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[Dyslexic Viking]

13 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Came across this in a road ditch this morning.

 

Translated: Au Pair on Bizarre Sex Adventures. I left it there since I don't have a VHS player anymore, which is now very annoying.

I've done some research on this...  And can't find anything, do we have any experts on old porn here?

[Snake Charmer]

28 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Came across this in a road ditch this morning.

Which one,  the cassette or Au Pair? 💋

[barefoot]

15 hours ago, barefoot said:

OMFG I've been pro-papped! What should I do?

I found this on the web as well. How embarrassing, wrong numberplate font!

[MJK 24]

A little bit of Italy at Cars & Coffee Liverpool, this morning 🇮🇹 

 

[MrBiscuits]

59 minutes ago, MJK 24 said:

A little bit of Italy at Cars & Coffee Liverpool, this morning 🇮🇹 

 

Best steel wheel design ever - from a 131 I believe 

[320touring]

Cheers to @sdkrc for coming over and giving me a hand on the Oxford.

 Got a couple of big things done - sorted the brake light switch wiring, so now the brake lights work

stripped down and cleaned the positive wiring and connections to the starter (including playing "hunt the terminal," when one of them fucked off whilst trying to tighten it with a hammer)

Bit of general wiring tidying 

Actually drove a mile too😁

@sdkrc found it "an event" to drive🤣

[richardmorris]

Steve doel’s in arras with the ZX on FB.

 

 

[Tubbo]

Car porn

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18iYkCrwtP/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[Popsicle]

More Pisshat tinkering this weekend, locking wheel nut key and good old fashioned plain bolts arrived.

Resulted in the spawn of Satan being removed.

Anyone want a set of locking wheel nuts? 😂

After fathoming out the stereo was a bit broken, I had a look around for a replacement. I like to keep things factory if I can, the bluetooth for calls and music streaming is built in to the stereo, being a VAG product probably also built into modules elsewhere too.

Reconditioned units, with a guarantee are available for around £250! Normal no-recon for around £150. Not all have DAB, but you can tell from photos which ones have due to the additional sockets on the back. Managed to stumble across one on ebay, from a breakers, that was advertised a bit wrong for £75, with no code. Took a risk on it, £13 later for the code and fuck my old boots it works!

Well pleased with that for the money.

I've put the old one on a shelf in the garage, just in case I need to cannibalise it for parts.

[stuboy]

6 hours ago, Popsicle said:

More Pisshat tinkering this weekend, locking wheel nut key and good old fashioned plain bolts arrived.

Resulted in the spawn of Satan being removed.

Anyone want a set of locking wheel nuts? 😂

After fathoming out the stereo was a bit broken, I had a look around for a replacement. I like to keep things factory if I can, the bluetooth for calls and music streaming is built in to the stereo, being a VAG product probably also built into modules elsewhere too.

Reconditioned units, with a guarantee are available for around £250! Normal no-recon for around £150. Not all have DAB, but you can tell from photos which ones have due to the additional sockets on the back. Managed to stumble across one on ebay, from a breakers, that was advertised a bit wrong for £75, with no code. Took a risk on it, £13 later for the code and fuck my old boots it works!

Well pleased with that for the money.

I've put the old one on a shelf in the garage, just in case I need to cannibalise it for parts.

1st thing i did with the galaxy, chucked the locking crap away

[Wibble]

6 hours ago, Popsicle said:

More Pisshat tinkering this weekend, locking wheel nut key and good old fashioned plain bolts arrived.

Resulted in the spawn of Satan being removed.

Anyone want a set of locking wheel nuts? 😂

After fathoming out the stereo was a bit broken, I had a look around for a replacement. I like to keep things factory if I can, the bluetooth for calls and music streaming is built in to the stereo, being a VAG product probably also built into modules elsewhere too.

Reconditioned units, with a guarantee are available for around £250! Normal no-recon for around £150. Not all have DAB, but you can tell from photos which ones have due to the additional sockets on the back. Managed to stumble across one on ebay, from a breakers, that was advertised a bit wrong for £75, with no code. Took a risk on it, £13 later for the code and fuck my old boots it works!

Well pleased with that for the money.

I've put the old one on a shelf in the garage, just in case I need to cannibalise it for parts.

That’s the same unit that’s in my Superb. Nav is shit!

[Popsicle]

30 minutes ago, Wibble said:

That’s the same unit that’s in my Superb. Nav is shit!

Yea its not the best sat nav, it doesn't seem any more slick than ones I had in a 2002 S Type Jag or 2007 Vectra. I'll stick with Google Maps on my phone. I suppose it would get me out a hole when Skynet take over!

