you yanks are so lucky you get to buy cheap fenders and gibsons while we in Engand have to pay through the nose..and yet you mourn about "are fenders overpriced."..yeah i know british makers are a cheaper option but lets face it theres nothing like a fender or les paul round yer neck is there ? you lucky bastards!!! and while im ranting how come you get cheap petrol while us idiots in europe with our pansey polititions force us to "save the planet" and we dont get big portions of cheap food...im not fat and shouldnt be forced to eat smaller portions of burger and spare ribs ect at high cost while worring about the enviroment while you lot are getting to ride round in big cars eating a massive pizza that feeds a whole family over here whilst looking at your fantastic les pauls and fenders GRRRRRR!! p.s i actually have a usa deluxe strat and have owed a few USA guitars its just that i wish they were cheaper over here...and you shagged all our women in the war and then sent us the bill and made all the best films about it WTF LOL

And here I thought the National Health made sure people didn't run out of their medications.

oh yeah our social security is great in fact in england you can make more money not working if you know how to work the system...you even can get a disability allowence if you can prove your alcoholism is an illness WTF i of course am one of the stupid,honest ones who goes out to work and pays taxs it has to be said though that national health service is a cool thing to have but i quess if we didnt have it id insure myself like you lot do either way you pay for it ....hey sod the politcs lets talk guitars

Yes.

Well, so much for subtlety.

hey..come on if i didnt have a mourning negitive attitude id not be english LOL...its just that the prices of those much coverted les pauls and fenders have gone up and so even though ive stopped smoking and drinking im still too skint to afford em .....actually it could be worse i could live in iraq or afganistan with british and american forces bombs drowning out my efforts to play eruption...LOL..errr actually thats not funny they carnt help it that some crazie muslim clerics want to take em back to bible times...oppps bit politics creeping in again............

Your joking mate, surely. The NHS is the most corrupt institution on the face of the planet. Worse than the vatican even. The majority of Paulpc's rant is quite accurate, though it could have been worded better. Also we pay extortionate taxes (around 85% with all the stealth taxes, if you smoke, drink, work and drive) to keep the rich/poor divide at acceptable levels, the majority dont want to work and expect to be fed clothed and sheltered. Take a member of my family for instance. He has suffered schizophrenia from a very early age. Never done a days work in his life, is waited upon by people he sneers at daily, yet he's worth close on £700K. Just through money he hasnt earned yet been given, rent he hasnt had to pay, electricity and gas he doesnt pay for, and food he hasnt had to buy.

Thank god for the NHS and the welfare system, when he goes i'll be rich.

Quite what either rant has to do with strats is beyond me.

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actually my rant was a bit tounge in cheek ninja is correct about the system its just that i wanted to wind peaple up a bit i still think im right about USAs cheap guitars and food and fuel though...still ill never diss a country that gave us rock n roll and guitars...as we know them today... before someone gives me a history lesson ...anyways keep on rockin ..as john lennon said towards the end of hey jude "lets get back to the music"

I feel your pain.

In the US, we cannot (easily) get ahold of the Japanese Fenders (and certain models by other Japanese guitar makers).

This complaint of mine doesn't quite match your complaint, I will admit.

Cheers

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Don't worry, we're working hard to make a mess of the good ole USA so that we can have the lovely high taxes and government intervention, you Euros have come to love so much.

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Consider this:

One can either continue to hang on in quiet desperation or stowaway in the next shipping container to Mexico, cross the border into the States illegally, declare oneself a political refugee from a repressive regime, disappear from plain sight, insinuate oneself into one of the underground social networks which will provide all the necessary information, unavailable to the citizenry, to ultimately become the recipient of the benefits of a plethora of entitlement programs whilst sitting back comfortably on the proverbial arse, whiling away the hours watching telly as a lifetime guest of the US taxpayer........

........and.......after having milked the system sufficiently, be able to sock away enough dollars from off-the-books illegal employment to acquire US built Fender gear.

After death, they will ship the body back to 'your country' because there was never any intention of remaining here permanently in the first place.

I recall those immortal lines from the poem "The New Colossus":

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled messes......"

Do I have that quite right

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Hey Paulpc... You're right, we are lucky! To celebrate my good fortune, I am going to go online and buy a new Telecaster!

God Bless America!

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I love the smell of hot vacuum tubes in the morning...

....and on Labor Day, too

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Man, you guys are too funny. I guess we are lucky to live in America. However I happen to work very hard for what I have. Including my MIM Strat and scxd. On that note I hope everyone has a great Labor Day.

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1998 Gibson Explorer
1985 Ibanez DT350FR
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He cites the yanks 'shagging' their women. Must have been some of the guys who joined the Canadian RAF so they could get into the war against the Nazis before Pearl Harbor.....or maybe some of the Merchant Marine who were rescued after their cargo ships were sunk in convoys carrying materiel across the 'pond' during Lend/Lease.

Alainlafrance once wrote to me in private about such matters with respect to France. Think what you will of the French in today's political climate, From his words I came to know that our blood was not spilled in vain.

'To save one life is to save the world'

Doc

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