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[gm]

bloody hell - that looks awful - i had no idea  

 

[Split_Pin]

Par for the course with these things I think. 

[andy18s]

[TheOtherStu]

1 hour ago, gm said:

what is so wrong about using a microwave ? it’s perfectly safe and if used correctly doesn’t compromise the food.

how do you think other pub chains prepare their food ?

 

Oh don't get me wrong, I know a number of other "chains" prepare their foods using microwaved food too. I used to work in the industry (fortunately, my pub had a microwave that was barely used with the exception of vegetables - it's an amazing way to cook veg using a little water that keeps them very fresh and crunchy)

But if I wanted a microwaved curry, I might as well go to Co-op and get one for half the price.

[grogee]

Last night was the last cricket club car meet of the year here in Southam. @Cluffy's Corrado was the wheels of choice. Lots of Yank land yachts which appeal more and more each time I see one. 

The Maestro is still laid up awaiting gearbox refit (bloody work has got in the way) and there was no representation from my mate with the Turbo either. 

Most annoying was the shitty Mk5 Golf lowered on big rimz with a big exhaust, what the fuck is that doing at the show. Back to the normal car park with you. 

Check out the Mitsubishi Roly-Poly. I hope that guy likes scraping along the tarmac on his side. 

The Alfa GTV6 wins for me, no question. 

[Lankytim]

I don’t mind Wetherspoons, always somewhere to sit and usually pretty quiet and a good place for a chat. A few years back there was some numpty blocking the bar I had to elbow out of the way so I could pay for my pint with shrapnel but apart from that it’s all been good. 
 

Moving on, I’ve been working on the 145, filling the repaired tank with 10 litres of fuel and trying to get it to the engine so it’ll run. Absolutely no luck, even when I used my drill operated power steering pump to suck it from the tank. Very annoying, is the fuel pick up not low enough in the tank? Jacking the rear up I undid a fuel pipe and inserted the drill pump to try and suck directly from the tank. Petrol sprayed everywhere! The metal fuel pipe under the car is corroded and holed so will need replacing. Much better to find it now rather than when it’s on the road! 
 

 

[Cluffy]

44 minutes ago, grogee said:

Last night was the last cricket club car meet of the year here in Southam. @Cluffy's Corrado was the wheels of choice. Lots of Yank land yachts which appeal more and more each time I see one. 

The Maestro is still laid up awaiting gearbox refit (bloody work has got in the way) and there was no representation from my mate with the Turbo either. 

Most annoying was the shitty Mk5 Golf lowered on big rimz with a big exhaust, what the fuck is that doing at the show. Back to the normal car park with you. 

Check out the Mitsubishi Roly-Poly. I hope that guy likes scraping along the tarmac on his side. 

The Alfa GTV6 wins for me, no question. 

It was a good turn out. But where do these Yank Tanks come from....!? As we pondered last night, we never ever see them out and about on the road in/around Southam. Likely the cost to fuel them I suppose..!

 

XJR for me I think. Or the Ford GT just to sell (after a quick hoon) and then have all the choice in the world... $$$$$$$

[stuboy]

Delivered yesterday from amazonian

[egg]

The Wetherspoonies I'd like to go to is T-Wells.

[andyberg]

3 minutes ago, egg said:

The Wetherspoonies I'd like to go to is T-Wells.

Very nice, but a shame it's not still a theatre 😞

[brownnova]

Spoons is great for breakfast. Two breakfasts and drinks for under a tenner, and You can sit there eating your bacon and sausages whilst being entertained by the blokes all around the middle table going to the bar for their second pint of lager… at 8.45am… 

On days when the kids are at nursery it’s our little treat to ourselves! 

[cort1977]

Good day today. Managed to fix the exhaust issue on the lexus, the correct toyota crush gasket made all the difference and it's back to pleasant wafting rather than full NASCAR.

Had an issue with the i3 charging cable yesterday, cable lock pin wasn't quite releasing so had to use the override cable. This didn't go back correctly and as a result the car wouldn't charge. Easy enough fix involving taking the wheel arch liner out for access and resetting the cable. While I was under there I did a quick oil change on the rex engine. 

Going to crack on with the saab tomorrow, welding is complete so just a bit of filler and then fixing an oil leak on the mot fail list.

