ancestors were Breton. Birmingham has less than 60% white middle class population, I guess if we want to get to the statistical norm we need to kick out a lot of people to comply with the required 3%. I wonder if thats why more than 3% of the Great Birmingham run are from ethnic minorities? beats me. [/quote] At the same time my wife grew up near Chetham Hill in Manchester, the cast of a film set there would be a massive mixture with white British Christian possibly not featured certainly not add a main character. A bloke in the Spice Girls wouldn't have worked would it?

I live in a typically growing village, I suppose it has ........ Hang on I have googled this to see if I can find out before making my point, where I live we have hardly any ethnic minorities, if you set a play where I live you would need to have an all white cast. [url="https://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-westmidlands.php?cityid=E34001879"]https://www.citypopu...ityid=E34001879[/url] How is that for an ageing white christian middle class place to live? EDIT to say I am not middle class, Christian and we are not sure about the white bit beyond one generation.

[quote name='Muppet' timestamp='1487252876' post='3238388'] I inadvertently wore a fitbit for the first set once. I got bollocked for it from the band at the break so took it off and put it on my music stand next to my clip on tuner. [/quote] Quite right too, imagine doing that gig for free only to find out after that all the exposure you'd gained was wasted after someone spouted out on face book that the bass player was wearing a watch or something resembling a watch at least! Crazy.

It's like having a face lift but asking the surgeon to try and get you looking as close Keith Richards as possible.

Where do we stand on FitBits?

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I'll let you off then, yes it's too hot sometimes isn't it.

Would it be allowed to wear a watch whilst playing all along the watch tower?

I don't think I'd go as far as saying I'd quit playing but I wouldn't go looking for it right now if it does go down the pan.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1487164793' post='3237677'] Now that is an interesting one. Maybe you should phone in advance. I'm sure that they will take you entirely serious and thank you for being so thorough when coming to the audition process. [/quote] They'd have a f***ing shock when I then turned up in my fur coat and frilly panties but no watch wouldn't they?! I think we should see how many gigs anyone has lost because of wearing a watch compared to wearing no trousers in a pub, lol.

Should I wear a watch for an audition but explain that I won't wear it live or play it safe and just not wear it at all? What if I'm then late for the audition?

http://youtu.be/5G4O5AMSevc

[quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1487156847' post='3237549'] I'd say! [/quote] Has the pendulum swung?

Come on dazza, where's ya hat?!