What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[John F]

Cavcraft, on 07 Feb 2018 - 1:54 PM, said:

My photography mate took a few pictures up the other day for me, including this...

 

 

 

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Why's Barbara Cartland Dog wearing Ghosty's shirt from the last page of the "Face to the username" thread?

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I seem to have attracted a stalker

 

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It's the ones you don't see you have to be worried about

[Captain Furious]

A few times recently my shite spotting ability has made me grin.

 

The first was a Dolomite, I spotted it in the distance at night while I was still a fair way behind and said to myself - I'm sure that's a Dolomite.  Back of my mind I knew it probably wouldn't be, I mean what are the odds?  At this range it could be just about anything, but the overall dimness said it was something old and the shape just said Dolomite.  I purposely caught it up and sure enough, a Dolly 1500.

 

The 2nd was a relatively easy spot, a fairly well beaten Capri on the motorway on the way home from work.  I've since seen this on numerous occasions at around the same time so I can only surmise it is someone's daily drive.  Bravo that man.  It looks friggin tiny in modern traffic!

 

And finally this week I spotted a Mk2 Cavalier Estate on the way to work, immediately ID'd at around 500 yards approaching head on.  Then I saw the same one coming out of a house along that road this morning towing a trailer - so it appears this too is still earning an honest living.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Sold my jaguar (see grumpy thread)

[Pillock]

"pensioner owned" being redundant information given that style of handwriting.

[DodgeRover]

Have spotted a lump of woodland at a price I can afford, need to ring the agents tomorrow to find what the catch is or if it's sold already.

[loserone]

Have spotted a lump of woodland at a price I can afford, need to ring the agents tomorrow to find what the catch is or if it's sold already.

Woodenvy

[DodgeRover]

Woodenvy

Complete with Oak framed timber barn with woodburner and tractor envy if I get my way, actually the neighbouring plot is better from my point of view as it's got a fairly steep sided small valley with permanent stream running down it, hydroelectric power and trials bike practice area combined.

[loserone]

I've had to promise not to look at woodland again until the house is paid off.. dammit!

[D Spares & Tyres]

Spotted this.

I sold it around 6 years ago and hadn't seen it since. So glad its still going, it really was a delight to drive. 1.3 so quite nippy

I fear it won't be around much longer though. Those wheels were so tatty I stonechipped them! They still look OK now, surprisingly!

[somewhatfoolish]

Now as it's the grin thread, this weekend couldn't have gone better. She's perfect for me & is delusional enough to think the same about me.

 

How hard is it to move to Bute?

It's a bit of a weird place, the Mount Stewart Trust owns most of it; if you want to do something vaguely out of the ordinary or your face doesn't fit it's not the place to be. Nice enough to visit though. What kind of work do you do? Aside from the boatyard/marina there's really only council/school work, farmwork and seasonal hospitality.

[Jim Bell]

Looking through old pics and finding ones featuring shit old cars.

 

 

 

 

[oldcars]

Love the tide mark on that SD3. When was the photo taken?

[Pillock]

My Spidey Sense dates it around 1987 when every single car on the road seemed to be red.

 

My ma tried to order an Escort LX in 1987 in Maritime Blue because so many cars on the road were red. "Oh, there's a long delay on that. We've got Rosso Red in stock ready to go though".

 

A bit like Silver now, really.

[Guest Hooli]

It's a bit of a weird place, the Mount Stewart Trust owns most of it; if you want to do something vaguely out of the ordinary or your face doesn't fit it's not the place to be. Nice enough to visit though. What kind of work do you do? Aside from the boatyard/marina there's really only council/school work, farmwork and seasonal hospitality.

 

I do IT geekery so I'm expecting a season ticket on the boat/train to get to work everyday.

 

ETA, the new missus lives there & loves it, so if things work out I will end up there.

[Jim Bell]

Love the tide mark on that SD3. When was the photo taken?

Judging by my haircut and white socks, id say mid nineties.

[Talbot]

My Spidey Sense dates it around 1987

Would have to be 1988 at the very earliest for that MK2 golf to have wipers the "correct" way around for RHD.  1987 was still using LHD wipers with an oversize wiper on the right to compensate for the lack of swept area.

[NorthernMonkey]

Judging by my haircut and white socks, id say last week sometime

[Pillock]

Would have to be 1988 at the very earliest for that MK2 golf to have wipers the "correct" way around for RHD. 1987 was still using LHD wipers with an oversize wiper on the right to compensate for the lack of swept area.

Nerd

[Datsuncog]

Would have to be 1988 at the very earliest for that MK2 golf to have wipers the "correct" way around for RHD.  1987 was still using LHD wipers with an oversize wiper on the right to compensate for the lack of swept area.

 

Comments like that get you thrown out of cinemas.

 

Ask me how I know.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Is it really because you were touching yourself?

[Datsuncog]

^^^ Not on that particular occasion, surprisingly.



But staff in the QFT cinema in Belfast were seemingly unimpressed with my ability to spot that the approaching Morris Marina is one of the final 1978-80 facelift jobs with a plastic air dam and wheeltrims, and therefore anachronistic to the 1976 time period of this particular scene in Anton Corbijn's 'Control'.

I was glad to get out of there, my willing suspension of disbelief was as shot to bits as the car itself's trunnions. Probably.

[Ghosty]

Driving down the M66 earlier I passed an old boy in a flat cap and flip down sunglasses driving a RENAULT 18 TURBO!!!!!

[Datsuncog]

^^^ Was it a black R18 Turbo? If so, think blokey's a regular spot on the AS Facebook page... apparently a bloody nice bloke, owned the Turbo from new (or nearly new) and no plans to ever sell... legend.

 

EDIT: found a pic of car and owner, I do believe.

 

[strangeangel]

[Ghosty]

^^^ Was it a black R18 Turbo? If so, think blokey's a regular spot on the AS Facebook page... apparently a bloody nice bloke, owned the Turbo from new (or nearly new) and no plans to ever sell... legend.

 

As it happens it was!

 

edit: I also spotted an E21 Alpina B3 rotting away on a driveway next to another E21.

[somewhatfoolish]

I do IT geekery so I'm expecting a season ticket on the boat/train to get to work everyday.

 

ETA, the new missus lives there & loves it, so if things work out I will end up there.

Yep, Glasgow's the likely end point for you, although there is presumably some IT support work in the callcentres in Greenock/Port Glasgow. IBM retained a tech support centre in Spango after the fab and assembly plants closed which would obviously be convenient but I vaguely remember it being downsized/phased out so may not be there anymore. The other non-Glasgow prospect is the HP plant in Erskine, it's still there despite them periodically threatening to send all the work to eastern europe although how much actual IT nerdery goes on there is an open question, judging from the job ads it's mostly glorified telesales these days.

[Cavcraft]

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Probably the best idea, ever. Drive round everywhere untaxed for two years, let the fines mount up then go for a straightener with some specky twat from that department that somehow knows you need your V5 back urgently and sends it out 8 months later to someone five streets away.

[The Moog]

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Probably the best idea, ever. Drive round everywhere untaxed for two years, let the fines mount up then go for a straightener with some specky twat from that department that somehow knows you need your V5 back urgently and sends it out 8 months later to someone five streets away.

But then the DVLa will start employing a department Cage Fighter.

[Cavcraft]