[grogee]

I hate Tim Martin and his Brexit propaganda in Spoons pubs. 

But, I'm also tight and lazy. 

You can see my dilemma. I once bought a round in Spoons for a fairly big group and nearly fell over when they asked for under £20. 

The one in Tavistock was pretty good when it opened but it's gone a bit downhill since. But I'd still drink in there because you can lazily order from your phone without getting up. 

+1 for the breakfasts @brownnova. They always meet the minimum standard of alright whereas if you decide to chance an independent cafe, there's a 50% chance of it being total shit. Also, I think Spoons is bottomless coffee. 

In summary: cheap beer is hard to argue with. But Tim Martin isn't, the thick twat. 

 

[andyberg]

1 minute ago, grogee said:

I hate Tim Martin and his Brexit propaganda in Spoons pubs. 

But, I'm also tight and lazy. 

You can see my dilemma. I once bought a round in Spoons for a fairly big group and nearly fell over when they asked for under £20. 

The one in Tavistock was pretty good when it opened but it's gone a bit downhill since. But I'd still drink in there because you can lazily order from your phone without getting up. 

+1 for the breakfasts @brownnova. They always meet the minimum standard of alright whereas if you decide to chance an independent cafe, there's a 50% chance of it being total shit. Also, I think Spoons is bottomless coffee. 

In summary: cheap beer is hard to argue with. But Tim Martin isn't, the thick twat. 

 

Ooo I remember the one in Tavi being ok, about 6 or 7 years ago when I lived there.

[cobblers]

7 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

This is it, surely.

If you want to treat yourself then why would you go for a microwaved meal or a shit cut of grilled meat.

There's a pub in the village down the road that serve local beer and food prepared and cooked in house, with ingredients from local farms where possible. A burger made from rump steak mince is £15, a pint is about £4-5. On the odd occasion that I treat myself, I think it's worth spending the £20 on something that's really enjoyable with the added bonus that you're supporting a locally owned business.

100%! You can have a cheap burger and a drink at home.

Same here - there's a nice pub that serves nice beer and really nice food. £14 for a really good burger and about £20 for a steak.

Well kept local ales are £4.60 a pint.

A meal and a couple of pints might set you back £30 here vs £20 in a wetherspoons. IMO it's a much better strategy to go to the nice pub every 3 weeks vs spoons every 2 weeks.

 

£14 burger and chips at a nice pub has probably £7 worth of ingredients. 

£10 burger and chips at spoons? £1.50 . 

 

[grogee]

Just now, andyberg said:

Ooo I remember the one in Tavi being ok, about 6 or 7 years ago when I lived there.

Yeah it's a good space and I've had some good days/nights there. It's also wheelchair friendly so good for meeting my Mum for a meal. 

It's gone downhill because the food is pretty rank now, probably because they get paid peanuts and don't GAF. 

[stuboy]

10 hours ago, RetroShite said:

roffled?

[junkyarddog]

Early start for me today,managed to get a retest slot for my Honda at 7:15 this morning. 

Failed it's last test on two outer CV joint boots.

If I'd have bothered to check over the car I'd have spotted this 🙄

Two new stretchy CV boots later!

And we end up with this!

Happiness is a fresh pass certificate 😁

[Split_Pin]

Another great job done on my cars by Gingernutzz:

That:

Is now this:

I'm right pleased with it

[Joey spud]

I love an old steering wheel but the skinnyness of their rims just feels wrong after years of grabbing modern wheels so off to eBay I went.

I bought a silicone cover that was both too thin and too baggy so I taped it on ready for fitting the ultimate old giffer accessory from the 70/80's.

The smell alone takes me straight back to 1986 and my '72 mini 850.

Woof.

[Metal Guru]

16 hours ago, cobblers said:

100%! You can have a cheap burger and a drink at home.

Same here - there's a nice pub that serves nice beer and really nice food. £14 for a really good burger and about £20 for a steak.

Well kept local ales are £4.60 a pint.

A meal and a couple of pints might set you back £30 here vs £20 in a wetherspoons. IMO it's a much better strategy to go to the nice pub every 3 weeks vs spoons every 2 weeks.

 

£14 burger and chips at a nice pub has probably £7 worth of ingredients. 

£10 burger and chips at spoons? £1.50 . 

