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Yep. I had a grey Twin Selectortone (with KT88 output valves!) for many years. Sold it for a LOT more than I bought it for a few years ago. Still have an AC30 with blue speakers that I can't part with even though my gigging days are long gone. Not to mention a pile of other old amps and guitars...

I used to frequent a US-based musicians forum of old guys my age. I'm a lifelong guitar player and sometime luthier and repairer. We discussed music from the 50s and 60s, guitars and amps etc., and over the 15 years or so I was on there regularly I made some really good friends, so much so that...

You could try https://hummy.tv/forum/ . They are very knowledgeable on custom firmware for Humax boxes. They helped me out when I had a problem with mine.

Not good news for Australia. Their biggest export is coal, closely followed by iron ore, with the lion's share of both going to China. When I was there on business back in the 90s I saw vast open-cast mines where massive drag-line excavators the size of bungalows were shoveling up mind-boggling...

We must be if Stuart Little is doing the jokes.

Ebay used to be great but there are too many scammers on there now, both buying and selling. Such is life; a good thing for many spoiled by a few ars*holes.

I remember asking my Mum why we had to have governments when I was a kid. She said "Go and get the encyclopedia and look up 'anarchy'."

Royal Mail used to be so good. Now they leave my parcels on the doorstep (even when I'm home!) in full view of the road and have the cheek to email me saying they have been delivered. I had a parcel of medication delivered recently that had obviously been opened. Presumably looking for something...

Come on now, don't let's have actual data muddying the equation.

No, I was referring to the suggestion (with lots jumping on the bandwagon subsequently) that the closing of the last coal-fired power station in the UK was going to plunge us all into darkness and dystopian chaos. Coal-fired (and oil-fired) power stations have been shutting down and not replaced...

Some of you gents really need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century.

Where are UK car makers going to buy their steel now the blast furnaces at Port Talbot have been closed down? Another nail in the coffin of the British car industry?

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They have electric points at every bay in most car parks for engine heating in winter so the infrastructure for slow charging is already there.

I haven't checked but I'm guessing there are tax incentives at work there. EV sales in Norway are outstripping petrol ICE (but not diesel) too - ironic really given that their economy is built on oil.

People driving horse-drawn carriages probably felt the same when they saw the first automobiles. That's progress. My daughter loves her company EV and looks on ICE cars as old fashioned. She navigates the world using her phone, be it available chargers, online banking, the heating in her flat...

Really? I'd never have thought... 😛

Of course. And until the BBC whip up the next false 'shortage at the pumps' round of hysteria.

Call me a cynic, and I may be way off base here, but I'm starting to get the faintest suspicion that Yorkieguy isn't 100% behind our new Labour overlords. 😉

Whether or not they can afford them or need them. You can thank the growth of TV advertising, and now all-pervasive social media for that. Edit: oh, and our gullible human nature of course.