I trust you, @Al1885. I greatly admire chefs. I love to cook, but not nearly as much as I love to eat great food. 
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2 types in the world: people that will eat anything and people that will eat almost nothing. i am firmly in camp A 
in all my years of tasting anything set in front of me i can HONESTLY say i can count on one hand things that i actually hated. there were things i didn’t particularly care for, sure. but there were far far more that i loved and would have never experienced.
like uni, btw 
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“Any seasoned traveller soon learns to avoid anything wished on them as a‘regional speciality’, because all the term means is that dish is so unpleasant the people living everywhere else will bite off their own legs rather than eat it.”
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There are only 2 types of people. One that eat the king of fruit, Durian and one that don’t. There’s nothing in between. Lol.
For the record I hate it. Can’t stand being in the same house when someone is eating it.
Any ways back to bass, lol.
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Actually smelling Durian is much much worse than eating it 
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Me too! Though I draw the line at Hakarl. Won’t even try that. Even Bourdain puked 
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meh, I’d give it a nibble 
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My friend from Iceland described it as “Ahh yes, our vile piss fish.” Which was apparently the traditional brining method
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As I am allergic to shellfish, I will give this stuff a pass
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Hakarl, brought into Canada in a triple vacuum pack bag by my marine biologist buddy in the '90s. None of us dared to try it after it was opened. AFAIK it’s not actual urine that gives it the smell, but urea that’s present in the shark’s blood that gets converted into uric acid during fermentation in volcanic sand.
A close second is the Swedish ‘regional delicacy’ Surströmming. I had a whiff of it in Finland. OMFG. I actually retched. To give you an idea how bad this is, I used to pressure wash milk-fed veal calf pens, got sprayed numerous times with ruminal contents and assisted a vet at several deadstock autopsies out in open summer fields. None of those phased me or made me gag at all.
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You are correct on this. I’ve smelled exhumed bodies and they’re not as bad as that stuff.
I also had a job in an abattoir and that was like summer flowers in comparison.
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I did the entire course in a Squier CV 70s J and it’s still one of my favorites.
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@John_E i’ve realized my Squire CV 60 P is my favorite. (I still need to sand/wear/green pad the laquer off the back of the neck)
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Now a BassBuzz Special Edition Squier CV 70s model! 
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Overall package I definitely agree. The neck feels more comfortable. As for the pickup I find the 70’s to be tamer than the 60’s but still more aggressive than the affinity lines.
I played the original Fender 62’ and I thought it was an awesome instrument of course it’s the package with a comfortable naturally age body and neck. Also have the original 76 that came with my 75’ project it was not bad either. Both came standard with a fistful of 60 cycles hum.
@John_E what’s with the new line of Aerodyne @ $1300 pre-orderon reverb?
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My Bass arrived early one week before my last gig! it is so comfortable to play and the tone is quite good. Playing it through my Carvin BR1600 Head with BX 1x15 and 2x10 cabs really shook the joint! Lots of comments on the bass! I have named it "The Vader Bass!
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Pics?
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just mean looking.
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Definitely. Looks like it could slap you across the face and steal your beer. 
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Congrats!
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