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When did I blame posties, and what makes you think I don't understand how profits work?

Wasn't easy to vote but managed

This is when bifocals or verifocals come handy

Same here, about 6", enough to cause havoc haha

I agree, I don't feel the Christmas without snow is the same. We had a snow 10 days or so before Christmas, then it went from -5 to +12 over night.

I think the snow during Christmas makes a difference

Are you a postie? If you are I had no intention to offend you. I pretty much know how things work. Royal Mail delivering junk mail makes extra income. Still nuisance, bad for environment. I may just keep my recycling bin outside my front door with a sign on. I thought staff enjoyed carrying extra weigh in their bags, good for posture, keeps them fit. Of course I don't think that. Who would like to. Should my argument be directed elsewhere? I don't argue. And I think my point was reasonable. All my important appointment letters were delivered after the actual appointment dates, but for good measure RM loads their staff with unnecessary junk mail rather than filter through mail and deliver important mail. Our new postie is she, the previous was she too. Diligence, I had a chat with her the other day as I happened to be outside. But don't worry matey. I didn't bring up the strikes as I have respect for people, and I understand their needs. Poor you? Well I won't go into a conversation on this one. I hope this satisfies your fiery answers.

This is my point, most of it ends up in a recycling bin the rest in general bin.

Remo drum skins

I've seen people putting no junk mail , flyers or canvassing. If I did one wouldn't that make me a curmudgeon.

I'm aware of that, but it's purely nuisance

Royal mail is incompetent, mail is either not delivered on time, or we get next door neighbour's mail, which I diligently slip through their letter box. I wonder how much of our mail was delivered through someone else's letter box, and was then diligently binned. And the amount of leaflets they put through....I must say our new postie is very polite

Here is my contribution. Drums are Ez Drums, the rest is played and recorded by me. Guitars played with Squier tele into A/B switch. A signal into into Ibanez TS9, Marshall, microphone cheap Behringer. B signal into Focusrite via Amplitube. Two guitars take, hard right , hard left. Live guitar and Amplitube blended to thicken up the sound. Cry baby pedal used during solo. Also , added Acoustic guitar for colour, guitar 1 standard tuning, guitar 2 Nashville tuning. Bass , Squier p bass into Fender Rumble recorded with AKG mic. Attempted singing recorded with SM58, heavily mixed, I used voice correction (it didn`t help haha) mixed and mastered in Ableton

Don't know if it counts but, two pairs of ear plugs. Vic Firth and Concert ear protect. Very useful when drumming or live gigs. And of course a lovely Jackson JS24 dinky guitar from BC.

Who's Bob Dylan?

Like 99% of Rage Against the Machines lyrics. In 2009 BBC asked RATM not swear whilst performing Killing in The Name live but Zack de la Rocha had a different approach.....🤣

I had all my important documents posted through the letter box days after actual appointment dates. This did not help, but luckily the sender's/ originator's common sense prevailed due to postal strikes and phoned me regarding appointmens. If they hadn't it would have had a massive impact on my life. Parcelforce...I have called them several times constructively ranting about their lies of claiming they attempted to deliver when they did not.

I had the same issue with my Sony VAIO laptop, I replaced HD with SSD, I bought a new power cable, noise isolator (after watching YouTube and reading Amazon reviews, utterly useless, went back for refund), shielded guitars, new guitar cable and nothing. two years ago I bought a new gaming PC just for music playing, recording , and all problems disappeared. Problem solved. All I hear is my tinnitus now.

Done

It was a very quiet place

Hi @tridimnaw and welcome. You are in a good place . This is a friendly forum 99% of time. I too dusted off my bass after around 15 years , but don't worry it will soon come back to you.

I can see the point of resting the heel if palm on bridge pick up cover whist playing with the pick, but see having a thumb rest on modern basses useless. I play with fingers 90% of time, and although I owned a bass with a thumb rest above E string I never used it as I pluck closer to bridge than neck.