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You're awfully close to me demanding satisfaction in the form of a duel...

Look, if you want me to reduce my order to one third of 6 sets then you're going the right way about doing it!

I'll take two thirds of 3 sets.

I'm in! Looking forward to getting some Asschat.co.ukb strap locks!

Roger at THG Knobs made this truss rod cover for me some years back. He does absolutely exceptional work.

It started as a white envelope... (Done a review, it's a small rant about why the common Gerbil will one day develop thumbs and take over as the dominant species.)

It's a close battle between you and me sir! One day I will gather all the pictures up of my basses past and present and post something similar, Basschat may buckle under the weight of so many photos though! 13 of those basses in your pictures I have owned or still own!

Sorry, that was a rather ranty post! Didn't quite mean for it to come off that ranty! 😁

@Brook_fan, where else can you sell an item with a reach as broad as reverb or eBay for less that 3.5% or even 5%? Bass Direct and The Gallery charge 20%. Cash Converters? Good luck, they'll offer you 50% of the price of the last one that sold via eBay, failing that they offer 25% of RRP. If you don't like the fees, don't use the service and don't sell your gear! These services need to pay for their platforms, employees and services, they're not free and you don't need to use them if you don't want to!

That's because it just wasn't offensive enough!

strangely we got stopped twice by the Bulgarian Police, I'm almost certain it's because we had a rent-a-car and they figured we'd be easy to extort a 'fine' out of.

That's pretty much always the case! I've had many a debate over the years with many a person about these kind of things and frankly, if you're being brutally honest, it all boils down to the fact that humans as a species are inherently terrible! There is no denying that the majority of living things on this planet would be FAR better off if we didn't exist. Where's Thanos when you need him!

Now that this has all been cleared up, does anyone dare share an offensive joke? 😂

The world wouldn't turn if everything was neutral. It would also be exceptionally boring. Neutrality is a different point entirely to treating everyone with respect. The latter I absolutely agree with, but neutrality is not something I agree with. Some like beige, some like radical bold colours. There's nothing wrong with either. Some are career driven and seek to earn as much as they can, some are more than content in life without having career goals. There's nothing wrong either either.

I'll be openly honest here and say that I generally find offensive humour much funnier that PG humour. I suspect everyone is probably not in a dissimilar boat, whether they choose to admit it or not! What people will say out loud, and the opinions they voice in public are seldom the same as the true person that they are.

Balls to 'this day and age'. That I find offensive! To submit to the current culture of everything must be neutral and even is an utterly impossible goal. Life is not even, equal or neutral, to try and insist it should be is setting yourself up to fail as life will never be this peachy walk through the park where everyone is exactly equal to the next person. I long for an age were the thought of race, gender, personal preferences etc. aren't even a consideration anymore, where you could be trans, straight, black, male, blue, unspecified and be looked upon in the same light as the next person, with no judgement. BUT I do not long for the day where everything is forced neutrality. I have my interest, they may not be your interests, but I have the right to be able to access content that appeals to my interest. We are not all the same, we like different things, life is a beautiful tie-dye of different appetites, just because someone chooses to be trans doesn't mean we can't still read a book where the love interest is male/female. Nor does it mean that I (as a man in a male/female relationship) should de-value another book written where the relationship portrayed is based on a different paradigm. To grey everything out would be a crying shame and totally the wrong way to celebrate our differences.

My wife (or should I say my non-specific gender life partner) just doesn't care any more! There's 28 'keeper' guitars/basses in the house at the moment and frequently there's another few being worked on for re-sale... To quote her directly "Just buy me something pretty and I'll forget about the 'new' guitar". Ours is a partnership of compromise! 😁 We are folk of different strokes, differences should be celebrated and shared, not chastised and forced into neutral pigeon holes for fear of offence. I get offended on a daily basis by many things, we all do, thats life! If I live a life with never experiencing offence, I wouldn't be who I am today. Embrace offence!!!

But that's not the guys life... He's writing from his experience so it's contextually correct. That's akin to saying that all romance novels written thus forth must be gender neutral for fear of offending someone, the result would be no-one would ever buy a romance novel again as no one, bar a very small (but no less important!) slice of society, would identity with the content. Tailoring everything to neutrality is not the right way to go in my opinion.

Just to throw my 2 cents in... I don't disagree with @Silvia Bluejay, but, at the same time free speech comes with the price of sometimes not liking what is said. Humour is also hugely subjective... and in the current climate not a soul here would admit to finding blackface funny, yet I absolutely guarantee that most of you have laughed at it in the past (League Of Gentlemen, Always Aunny, Mighty Boosh to name a few). I feel that we are sinking ever closer to a society that will be permanently walking on eggshells. Anyone is free to be offended, but to live in a world where no one is ever offended would be absolutely terrible as it would literally mean no one could do anything as with 7,000,000,000 people out there, you can guarantee that someone will alwaya be able to find offence in what you do and say!

@Silvia Bluejay It has wood on it... it counts! Looks fantastic!

Love that etched look, very striking! @Silvia Bluejay, can you share a picture of the whole instrument.

Got myself into a photography mood... Here are a few more I've just taken of some of the flock.

This guy: