DoubleOhStephan

As I said, this isn't removing or reducing standards. The efficiency is made by reducing bureaucracy and all costs associated with that. Its exactly the same principle as your complaint about visas. An increase in red tape (special visas) means increased bureaucracy (to process the paperwork), meaning increased costs and slower turnaround time. Remove the special visas and you instantly reduce the cost of bureaucracy. It may be semantic and I'm sure it's fundamentally flawed, we are talking about predicting the future which is fundamentally flawed concept. I don't think it's anti-globalist, I've been trying to describe a global trade network between the UK, US & Asia.

Now now, we must strive to attack the argument, not the man. Less red tape means increased efficiency, not lower standards. Its another excellent reason why the EU will be too expensive and ultimately collapse, they're too inefficient, so too slow and too expensive. I expect most with diversify, lots are already doing that. Prehaps specialist breeds or something?

They may not. But, the UK economy is a up in there with biggest in the world, they should be able to negotiate far better terms than smaller non EU countries. Their alternative is to buy from the EU, so, assuming the UK is able to sell US goods to cheaper than the EU can sell its goods, the UK economy wins. And Asian made. Because they are the richest countries on the planet. So have the most money. Well, they make some pretty good technology and we are in the digital age, so there's that. As I say, in this version of the future, the UK has left the EU so that's not an option, but also this precedes the inevitable collapse of the EU, so not really the ideal trading partners.

The EU doesn't have a trade agreement with the US. The UK is the first of the EU countries to be in a position to negotiate terms which are better than the current WTO terms. Being first is a clear advantage. This deal will enable the UK to buy US produce far cheaper than the EU are able to. The UK could immediately start trading US produce with non-EU European countries, undercutting the EU. That's another clear advantage. Once other countries start to leave the crumbling bloc, they will immediately need and want to set up deals with the UK, through who they too will gain access to the US produce. And they'll be buying them off the UK for less than from the EU. The EU has no way to compete against this and will collapse.

Prehaps. But this is a known issue so not going to come as any surprise. As long as you're expecting it, you can plan for it.

And you're right not to, any prediction of the future is always highly caveated by the fact that sadly, no one is able to predict the future. The point remains, the EU economy is on the verge going into recession, the US economy has rarely looked stronger, India is exploding and we don't even know what the effect the coronavirus will have on the Chinese economy but it has the potential to seriously arrest their development. That's where the opportunity is, and the UK has first access to it before of all our nearest competitors.

The EU is going to collapse, just look at the state of their economies. Without the UK, Germany and France can't afford to run it, so their economies will tank, which in turn tanks the remaining EU countries left in the bloc. End of EU. Meanwhile, the UK will have already set up trading agreements with the three biggest economies on the planet. Scotland won't leave because they'll have nowhere to go, but also there is no way they would they give up access to these markets.

Seems like a short term problem to me. The bloc will have largely collapsed within ten years rendering EU visas redundant.

Gotta say, it's a bit lovely 😁

Ahh sorry, KioGon is BC member. His looms are somewhat legendary in these parts 😁

You could always buy a standard US jazz and pop a KioGon stacked knob Loom in it. I've put one in a MiM Jazz and it sounds ace (although, I should say it's been modded with a Precision pup, so isn't a traditional jazz)

Also my experience... 🙄

Does anyone set up and share a Spotify or YouTube play list for version control?

Great tip. Our drummer is an ex pro, toured for 15 years etc so had a good ideo of what works live, hadn't thought of covering a live version though.

This is the problem I've encountered in the past and it ultimately broke the band up. Keen to try to avoid that again

@Christine was that agreed from the outset or did it evolve naturally?

So much truth! 😬 So who in the band makes the decision and how?

Interested in hearing how everyone chooses their set list. Is it a general consensus thing? Do you vote? Do you have a BL who had final say? What if someone really hates a particular song? Edit: I should say, I'm in the process of setting up a band so am looking for options. Cheers

That's just taken me back to my early teens and first hearing Metallica - Garage Days Revisited. Absolute monster EP with 5 covers of early metal & punk and their first release with Newstead after Cliff died.

Looks cool, what is it?

This looks really good - "A Tuba to Cuba follows New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they retrace their musical roots from the storied city of jazz to the shores of Cuba and in turn discover a connection that runs much deeper than could have been imagined."

Nice bit of Portishead

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