What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Pillock]

  retrogeezer said:

And yep, I know 'you don't love me' too.

Awwwww. How sad. Group hug for retrogeezer?Mr H Sceptic.... saw Pama live a couple of years ago, really good set. Never realised the Practical Classics link though! I shall Spotify Easy Star Allstars now, cheers.

[retrogeezer]

[M'coli]

Wednesday I was in the Highlands and got shown round a hydroelectric powerstation. I had to stop myself from grinning as I was shown around it!

[Richard]

Is that Ben Cruachan? I've been meaning to go to that for years.

[Mr H Sceptre]

  Pillock said:

I shall Spotify Easy Star Allstars now, cheers.

Cool. 'Dub Side of the Moon' is the one to go for IMHO

[M'coli]

  Richard said:

Is that Ben Cruachan? I've been meaning to go to that for years.

No, although I'd love to have a look at Cruachan myself. This one (Fasnakyle) isn't open to the public that way. It's having some work done on one of the turbines and I drove past it at lunchbreak as the workforce was outside having a natter/cigarette. So I asked what they were doing on it, and mentioned I was studying engineering with the OU. They said they were lining the compersation water turbine up with the generator and would I like a look round - I didn't need asking twice!

[Rusty Pelican]

Dinorwig HEP station in Llanberis has an open weekend once a year , its like a James Bond film set , fasinating

[barrett]

I just remembered this (whilst watching footlose )

i think this was my favourite thing when i used to get stoned a lot...

[mk1_4dr]

  Mr H Sceptre said:

  Pillock said:

I shall Spotify Easy Star Allstars now, cheers.

Cool. 'Dub Side of the Moon' is the one to go for IMHO

Awesome album.Get some Skatalites, The Heptones, Skavoovie and the Epitones, all fantastic bands.I've just bought a David Hillyard and the Rocksteady Seven album on the strength of their song 'the fool' (its on youtube for those that don't know what Im talking about.)Hopefully that'll be good.

[Minimad5]

Most probably off topic but :I hate violenceBut when it's been cartooned (forgetting any story behind it)It can sometimes be funny

[M'coli]

  Rusty Pelican said:

Dinorwig HEP station in Llanberis has an open weekend once a year , its like a James Bond film set , fasinating

My tutor has said we should try to go there. He used to work for the old CEGB, and was sent there once to see a Mr Jones. His boss neglected to tell him which one!!!

[mattblack]

 

'History Today' still makes me ROLF!

[pogweasel]

History today is, I believe, one of the funniest things of ever. When you watch the ones from the live/stadium shows, by which time they could hardly bear to be in the same space as each other, and within seconds they are both corpsing and struggling to get through it... then you know it's good. "that's you that is"

[RedSparrow]

Haven't seen that before, top stuff, fanks!

[Mr Lobster]

Absolutely brilliant! Somewhere I have that on video, released to coincide with the tv stuff iirc which must be about 16 years ago

[seth]

  Rusty Pelican said:

Dinorwig HEP station in Llanberis has an open weekend once a year , its like a James Bond film set , fasinating

Funny that because I think it was used for one of the James Bond films. Probably a Roger Moore or Timothy Dalton one.We went in while on holiday in the area when I was about 10 or so, probably not long after it was first producing power. I think Mrs_Seth's uncle sold them the turbines. Thanks for the History Today reminder Matt

[Guest]

I like History Today so much that I based a joke around Pogweasel having a Metro on it.

[Guest]

  mk1_4dr said:

  Mr H Sceptre said:

  Pillock said:

I shall Spotify Easy Star Allstars now, cheers.

Cool. 'Dub Side of the Moon' is the one to go for IMHO

Awesome album.Get some Skatalites, The Heptones, Skavoovie and the Epitones, all fantastic bands.I've just bought a David Hillyard and the Rocksteady Seven album on the strength of their song 'the fool' (its on youtube for those that don't know what Im talking about.)Hopefully that'll be good.

EDNA'S GOLDFISH!!!!! 111!

[retrogeezer]

this made me rofl earlier....

 

[Guest]

THIS:

 

Hirst Cabs moves into the 21st century.

[seth]

Hirst, can you pick Mrs_Seth up from Heathrow on Tuesday?

[pogweasel]

  Hirst said:

THIS:

Literally LOL'd my arse off!

[Guest]

Seth, regrettably not.

 

HOWEVER:

[brammy777]

Back from my brief time in the southwest, and I spotted some ultimate BL van shite.......... There is still alot of tat down there, we struggled to keep up with some old beardo in his LXi MKII Astra estate on the A303. Even a newish Passat couldnt catch him.

[Station]

A 70 something old man coming home from a day working as a low rent carpenter (or something) pottering along in a very worn out, G reg one of these:

 

 

Didn't have camera, was a nice sight!

[Guest]

 

I love the M56 sometimes.

[dollywobbler]

That sign's great.What made me grin was heading to Millfield Autoparts in Peterborough for a new battery for the Renault. Took the old one with me, and that was good as their book was wrong. A quick chat amongst themselves and they get me the right one, then pull off the peculiar battery terminal things that my Renault seems to have a took the old battery away.I get back home, connect it up and for the first time in my ownership, the Renault starts on the key. After a warning from Mr Reno, I let it run to full operating temperature and nervously awaiting the cooling fan. It kicked in exactly when it should. Excellent!MoT booked for Tuesday, so here's hoping for more grinning...

[whitevanman]

  dollywobbler said:

Millfield Autoparts in Peterborough ...

They still on the go !! they were my supplier of choice when I lived in the area

[Pillock]

  watanabe said:

EDNA'S GOLDFISH!!!!! 111!

Saw 'em live, on a boat on the Thames. Quite surreal. Some Moon Ska party I really shouldn't have been at

[ChinaTom]

  whitevanman said:

  dollywobbler said:

Millfield Autoparts in Peterborough ...

They still on the go !! they were my supplier of choice when I lived in the area

Didn't that used to be Conders Garages - the Lada dealer? Went to school with the daughter