Look, all I'm saying is that the usual knee-jerk American response to anything on the other side usually ignores some pretty basic facts. They got into space first, they commercialised getting people into space first, they essentially hounded NASA into getting onboard with the international space station. And for all their lower grade of tech, they kept the other side of the curtain going strong for nearly half a century, even though much of that side didn't want to be there. Obviously, there was something to them, even if it's not a system any of us would have like to live under.
As for us up here, we didn't have to do it first: After the Avro Arrow was cancelled, a couple dozen of our best aeronautics engineers went and got NASA to the moon.
I'm not bringing any of this up because it's important. I just figured that an ignorant statement needed a shot back. I'm not interested enough to really explore this. Especially since this is a thread about a bass.
I happen to think the bass is pretty cool looking, if not exactly pretty.
EDIT: Just thought of something. Doesn't one of the Flight of the Conchords dudes use a cheap Russian bass as well? I remember reading that somewhere.
