What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MorrisItalSLX]

8 hours ago, vulgalour said:

including a fabulous blue and white chequerboard Marley tile floor in the kitchen, a feature we'll be keeping even though Marley tiles seem to be about as popular as The Black Death currently.  We like them, that's all that matters.

Just be careful as they are probably loaded with asbestos if original to the house.

Other than that, the original 60s fittings sound great, I’m quite a fan of that type of thing myself.

[paulplom]

White out!

60 seconds later...
I'm not going to look for the squiggly lines. I like it just the way it is.

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[inconsistant]

11 hours ago, vulgalour said:

new house. 

Nice one!

Need a tv by any chance? Got a 40” Sony one here, yours for £25. 

[MikeR]

Chose the right time to do a shift swap .  cars are iced up . M57 blocked by accidents . roads backed up .... Just got to saunter in this afternoon and dawdle  back on Thursday afternoon ( last day )  ??????

[New POD]

1 hour ago, inconsistant said:

Nice one!

Need a tv by any chance? Got a 40” Sony one here, yours for £25. 

Smart? Where are you. 

[wuvvum]

A scruffy BMW E46 has just driven past the office, towing a very patina'd ZA Magnette on a trailer.

[vulgalour]

@inconsistant thanks for the offer, but we're good.

[vulgalour]

5 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Just be careful as they are probably loaded with asbestos if original to the house.

Opinions vary on that so I wonder if it's just that some have it and some don't.  Not a concern for us, we're not going to lick the floor or be disturbing the tiles so we shouldn't be at risk of any of the asbestos nastiness.  I mean heck, I've been around plenty of asbestos sheet garages and none of those have killed me yet.

[MorrisItalSLX]

A very sensible answer Vulg, I only mentioned it as they have a tendency to crumble and breakdown with age (I had this happen at work and at my parents house). My house is clad with asbestos fibre cement, but as you say, asbestos is fine if you leave it alone.

[Jerzy Woking]

Sold my Saab to a nice bloke this morning. Hadn't been started for four weeks, covered in ice, so that would test out the battery. Started first turn of the key.

Did a 35 mile test drive and he drove it properly, so very glad it has gone to a good home, and I can now stop worrying about it going to a moron.

[busmansholiday]

14 hours ago, vulgalour said:

including a fabulous blue and white chequerboard Marley tile floor in the kitchen, a feature we'll be keeping even though Marley tiles seem to be about as popular as The Black Death currently.  We like them, that's all that matters.

Just be a bit careful with those. Some of them from the 60's contained chrysotile (white) asbestos. It was added to make manufacturing easier, no other reason.

We had problems at work with cleaners refusing to buff them with the machine polishers. We did monitoring and found bugger all asbestos was released so there's virtually no risk. Risk is if you start breaking them (in removal), fortunately you like them.

[Jazoli]

Local dickhead buys blinged up Discovery despite being on a labourers wage and being warned that he wouldn't be able to afford to run it.........

Poor Chantelle and Chardonnay won't be getting much for xmas this year.

[myglaren]

[cobblers]

I've just opened a drawer I'd forgotten about, and found £120 in pound coins from when I sold my old van. Fucking jackpot!

[Floatylight]

Seen on the verge this morning, think they may of needed that..

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[cobblers]

17 minutes ago, Tayne said:

Did the buyer of the van pay in pound coins?

A substantial amount of them, yes. I think there was £400+ of them to start with!

[clayts450]

Total network failure at work today, so literally everything including database systems and, more critically, our VOIP phones FTP-ed at 3.30pm. Customers cannot call us, we can't put a notice on our website. Colleagues in our call centre were bussed over to our Derby office as a quick fix.

I'm not directly customer facing so my team were told  the magical words- go home. 

Smashing.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, cobblers said:

I've just opened a drawer I'd forgotten about, and found £120 in pound coins from when I sold my old van. Fucking jackpot!

Are they current coins or the old ones?

[Wack]

10 hours ago, paulplom said:

White out!

60 seconds later...
I'm not going to look for the squiggly lines. I like it just the way it is.

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I'm astounded a heated front screen wasn't even an option on the 17MY Mustang

[xtriple]

I opened my wallet and found thirty quid. Not as good, but still nice   I got cash out ages ago to pay for something and then paid by card. Wonder what I'll waste it on?

[MondeoBlues]

The Volvo now has a matching set of tyres. Bridgestones, no less. No Chinese death-rings for my waft-o-brick, no siree. Absolutely dominate standing water they do

[DeeJay]

Vulg, freecycle and trash nothing sites for free stuff.

[155V6]

40 minutes ago, MondeoBlues said:

The Volvo now has a matching set of tyres. Bridgestones, no less. No Chinese death-rings for my waft-o-brick, no siree. Absolutely dominate standing water they do

My colleague comes to work in this Bentley

She earns just above minimum wage,but her husband is a farrier & earns good money.Last week it went in for a service & some new tyres.I was walking past today & noticed Jinlu written on the rear tyre ?

[cobblers]

57 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Are they current coins or the old ones?

Proper Audi S-line wheel shaped ones

[busmansholiday]

8 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Opinions vary on that so I wonder if it's just that some have it and some don't.  Not a concern for us, we're not going to lick the floor or be disturbing the tiles so we shouldn't be at risk of any of the asbestos nastiness.  I mean heck, I've been around plenty of asbestos sheet garages and none of those have killed me yet.

I forgot to add, it's also not unusual for the glue they used to hold them down to contain asbestos. But, as you say, it's not killed you so far....

[MikeR]

Hols start tomorrow ..

Big lump of blue cheese in the fridge .Chocolates etc

For the morning "meeting " 

Then go home ...       Sorted ! 

[ruffgeezer]

Extracted this yesterday, sadly it isn't mine.

Laid up over 40 years and it still rolled out easily!

[The Moog]

Does it veg m8?

[New POD]

8 hours ago, MikeR said:

Hols start tomorrow ..

Big lump of blue cheese in the fridge .Chocolates etc

For the morning "meeting " 

Then go home ...       Sorted ! 

I've got 12 hours left.  And then new contract starts on the 6th Jan. Handover is going badly because the bloke I'm handing over to is run ragged already. 

I could care more. If I cared. 

[robinmasters]

Sad onion.