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What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

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Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I like that. Touch of Sinead O'connor about it which is no bad thing.

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East Fortune? :D

Yep, was there yesterday. I like the cold war era jets. 8)

eddyramrod Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Gratuitous image re-posting in one thread.

 

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=166600&page=30

 

(You need to scroll down and then head over to page 31)

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Well she is nicer on the eye compared to that mustached faced bloke above.

Re-posting pics? This one, any time you like. And yeah, Dick Strawbridge is something of a legend, he turned up on Scrapheap Challenge quite a bit and was always good value. Now THERE is real Man's telly!

barrett Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Just realised my Senator/ Carlton mistake. Tisk tisk.

 

Anyway, I've had a really fuggin shitty day today culminating in a horrible 'argument' with the missus.

 

On my way home, in a very bad mood, I saw a quite astonishing amount of top-drawer tat including a German-registered ex-fire brigade 70s Mercedes T2 van. Popped into a record shop and managed to score a nice copy of Rare Earth's 'Ecology' - then waiting for the bus I glanced down and noticed a huge pile of Practical Classics mags that someone was throwing out... about 20 of them, so I reckon there is enough material here for 35 long shits. Just had a bowl of noodles and now I feel much better!

 

Ah, the little things, eh?

Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Just realised my Senator/ Carlton mistake. Tisk tisk.

 

Anyway, I've had a really fuggin shitty day today culminating in a horrible 'argument' with the missus.

 

On my way home, in a very bad mood, I saw a quite astonishing amount of top-drawer tat including a German-registered ex-fire brigade 70s Mercedes T2 van. Popped into a record shop and managed to score a nice copy of Rare Earth's 'Ecology' - then waiting for the bus I glanced down and noticed a huge pile of Practical Classics mags that someone was throwing out... about 20 of them, so I reckon there is enough material here for 35 long shits. Just had a bowl of noodles and now I feel much better!

 

Ah, the little things, eh?

 

Does the print not come off on your arse?

Station Rank: Isuzu Florian

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I couldn't care about IPhones and all this rubbish technology must-haves, but upgraded my old phone to a newish one (when I dropped it in a bucket of water), and it's got GPS navigation, Wifi internet (GR% 4 stealing McDonald's interweb), a really decent camera, and all this shite that's actually useful, it's like a mini-PC.

myglaren Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Sodding Windows updates.

Sorting a desktop out for my granddaughter, been offline for about three years.

When it eventually went online it set to with the updates, first wave was 75 of the buggers.

at 57 it just sits there apparently updating but not much to show for it.

It had popped up an EULA BEHIND the list of crap it was installing and sat there waiting for me to agree with the damned thing - and it was for IE8, which she will never, ever use.

Then it installed IE7 without asking :(

 

Had the same bollocks last week when reinstalling Vista on a trashed laptop. Should have known better.

 

Just done the same thing for Service Pack 3.

 

Ubuntu never pulls these stupid tricks :evil::evil::evil:

Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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*Edit coz I is fick :cry:

 

 

Our new dog hasn't been too well so missus took him to the vets yesterday. Gave him a jab of some sort, said he'd be right again by Saturday evening latest.

He's back on form already and been an absolute nutcase today :lol:

dollywobbler Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Oi! This is the grin thread! :wink:

 

Speaking of lying companies, this made me grin. Had a call yesterday. "We've been passed your details because we understand you've got debt problems."

"Oh really? Who gave you that then?"

"Well, perhaps you've recently applied for a loan."

Cue me laughing, lots.

"I've got no debt mate. Ta-ra!"

 

You have to laugh. My Mum got phoned up because my sister had apparently applied for a mobile phone. My sister has a mental age of about three or four. If you didn't laugh at their blatant lies, I think it would make you go mad with a shotgun.

Mr_Bo11ox Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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this CD is making me grin like a moron:

 

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I used to have this on tape years ago and lost it somewhere. I remembered about it the other day and bought it off amazon. Now i'm listeneing to it and remembering just how much I FREAKING LOVE IT! There is simply no better music to accompany wobbly but enjoyable 'shite travel' than this.

 

Here is a taster on YouTube:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XrNiFtMuo

scaryoldcortina Rank: Lancia Gamma

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People complaining about windows makes me grin! Linux is the autoshite choice, imo, you KNOW it isn't going to work without some effort on your part, but it's free...

For some reason, I get a lot of calls from people who are convinced that I'm crippled with debt, and prepared to take a loan to solve it all. Despite being debt free and a home owner (not mortgaged) I string them along for as long as I can, then pretend to be a tenant.

 

My grin for today is particularly evil. Earlier today, I was trying to practice guitar, but Conor was bored and kept bugging me, so I responded by playing (and singing) star trekkin' by the firm. C was convinced I was making it up just to annoy him, so i dared him to youtube it (to prove it exists) He did, now he can't get it out of his head. He's been humming it all evening. It's great being a parent sometimes....

myglaren Rank: Isuzu Florian

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People complaining about windows makes me grin! Linux is the autoshite choice, imo, you KNOW it isn't going to work without some effort on your part, but it's free...

