What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[quicksilver]

33 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Although at least one of the dilapidated S1s had new glass all round and a completely waxed "patinated" chassis  to complement its oxidising aluminium and barn find interior. Looking that scruffy wouldn't come cheap!

 Are you planning a Stony thread? Because even I managed to take a few half arsed pics, never seen it so busy. I'll put my random smudges here if you're not doing one.

I am intending to do a Stony thread but it might take a day or two to sort the photos so please go ahead if you want to share some. It really was heaving with people and cars absolutely everywhere - early in the morning there seemed to be a lot of cars but fewer people, then at about 10am the entire population of MK seemed to wake up and descend on the show!

[MikeR]

10 years ago !

it snowed

[cobblers]

Years ago I used to feel obliged to  go to pubs and new years eve parties etc etc. Now I'm older I don't even have to make excuses. This was my party, in a talbot in a field in the middle of nowhere.

I kind of wanted to stay up and watch some fireworks off a hill or something, but I fell asleep at about 10:30. I think I outlasted the mrs and both dogs by at least two episodes of Bottom.

[hairnet]

Saw this - made me laugh

@PhilA

[scdan4]

[MikeR]

we have just given the wife some CBD oil for a bad neck

she is now floating around the house and the place is in turmoil , and SIL is staying over again ....

it has been OTT tonight here

[New POD]

1 minute ago, MikeR said:

we have just given the wife some CBD oil for a bad neck

she is now floating around the house and the place is in turmoil , and SIL is staying over again ....

it has been OTT tonight here

The goose was cooked mate. 

[LightBulbFun]

 

[strangeangel]

On 12/30/2019 at 4:30 PM, Remspoor said:

 

Fixed that for him.

 

[Wack]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

we have just given the wife some CBD oil for a bad neck

she is now floating around the house and the place is in turmoil , and SIL is staying over again ....

it has been OTT tonight here

Where would one find this magic elixir, asking for a friend 

[Wack]

Just watching The Eagle Has Landed on iplayer

Donald Sutherland is riding a Royal Enfield  125 which is still about despite him just throwing it into a sand dune

 

[face]

4 hours ago, cobblers said:

Years ago I used to feel obliged to  go to pubs and new years eve parties etc etc. Now I'm older I don't even have to make excuses. This was my party, in a talbot in a field in the middle of nowhere.

I kind of wanted to stay up and watch some fireworks off a hill or something, but I fell asleep at about 10:30. I think I outlasted the mrs and both dogs by at least two episodes of Bottom.

‘Yes, it’s the gas man’

[andy18s]

9 hours ago, MikeR said:

10 years ago !

it snowed

We've had this for the past week or so,plus the temps dropped to a healthy-9°c

Back up to an unusually warm 4°c for a few days now

[paulplom]

9 hours ago, cobblers said:

Years ago I used to feel obliged to  go to pubs and new years eve parties etc etc. Now I'm older I don't even have to make excuses. This was my party, in a talbot in a field in the middle of nowhere.

I kind of wanted to stay up and watch some fireworks off a hill or something, but I fell asleep at about 10:30. I think I outlasted the mrs and both dogs by at least two episodes of Bottom.

Gasman!

 

I fell asleep at 10 on the settee. I woke at 1.30 and went to bed. Point Break was on bbc so I watched all of that. Keanu Reeves was slightly wooden.

[New POD]

7 hours ago, Wack said:

Where would one find this magic elixir, asking for a friend 

She gets a lot of packages from Amazon. 

[Skizzer]

7 hours ago, Wack said:

Just watching The Eagle Has Landed on iplayer

Donald Sutherland is riding a Royal Enfield  125 which is still about despite him just throwing it into a sand dune

[VehicleSmart DVLA details]

This is how to enjoy a movie, AS style.

Anyone still wondering whether Autoshite is a way of life? 

[New POD]

Both these cars made me laugh. 

I'm nasty me. 

 

[MikeR]

44 minutes ago, New POD said:

Both these cars made me laugh. 

I'm nasty me. 

 

Thats things Jag from around the corner and that other car has been like that for weeks , it started off with one flat tyre

[NorfolkNWeigh]

ITV3 now- Carry on Behind., not one I'd even heard of before, it's about shite caravans- Windsor Davies I.  Maxi with a Sprite Major, Bernard Breslaw as a posh bloke with a fawn S1 XJ6 and van and Ian Lavender has got a Mk3 Cortina complete with caravan, all I've seen so far . WCPGW?

[Rovorsche]

The news always has an unintentionally funny item

Sacked vegan brings landmark discrimination case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50969168

Mr Vegan says " Jordi Casamitjana says he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing. "

The Hunt Saboteurs say " dismissed for gross misconduct. "

He had some sort of issue with their pension fund and started whistleblowing , told management about it then set about pissing on everybody elses chips when the managers continued to ignore him.

 

Julian Assange should use being vegan as a defense.

