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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:56 am
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my rule is if you want to play your guitar, then rip the stickers off, if you want to show your guitar off leave it on.

However if you like it for whatever reason value ex 60th anniv. edition i would get a fender pickguard from wd pickguards.

but other than that i would rip it off


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Ceri wrote:
Yadda yadda yadda

Very interesting comments, Ceri. As you may know, I am some sort of expert on "credentialing" and technologies that track people and things. I noticed the UK has made the long planned and exceptionally expensive National ID Card "optional", essentially shelving the project. Immigrants and foreign nationals remain required to obtain such a document. And I know "Chip & Pin" success has been controversial.

Curious to hear your perception of the typical Brits view of that National ID card. Care to hijack yet another thread? Thanks.


Ooo - you tempt me strongly to break my "don't talk politics in the Forum" rule. How can I do this yet pretend to sound "objective"...?

That ID card is highly controversial, to say the least. The cost has risen exponentially from its first murmerings; currently estimated to be something over £6billion/$10b, should we go ahead with it. Which is in itself problematic at a point in the economy where we're, proportionately, comparably as in debt as yourselves.

We keep being told that a national ID card encorporating biometrics (iris scan and such) will help prevent illegal immigration, social security fraud and terrorism. But after years of listening hard I've yet to hear a politican explain HOW it would help with those things.

For those that don't know, our proposed ID card would link together around 70 other key pieces of information on databases, from our tax records to health to parking tickets to... Someone who has access to our card potentially has access to all the relevant information about us. An identity fraudster's charter. (Are my views showing?)

We already live in a world where our every action can be traced by our cell phone location, credit card transactions, faces on camera. In the UK we have the most extensive network of CCTV on the planet - it was recently revealed that cameras all over our road system automatically monitor our movements through license plate recognition which is stored on a database for a minumum of two years. Our police have the largest DNA database in the world, incorporating around eight percent of the entire population - forever.

Join all that up with the highly sophisticated ID card proposed and the circle is complete.

Our lunatic little neo-Nazi party (the BNP) recently got around five percent in our elections to the European Parliament. That's much smaller than many other countries, but enough to give them a seat for the first time. I'm thinking back to the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s, or the KGB in Russia, or the Stasi - etc etc. What wouldn't those people have given for such a system of total population monitoring? What would they have done with it?

And closest of all to the gut: it's just fundamentally un-British. ID cards, surveillance, monitoring - it's not the way we do things.

The counter-argument is that many other countries have ID cards and the heavens don't appear to have come crashing in yet.

I leave you to try and deduce which side of the debate I am on.

However, I suspect the recent U-turn on compulsion that you mentioned is the beginning of the end for our national ID card. Let's see....

Cheers - C


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I peeled the front sticker off very carefully and it's now in a picture frame...(is that even wronger than leaving them on?).

And I was one of those dopey ones who didn't realize the plastic covering was even on the pickguard and when it started to bubble up thought I was just a really mad shredder who was making scratches in the guard itself with the pick. The plastic is now removed. But each to their own.


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I think your sanity is a bit in question.... 8)

Haha, I was the same way with my electric!! :P I thought I severely damaged my guitar, but then I was relieved when my classmate said to me "You know, that plastic comes off."
"Haha, yeah, I know...." I replied.
Hey, nobody wants to seem like a newbie!! :P

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OK Things are getting wierd.Last week people are setting guitars on fire and now we have guys who dont want to take stickers off. I cant wait to see whats next.


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OK Things are getting wierd.Last week people are setting guitars on fire and now we have guys who dont want to take stickers off. I cant wait to see whats next.



how bout not play it at all, to preserve the look and feel from the factory :)


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[ Sounds like youre being invaded by rogue Texans, a very overwhelming lot....seems they think Texas is the center of the universe.



Sorry, we don't mean to be pretentious, we just like where we live. We are almost as bad as Americans. (LOL...ducks)

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Ceri wrote:
Hehe - did you have those tapes with your name embroidered into them that your mum would sew into your clothing as a kid - or is that just an English thing? I inherited my mum's sewing basket and found yards of that tape with my name on it still waiting. Can't quite bring myself to use it... which seems a shame.



How did that not work it's way into the Cericaster on the Saving a Trash Body thread?

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LOL Good one Deth.


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