 

It's rarely any trouble either. Even my wife, who never looked at a computer until a year ago, manages fine with it.

 

Windows SP3 still installing, which is about three times as long as it takes to install Linux on anything :(

 

I rarely have trouble with my Vista laptop though. Been running Ubuntu 10.4 on that and the granddaughters this afternoon and then Linux Mint - which oddly enough couldn't fathom the wireless dongle on her machine. The NDIS wrappers are supposed to come with it. Never needed them for any of the other machines.

scaryoldcortina Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Yeah, I find that, as long as someone in the house can work a command line, linux is the solution. My wife has no troble working it, asperger boy won't use anything else - his current laptop came with vista HP preinstalled, but he didn't even boot it! Straight out with a USB stick with mint 8 on it....

once in a while, it misbehaves, and I have to fix it with a bash shell, but not often,, and at least it is easily fixed. That has never been my experience with windows.

eddyramrod Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Star Trekking, dear me, I actually bought that! Ye cannae change the laws o' physics cap'n...

Vin Rank: Renault 16

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this CD is making me grin like a moron:

 

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I used to have this on tape years ago and lost it somewhere. I remembered about it the other day and bought it off amazon. Now i'm listeneing to it and remembering just how much I FREAKING LOVE IT! There is simply no better music to accompany wobbly but enjoyable 'shite travel' than this.

 

Here is a taster on YouTube:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XrNiFtMuo

Well Fuggin Hell, Alf Bollox, there's a blast from the past.

 

My Dad had 'Sky 2' on vinyl. Recorded on to cassette, it accompanied many an early eighties journey in the Saab or the Alpine 8)

 

Tocatta was brill. I also loved Herbie Flowers doing 'Tuba Smarties'. Class in a Glass :D:D:D

 

Francis Monkman also did all the music for 'The Long Good Friday' 8)

 

 

Mr H Sceptre Rank: Citroen Ami

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Had a stroll round the market yesterday & the bloke with the 2nd hand record stall decided he would get off his sorry arse & open up. Glad he did. Made some nice cheap purchases (all vinyl;, of course):

 

The Clash 'Give Em Enough Rope' lp. 50p

Stevie Wonder 'Songs in the Key of Life lp. 50p

Beach Boys 'Greatest Hits' lp. 50p

Bookr T & the MGs 'Soul Limbo 7". £1.

 

Chuffed.

Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Cavcraft

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Had a stroll round the market yesterday & the bloke with the 2nd hand record stall decided he would get off his sorry arse & open up. Glad he did. Made some nice cheap purchases (all vinyl;, of course):

 

The Clash 'Give Em Enough Rope' lp. 50p

Stevie Wonder 'Songs in the Key of Life lp. 50p

Beach Boys 'Greatest Hits' lp. 50p

Bookr T & the MGs 'Soul Limbo 7". £1.

 

Chuffed.

Got that years back, fantastic album.

Mr H Sceptre Rank: Citroen Ami

Mr H Sceptre

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Had a stroll round the market yesterday & the bloke with the 2nd hand record stall decided he would get off his sorry arse & open up. Glad he did. Made some nice cheap purchases (all vinyl;, of course):

 

The Clash 'Give Em Enough Rope' lp. 50p

Stevie Wonder 'Songs in the Key of Life lp. 50p

Beach Boys 'Greatest Hits' lp. 50p

Bookr T & the MGs 'Soul Limbo 7". £1.

 

Chuffed.

Got that years back, fantastic album.

Aye.

Conrad D. Conelrad Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Good television is making me grin.

 

The resurrected Futurama finished its latest season yesterday, and it's been an excellent batch of episodes. Really happy to have more Futurama :)

Louise2cv Rank: Renault 16

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I was just reading an interview in the Guardian and one of the questions was:

 

"property aside, what's the most expensive thing you've bought"

 

Of course the answer was "my car" and I imagine that's the same for most people...

 

...but for me, it's my dog! Now sometimes his behaviour would mean I post this in the grumpy thread; but today I'm grinning that at the age of nearly thirty all my cars have been cheaper to buy than my pet, surely a good measure of automotive shiteness?

 

Or did I pay WAY to much for Gruff? :?

Negative Creep Rank: Lancia Gamma

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It's a car for me, though the most I've ever spent was 2000gbp. Excluding them it would be my plane ticket here (about 850) and a HD tv (about 500). Never taken out a loan besides the student one or had a credit card, something which I'm rather glad of

Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Cavcraft

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Barks at the rabbit, attacks feet, plays chase with the cats and tries to dig holes in concrete.

chaseracer Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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...Or did I pay WAY to much for Gruff? :?

NO!! He's brilliant 8)

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