Does anyone have or has had a Fender Tel FMT HH?

I played on a few years back and liked it (only quickly) and I am looking for a fixed bridge guitar and its high up my list.

Will obviously go and play one again before I decide but wondered if anyone here had any experience.

@MSP its a wealth tax nothing more and nothing less.

I am not sure what my position is on wealth tax if I am honest. I can can see the benefit to help pay for services etc. I however can also see that it could drive wealth out of the country.

As an average member of society you are not losing 10% of the piffling amount you have, you are gaining 10% of the whole pot. Still the vast majority will be owned by the 1%ers as now, but it will look just a little more even.

To use your phraseology, so wrong its almost a lie. The £500 cap per person means that the man in the street won’t get another 10% of the value of the companies, it will get a small share with the government getting the rest.

Want to back that up with some facts?

Pension funds owned 3% of shares in the last ONS figurs. “our” pensions are a spit in the ocean compared to other ownership.

Does not matter it will still be 10% of the value of stocks owned by pensions. Does not matter if that is 3% to 10% or 100% of the total number of stocks its still 10% stolen from the stock portion of your pension.

Correct me if I am wrong?

NOpe – I think thats a bit of futile debate and I wanted this thread to move on. I suggest to you like I did with OOB that you read up on the policy to understand it.

There are multiple ways that the shares to workers can be done. Companies will be able to chose whichever method makes the most sense to them

I have read it and they all end up with 10% of the value of a company removed from the owners of the companies. As we know a lot of companies are effectively owned by pension funds so this would be another raid on pensions funds. Just like the raid by removing the dividend tax credits.

Just give me one way it can be done where the value is not taken from the owners of the company.

This is not a value judgement on if the policy is right or wrong. Just we need to be clear on the maths here.

You have made an assertion without any evidence and to quote Mr Hitchens

“What is asserted without evidence can be refuted without evidence”

This is a massive policy for Labour so its important we all understand the implications.

@tjagain are you ignoring my question because you have realised you are wrong or did you just miss it?

It can be done by a buyback by management,

@tjagain Where would the money for this buyback come from then?

I had a bathroom refit last year.

Has a corner shower cubicle and bath too.

I supplied the shower and flooring.

I came out at about £5.5K

Edited to add I supplied the electric shower, not the tray and cubicle.

I changed gauge of strings and now the intonation is all over the place. Its floyd Rose (Ibanez version) style bridge and I could probably get it acceptable but I am sure someone skilled could do a much better job than I could.

Always good to get a recommendation, I had a look on the website 🙂

Thats really near me then 🙂 I live in Clanfield 🙂

Who do you recommend in Sussex Bikebouy? I am in Hampshire but depending on where it is could be 30mins or 2hrs away 🙂

Has anyone read The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ? I thought it was a great concept, but it left me a bit cold.

I never thought I would have a topbox and a flip front lid either 🙂

Be interested in how you find the suspension on the Z1000SX, I liked everything about it other than felt the suspension was just too hard for anything but super smooth tarmac.

@flange, if I decide to sell the Honda I will let you know. I might just keep it out in Spain with Focused Events though and do add hoc trackdays through the winter in Spain.

@flange Thanks, really pleased with how its turned out.

Got 5 days at Almeria to get it setup and see how I like it.

Trouble is I love the little Honda 650F EJC bike, its brought my riding on no end, worried I won’t actually have as much fun on the Triumph.

A brick built garage is pretty much the way to bring down premiums. Any bike stored outside is seen to be very vulnerable.

What would be really nice is if you could use your bike for jotting around and it would still be there if you nipped into a shop to get something.

I would use my bike more to get around if it was not a major security mission every time you wanted to let it out of your sight.

Doesn’t even matter if its a crap bike, it will still get nicked.

My 765RS track bike build is finished now and its on its way to Spain 🙂

Not somewhere I would suggest for a seasoned ski group, but I think your first idea of La Plagne is ideal for a family with young children.

Very true Weeksy and its the only criticism I can level at it and that its a little bit characterless.

Its a lot of fun once you get going on it and it goes a lot better than it looks 🙂 It deffo surprises a few people especially as its wearing a coffin sized top box on mine 🙂

As you may remember from other posts I am a big Aprilia fan, and what we really need is the 1100 V4 in a Caponord 🙂

If not I will probably buy another XR once this one has a billion miles on it 😀

If you don’t want to go off road. Then have a look at the BMW S1000XR if you want upright, comfy, ability tour two up and fast and fun.

I lived in Val for a bit, one thing to mention is parking is a nightmare. Expect to pay to park for the week in the underground car park or the outdoor car park in Le Daille.

