Si600

I need some really flat right angle jack suggestions, an I mean really flat, like 5 to 6mm overall height flat, if such things exist.

Hanging Around, Sometimes, No More Heroes, Princess of the Streets, Golden Brown, Something Better Change and for a bit of a change, Mach dich lieber anders tot.

I'm using a TC Electronics Nova Dynamics if that's any help. No longer manufactured unfortunately, but worth looking for SH if you can. IMHO anyway.

I think we killed it, at least, it's not there anymore.

From my impression and I stress that this is only my impression, Germans on the whole are happy with a unified Germany. If we crudely split the country along GDR/DDR lines then there is a sort of underlying resentment, that's not quite the right word but it will have to do, that the GDR has had to pay for the updating* of the DDR, whilst the DDR feel they were ignored by the GDR in that no major companies moved or created jobs in great numbers in the old east. I know people who still refer to the Ossies, so that discrimination is still there. Ossies along with all other eastern Europeans are feckless lazy criminals, when actually they've been ignored by the affluent West. It's going to take a lot of juggling and diplomacy to make it fly, and I for one wouldn't want that job. (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/04/jd-vance-bullying-ukraine-hillbilly-elegy-eastern-europe 7th Paragraph onward specifically) *The Solidaritätzuschlag, the solidarity tax is still being taken to cover that cost, though it has been dipped into for Desert Storm and other bits n bobs. It used to be 7.5%, is now 5.5% and only applies if you earn more than 20K I think.

This has just happened in Germany. The Bundesländer that formed the DDR have overwhelmingly voted for the AfD. The rest of the Bundstag have stated that they won't work with the AfD so those 5 Länder have an officially democratically elected head of state in the Bundestag who no one will work with. They, at the moment, are going to be in permanent opposition rather than having a say. It's beholden to Merz and the SPD to do something to reverse the disenfranchisement of the old DDR that has been going on for the last 30 years, but when and how is anyones guess. That's the perspective of an Englishman living in Germany, BTW, not an expert on German politics.

Nichts auf bassic.de?

https://www.musicradar.com/guitars/would-you-like-to-tune-your-guitar-oh-no-thanks-im-trying-to-give-up-the-tunerette-is-the-healthy-option-for-clapton-and-keef-fans-looking-for-that-cigarette-on-the-headstock-look-and-it-tunes-your-guitar

When did Fender start doing the big under scratchplate routing? Just thinking it may not be a genuine Fender body given the lack of routing. But I'm not a Fender expert by any stretch.

No, I am not buying @Dannygno123's P-Bass to fit in with the look.

I appear to have just joined a Stranglers "Tribute" band.... I was a bit indifferent to the idea initially tbh. I'm aware of them but just the odd song on compilation albums or playlists, but then I started trying to learn the lines. It's given me a whole new appreciation for them and JJ. Are there any decent tutorial/score resources out there for the bass lines? I'm not terribly good with ear learning from record and I like to have something to read along to as I go, in the early stages a least.

Princess of the Streets - Stranglers. It's not terribly complicated and the little runs in it are fun, but it's such a bass driven song there's nowhere to hide if when you fluff it.

Is it as sketchy AF as previously thought?

I can't help with the carnet info, but prebook your Oresund Belt ticket. It makes crossing the bridges a damn sight cheaper than just turning up and crossing them. https://www.oresundsbron.com/en/tickets

Given that he's now talking about pointing Dodge at the Pentagon:""I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education … Then I’m going to go, go to the military. Let’s check the military,” the US president told the host from the rightwing Fox News, adding: “We’re going to find billions, hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud and abuse.”" I'd be terrrified that the two term law may be going in the bin. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/trump-super-bowl-interview