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My lockdown keep fit tips. Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room on each side. With a 5kg potato bag in each hand, extend your arm straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute and relax. Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of days, move up to 10kg potato bags. Then try 50kg potato bags and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100kg potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more then a full minute. (I'm now at this level). After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.

Another newbie, type 3a3, ex Bull

Obviously his idea of a discount Offa. Looks cast to me

And at this moment, I think a little light entertainment is called for. Gilbert & Sullivan anyone?

A music based question. What's the difference between the Rolling Stones and a Scotsman? . . . . . One says, "Hey, you. Get off of my cloud." And the other says "Hey, Mccloud. Get off of my ewe."

Close-up.

... and so they are stopping his pension...

He really is a piece of work, isn't he? His Alfred the Great looks like a tribute to Mick Jagger and Barbara Streisand's illegitimate love child playing at Red Indians.

...is that they directly profit from the sale of fakes, so they pay nothing more than lip service to preventing it.

Reported, for what that’s worth. There have been some very active sellers of these fakes based in Poland and Serbia, a whole variety of home-made dies and they sell a lot at around £100. Some buyers, or their families, will get a shock in due course. I don’t understand how Ebay can get away with facilitating this trade, though I suspect there will be changes in the legal responsibility in years to come, in the same way that pressure is building on social media to be responsible for moderating what is posted on its sites. Jerry

I remember when I was Student DJ in the early 70s, and the equipment I worked with was Quad. About the best you could get at the time.

We all seem to like our music so, how about a festival?

True, but many times I and others here have reported items without any action being taken; I don’t know if there is a trigger point, a certain number of reports or whatever. Ebay really should have a small panel of ‘approved’ expert reporters who carry greater weight, I am sure there are members on this forum, for example, who might qualify. I believe there was a similar system operating for Ebay USA for a while, subsequently disbanded. Jerry

I suppose the most probable reason e bay appear powerless, is that their staff don't know real from fake. They rely on experts to pro-actively alert them to fakery, and even then can only deal with the specific items reported.

Here is a picture of the main studio monitors I put together two years ago. Very loud....they only really work in a very big room.

Oh what....DJ'ing with Quad? When I started out, I worked for a guy who turned into my mentor, and we used all the gear that local DJ's didn't use in the West Midlands. My favourite pub system was a part of Altec 'Voice of the Theatre 15" bins, with Vitavox horns built into them. Phase Linear 700B on the bass, and a pair of Quad 50's on the horns. Sounded HUGE. Everyone else was using WEM columns or crap from the local disco shop. No competition!!

Thanks Jerry - hopefully my website will help with identification !

F282, 7+G I think.

"The original sentence is somehow different in my view as it contains errors / that are not socially acceptable. " SO DOES YOURS!!!!!!!!!! SO WHAT???? I don't care that you are 'not particularly convinced'. Tolerance has nothing to do with it. Your sentence is clearer with commas. Calling it 'the Oxford comma' as if it's some weird stylistic notation IS weird and stylistic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do people have this odd phobia about it? Is it a class thing? Anti-elitist claptrap? It's just a bloody comma, like the other one you left out. Subordinate clauses are not a crime, you know. Or do you not understand them? I don't care - it doesn't matter to me at all. If you want your use of language to be difficult to understand, go right ahead....... Be my guest. I will just ignore the mistakes. Many people on here don't spell very well. No-one has a pop at them. Who cares? BUT when YOU start pointing out 'linguistic mistakes', as if you are somehow the Grammar Police, get ready for YOUR mistakes to be held up to the light. (Now try that last sentence again WITHOUT the two commas. It's not as clear, IS IT????? There you go.)

My ha'penny varieties site certainly isn't going to go down to that sub-atomic level.

Is the porcelain edition also available?

I have many sets of speakers, but have never made my own. I have a dozen Quad electrostatics, the ESL57, and it’s a pair of these on stands I always end up going back to; I have a pair of ESL63’s I must re-panel soon, I have the materials, they have been sitting in my study, partly disassembled, for months but something else always crops up. My next favourites are a pair of Castle Harlech, the polyester coned ones from the late ‘90’s. In the workshop, awaiting their turn but working, are a nice pair of Lowther Accousta PM7a’s, B&W DM3’s and the massive B&W P2’s with the ionofane tweeters (serviced, you can still get the electrode and quartz chamber from the USA). Also Kef Concerto’s, Spendor SA1’s (really nice BBC LS 3/5a competitors, and others I can’t remember at the mo. I have had several Tannoy red and gold speaker pairs, but they have ended up in the USA and the Far East. Much of my HiFi has been sold on to generate cash for pennies. Jerry

The weekend looks like becoming warm and sunny - so at least we can get out into the gardens for something other than gardening. Maybe sit in the Sun for a while.