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I love them, cheap as possible. Olympia titanium strings? Made in Sweden. EBS titanium strings? Made in Sweden. What are the chances...? Cost? EBS - £24 Olympia - £8 Nuff said.

[url="http://www.epiphone.com/News/Features/Features/2011/Epiphone-and-Tobias-Team-Up-to-Bring-You-The-Toby.aspx"]http://www.epiphone....u-The-Toby.aspx[/url] But as a budget range of instruments.

I'm bumping this thread. The amount of errors is getting overwhelming. Ped and I need some extra help given Ben doesn't have the time to put into it. I know people have suggested names above but if you could confirm that they can deal with debugging settings and databases, I'd be grateful. Alternatively drop me a PM.

Sorry to hear you and others are still having issues Barney. Its not clear whether the forum is actually responsible for how your browser functions from what you've described. I realised it was happening when you were accessing the forum but have you checked whether all your software is up to date?

No mention of phone tapping though. Outrageous.

OK thanks for your participation everyone. I'm going to close the poll. Although the votes in favour of the reputation system across two choices were marginally ahead, it was a fairly even result. I'm not sure that the poll has demonstrated much apart from clarifying how opinion is so divided over the topic. So I guess the prudent thing to do would be to act conservatively and deactivate the rep system.

My experience agrees with him. Not even grooving helped me though.

It's the Moussad. They keep picking on us.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1322155946' post='1447380'] I've tried and tried, but I just can't use any kind of visual aid to help me remember music. Don't know why. [/quote] I've found stress affects my ability to retain information. Experience that allows you to focus on the differences between the format of songs (instead of memorising the song in its entirety) before focussing on the detail (eg. phrasings at particular points) also helps.

I think the term 'talent' needs further definition in the OP. There's an old adage about 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. I'd tend to agree. I was described as 'talented' at drawing from a fairly young age. I don't think I was talented at all. I just enjoyed doing it and developed the skill. I started off from a position of not being able to draw at all, just like everyone else. Drawing helped me express a very vivid childhood imagination in a very tangible way. That was the reward for me as I guess it is for most kids. The only difference was that I spent more time doing it than other kids. The "hard work" seems more like play if its enjoyable and rewarding. Generally I believe perceptions of whether someone is talented just underlie a lack of appreciation about the time and effort its taken to get to the point where it looks easy. However. There is one exception. [url="https://plus.google.com/u/0/102321373525880560392/posts/UDSrT2F2DZA#102321373525880560392/posts/UDSrT2F2DZA"]https://plus.google.com/u/0/102321373525880560392/posts/UDSrT2F2DZA#102321373525880560392/posts/UDSrT2F2DZA[/url]

There's no synth bass in the intro, could you be clearer?

Nice post Bluejay

About 1.35 litres. I can fit three songs in there among all the other baggage.

I used Chrome with no problems at all. Have you run all the updates for it?

OK so 30 more votes in the last 24 hours. Looks like it might be tailing off a little...has everyone who wanted to vote done so?

One can be right and unpopular. This is democracy in action.

Me too. Would have been a pure lefty were it not for a drum teacher who got me to play on a right handed kit and screwed me right up. I could play rhythms right handed but leading fills across the toms was a mess. Playing bass is much simpler, but feel and consistency needs extra work. I used to dismiss Mark Kings tricks as being OK for a right hander but that he's a lefty too much left me feeling like my place was on a 5 string... I do everything...well everything but one left handed. Am a total left footer as well.

It's at times like this when I feel torn between contributing to the sillyness and risk undermining the poll or being boring and talking about self policing. In the past I've said we avoid self policing but actually we do self police. The mods have all been members at some point - apart from Ped who is a bit french anyway so doesn't count. (I typed that because he's reading this post at the moment). What I believe self policing refers to is a moderator-free forum which doesn't work. The reason is that if you have a mod-free forum, there's no clear basis for one member to pick another up on something that has been said. Yes, the occasional comment is helpful especially where consensus is created as a result. That's great if its in the interests of the forum. However cries of 'you're oversensitive, grow a thicker skin' can often be countered by 'you're immature, grow up'. Who's right or wrong and how is that affected by context? Also consensus isn't generated on a consistent basis in a mod-free forum and SOME form of heirarchy amongst members is formed anyway eg. length of time on the forum, number of posts, technical expertise on a topic etc. None of these status related aspects relate to emotional maturity and how well a member can act in the interests of the forum. Sometimes a member will do that and its great but typically some other members become self appointed simply by being more confrontational than others. Confrontation too frequently leads to conflict and a conflict-based heirarchy is not conducive to a positive experience on the forum. We've seen some particularly status conscious members in the past clutch at these status related aspects like a drowning man clutching at straws. That's why we did away with post counts under people's names for a while and that's why Dood has over 8 or 9 million posts. It cuts out the status-conscious crap and lets the mods get on with their jobs. Discreet, I'd love to see any examples you know of a happy, friendly, open and moderator free forum. Honestly. I've never seen one. Members often comment how friendly Basschat is and, to be frank, that's purely because we have a fantastic moderating team. Each moderators job is to think of the interests forum in sorting out issues. They have a clear mandate from Ped, I and the other mods to do their role and they support each other. It's a fantastic system that works really well and avoids things getting personal. I can't think of a better way to do it than the way we have now.

I suggest we keep it going for the rest of the week.

Post it, I'd have a Sterling 5 over an SR5 given a choice...

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' timestamp='1321760293' post='1442828'] BC members should be allowed to like their own posts as long as they click using their left hand after making it numb by sitting on it. [/quote] LMAO Quotes thread. That is all.

So far there are marginally more votes in favour of the system than against it...interesting.