Rich

Yup, and '0 bids' is how it'll stay, at that price.

But this is how he always sounds to me

Surely if you're a manager, it's more like...

To compensate for their very very tiny willies.

I design railway signalling. I've been in the rail industry since 1983, originally with British Rail in Reading where I started off in the S&T design office and then spent four wonderful years as a mechanical design draughtsman (engineering drawing was my first love), back in pre-CAD days when it was still all 0.5mm click-pencils and Rotring pens. Absolutely and utterly loved it. Unfortunately, BR decided to listen to some management consultants who told them that they could lose a load of staff, and I was one of them... I spent a year out of the industry as a draughtsman with a quarry equipment design company, and then moved to Swindon. Re-joined the rail industry by starting work with the Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. in Chippenham, this time as a signalling designer. Mainly writing data for the newer computerised systems, but also involved with older relay-driven stuff and even some mechanical. I spent 14 years with them, working on a wide variety of projects for the UK and overseas, and was lucky enough to see some of the world... Portugal, Hong Kong, Slovenia, Japan, and quite a few months in Indonesia. Had some great times on those overseas trips... we worked bloody hard (my longest ever working week was 109 hours) and we played hard too. What happened in Jakarta stayed in Jakarta Left Wes in 2003 rather than be permanently transferred to an LUL contract (metro signalling does not appeal to me at all, in the slightest) and joined Mott MacDonald in Bristol for 4 years. Enjoyed the work, but unfortunately MM were a very small fish compared to Wes and the work dried up. Luckily I was headhunted by Wes (or Invensys as they had become by this time) and rejoined in 2007, and have been there ever since. Invensys were bought by Siemens a few years back, so now I work for Ze Chermans. They are good people to work for, I have to say, good Ts & Cs and as much training as I could wish for. But I have grown to dislike the UK rail industry -- years ago I was proud to be a railwayman and would defend it to the death in an argument, but not these days. More often than not, it embarrasses and angers me. Far too much political bullpoo.

Excellent. Wishing you the very best o' british 👍

You know you're in trouble if this happens during Simple Minds' 'Waterfront'... Seriously though... yes, this has happened to me with the ska band. I remember Too Much Pressure going completely off-piste one night, for no apparent reason

If it was a Gibson fence, the top 6" would keep falling off.

This was all the comment you needed really, the rest was superfluous

Right now I'm more worried about my Italian holiday in June.

If you want a fretless with a crisp slap attack, then I reckon a slap plate at the end of the neck is the way to go (as mentioned by uk_lefty above).

Remarkably, not everyone shares your opinion of Ms Guðmundsdóttir

4'33"

There is no prosecution, just personal choice

That was quick

Genius

For those of you who have just joined the thread, here is a quick summary of the story so far: "I really don't like Aja. It's crap." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not." "Yes it is." "No it's not. Steely Dan are brilliant." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." "No they aren't." "Yes they are." (cont'd p.94)

Well, we appear to have drifted back into general Br*x*t territory again. The visa subject appears to have been comprehensively covered and is starting to repeat itself a bit. With that in mind, I think we can draw a line under it.

My basses are quite happy in their wardrobe BassDrobe©, but if I was to hang them on the wall I'd definitely do the single-plank method.

"Ah, it might look like a Trace Elliot 4x10, but it's actually a suitcase... Errm, honest..."

I had a gorgeous Flamboyant headed 5-string for a while. All walnut, Bart pups and Schack eq with piezo bridge, blue side LEDs. Very distinctive mouse logo on the headstock. I sold it and really shouldn't have. Can't afford to buy it back but would love to know where it is. Sorry for the hijack

One look at the average age of the big audiences drawn by instrumental 'jazz-ish' bands such as Vulfpeck and Snarky Puppy will show that the cats are definitely back. Jazz has, I think, a bright future.

If I'd quoted all the off topic posts, mine would have been 2 screens long. I did say it was a general 'you' and not just you.

Agricultural policy has got nothing to do with visa requirements for performing artists. Please can you (and this is a broad 'you', not just an individual) stick to the subject in question. If the thread becomes a general B-word argument it will be closed.