I know this is an old thread but the little strips are only meant for a temporary repair and at reduced speed running. You should really get it plugged from the inside properly.

I really fancy one of the Crafter/Sprinter sized “Sport Homes” with the garage in the back. I do a lot of motorbike trackdays so it would be ideal for that too. As for the transport when you get to destination, if I was on a normal holiday I would get a little scooter to put in the back for nipping around on.

I have a trafic van at the moment that I use as a daily driver too. Only thing that puts me off the Sport Home is I would probably have to have a car as well as they are a bit big for a daily driver.

I wonder if the ECU can be flashed to turn the blipper on then !!! Is it a powerparts option on the base model ?

I am running a HM one on the new 765RS track bike I have built and an IRC one on my V4 Tuono.

Not used the HM one yet but the IRC is no where near as nice as the OEM one on my BMW.

Nothing like new bike day 🙂

Hope you enjoy it, is the 690 fly by wire? Can you retrofit a blipper?

All the reviews I have saw of the press release tests, said it was brilliant.

I have a hankering after a small mild off road capable “Adventure bike”

I really, really like the look of the 790 Adventure, but the Tenere 700 is a lot cheaper and probably 90% as good.

Unlike Weeksy I like the look of the 790 with its ball bag fuel tank 🙂

Any licensed premises has to provide free drinking water.

Cougar, we both should have given up yesterday 🙂 Don’t worry about it.

We have a difference of opinion on the privilege thing, but I bet we agree on the fact that some people have real fears about stuff they should not really have to worry about in this day and age. Sometimes we need to focus on the stuff that makes a difference, rather than the stuff that divides us.

Edited to add

ceept’s post above sums it up for me, stop treating women like helpless victims and they might stop feeling like helpless victims.

Oh good grief.

I know Cougar its ridiculous to think that just because someone does not have the same problem as you, that its at all connected to the problem in the first place. Who would put that forward as an argument, its crazy 🙂

On a more serious note though, does anyone have Chucks number so he we can let him know hes privileged. Once he realises it I am sure he can change his behaviour so that Cougar is no longer scared to go out at night.

That basically is your argument Cougar, you have to contest that surely?

A firestick, or a Fire TV, which is yes a direct competitor (ish) to a Chromecast.

…and who’s ‘privilege’ is that?

Its Chuck Norris privilege of course, and while chuck does not realise he is privileged, Cougars situation is not going to get any better.

There’s plenty of places I wouldn’t go on my own at night.

And no, I’m not trolling. I’m just trying to drive home the point that “mostly safe” is insufficient.

Its only mostly safe for me too, so got nothing to do with Male Privilege.

Where are you going with this Cougar, its not a coherent argument you are putting forward here.

With that in mind, would you be happy to go for a midnight stroll on your own through Moss Side?

If I had too for some reason I would, but that’s not what we are talking about is it. Its just another crap argument isn’t it?

t’s good to hear that it’s not prevalent. I’m sure it’ll be of great comfort to women to know that they’re probably only going to be in danger of being attacked once or twice.

No the chances are they will not be attacked at all cougar, you know that and I know that.

The UK is generally a very safe place, most people don’t get attacked when they go outside. Be that the woods or the high street. Violent crime in the UK is rare, but you know that too. It just does not suit your trolling argument.

Thread summary:

“Some women are afraid to go out alone.”

“Yeah, but they called us names!”

And your point is caller? 🙂

Also its does not even really mean anything in this context, its just a vacuous sound bite. It helps no one and thats one of the real problems women face.

Clearly not but that doesn’t stop someone with privilege not having those issues. The problem is where people don’t understand or see their own privilege.

Rubbish, the problems are the things that create the issues in the first place. Lets look at those rather than pretending Male Privilege has anything to do with it.

yes it’s daft, you’ve got it upside down!

Being racially abused in the street is not ‘a result of privilege’, it is a result of racism.

(and thus no blame should be attached to the average, non-racist, ethnic majority type)

Being able to live your life without fear of racism – that’s the privilege. An advantage that is not accessible to certain people.

(and again, it’s not your ‘fault’ that you might have this privilege. But being able to understand and acknowledge it is useful)

So the issues are not a result of privilege, the privilege does not stop people understanding the issues facing people with these problems. So ergo the whole thing has nothing to do with the privilege. The privilege label is at best irrelevant and at worst alienating.

If the term makes men a bit uncomfortable then it’s probably working, and how those men then deal with that feeling says more about them than anything else.

Thing is I reckon if the term is making you feel uncomfortable you are probably someone who already has some level of empathy. Rather than thinking yeah I should stop making women feel uncomfortable.

Being able to pee standing up is a privilege I am aware of but saying that the fact women can’t is a result of male privilege is daft.