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Well, usage is usage, so you still save by not using the electricity you didn't use anyway, the points thing is on top of that. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see what the points haul will be come Jan/Feb next year.

Yes, indeed, I would do this if the switch wasn't so gosh darn inaccessible. I'm just not that flexible, and I'm not that desperate for a few extra pennies that I want to move the fridge freezer for this (it's a tall, all in one unit). Am tempted to try the whole "power cut" approach some time - I don't have a dog, but I could just get off my lazy butt and go for a walk anyway?

Yes, "smart" meters only. Yes, it's proportionalt - it's an obfuscated points scheme - you get octopoints based upon the number of kWh you save. Which converts into money at a rate of 8 points (octopus, get it?) to the penny. For reference, last session we saved 0.68 kWh for which we were awarded 1224 octopoints which means £1.53. You also get little kickbacks of points for going on a run of participation in these saving sessions. In Jan/Feb I cashed in £28.96 off my energy balance from all the savings sessions from last winter. It's not going to make you rich, but it's free money for sitting in the dark for a few disparate hours. Unclear - it might?

The language used is unclear - what is rewarded is a measured reduction of usage, not the absence of usage in its entirety. Reduced usage vis-a-vis what you would normally use in the same time period on average. I've heard of some people going hard core, flipping their main switch off and bogging off to walk the dog, but we just go around turning everything we normally leave on, off (such as the various things we have on charging, like laptops, external speaker, etc.) make sure nothing's left on standby, switch off the cooker at the wall (oh no, no clock, how will we cope?) and delay switching the heating on - gas heating, but the pump uses electricity... Obvs all unnecessary lights. We leave the fridge freezer on and the internet - then just use devices on battery for the hour or whatever. Avoid making tea/coffee/toast etc - just make sure you get a cuppa on before the session starts! You know you've successfully done this because you've made a conscious decision to switch things off that you normally don't think about, or refrain from using them. You're using the torch on your phone to go to the bathroom like it's a power cut ffs

Might be the lighting, but that new bridge looks too "chromey" now against the anodised pickguard. Fully embrace the black and gold and go for gold hardware? It's very in this season...

I don't like haggling/pussyfooting around/foreplay when it comes to buying stuff. Go on then, infer away...

I was imagining the statement that someone with no track record would make a better job of it than a maker of harnesses if you had made the harness in question @KiOgon, as purveyor of the finest harnesses on BC, and it made me chuckle. I think I expressed it a bit too tersely, and now I've probably overexplained it. Humour is hard sometimes. As you were, everyone...

As per the title - anyone had a go of the Markbass MB58R cabs yet? Specifically interested in the 121 Energy and 121 Pure. All thoughts gratefully received.

Although I was indeed referencing the original post, at the risk of causing offence, either, or any. I'm simply referencing the fact that me and Jazz basses do not get along on any level. Yours is at least a bit better because it has one decent pickup, I'll give you that Thanks, yeah I beasted it in one go because I'm quite mad. It was a bit "jousty" around Birmingham but by the time I hit Scotland I only had the occasional lorry for company. I did put an "I got home safe" post in the Bass bash thread

The Inevitable Teaspoons are a cutlerycore band from Aberdeen, Scotland.

LOL, @KiOgon

I have hoped to get money back on every second hand bass I've bought. I guess I'm not a bass player then

It's not wall to wall "Monarch of the Glen" up here, you know...

You'd have to pay me to take it away!

I wouldn't dream of picking up a guitar that doesn't belong to me without asking for permission. If it was unclear who it belongs to, I wouldn't pick it up. Poor show if you think otherwise, in my book.

I make no distinction between home/live. I want all my basses to be simple and reliable and easy to EQ. To that end, I am all about passive these days - I found that I simply do not use the undoubted tonal flexibility that active EQ can offer so it was wasted on me. As a consequence, no batteries mean one less thing to go wrong, but that wasn't the meme-y reason why I ditched the actives.

Careful with that - at soundcheck one time I was absentmindedly noodling the intro to "I Wanna Be Adored" by the Stone Roses. P!shed guy recognised it and was all "YAAAAAAS, I LOVE STONE ROSES!". Sh!t, we don't do that one! Thankfully he was too steamin to remember he'd heard it by the time we started, phew!

Oh, don't get me started. "You do any Pink Floyd?" Oh sure, I'll just trot out this saxophonist and these backing singers along with some weird synths and frickin laser beams that we clearly didn't arrive with and we'll get right on that for you, you f'n moron.

No, it isn't normal behaviour. What a wazzock!

Comical.

Servisol Super 10

Occupational hazard, innit? Sometimes you get some bass nerd wanting to know about your rig/bass in excruciating detail (which is really cool, because I'm a bass nerd also), the next you've got some whizzed up idiot berating you because you didn't play their favourite song, and why don't you know it, and call yourself a band etc. All the while, trying to say "thanks for coming, I need to pack up now..."

Also, we saved £1.53 during our saving session.

Epiphone Jack Casady FTW - the lazy boy's bass. Makes more than enough sound acoustically for solo practice vs. laptop speakers.