Grooverjr

It's odd how experiences with what should be the same service differ so wildly. I use Wise all the time and never have an issue. Sent money to loads of places and only ever had one bounce back, which was not thier fault. Rates are very good, money moves quickly. However, I do have a Wise 'bank' account and transfer directly from that so that makes things much easier. Transferring e.g a thousand pounds with Wise compared to HSBC would be roughly 40 quid cheaper overall as FX is better and fees are lower. Again, this may be because I am a customer. Their CS is decent as well. Someone nicked a card on its way to me (my sister foolishly sent it in the normal post to Mexico, with predictable results) and used it at some dodgy retailer and I got an easy refund. I also made a mess of setting up a transfer before I set up the account and they never got the inward transfer but I explained it via email and they didn't enforce the fine I'd agreed to when signing up. Anyone who needs to send money overseas reasonably regularly, I'd recommend setting up an account, shoving a tenner in it then having it there ready for when you need to do the transfer. Of course, saying this will probably jinx it and the money I'm sending to my mother in law in Boliva will go walkies. 🤞

Best, my custom ACG that looks and feels absolutely amazing and keeps on giving me more and more amazing sounds. It is also the only bass that has given me anything other than a horrible deadness with the Nordymute, which must be the worst purchase: gets in the way, has no adjustability and the rubber smells nasty. Although it was officially a present so maybe it doesn't count, in whichcase it's the Peavey T40. Black and maple, it's my favourite looking bass ever - it's got a real Star Wars Imperial aesthetic to it. I was very excited when it turned up and the neck's amazing - all the joy of a maple P neck but with a flatter fretboard - but I just can't get it to sound right for me whatever one of the gazillion settings I try and the body contouring is all wrong so it digs into my ribs.

Maybe it's Devant-Garde?

I've just done the same thing of finding out about him through an article and going to the album. Very much enjoying it although there are a few duds on there. Blues is an absolute showstopper, though. Maybe the best new thing I have heard this year (new as in new to me and released this year).

For the supermarket or for the German industrial niose? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco_Organisation

I have a real problem with not being able to concentrate on anything if the background music is awful so I can sympathise. I worked at the Pinnacle Records distribution factory after leving uni in 1996. They had Virgin Radio on the speakers. The same 10 dad songs, in the same order, every hour. With mostly the same ads in the middle. I didn't so much mind getting up at 5am and coaxing my 20 year old Cavalier into life in the frost, or the mindlessness of the work, or the terrible pay but that playlist made me want to burn the place down. Rotterdam, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Peaches (not the Stranglers), You're Gorgeous, Everything Must Go were definitely in there and I hate them all with a passion. Luckily I got another job after about a month so I avoided permanent brain damage.

Not sure, but I think Stoner Metal is the best if you want to get a lean-to