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There is bound to be a reaction to the political elite which have been self-serving and eroded liberties in the name of some greater good; we're seeing it across European countries too. The yanks just went for the nuclear option. But then again what was their choice really, given the candidates in front of them. From our perspective this side of the pond, neither Obama nor Biden were particularly our besties either.

That's the trouble with the Maples.

Trump and Poo-tin (as he pronounces it) do seem to be in a race to the bottom.

Yep - sometimes it’s a struggle to separate the wheat from the chaff. There’s also often an intolerance when people draw different inferences from the same data, typically expressed by berating or typecasting the perceived offender.

There's a difference between data and information.

I don't know - how many did vote because of that?

If by peace you mean surrender, then all he will do is justify war.

As a follow-up, our appeal against the TfL fine has been upheld; in their representation TfL produced 4 pages of falsehoods and concocted rules (they spliced together partial rules to form new wordings) which the adjudicators describe as "verbiage" and which our representation took apart line-by-line. The adjudicators finding includes the following statement: Back to the topic of this thread - the risk is that (i) appointed upholders of the law can and will overstep the mark in attempting to implement an action, and (ii) it can take a lot of time and effort to ensure that an unjust charge is overturned.

Sure - I just find it ironic.

The pictures form part of the description and the logo says "this is a Fender bass"; you can't sell a fake Fender by saying "this is not a Fender" or just not mentioning it at all. So, it was neither a Limelight nor a Fender, but had branding for both. (Another group goes so far as to say they won't even allow sale of parts instruments with genuine Fender necks on them.)

I guess you got the right person to look at it; I’ve stepped away from eBay. Did you report it as a counterfeit Limelight or a counterfeit of a counterfeit of a Fender?

eBay don't care about counterfeits - they wouldn't take my word that something which had "Made in USA" on it and the seller described it as "Made in Japan" was really a counterfeit made in China!

Actually, India is the world's most populous country. Regarding Europe, it's not a country and a number of people don't want it to be. (But we can and do work together, including on defence and other matters.)

Yep - I view the EU as being like a multinational; head office has its mission, never mind the little people.

It had a brief moment in the limelight. 🙂

He would've only needed 4.

The old "it owes me..." assertion.

Years ago Schecter used to do a catalogue of guitar parts you could buy - enough to build a whole instrument. It was great. I think now it's just the name. (Oops - posted at pg. 1, then read @NancyJohnson's post; as I recall they were good quality and not so cheap.)

It's as genuine as the Fender logo on the front of the headstock.

I'm wondering if we could be on the edge of seeing the so-called "free world" we've enjoyed for the past half a century disintegrate.

The bloc system seems to be becoming reestablished and shifting towards 1984: Eurasia: Russia has expansionism into the former USSR territories. Oceania: Across the pond we have the Make America Great Again movement, with the USA aspiring to subsume Canada, Mexico, and Greenland. Eastasia: On the other side of the world we have China ready to move on Taiwan.

Putin's plan is to "reclaim" the territories of the USSR and Make Russia Great Again. I'm not sure what the Russian word for Lebensraum is, but the lessons of history tell us that appeasing expansionism is not a solution. The expectation was that they would stroll into Kiev like Hitler into the Sudetenland and Austria, but that backfired. (Ironically any assertion of a neutral buffer between the USSR and NATO also backfired with Finland and Sweden joining and thereby has created a direct border.) Anything which cedes territory to Russia only pushes the frontier forward for their next move.

Good point - that's why I could never have one of those.