But you're just an amateur dabbler not a professional. Who are you to tell actual working professionals who need to have rock-solid gear they can rely on, tour after tour, what they should use?
no, if i was saying that i would have said something along the lines of people who need critical gear for their job should just retire and wait until someone dies, loses interest or downsizes. i was responding to your 'there'd be no secondhand hand gear if people didn't buy new gear', and pointed out three sources of gear arriving on the secondhand market without new gear being bought. and obvs you don't need to wait for this to happen because it happens every day.
This is painful.
that's a bit off, you're telling someone who has told you several times they years of experience working as a musician that they're merely a dillettante.
Yes, I am aware of this. I just gave an example of what happened to a friend of mine as it was topical.
It's actually quite accurate (see the other thread) but I'm sure he appreciates your backing.
someone has to at some point in the past have bought anything for used clothes, books, furniture etc to exist. but as i read it (and only now do you differ with me) you meant the only source of secondhand gear is when people trade up and buy new stuff. this should have been obvious when i said ' there are other sources of secondhand gear than simply people casting off after upgrading'. that was the point for you to bring up this facile point. if it deserves to be aired at all.This is painful.
However you spin it, someone clearly has to buy new gear for second hand gear to exist.
We’re one month in. What more do you expect at this point?
Incorrect. EU countries are free to negotiate their own separate contracts with vaccine manufacturers and some have chosen to do so.
it's by no means accurate as someone who has spent years working as a musician can't honestly be described as a dabbler. on your terms then all former footballers are now amateur dabblers in the game. putting people like ian wright or eric cantona on the same basis as sunday league footballers on hackney marshes in their knowledge and skill of the game. darcy bussell now an amateur dabbler at dance, as she no longer graces the stage at the ballet.
I had thought it was your case that most people who voted for Brexit were better off in some sort of psychological or spiritual way, regardless of material changes to their situation.
You said
Now you’re saying maybe they’re not happier now but might be, contingent on various things happening, in the future?
Sadly, some of the things that might be making them happier right now are based on lies, such as the lie that the UK is ahead of the game on vaccines because of brexit.
I’m not sure how you get that. I’m saying that achieving their aim of Brexit is positive for them. Beyond that immediate positive effect, what more could you possibly expect from just one month’s separation from EU oversight?
Even I fell for that one initially.
It seems a bit like you are saying that people who wanted a thing are pleased now they have got it.
This whole interpretation is one predicated on your ideological understanding of what people do and should want from political change. It’s not a case of being right or wrong, it’s just trying to measure apples using oranges.
Right. That’s not so controversial, surely? And yet it seems to be hard to grasp by people who can’t get to grips with the idea that anybody could have wanted that thing in the first place.
Put it in £s for them.
This is not how to understand the way in which others construct their world, however tempting it might be.
It's not tempting. It's not a choice. It's how their world is constituted. It's foundational to everything that they attach importance to.
