Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:28 am
Way to go Jared! Can I have a 4003 in Staceyglo?????
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Wow, that must have been some good stuff.
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:32 am
If this thing sells I'm putting every thing i own on ebay right away.
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:57 pm
No fear...although it does look to be in excellent condition, I can't imagine anyone offering nearly $3K for what is basically a run-of-the-mill bass.
Hell, we've seen that MG from Guitar Center ("Rock out like Motorhead") get listed several times because no one will start the bidding at half the price this guy wants.
Obviously didn't do any research before putting up the auction.
Hell, we've seen that MG from Guitar Center ("Rock out like Motorhead") get listed several times because no one will start the bidding at half the price this guy wants.
Obviously didn't do any research before putting up the auction.
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:23 pm
It DOES appear to be a very nice example for the age it is, but the outrageous price and the fact that they're a brand new ebay member with no feedback make it a pass for me....
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:12 pm
... Has all the original hardware ...
... ummmm .... the factory was cost-cutting by deleting the bridge pickup cover, I guess ...
... ummmm .... the factory was cost-cutting by deleting the bridge pickup cover, I guess ...
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:04 pm
I suppose it could be a case of 'Well I tried Honey, but nobody wants it ...', if you get my drift.
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:26 pm
Really a smart plot to refuse the wife's idea of selling the bass, isn't it?
By the way, with all due respect, what's overpricing a bass got to do with smoking "good stuff"? The "illegal" herb does not drive you out of your mind like our governments want us to believe. Alcohol, which is "legal" does the evil, IMHO. Look at all the stupidity, violence and deaths caused by drinking which is "legal" just because politicians and the government can profit more from sales of alcohol.
What's changed today is that our attitudes towards illegal drugs are becoming more sophisticated and discriminating. After thirty years of scientific and medical research into the harmful effects of cannabis, there can be no hidden dangers left to discover. We know that it is plain nonsense to regard cannabis as a performance-enhancing drug, just as it is a myth to think the substance rots the brain or leads inexorably to harder substances.
And despite the anti-dope propaganda that circulates in the US, most people are thankfully well aware that, unlike alcohol and other hard drugs, no great social disaster has befallen the Netherlands, where cannabis has been sold openly in coffee shops for years. It would take a perverse mind to twist the data from Amsterdam and Canada into arguments for continued prohibition.
While no sensible person believes cannabis is totally safe, even some US police chiefs sympathise to decriminalisation of it. Only the politicians still seem irrationally terrified by the idea of any relaxation in the law: they think they can continue in the old way, lumping all drugs together and go on misleading people.
Sorry to get off topic in a long winding manner, folks. I just feel sad whenever seeing the herb given an unjustified bad name and evidences of people being misled and miseducated. Peter, please delete this post if you think it's nonsense.
By the way, with all due respect, what's overpricing a bass got to do with smoking "good stuff"? The "illegal" herb does not drive you out of your mind like our governments want us to believe. Alcohol, which is "legal" does the evil, IMHO. Look at all the stupidity, violence and deaths caused by drinking which is "legal" just because politicians and the government can profit more from sales of alcohol.
What's changed today is that our attitudes towards illegal drugs are becoming more sophisticated and discriminating. After thirty years of scientific and medical research into the harmful effects of cannabis, there can be no hidden dangers left to discover. We know that it is plain nonsense to regard cannabis as a performance-enhancing drug, just as it is a myth to think the substance rots the brain or leads inexorably to harder substances.
And despite the anti-dope propaganda that circulates in the US, most people are thankfully well aware that, unlike alcohol and other hard drugs, no great social disaster has befallen the Netherlands, where cannabis has been sold openly in coffee shops for years. It would take a perverse mind to twist the data from Amsterdam and Canada into arguments for continued prohibition.
While no sensible person believes cannabis is totally safe, even some US police chiefs sympathise to decriminalisation of it. Only the politicians still seem irrationally terrified by the idea of any relaxation in the law: they think they can continue in the old way, lumping all drugs together and go on misleading people.