[Wibble]

5 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

Yea its not the best sat nav, it doesn't seem any more slick than ones I had in a 2002 S Type Jag or 2007 Vectra. I'll stick with Google Maps on my phone. I suppose it would get me out a hole when Skynet take over!

“Continue on this road, for a long time”, makes me and my passengers laugh every time!

[High Jetter]

5 minutes ago, Wibble said:

“Continue on this road, for a long time”, makes me and my passengers laugh every time!

I'm rarely a passenger. That would be terrifying.

[hairnet]

11 hours ago, 320touring said:

Cheers to @sdkrc for coming over and giving me a hand on the Oxford.

 Got a couple of big things done - sorted the brake light switch wiring, so now the brake lights work

stripped down and cleaned the positive wiring and connections to the starter (including playing "hunt the terminal," when one of them fucked off whilst trying to tighten it with a hammer)

Bit of general wiring tidying 

Actually drove a mile too😁

@sdkrc found it "an event" to drive🤣

what a heap - love it

 

[RoverFolkUs]

Just sent the xsara picasso off for its 3rd MOT in my ownership, expecting a pass, doesn't seem to have anything up with it. I was that confident in it I stuck a set of 4 new tyres on it a couple of weeks ago 😃

[New POD]

On 14/03/2025 at 09:38, BorniteIdentity said:

This post has confirmed my desire to own a type-writer, and I'm now off to the wonderfully bonkers office supplies company in town to see if they have any (they usually do!).  Even if it gets used four times a year, they are fantastic.

I may have a spare one or two.  Let me check the understair cupboard tonight. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

The curiosity was there after I found the VHS tape yesterday by the main road then went back today and found another one but this one is unfortunately untitled but is lying next to a bag so I guess someone threw a bag of old VHS adult films out of the car window and the rest is in the river.

I really wonder about the backstory on things like this.

[MorrisItalSLX]

Time travelers fly tipping?

[Split_Pin]

On Friday I got a call that lifted a massive weight off my shoulders - following an interview I got a new job.

Nightmare over, here's to the first sound sleeps since January.

[Tickman]

Congratulations Iain

[Rust Collector]

19 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

On Friday I got a call that lifted a massive weight off my shoulders - following an interview I got a new job.

Nightmare over, here's to the first sound sleeps since January.

Congratulations mate, glad you got something sorted!

[Steve79]

Having been made redundant x6 there nothing worse than the prospect of losing the means to pay the bills. But also nothing better than the wave of relief once employment is regained. 

Soo pleased for you dude 😎 

[Cookiesouwest]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

On Friday I got a call that lifted a massive weight off my shoulders - following an interview I got a new job.

Nightmare over, here's to the first sound sleeps since January.

Congratulations

All the best for the new job

[RoverFolkUs]

6 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Just sent the xsara picasso off for its 3rd MOT in my ownership, expecting a pass, doesn't seem to have anything up with it. I was that confident in it I stuck a set of 4 new tyres on it a couple of weeks ago 😃

What a car 😂 - straight pass, no advisories 

[lesapandre]

Bought this earlier.

Packed with beautiful period photos.

 

[clayts450]

Our local Tesco on Saturday evening:

Our local Tesco at 6.30am today

Oh dear...

[stuboy]

plans of oil changes, and spark plugs been delayed due to new death 24 hrs in bed 

[clayts450]

Update on the Doblo of Doom from my tame mechanic. This is the van that has had not one, but two replacement turbos due to varying degrees of ineptitude. It seems they failed again.....

[clayts450]

4 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Looks like the giant laughing woman's fault..

Or dangerously under-specced by the architect*. If they have a lot of this type in their building estate they have some serous issues to tackle.

Tesco expanded very fast. They will need to look at their whole estate pronto.

They won the worst building in Britain award in 2014 - The Carbuncle  Cup - for this doozey in Woolwich. 

*latter more likely.

They had to build ours over a river, hence the need for the "two floor superstore on stilts" look. They also had to re-align the river slightly. Ever since when, it floods. Repeatedly. But not in the car park, of course.

Not at all suspiciously, they had moved all the merchandise from floor 2 to floor 1, apparently to rent out the top floor to a gym or somesuch bollox. Within a week, the cracks started appearing. The local Facebook Incident Investigation Team are pointing the finger at the resident pigeon - yes, he used to fly around inside the store.

Shop scheduled to reopen on Saturday. Lots of hard-hatted gents with clipboards standing around pointing at things earlier, apparently.