Rich

@2pods but that would involve me a} buying a Liverpool shirt and b} wearing a Liverpool shirt.

Yes. Yes, it does.  

Yes, there's no way I was going to do anything daft with the actual reg number, it's asking for trouble. As I said, it's identical to the old plate apart from the clef instead of the stars and UK instead of GB. I've still got the old plates just in case I need to put them back on in a hurry. I can't see that happening though (he said hopefully). 

I think it's still OK on that part of the plate. It always used to be anyway... I guess I'll find out at the MOT   

The letters and numbers are all the correct font, height, spacing etc. It's exactly the same as the old plate except for the clef in place of the stars.

I didn't go to the extent of an actual personalised number, but my old ones were really scruffy and getting water damaged, and I figured if I can't have my euro stars I'd have this instead  

And yes, I will be replacing that yellow screw with a black one.  

Correction: It's left me feeling bruised and really quite down, and now doubting myself. Was I actually being selfish? Should I just STFU about it?

@Daz39 it was to do with strobe lighting effects at gigs, and the potential health hazards. I said:

"As a concert-goer, there is nothing more frustrating than turning up to an eagerly-anticipated gig only to find a 'warning, strobes will be used' sign at the door. I'm lucky in that I only find them extremely uncomfortable, but for someone with properly photo-sensitive epilepsy they might as well put up a sign that says "Don't bother coming in unless you want to bite your tongue, wet yourself and end up in A&E. Enjoy your journey home, sorry about all the money you've wasted". Why, in this era of the most marvellous available lighting effects, are such flashing lights still used, especially when it is so widely known that they can be extremely dangerous?"

Well. I wasn't expecting wall-to-wall empathy, but some of the hostility was quite unbelievable. Here are some particular highlights. 

• One person, a self proclaimed 'Hobby light designer', said that not only were strobe lights a "must", but that such warning signs should NOT be put outside the venues. He further suggested that people with epilepsy shouldn't be going to certain gigs at all.
• Another said that not being able to tolerate strobes is a matter of "personal taste" -- he doubled down on that position when I pointed out that epilepsy is not a lifestyle choice, and told me to "act like an adult". He also seemed to think that by not liking strobes I was somehow trying to take away his personal freedoms. 
• Yet another said that I was trying to "control what little enjoyment the rest of us get from a great light show" and advised me to "take my sob story elsewhere". He then told me, without a trace of irony, that my "selfishness is beyond belief and disgusting!". 

It's left me feeling bruised and really quite down. 

'dressing room'  yes it is a bit compact and bijou, isn't it! 

Yes can see some, yes. If they're doing anything sensitive they drop off the radar, but there are usually a few to be seen. 

The desktop version shows military aircraft too. The inflight refuelling I watched was a KC-135 tanker topping up an E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. After fuelling, the KC turned for home (an airbase in Holland) and the E-3 just disappeared (presumably turned off its transponder for a secret mission). 

Cool  have a great gig. I left my 'Train To Skaville' t-shirt behind when we played there last November, if they've still got it you're welcome to it if it's your size  

Well, as we already know, the optimum number of basses to own can be expressed as x=n+1, where x is the optimum and n is the number of basses you already own.

I can still get mine done at the treatment room at my local GP surgery. As long as I've been softening it up for a while (e.g. the aforementioned Otex, other softening methods are available) they're quite happy to do it and it costs me £00.00. If I hadn't had success last evening, I'd have been making an appointment.

@GlamBass74 do you have a link plz? I could do with some of those but I've been wary of getting the wrong thing.

So, did you?

I hear you. Still waiting for something that was despatched to me last Wednesday by a "48 hour courier".