Newfoundfreedom

Gorgeous looking bass. Very well done. 👌

I've never heard that saying before in my life.

Cool. I look forward to seeing the progress. Cheers.

Interesting. I look forward to seeing this one. Drilling and fitting an extra set of machine heads seems easy enough, as is cutting a new nut. But where are you sourcing an 8 string bridge? Are they really available?

Sixer next. 😉

One possible bonus (or not, depending on how you look at it) is that after this, karaoke is pretty much dead. No way are people going to be sharing microphones with spitting drunks from now on. So when live entertainment does eventually return, it might mean more venues hiring actual musicians instead of cheap karaoke nights.

You can use Google translate on your phone. Click on the camera icon on translate, point the camera at the document, and hey presto, it will translate in front of your eyes. 😉

I can read it, but I don't necessarily know what it means. If you know what I mean.

The pandemic isn't coming over here taking our jobs! Oh...........wait..........

Yup. Brexit was a brilliant idea and Covid will all be over and done with by May. There's optimistic, and there's just plain delusional.

Nope. "Normal" is gone. I said that almost from the start of this thing. We will adapt, things will eventually move on one way or another. But life before and life learning to live with Covid, will be two very different worlds.

That sounds like it could be a really good idea. 🤔

Here's a short clip of a video my cousin posted on Facebook in August last year, taken in Liverpool during one of the easings from lockdown. I'll say no more. Screenrecorder-2021-01-22-14-36-19-123(0).mp4

I get that all the time coming the other way. It shows as being stuck in another country somewhere, then shows up at the door. Just a gap somewhere in the tracking procedure I presume. I've never had anything not turn up when it said.

Not the footage I saw. Most I'd say we're in their 30's and 40's.

Yup. I totally agree. Creating a bottle neck by forcing all the pubs to close at the same time was total lunacy.

I think there are pubs, and there are pubs. I've seen pictures and videos (from people I actually know, not click bait) of city centre pubs and whole streets absolutely heaving in-between lockdown with people drinking and partying, and not giving two s##ts about any kind of distancing.

Yup, and yet these people were encouraged to vote for something about which they had absolutely no clue of the ramifications. I find it difficult to find sympathy for those now being stung with charges simply because they were too stupid or too lazy to consider the consequences of their actions. Whilst those who voted for it with their eyes open knowing full well what was likely to happen have absolutely no right to complain. They got exactly what they voted for. Those who didn't vote for it on the other hand, have my full sympathy.

I think we'll be lucky to see any meaningful gigs before May next year, let alone this year. I can't see how this year is going to be anything other than another write off. By the time enough people have been vaccinated to make any difference, (if even enough people take up the vaccine to begin with) it's going to be towards the end of the year. Then I can see a slow and tentative rollout early into next year. With a couple of false starts as figures peak a couple of times as things initially start to open up again. I hate to be a naysayer, but I honestly don't see any outcome other than this. I guess time will tell.

Indeed. I've now sadly stopped buying anything from the UK.

That's a whole extra digit more than I'd pay for any bass. I could probably stretch to a set of strings.

Wow! I've gone right off them.

No idea what they cost. I can't even find one for sale.