What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

I figured this was happening so gave you my best suspicious look.

[beko1987]

just got back from thame food festival, which we have never been to before, it's fucking huge!

 

the official beer tent was £4.50 a pint (from bottles). I found an exhibitor (can't remember the brewery name) doing milk bottles full of nice ale for £3!

 

 

cadged a plastic cup from the main bar when my mate got a thatcher s, and bought 5 of them, got 2 left!

 

stocked up on sandwich spread too, and some nice chocolate. also got a bit cocky at a Chilli sauce stand (i have quite a high Chilli threshold) and after politely declaring his strongest stuff very nice but not too spicy he pulled a label less bottle from under the counter. 4 drops on a cracker and I had to sit down! fuck me it was spicy. sadly he wasn't selling it, just bought it with him for a laugh, apparently I took it better than most, most people (drunk) screamed, I just had watery eyes and needed a rolly quickly, and the apple juice stall next to them gave me a glass of juice for free which helped.

 

 

 

Ace day!

[beko1987]

and now I'm in a pub! today is a good day. got internal wiring tomorrow, should be fun!

[Mr Lobster]

got internal wiring tomorrow, should be fun!

Is this a euphemism for something with which I am not familiar?

[vulgalour]

Given his chilli report, it could well be!

[Timewaster]

That chilli could definitely cause an internal short circuit!

[beko1987]

I'll worry about that tomorrow! got given shots, I'm signing out tonight!

[JeeExEll]

I double checked yesterday, and I've definitely got a junction box with some 2.5mm T&E coming out of it nailed to a 18" plank of wood balanced on top of the open topped cold water tank.

 

Perhaps it's some sort of warning system, if the ballcock jams and the tank overfills the electrics (hopefully) trip as a signal.

Be careful there mate, the 2.5 supplying that socket was possibly an old now-disused immersion water-heater point. Am just guessing, but if so then this will be a dedicated circuit on it's own back at the mains board and probably NOT rcd protected. This is not ideal but it's ok to use disused circuit for a socket provided you remember it's not rcd protected.

 

Def worth checking and relocate to somewhere a little bit safer. Switch off breaker / remove fuse.

 

Could write a book on iffy domestic electrical stuff like this.

 

Edit -

One house I went to work in had been wired by the previous owner entirely in stranded purple car cable, all wires one size regardless of circuit. Lives, neutrals, and earths all purple. Some socket circuits were ring circuits and some just stopped at the socket furthest from the mains board, all protected by 30A rewirable fuses. (Yes, he'd rewired the house and kept the ancient fuseboard). No earths wired at all on lighting circuits, with a metal light fitting in bathroom and metal bar-heater above the bath on the lighting circuit. No cable clips used in the attic, wires just strung out loosely point-to-point round cardboard boxes and through masses of attic clutter and old clothes and broken furniture, beds, etc, which filled a skip.

 

What was more worrying though was the fact that the previous owner of the house was a technician in the RAF.

 

But, hey, this is Autoshite, not Sparkyshite . . .

[Tamworthbay]

Be careful there mate, the 2.5 supplying that socket was possibly an old now-disused immersion water-heater point. Am just guessing, but if so then this will be a dedicated circuit on it's own back at the mains board and probably NOT rcd protected. This is not ideal but it's ok to use disused circuit for a socket provided you remember it's not rcd protected.

Def worth checking and relocate to somewhere a little bit safer. Switch off breaker / remove fuse.

Could write a book on iffy domestic electrical stuff like this.

But, hey, this is Autoshite, not Sparkyshite . . .

and me, problem is it was just on our House! The wall lights were wired in with car speaker cable. The plaster was burnt black. The garage had a timer that continued to turn even with every fuse out but went off with the main switch, and many many more.

[Sheefag]

DOES NOT COMPUTE. I'm struggling to think of anywhere Coedpoeth is nicer than.

 

It was the 80's, Coedpoeth was lovely then and full of pubs, I had a flat above Family Fashions on the High St and the view was amazing. You could see the Pennines on a clear day.

 

On the other hand, Ruabon was full of cunts and as for Plas Madoc, Rhos, Johnstown, Ponciau, Cefn Mawr etc, just FUCK.

 

And Blacon.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Far end of the Shed Of Dreams has been annexed by the Peoples Front of Autoshite....

All are entranced by the 03 Galaxy before them....

