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My wife spent 19 years as a Primary teacher. But quit last year & has started a new career.
In reception classes in her old school the amount of non toilet trained children arriving in the school tripled in the last 3 years. It used to be one or two. They had 11 in 2016.
Maybe there’s a wider issue with whose actually breeding these days?
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If you're going to continue to accuse me of making imaginary accusations (as you interpreted it) despite my best efforts to clarify, then perhaps you're just being obtuse (as I interpret it) for some form of self amusement you like to indulge in and I don't really care for.
So I shall this time finally leave it at that. We can't agree all the time, but I'm not here to get embroiled in this kind of nastiness. Thought we'd recently all already learned that lesson.
I'll also keep in mind that forum posts are notoriously easy to misinterpret, so perhaps this whole thing is mountain/mole hill stuff and we can all continue to be forum buddies.
Prior to that - the Marlin Sidewinder pack with the Ross amp. Or worse the Marlin Slammer - which was a Sidewinder without the class, quality or kudos. Plywood planks with a genuine turd of an amp - many wasps, very small jars.
Or the B.B. blaster? Jesus that sucked.
Frankly, they were all terrible. So I don’t think I will mourn their passing.
And yes, I too started with a Woolworths guitar that had previously been used as a target for a B.B. gun in Andy’s Guitar Workshop purchased for £10 and an Audition practice amp bought at a dreadful Little s/h shop in Woolwich. It didn’t put me off - in fact, when I was able to scrape the money for an Antonia Les Paul copy and a Sunn ST15 amp, it was only then I realised what I’d been missing.
I'd venture that only about 5% of starters go for these packs these days, because the first thing *anyone* does before spending 200 quid on something new to them is to google it:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=best+starter+guitar&rlz=1C1GGRV_enNG770NG770&oq=best+starter+guitar&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4236j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on
That, like all other similar searches, nets you a bunch of articles from blogs and guitar shops, all of which recommend some variation on the following:
- Squier Strat (bullet/affinity/std)
- Mexican Strat/Tele
- Epi LP Specials and Dots etc
- Vintage brand stuff
- entry-level Ibanezes
- Yamaha and Tanglewood acoustics
The point is those old-school starter packs are shite, and people have access to a huge amount of information that corroborates that, so why would anyone buy one?
The Hohner Panther amp wasn't bad either - possibly slightly better than the Ross - although I agree that the guitars were total crap.
The buzzy distortion on the amps could be quite usable if you set it right - gain and treble low, volume and bass high. It was never going to sound like a cranked Marshall, but given that these followed simple late-70s transistor horrors with only a volume and tone control and which I fail to get even a clean sound I like out of, they were really quite an improvement.
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