Sorry to get off topic in a long winding manner, folks. I just feel sad whenever seeing the herb given an unjustified bad name and evidences of people being misled and miseducated. Peter, please delete this post if you think it's nonsense.
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:03 am
Some recent medical studies have shown that cannaboids might have a real useful purpose in treating Alzheimer's Disease.
But general attitudes will take a while to fade. It amazes me that the US Government turns it's back to the potential tax revenue that decriminalized pot could generate, as well as it's insistance that there are no medical uses for it.
But general attitudes will take a while to fade. It amazes me that the US Government turns it's back to the potential tax revenue that decriminalized pot could generate, as well as it's insistance that there are no medical uses for it.
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:38 am
Paul...
Woahh....
I'll say this - a friend of mine who smoked the stuff on and off since he was 12 is now covered with irritable skin syndrome patches, he can't see properly, his sinuses are shot - and... to top it all off, he hears voices!
The Docs have said that the stuff he smoked may have given him some kind of induced schizophrenia - he twiches and is ultra-nervous.
Don't ask me to get technical, but in my opinion anything that f*cks about with ones nervous system is ultra-dangerous... alcohol/weed/whatever.
Woahh....
I'll say this - a friend of mine who smoked the stuff on and off since he was 12 is now covered with irritable skin syndrome patches, he can't see properly, his sinuses are shot - and... to top it all off, he hears voices!
The Docs have said that the stuff he smoked may have given him some kind of induced schizophrenia - he twiches and is ultra-nervous.
Don't ask me to get technical, but in my opinion anything that f*cks about with ones nervous system is ultra-dangerous... alcohol/weed/whatever.
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:05 am
Wow! So, Paul...were you high when you wrote that?
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:09 am
That must have been some wicked weed Paul.
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:57 am
No, I didn't smoke anything when I wrote that, Jeff and Bob. I absolutely don't drink at all either. I'm being 100% honest with you guys. That was only a sane,rational and objective observation on my part without the intention to offend anyone.
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:12 am
Hi Paul,
Until quite recently I thought that decriminalisation of cannabis was a good thing. I remember my misspent youth listening to the new album by YES or whatever whilst enjoying a decent spliff. It had the same type of effect as a few pints of beer, but in a different direction… if you get my drift.
I imagine most of the MPs in the UK that are championing decriminalisation have similar pleasant hazy memories.
Being a musician and trying to fully immerse myself in the culture, I have on a few recent occasions given the weed another try. Well chalk & cheese IMO are more similar than say V74 grass & V05 skunk. The stuff today is downright evil.
My partner & I have both experienced very similar feelings so I don’t think it is just my addled brain. The stuff today is immeasurably stronger, paranoia inducing, unsociable and just totally unpleasant. I’m sure if a few skunk spliffs were passed around the House of Commons many MP’s would make a u turn on their opinions.
Bob
Until quite recently I thought that decriminalisation of cannabis was a good thing. I remember my misspent youth listening to the new album by YES or whatever whilst enjoying a decent spliff. It had the same type of effect as a few pints of beer, but in a different direction… if you get my drift.
I imagine most of the MPs in the UK that are championing decriminalisation have similar pleasant hazy memories.
Being a musician and trying to fully immerse myself in the culture, I have on a few recent occasions given the weed another try. Well chalk & cheese IMO are more similar than say V74 grass & V05 skunk. The stuff today is downright evil.
My partner & I have both experienced very similar feelings so I don’t think it is just my addled brain. The stuff today is immeasurably stronger, paranoia inducing, unsociable and just totally unpleasant. I’m sure if a few skunk spliffs were passed around the House of Commons many MP’s would make a u turn on their opinions.
Bob
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:23 am
I'm just bustin' your chops, Paul. Actually, I'm in your camp. I find it silly that an indigenous plant to North America that was here before us and farmed by our forefathers has been made illegal. I'm sure there are plenty of other more important reasons to arrest and imprison people than possessing a natural weed.
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:30 am
Speaking of puffin....