 

This was the best bit for me

Mr Casamitjana describes himself as an "ethical" vegan and campaigns to get his message to others.

His beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.

 

Wait until he finds out that wind farms kill birdlife and can no longer use anything electrically powered or manufactured using electricity.

 

 

[iainrcz]

An interesting conversation I was involved in earlier.

Me "where are those tea cakes?"
Woman "in the bin, but not horrifically"

I wasn't sure what I should say to that.

Sent from my VFD 710 using Tapatalk

[Wack]

4 hours ago, Rovorsche said:

The news always has an unintentionally funny item

Sacked vegan brings landmark discrimination case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50969168

Mr Vegan says " Jordi Casamitjana says he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing. "

The Hunt Saboteurs say " dismissed for gross misconduct. "

He had some sort of issue with their pension fund and started whistleblowing , told management about it then set about pissing on everybody elses chips when the managers continued to ignore him.

 

Julian Assange should use being vegan as a defense.

 

This was the best bit for me

Mr Casamitjana describes himself as an "ethical" vegan and campaigns to get his message to others.

His beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.

 

Wait until he finds out that wind farms kill birdlife and can no longer use anything electrically powered or manufactured using electricity.

 

 

A farmer was on the radio a while back upsetting Vegans , they didn't want to hear him telling them growing their Vegan produce in enough quantity  involves killing billions of insects with pesticides

[beko1987]

Aldi is a beautiful place to be at 21.40 with no one in there bar staff! 

[62 Austin]

Some others commented on the latest "Star Wars" multi-million-dollar epic. Glad to see the character Chewbacca survive the episode -- though the British-American chap who played him for years died in 2019. The 7'-2" fellow  has been succeeded by a 6'-11  1/2" one from Finland.

The female lead Rey has survived, as well. I liked her performance -- she's young enough she can carry on for another 40 years, unlike some of the other cast.  I read an up close and personal blurb claiming Daisy Ridley was working as a server or bartender just five years ago in a  city in the U.K. & that she made minimum wage (= 8 USD) at that time. Those rags to riches pieces are made up a lot...and I wonder how much of it is true.  She doesn't do a lot of talking in her role....but to me she sounds more Australian or New Zealandish in her speech.  

[62 Austin]

On 12/31/2019 at 12:13 PM, Roobarb said:

Darwin at his greatest...

For the first year I’ve lived in this frozen tundra called Minneapolis, the cops have said the ice on the main lake is too thin to be out on, so no trucks, no ice houses, no snowmobiles etc as there’s a danger of falling through.

Obviously, people know better - like this guy with his ice fishing hut...

 

And this guy in his pick up... (my wife saw it break through and said that the guys wife(?) in the passenger seat didn’t look too impressed...)

 

Yet amazingly people still went out on the lake again last night, with a snowmobile falling through and being lost until the upper crust melts. And guess what, the stupid idiots are out there again today!

I don't drive out on lakes. If you had had 20 days of -20 F.  maybe i'd walk out on it. Makes me wonder how many of these idiots are looking for a big insurance payback.

[Cavcraft]

He's a bit better again 

 

[robinmasters]

10 hours ago, Rovorsche said:

The news always has an unintentionally funny item

Sacked vegan brings landmark discrimination case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50969168

Mr Vegan says " Jordi Casamitjana says he was sacked by the League Against Cruel Sports after disclosing it invested pension funds in firms involved in animal testing. "

The Hunt Saboteurs say " dismissed for gross misconduct. "

He had some sort of issue with their pension fund and started whistleblowing , told management about it then set about pissing on everybody elses chips when the managers continued to ignore him.

 

Julian Assange should use being vegan as a defense.

 

This was the best bit for me

Mr Casamitjana describes himself as an "ethical" vegan and campaigns to get his message to others.

His beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.

 

Wait until he finds out that wind farms kill birdlife and can no longer use anything electrically powered or manufactured using electricity.

His beliefs affect much of his everyday life. He will, for instance, walk rather than take a bus to avoid accidental crashes with insects or birds.

Had it not been veganism, I suspect Mr Casamitjana would have found and way of rubbing people up the wrong way by being an utter cunt-satchel. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 1/1/2020 at 5:10 PM, Wack said:

Isn't it ridiculous , rather than experiences they save footage for facebook or watch it later on a phone screen

and worse they are doing it in portrait mode so it will look wank to watch later on ??

[Noel Tidybeard]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Aldi is a beautiful place to be at 21.40 with no one in there bar staff! 

tesco is better at 3am!

[Roobarb]

3 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

and worse they are doing it in portrait mode so it will look wank to watch later on ??

I used to think that, then realized my sons friends all do it too because #TikTok or whatever it’s called. 

TVs are so last century...

Either way round, I hope one day they realize just to enjoy the moment. Perhaps a good venue will offer after performance downloads to prevent this ridiculousness in future?