 

Great if you’ve got somewhere that serves decent food at good prices, but to many “gastro pubs “ take the piss. Marginally better food than a Spoons at near Michelin prices and a wine list from the nearest Asda starting at £30 a bottle.

Having said that, I prefer to spend what Spoons charge on decent food to cook at home.

 

 

[Joey spud]

The wifes had this old samba green CRX auto for seven years (it was a valentine's present) and in that time it's been used mostly in the summer months and sometimes it's been forgotten about for a year or two.

It's had a really good run out this year but the MOT expired last month and it needs some suspension bushes and a tyre replacing also the laquer peel on the wings was quite impressive. But alas there's not going to be any room for it at my new house so reluctantly it has to go.

So it's old number plate was reinstated and before I could advertise it a bloke knocked on my door and gave me £500 for it.

Probably going to miss the thing but if we have a spare car it got to be allowed inside the M25.

[egg]

Wow, Ardechauto on Insta has spotted a Metro - apparently there are 12(!) left in France only 3 of which are roadworthy...

https://www.instagram.com/ardechauto/

[UltraWomble]

Bought 4 anthracite powder coated alloys with new Falken winter rubber for £50 a corner. 

Really could not quibble at that price. 

Not really sure I like the grey over the silver. But new tyres!!!!! 

Traffic on M6 was bloody horrendous. 

3 crashes seen. 

Bit of blue oval pron

 

[High Jetter]

Can't find the no pic spotted thread, but passed a convoy of classics coming the other way a while back. First a R8 soft top (who flashed me, but no idea  who the driver was), a pickup I didn't recognize, 2 A30/A35s, a Rover P5, a Lotus Elan and several others. Must have missed a local meet, somehow. 

[stuboy]

Anyone else's missus do this... just got the car all clean and nice looking £30 diesel in it, and then says oh can she borrow it too take herself, her friend, 4 kids 10 and under and 2 dogs too a dog show, cause say no look a to55ser in front of friend and kid whose visiting, or smile and go ok and walk off throwing kittens off bridges ( joking by the way ).

[Erebus]

12 minutes ago, stuboy said:

Anyone else's missus do this... just got the car all clean and nice looking £30 diesel in it, and then says oh can she borrow it too take herself, her friend, 4 kids 10 and under and 2 dogs too a dog show, cause say no look a to55ser in front of friend and kid whose visiting, or smile and go ok and walk off throwing kittens off bridges ( joking by the way ).

As soon as I've cleaned our car the Mrs and kids make it look like a mobile shit tip.  Wouldn't mind but she goes metal if the house is messy or untidy!

[egg]

^ Mrs Egg drives auto only now, so no chance of that happening with the Mondeo

[RoverFolkUs]

There are very few reasonably priced, acceptable quality pubs/restaurants my way. 

Wetherspoons, and Greene king, are the only places where I can go knowing there will be something I like and I'm not going to have to pay through the nose for it

I could go to McDonald's and spend a tenner on that crap or go to spoons and spend that tenner on a much nicer burger or even a steak and a pint. 

Any time I've been to another pub or restaurant, it's ended up being nearly £30-40 a head so that means its special occasions only as it's unsustainable (for me) to go there regularly. 

Wetherspoons will usually be at least half of that and I'll end up enjoying it more.

I went to the Harvester last year for the first time in a long time, used to be really nice, but it was £100 for 3x people and I didn't even enjoy any of it. Small portions and it all seemed microwaved or sitting under a heat lamp for hours, dried out. 

None of the spoons I go to seem to suffer from the piss soaked atmosphere as described above. Maybe I just choose the right times! 

Can't fault the breakfasts, I went to a small independent pub for a cooked breakfast and was served those 30% meat (if you're being generous) 70% bread sausages like supermarket value brand ones, and a "latte" served from a catering tub of Nescafé that wasn't fully dissolved 🤢 - rather than at least from a coffee machine. That was £9.50.. spoons would be much nicer with a proper coffee from a machine, less than a fiver? Can't argue. 

No it's not spotlessly clean, and no it's not free from dubious characters but it's a chain pub so what do you expect?

[ProgRocker]

Surveying the clutter in my spare bedroom. I wonder if this stuff that was sitting in my dad's shed is still any good after 30+ years?