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How often have you used the alternative power supply? I've used an alternative with no issues. Does the HX FX work with the Diago PSU still? Could the Line 6 PSU be faulty? Or have slipped slightly out of the plug adaptor?

The case would seem to fall at the first hurdle though, as throughout his life he has been celebrating and benefitting from being the world's most famous naked baby. It's one thing being a victim of sexual abuse and concealing it for years, it's another suddenly deciding that the photograph was effectively sexual abuse after flaunting it for decades.

So, as somebody who doesn't think slavery should be celebrated, am I woke? And if so, am I then a bigot? And if I'm woke by not being racist, does that make the anti-wokes racists? I find it all very confusing.

Natural. But the red looks more striking than the blue, which looks nearly as dull as Olympic White (which, let's face it, is White).

Are they both red? For my most recent acquisition, bought a week before my birthday: Me: "You know you asked me what I'd like for my birthday?" Mrs Zero: "Yes" Me: "Could I have forgiveness please?" I really should sell one or two though. It's currently somewhere round the two dozen mark.

Someone else missing that hasn't posted for a few years - @endorka who I think Mrs Zero is FB friended with.

Yebbut the two aren't exactly comparable, as the Corbyn one is not just abuse but libellous. Change "Jew Hating" to "f*cking" and the two are equivalently abusive.

It is the lingua franca, after all.

If we're doing alternative spellings, you should consider "facist" as well.

"Woke" appears to be a term which now encompasses all non-bigots. WTF does "woke culture" mean?

A couple of decades ago there was a Tamworth band called "Rape in yellow", a reference to the vast expanses of rape fields that grew around. Of course, oilseed rape isn't the first thing you think of when you see the name. I don't recall anyone stating that they were offended though.

It's certainly not safe now. Over half of Republican voters still believe that Trump won, and Republican states are busy messing with their electoral rules and officials to make sure the Democrats are locked out of them. Rather the same thing is happening in the UK. Kazakhstan is becoming a role model.

To (approximately) quote Michael Flanders: "The word xenophobia comes from the Greek words phobos, fear or hatred, and xenos, foreigner, stranger, or guest. Hence xenophobia, a fear or hatred of guests".

Good job nobody mentioned the Canadians.

I've gone very lightweight with a GR Bass AT800 combo (under 10kg) but it's not cheap. 500W from the built-in speaker, add another for 800W. Prior to that, Tecamp Puma 900 and Barefaced Big Baby 2, which is still pretty lightweight. A powerful class D amp and decent 1x12 will do for most pub and club gigs IME.

I wondered if it was you that popped up in musicians wanted/available on FB but was playing a 4-string. That explains it.

A complete waster. What about the Log?

I bought a pair of Berg 112s off him many years ago. He was fine to deal with. Strongly opinionated, but that's surely true of a considerable proportion of the BC membership.

After his ban from here, he popped up on Finnbass for a while but went wandering the world or summat - can't consult the Finnbass archives to check though

I thought "tatto my robot" must be a euphonium but gwgl doesn't come up with a meaning (nor for "tattoo my robot").

I put my Hayman together from parts when the Fender Soundhouse had a fire around the same time as Hayman went bust and a load of parts were sold off cheap. Didn't get a pickup guard, didn't see the point. Neither of the Precisions I've owned had ashtrays.

A Hayman 40/40 was my first bass. I part-exchanged it for a Fender Precision, which is the instrument I used for the one and only recording that I played slap on. Then I PXed the Fender for a Warwick.

Funny, I managed to get past just about every audition in the early 80s (and since then) without playing slap. Any that I didn't get past weren't because I didn't play slap.

The Broad Street shop (which I used to look into when I was a schoolboy) got hit by a fire. There was a bit of speculation about that. It moved to Snow Hill (where it was when I bought a P from them, and later PXed it for a Thumb), and years later became Reverb Sounds. Gary, who used to work in the guitar department there, went on to PMT in Birmingham - years ago, I think when he was still at Musical Exchanges, he showed me some photos of the fire damage in the Broad Street shop.

I bought a Carlsbro Stingray guitar amp at the Dale End shop in the late 1970s.