 

DW looks like he's waiting to see the headmaster lol

[beko1987]

our friend is being sick... lightweight he doesn't want the pasta I cooked... (he's not a shiter, that's his problem, 65 plate octavia and polite nodding when I excitedly and proudly told him I hadn't got a coolant leak, just a leak off pipe issues! (coolant leak would be bad, cook engine. fuel leak good, £5 fuel wasted but no cooked block!)

[hairnet]

Far end of the Shed Of Dreams has been annexed by the Peoples Front of Autoshite....

All are entranced by the 03 Galaxy before them....

'who stole ma mouthafkin chips'

[Mr A Lawrence]

Made the missus grin this evening......

 

Was searching through ITV4 on sky and when she asked what I was doing I blurted out that I was looking to see if there was any saloon car racing on tomorrow.

 

Saloon car racing ffs.

[michael1703]

Far end of the Shed Of Dreams has been annexed by the Peoples Front of Autoshite....

All are entranced by the 03 Galaxy before them....

The guy in the brown shoes is gagging for a chip

[Des]

One house I went to work in had been wired by the previous owner entirely in stranded purple car cable, all wires one size regardless of circuit. Lives, neutrals, and earths all purple.

 

Didn't find his hydrolastic pump did you?

 

 

I removed this cooker wiring from behind the kitchen units recently, luckily I'd disconnected it at a fusebox 15' away on moving in, wasn't compatible with my Beatles era gas cooker. Strangely the rest of the house seemed in good order. I found a fair bit of grey lighting wiring in the loft that had been left in place with new white coloured wiring running alongside, this sparked my curiosity and on investigation the older grey stuffs outer sheathing was only fucking lead! Victorians eh? If it's good enough to contain water and gas then it's good enough for the leccy.

[Fat_Pirate]

 

Interesting article about the Pink Panthermobile over on Jalopnik.

[Coprolalia]

The house we've been renovating had never had any wiring/ plumbing removed. Or carpet/ wallpaper for that matter, everything laid on top of the old.

Made a tidy sum down the scrappers from all the cotton coated wiring, lead coated wiring, lead gas lines and old copper water pipes that we ripped out.

The plaster in the living room contained the lead gas lamp pipes, and some 30/40s era wiring.

 

The level of bodgery was terrifying.

[DeeJay]

Police holding cell?

 

 

 

Dollywobblers Doppelgager sans tifter.

[purplebargeken]

Looks like you are all waiting for a train that stopped running in the 80's.

 

Cracking calendar piccie IMHO.

[beko1987]

ha

[Supernaut]

Gumtree isn't always bad.

 

This weekend I sold both my old camera, and the winter wheels / tyres from the Audi.

 

They both sold within 24 hours of me posting the adverts, and for full asking price.

 

I now have enough cash to buy 17-Coffees' Civic, plus £80 spare (that shows how little he's asking for it though).

[nacho man]

I had a good blast in this bad boy last night, powered by the mighty kettle series.

 

 

 

It definitely made me grin.

 

 

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[dugong]

The 'ignore' settings.

 

I'm going for a full Top Trumps deck.

 

[disappearing signature]

[Kiltox]

Not shite in the slightest (certainly shit tho) but I bump started my non runner Citroen C3 today and it runs as much like a sewing machine as a 1.4 dag dag can

[Noel Tidybeard]

Made the missus grin this evening......

 

Was searching through ITV4 on sky and when she asked what I was doing I blurted out that I was looking to see if there was any saloon car racing on tomorrow.

 

Saloon car racing FTW

 

FIFY

[UmBongo]

I saw a few old clunkers when out at the beach today.

 

A white Allegro estate closely followed by a Triumph Herald. I think they were in convoy.

 

A Morris Minor and a nice light blue Beetle with black alloy wheels.

 

Also something else but I can't remember what it was.

[JohnDeere]

OK yah, drove down to London this evening in the Prelude. Sade singing 'Smooth Operator' came onto the cassette just as I got to Canary Wharf. Felt like a proper period Yuppie. Just need shoulder pads.

[robinmasters]

Went to the cinema tonight (Magnificent Seven, very good), and there was a trailer for a new Ben Affleck film, The Accountant. Looks quite good, but this was by far and away highlight of the trailer:

 

[eddyramrod]

I've just had a lovely day out with my sister.  Might not sound much but we haven't been in contact for 11 years, and very little for the 10 or so before that, so it was a really significant day.

Found her house, 120 miles from mine, with very little trouble despite only visiting it once, 19 years ago.

Then went to see Billy who lives nearby, and found his place after about 20 minutes of driving around looking for landmarks.  It's only 3 years since my one visit there, ffs!  What the hell's happened to my internal satnav?

 

Oh and I'm on holiday this week